Birthday:
11-01-1953
(71 years)
Birthplace:
Napoli, Italy
Biography
Raffaele Arena, conosciuto come Lello (Napoli, 1º novembre 1953), è un cabarettista, attore teatrale e doppiatore italiano, esponente della nuova comicità napoletana (portata alla ribalta dal gruppo teatrale La Smorfia nella seconda metà degli anni settanta), assieme a Massimo Troisi ed Enzo Decaro. Nel 2006 si è sposato con Francesca Taviani, figlia del famoso regista Vittorio, da cui ha avuto un figlio (Leonardo) nel 2003 ed ha recitato in Persa, il persiano di Plauto.
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Ho ammazzato Berlusconi
Act like Infermiere all'obitorio
event2008 star_border 5
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In the aftermath of the 2001 political elections, Matteo quarrels violently with his wife Livia, a passionate left-wing militant, who accuses him of having voted for Berlusconi. Livia is unable to accept the situation but, just as she leaves the marital home, she is hit and injured by a fragment of a plane that crashed in their garden. Matteo, distraught over the loss of his wife, drives in the middle of a storm and hits a man.
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Act like Alboino
event1984 star_border 6.9
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During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
Once I'll Be a Child
event2018 star_border 6.7
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Six stories about childhood, set in six different decades, from the 50s to today, bound to each other by a mystery.
I'm Starting from Three
Act like Raffaele 'Lello' Sodano
event1981 star_border 7.6
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Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
Cuori nella tormenta
Act like Raffaele
event1984 star_border 5.5
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Walter is a non-commissioned officer of the Navy, while Raf is a ship's cook. They become great friends but unfortunately they fall in love, without knowing it, with the same girl Sonia.
No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous
Act like Michele Giuffrida
event1982 star_border 6.5
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A mysterious killer eliminate the singers of a brand new music Festival in Naples. Some journalists will try to discover who is that murderer who seems to be obsessed by the song "Funiculi, Funicula".
Totò Sapore and the Magical Story of Pizza
Act like Pulcinella (voice)
event2003 star_border 6.7
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Naples, 18th century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food, always upsetting Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius.
Sorry for the Delay
Act like Tonino
event1983 star_border 7.6
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Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
Massimo, il mio cinema secondo me
Act like Himself
event2013
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Fragments of footage, unpublished snapshots and interviews with friends and colleagues. A tribute to the actor, director and producer Massimo Troisi, to celebrate what would have been his sixtieth birthday.
Piano Piano
Act like Don Gennaro
event2023 star_border 6.1
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Anna is 13, on the keyboard of the piano she should learn to play are her tricks stolen from her mother. Her meeting with Peppino and Mariuolo will make her to take the step that separates childhood from the future.
Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!
Act like The guardian angel / Himself
event1982 star_border 6.8
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The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.
Wondrous Boccaccio
Act like Duca Tancredi
event2015 star_border 5.8
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It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
Il mio amico Massimo
Act like Voce narrante
event2022 star_border 7.1
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The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.
Looking for Paradise
Act like Calabrone
event1995 star_border 6
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The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.
You Laugh
Act like Rocco
event1998 star_border 5.2
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Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
Ciao Darwin
Act like Capitano Bassi (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 7.6
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Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece.
There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off.
The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
Quei due sopra il varano
Act like Lello Cardello (20 ep.)
event1996
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Quei due sopra il varano is an Italian television series.
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