Mario Castellani

Italian actor (1906–1978)

Actor
comedian

Years active1924–1971

Mario Castellani (24 November 1906 – 25 April 1978) was an Italian comic actor, best known as the sidekick of famous comic actor Antonio De Curtis (Totò).^{[citation needed]} He appeared with the latter in all his major movies, as well as many of Totò's theatre productions.

Filmography

Below is a partial list of his films—

Romulus and the Sabines (1945, directed by Mario Bonnard) - Il proprietario del teatro
Abbasso la miseria! (1945, directed by Gennaro Righelli) - Un agente
I due orfanelli (1947, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Il maggiordomo (uncredited)
Fear and Sand (1948, directed by Mario Mattoli)
Toto Tours Italy (1948, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Renato Stella, allenatore
I pompieri di Viggiù (1949, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Jealous husband
Toto Looks for a House (1949, directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli) - Truffatore
L'imperatore di Capri (1949, directed by Luigi Comencini) - Asdrubale Stinchi
Totò Le Mokò (1949, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) - Za, gang member
Toto Looks for a Wife (1950, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) - Filippo
Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) - Roberto
Tototarzan (1950, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Stanis
Toto the Sheik (1950, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Il colonnello dei ribelli
Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) - Amilcare
47 morto che parla (1950, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) - Il colonello Bertrand de Tassiny
Totò terzo uomo (1951, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Alfredo
La vendetta del corsaro (1951, directed by Primo Zeglio) - Armagnac
La paura fa 90 (1951, directed by Giorgio Simonelli) - Avv. Lefevre
Seven Hours of Trouble (1951, directed by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi) - Antonino
Guardie e ladri (1951, directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli) - The Taxi Driver
The Two Sergeants (1951, directed by Carlo Alberto Chiesa)
Toto in Color (1952, directed by Steno) - On. Trombetta
Deceit (1952, directed by Guido Brignone) - Ubriaco al night-club
Cinque poveri in automobile (1952, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Il regista
Toto and the King of Rome (1952, directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli) - Corrado
Totò e le donne (1952, directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli) - Rag. Carlini
L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953, directed by Steno) - The doctor
Un turco napoletano (1953, directed by Mario Mattoli) - L'onorevole Cocchetelli
Una di quelle (1953, directed by Aldo Fabrizi) - Piero
Il più comico spettacolo del mondo (1953, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Il domatore
Questa è la vita (1954, episode La patente, directed by Luigi Zampa) - Altro avvocato
Dov'è la libertà? (1954, directed by Roberto Rossellini) - Il pubblico ministero
Tempi nostri (1954, directed by Alessandro Blasetti) - (segment "La macchina fotografica")
The Three Thieves (1954, directed by Lionello De Felice) - Ornano's Lawyer
The Doctor of the Mad (1954, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Cristaldi
Toto Seeks Peace (1954, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Testimone
Totò and Carolina (1955, directed by Mario Monicelli) - Goffredo Barozzoli
Totò all'inferno (1955, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - Cri-Cri / Un marito
I giorni più belli (1956, directed by Mario Mattoli) - L'ingegnere della banca
Totò, Peppino e... la malafemmina (1956, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - Mezzacapa
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - Un bandito
Malafemmena (1957, directed by Armando Fizzarotti)
La cambiale (1959, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - Avvocato Incarta
I baccanali di Tiberio (1959, directed by Giorgio Simonelli)
Tough Guys (1960, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - Alì
Letto a tre piazze (1960, directed by Steno) - Il Preside
Appuntamento a Ischia (1960, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Mina's Agent
Who Hesitates is Lost (1960, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Comm. Pasquetti
Il corazziere (1960, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - L'ufficiale giudiziario
Totò, Peppino e...la dolce vita (1961, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Il Presidente
Tototruffa 62 (1961, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque) - Teacher in 'Lausanne' College (uncredited)
I due marescialli (1961, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Ladro che si confessa (uncredited)
Il mantenuto (1961, directed by Ugo Tognazzi) - Virgilio De Rossi
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961, directed by Mario Mattoli)
Totò diabolicus (1962, directed by Steno) - Ispettore Scalarini
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Giorgio Ballarini
Sexy Toto (1963, directed by Mario Amendola) - Guardia carceraria (Prison guard)
Totò contro i quattro (1963, directed by Steno) - Lancetti
Il monaco di Monza (1963, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Il nobile con due scarpe destre
Le motorizzate (1963, directed by Marino Girolami) - Il Brigadiere dei Vigili Urbani (segment "Vigile ignoto") (uncredited)
Toto and Cleopatra (1963, directed by Fernando Cerchio) - Il chirurgo cranico reale
Gli onorevoli (1963, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Segretario (uncredited)
Il comandante (1963, directed by Paolo Heusch) - Castelletti
Totò contro il pirata nero (1964, directed by Fernando Cerchio) - Il pirata con l'uncino
Che fine ha fatto Totò Baby? (1964, directed by Ottavio Alessi, in reality by Paolo Heusch) - Direttore del Riformatorio
Totò d'Arabia (1964, directed by José Antonio De La Loma, in reality by Paolo Heusch) - El agente americano
I figli del leopardo (1965, directed by Sergio Corbucci)
Gli amanti latini (1965, directed by Mario Costa) - Un paziente (segment "Amore e morte")
Ringo e Gringo contro tutti (1966, directed by Bruno Corbucci) - Sceriffo
Totò Ye Ye (1967, TV Movie, directed by Daniele D'Anza) - Compagno del 'capellone'
Totò story (1968, directed by various)
Specialists (1969) - Judge Ham
Er Più - Storia di amore e di coltello (1971, directed by Sergio Corbucci) - Il Dottore
Totò, une anthologie (1978, directed by Jean-Louis Comolli)