Pino Quartullo
Pino Quartullo | |
|---|---|
 Quartullo in 2019 | |
| Born | Giuseppe Quartullo 12 July 1957 Civitavecchia, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, screenwriter, playwright |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Spouse |
Margherita Romaniello
(m. 2010) |
| Children | 1 |
Giuseppe "Pino" Quartullo (born 12 July 1957) is an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright.[1]
Life and career[edit]
Born in Civitavecchia, after getting a degree in architecture, Quartullo graduated in directing at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts and then studied at the Drama Laboratory of Gigi Proietti.[2] He debuted on stage with Aldo Trionfo, serving both as an actor and as assistant director.[2] In 1983 he founded the stage company La Festa Mobile, serving as actor, director, and playwright.[2]
In 1985 Quartullo co-directed with Stefano Reali Exit, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.[2] He made his feature film directorial debut in 1992, with the comedy film Quando eravamo repressi, and from then he directed a number of comedy-dramas, inspired to golden age Commedia all'italiana.[2][3]
Quartullo has also had a rare career as a dubber. He dubbed Jim Carrey in two of his 1994 feature films, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber.
Personal life[edit]
In the mid-1990s, Quartullo was in a relationship with actress Elena Sofia Ricci. They had one daughter, Emma (born 1996). Since 2010, Quartullo has been married to journalist Margherita Romaniello. He considers himself Roman Catholic.[4]
Selected filmography[edit]
- Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1987)
- Little Misunderstandings (1989)
- When We Were Repressed (1992, also director and screenwriter)
- Women Don't Want To (1993, also director and screenwriter)
- Love Story with Cramps (1995, also director and screenwriter)
- We'll Really Hurt You (1998, also director and screenwriter)
- Lo zio d'America (TV, 2002-2006)
- What Will Happen to Us (2004)
- Never Again as Before (2005)
- Amiche mie (TV, 2008)
- The Youngest Son (2010)
References[edit]
- ^ "IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI - La pagina di PINO QUARTULLO". Antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Poppi, Roberto (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 88-8440-171-2. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Canova, Gianni, ed. (2005). Enciclopedia del cinema. Le Garzantine (in Italian) (2 ed.). Garzanti. ISBN 88-11-50516-X. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Giordano, Lucio (19 April 2024). "Per sentirmi più vicino a Dio chiedo aiuto a mia madre". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 15. pp. 78–81.
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- Living people
- People from Civitavecchia
- Italian male film actors
- Italian male television actors
- Italian male stage actors
- Italian theatre directors
- Italian film directors
- Italian male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Italian male actors
- 21st-century Italian male actors
- 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- Italian Roman Catholics