Cesare Polacco

Italian actor and voice actor

Eugenia Zorn

(died 1940)

Clelia Bernacchi

(m. 1947)

Children3

Cesare Polacco (14 May 1900 – 2 March 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor.^[1]

Biography

Born in Venice, Polacco started his career in 1920 in the stage company of Emilio Zago, with whom he played most of the Goldoni's repertoire.^[2] In 1928 he moved to Rome, where in addition to theatre he started appearing in films and working as a dubber.^[2] Being of Jewish origin, he was temporarily forced to abandon acting because of the 1938 Fascist racial laws, resuming his activities at the end of the war, in 1945.^[2] Also active on radio and television, he got a large popularity thanks to the Inspector Rock character he played in Carosello, in a series of giallo-comedy shorts aired between 1957 and 1968.^[2]^[3]

Polacco was also a voice actor, having dubbed a number of actors which include Ward Bond, Anthony Quinn, Chill Wills, Howard da Silva, Louis Calhern, Richard Boone and Boris Karloff in several of their films. In his animated roles, he provided the Italian voice of Happy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as well as one of the crows in Dumbo.

Personal life

Polacco was married to the actress Eugenia Zorn until her death in 1940. They had three daughters; Elena, Arduina and Marina. In 1947, he married the actress Clelia Bernacchi.^[4]

Partial filmography

Loyalty of Love (1934) - Il banditore al patibolo
Golden Arrow (1935) - Casellante stazione ferroviaria
Lo squadrone bianco (1936) - El Fennek
Hands Off Me! (1937) - Il capomastro
The Former Mattia Pascal (1937) - Un ospite della pensione
Tonight at Eleven (1938) - Il benzinaio
A Thousand Lire a Month (1939) - Carletto, l'altro padrino
Mad Animals (1939) - Il creditore
The Fornaretto of Venice (1939) - Barnaba
Torna, caro ideal! (1939) - Il medico
Manon Lescaut (1940) - Un dei tre creditori
La última falla (1940)
Il signore della taverna (1940)
Kean (1940) - Il medico
Il ponte dei sospiri (1940)
Il Bazar delle idee (1940)
The Siege of the Alcazar (1940) - Venegas
Eternal Melodies (1940) - Haydn
Pinocchio (1940) - The Coachman (Italian version)
La forza bruta (1941) - Paolo Perego
The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941) - Sandro, suo marito
Marco Visconti (1941)
Merchant of Slaves (1942) - Un mercante
Fedora (1942) - L'usuraio Barnstein
We the Living (1942) - Member of the Epuration Commission
O sole mio (1946)
The Adulteress (1946) - Il vecchio dei gioielli
Black Eagle (1946) - Il segretario Sputing
Fury (1947) - Lawyer
L'ebreo errante (1948)
Fear and Sand (1948) - Banderillero
The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Jafrem
Buried Alive (1949) - Ferdinando
A Night of Fame (1949) - Israelian Delegate
Toto Looks for a House (1949) - Vice custode
Toto the Sheik (1950) - Mohamed
Fugitive in Trieste (1951)
La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)
La campana di San Giusto (1954)
Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956) - Sparafucile
Tipi da spiaggia (1959) - Prince Joakim
The Employee (1960) - Police Inspector Rock
I due della legione (1962) - Police Commissioner
The Godfather (1972) - Don Carlo Tramonti (uncredited)

References

^ "Cesare Polacco's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. pp. 125–126. ISBN 8884402697.
^ Laura Delli Colli (4 March 1986). "E' morto Polacco l'infallibile Ispettore Rock della brillantina". La Repubblica. p. 24. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
^ "Cesare Polacco, l'attore che divenne celebre per la pelata mostrata in tv". Il Gazzettino (in Italian). 8 November 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2024.