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Ernesto Colli

Italian actor (1940–1982)

Ernesto Colli
Colli in Deadly Inheritance (1968)
Born	(1940-05-16)16 May 1940 Biella
Died	19 November 1982(1982-11-19) (aged 42) Rome

Ernesto Colli (16 May 1940 – 19 November 1982) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

Life and career

Born in Biella, Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films.^[1]^[2] After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen drama school in Rome.^[2]

A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film The Devil in Love.^[1] He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, even if usually in character roles.^[1] He was a character actor who acted actively especially during the seventies.

Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always recited customized roles for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird man; probably the films where he had a most significant part was The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue and in Deadly Inheritance .

The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!, shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the face and the physique excavated by disease.

Selected filmography

Il morbidone (1965) - Uomo del monsignore (uncredited)
Pleasant Nights (1966) - Baccio
The Devil in Love (1966)
Deadly Inheritance (1968) - Janot
Lucrezia (1968) - Valetto ambasciatore
Spirits of the Dead (1968) - One of the Manetti brothers - director (segment "Toby Dammit") (uncredited)
Faustina (1968) - Vespasiano - Lover of Faustina's mother
Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate (1969)
The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) - Chief Guard (uncredited)
Belle d'amore (1970) - Magnaccia (uncredited)
Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970)
La califfa (1970) - Un operaio
La Poudre d'escampette (1971)
Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Gigi
Per amore o per forza (1971)
Maddalena (1971)
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) - Parking Attendant
Caliber 9 (1972) - Alfredo Bertolon
Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato [it] (1972)
Hai sbagliato... dovevi uccidermi subito! (1972) - Dr. Torres
Decameron nº 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) - Renutio (segment "The Mummy")
Winged Devils (1972) - Leutnant Ernesto del Prete
The Infamous Column (1972) - Judge
Rugantino (1973)
Torso (1973) - Gianni Tomasso, the scarf vendor
Non ho tempo (1973)
Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) - Patient on the bus
Seven Hours of Violence (1973) - Tomassian
Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
Claretta and Ben (1974) - Remengo
The Antichrist (1974) - Possessed Man
Bello come un arcangelo (1974) - Cicillo, Sacristan
Autopsy (1975) - Ivo
The Suspect (1975) - Party Functionary in Paris
Giubbe rosse (1975) - Photographer (uncredited)
The Peaceful Age (1975) - Imbianchino
Go Gorilla Go (1975) - The Watchman of Builder's Yard (uncredited)
Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Detective on night duty
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) - Roschetto
Meet Him and Die (1976) - Settecapelli
Puttana galera! (1976)
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978) - Conduttore del telegiornale (uncredited)
Il Porno Shop Della Settima Strada (1979) - Bob
Switch (1979) - Il Malato
Pierino la Peste Alla Riscossa! (1982) - portiere di via Piccolomini
Porca vacca (1982) - (final film role)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli artisti. Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 88-7742-261-0.
^ ^a ^b p. m. "Cordoglio nel Biellese per l'improvvisa morte dell'attore Ernesto Colli". La Stampa. No. 254. p. 18.