Peppino De Filippo

Acting

Peppino De Filippo

Born — Died

1903-08-24 — 1980-01-26

Place of birth

Naples, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peppino De Filippo (August 24, 1903 - January 26, 1980) was an Italian actor. De Filippo was born in Naples, brother of actor and dramatist Eduardo De Filippo and of Titina. He made his stage debut at the age of six. He played in several movies such as Rome-Paris-Rome, Variety Lights, A Day in Court, Ferdinand I, King of Naples and Boccaccio '70. He is however most remembered for his several artistic partnerships with Totò, on movies such as Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina and La banda degli onesti. He died in Rome.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 26 titles

Boccaccio '70 poster
6.9

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Boccaccio '70

1962

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life poster
6.8

Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce vita' and wastes the money entrusted to him for his mission. When Peppino is sent to to find out what happened, he lets himself be trapped by the gentle grip of 'la dolce vita'

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

1961

The Shortest Day poster
6.4

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The Shortest Day

1963

Love and Larceny poster
7.2

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Love and Larceny

1960

Made in Italy poster
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965

Letto a tre piazze poster
7.0

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.

Letto a tre piazze

1960

Gli onorevoli poster
6.8

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.

Gli onorevoli

1963

Quaranta... ma non li dimostra poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Quaranta... ma non li dimostra

1963

We Like It Cold poster
7.2

A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis.

We Like It Cold

1960

I 4 moschettieri poster
7.2

4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.

I 4 moschettieri

1963

He Who Hesitates Is Lost poster
7.0

After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.

He Who Hesitates Is Lost

1960

Totò Story poster
6.4

A hilarious anthology of scenes from some of the most famous films starring the great Totò, the prince of Italian comedy.

Totò Story

1968

Il mio amico Benito poster
5.8

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.

Il mio amico Benito

1962

Rita the Mosquito poster
6.2

Vivacious co-ed Rita falls in love with her music teacher, who leads a double life: bespectacled professor by day, rock star by night.

Rita the Mosquito

1966

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum) poster
6.4

The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music.

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum)

1969

Lisa with the Blue Eyes poster
6.2

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...

Lisa with the Blue Eyes

1969

Don't Sting the Mosquito poster
5.3

Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants to take part in a singing contest but her father who is dead against it has her kidnapped. He finally gives in when his wife threatens to sing in the contest herself.

Don't Sting the Mosquito

1967

Miseria bella poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Miseria bella

1963

Gentlemen Are Born poster
7.0

Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.

Gentlemen Are Born

1960

Adultero lui, adultera lei poster
6.0

Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.

Adultero lui, adultera lei

1963

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino poster
6.5

Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

1962

Zum Zum Zum 2 poster
5.7

While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.

Zum Zum Zum 2

1969

Genitori in blue-jeans poster
6.6

Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

Genitori in blue-jeans

1960

Totò vs the Four poster
6.7

The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.

Totò vs the Four

1963

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio poster
7.0

Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita Ekberg that haunts him with hallucinations.

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

1962

The Policeman on Horseback poster
6.1

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.

The Policeman on Horseback

1961

1950s · 26 titles

Ferdinand I King of Naples poster
6.7

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.

Ferdinand I King of Naples

1959

Toto and the Women poster
6.8

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

Toto and the Women

1952

Variety Lights poster
6.9

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Variety Lights

1950

The Sign of Venus poster
6.8

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

The Sign of Venus

1955

Fast and Sexy poster
5.6

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.

Fast and Sexy

1958

A Day in Court poster
6.3

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

A Day in Court

1954

Bread, Love and Andalucia poster
6.3

Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.

Bread, Love and Andalucia

1958

Martin Toccaferro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Martin Toccaferro

1953

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge poster
7.6

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

1956

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy poster
8.0

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

1956

The Young Ladies of 04 poster
6.3

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.

The Young Ladies of 04

1955

La nipote Sabella poster
6.7

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".

La nipote Sabella

1958

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà poster
8.5

Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà

1957

Rome-Paris-Rome poster
5.7

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.

Rome-Paris-Rome

1951

You're on Your Own poster
7.2

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

You're on Your Own

1959

It Happens in Roma poster
4.9

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.

It Happens in Roma

1955

I pappagalli poster
5.9

Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.

I pappagalli

1955

Position Wanted poster
8.3

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...

Position Wanted

1951

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche poster
6.6

A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

1958

La bisarca poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bisarca

1950

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura poster
7.4

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

1959

La cambiale poster
6.5

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.

La cambiale

1959

Holiday Island poster
6.2

Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.

Holiday Island

1957

Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo poster
6.3

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.

Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo

1956

Lo scocciatore poster
6.6

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!

Lo scocciatore

1953

Funniest Show on Earth poster
6.2

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.

Funniest Show on Earth

1953

1940s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Quaranta... ma non li dimostra poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Quaranta... ma non li dimostra

1963

Toto and the Kings of Rome poster
7.0

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

Toto and the Kings of Rome

1952

Miseria bella poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Miseria bella

1963

I pappagalli poster
5.9

Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.

I pappagalli

1955

Pranziamo assieme poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pranziamo assieme

1980

Per me come se fosse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Per me come se fosse

1978

A Coperchia è caduta una stella poster
NR

Pasquale and Luigi, two brothers about to get married, never lose their spirit for playing pranks on each other, such as scratching photos of their girlfriends or stealing money. One day, Hélène, a beautiful French woman whose car has run out of gas, arrives unexpectedly. The two brothers both fall in love with her and invite her to stay at their house. In the days that follow, Pasquale confesses that he wants to marry Hélène, and when his girlfriend finds out, she makes a scene in public that completely discredits him. The same fate befalls Luigi, who has to endure the whining of his girlfriend Rosina. Everything seems to be going well for Pasquale, now free and devoted only to the beautiful French woman, but a sudden encounter with his country friends upsets his plans. The young Don Enrico, an inveterate Don Juan, sets his sights on Hélène, who, having fallen in love with him, decides to return to France with him.

A Coperchia è caduta una stella

1933

Miseria bella poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Miseria bella

1959

Non è vero... ma ci credo! poster
10.0

A young man in love with a girl whose father--his employer--does not approve of him, disguises himself as a hunchback to get into the father's good graces.

Non è vero... ma ci credo!

1952

Il malato immaginario poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il malato immaginario

1972

Spacca il centesimo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spacca il centesimo

1980

Un ragazzo di campagna poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un ragazzo di campagna

1959

L'amor mio non muore! poster
8.0

A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his daughter's hand. After 20 yeas he has become a wealthy financier in America; he returns to his homeland and starts to track down the girl of his dreams.

L'amor mio non muore!

1938

Quale onore! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quale onore!

1972