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- Joe Giudice was born on 22 May 1970 in Sala Consilina, Salerno, Italy. He was previously married to Teresa Giudice.
- Massimo Pio Giunto was born on 15 October 2007 in Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for DI4RIES (2022) and Volare!.
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- Producer
Sydney Sibilia was born on 19 November 1981 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014), Rose Island (2020) and Mixed by Erry (2023).- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Actor
Paki Meduri was born on 2 August 1972 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is a production designer and art director, known for Suburra (2015), Gomorrah (2014) and Alaska (2015).- Teresa Tirelli was born on 14 July 1907 in Polla, Provincia di Salerno, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Godfather Part II (1974), I Love Lucy (1951) and Dr. Kildare (1961). She was married to Nicola D'Amico. She died on 16 June 1989 in Northridge, California, USA.
- Giuliana de Sio was born on 2 April 1956 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She is an actress, known for La piovra (1984), The Pool Hustlers (1983) and The Wicked (1991).
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Vincenzo Alfieri is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter, born in Salerno in 1986. After studying acting and directing between New York and Los Angeles and getting a university degree in Political Science, he became known to the big screen audience by starring in the comedy film "Niente può Fermarci", where he was a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome. Among his films as director, actor, screenwriter and editor are: "Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo"(2022), "Ai confini del male" (2021), "Gli Uomini d'Oro" (2019) and "I Peggiori" (2017).- Anny Papa was born on 29 June 1955 in Salerno, Italy. She is an actress, known for A Blade in the Dark (1983), Caramelle da uno sconosciuto (1987) and Das Lustschloß im Spessart (1978).
- Pascal Persiano was born on 9 November 1960 in Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Demons 2 (1986), Voices from Beyond (1991) and I mercenari raccontano (1985). He is married to Laura.
- Although Frank Nitti has gotten the reputation over the years as the right-hand man of gangster Al Capone and a feared killer in his own right, this has actually proven not to be the case. Although Nitti and Capone were as youths in New York City both members of the Five Points Gang--one of the most notorious of the city's many violent street gangs at the turn of the century--they apparently were in the gang at different times and didn't know each other. It wasn't until Nitti later moved to Chicago, where Capone was already established as a major gangland figure, that the two became acquainted. Nitti ran a barber shop from where he peddled bootleg liquor and where various denizens of the neighborhood would fence stolen property. He had a knack for smuggling whiskey from Canada to Chicago and distributing it throughout the city, a talent that brought him to Capone's attention. He was subsequently brought into the Capone mob, where he did indeed become "Big Al's" right-hand man. When Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion in 1929, Nitti was installed as head of the Capone mob by Paul "The Waiter" Ricca, who was the real power in Chicago's gangland hierarchy. Nitti's position was solely as a frontman, to take the spotlight off Ricca and the other gangsters who actually ran things; he had no real power and his "orders" were usually countermanded by Ricca, who--unlike Nitti--was a member of the Commission, a "board of directors" of Mafia crime families.
Nitti did manage to get into trouble on his own, though. In late December of 1932 he had a run-in with a gangster named Ted Newberry, who was running what used to be the George Moran (aka "Bugs" Moran) / Charles Dion O'Bannion gang. Newberry, it was rumored, had Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak on his payroll and vowed to get Nitti. Shortly afterward two Chicago detectives showed up at Nitti's office, sent there by Cermak to arrest him, and a few minutes later a gunfight erupted, during which one of the detectives was shot in the hand and Nitti himself was badly wounded and almost died; he spent several months in the hospital. When he recovered he was put on trial for the attempted murder of the officers. However, at the trial it came out that the detectives had been paid to assassinate Nitti, although it wasn't determined by whom, and that the officer who was shot had actually deliberately shot himself in the hand so as to provide an excuse to kill Nitti, who was in fact unarmed. He was acquitted of the charges.
In 1943 two Chicago mobsters were indicted for labor racketeering in a scheme to take over several Hollywood labor unions and extort money from the movie studios in exchange for labor peace. They were tried and found guilty, but instead of going to prison they made a deal to inform on their gangland bosses, among whom were Nitti and Ricca, who were soon indicted. Ricca and the other mobsters ordered Nitti to take the blame for the scheme, since the two gangsters who turned on them were Nitti's men. Nitti, who had served 18 months in prison in the early 1930s for income tax evasion, was extremely claustrophobic and the thought of spending several years in a small prison cell was too much for him to bear. He refused the order to take the rap for them all, and a violent argument ensued between Nitti and the other gangsters. The next day Nitti went for a walk along the railroad tracks near his home, and as several railroad employees working nearby were looking at him, he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. - Mario Vitale was born on 1 April 1923 in Salerno, Italy. He was an actor, known for Stromboli (1950), Il barcaiolo di Amalfi (1954) and Sunday in August (1950). He died on 25 October 2003 in Salerno, Campania, Italy.
- Giacinto Gorga was born on 15 September 1943 in Sala Consilina, Salerno, Italy. He was married to Antonia Gorga. He died on 3 April 2020 in Wayne, New Jersey, USA.
- Antonio Zequila was born on 1 January 1964 in Atrani, Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Legittima vendetta (1995), First Action Hero (1994) and Omicidio al telefono (1994).
- Ottavio Jemma was born on 1 January 1925 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was a writer, known for Sacco & Vanzetti (1971), When Women Had Tails (1970) and Bambina (1974). He was married to Enza Sampò. He died on 25 December 2015 in Rome, Italy.
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Ugo Pirro was born on 24 April 1920 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), Celluloide (1996) and We Still Kill the Old Way (1967). He died on 18 January 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actor
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Angelo Orlando was born in Salerno, Italy. Scriptwriter, director and actor. He had his real breakthrough in 1990 when Fellini gave him the role of Nestore in his last movie La voce della Luna, and the following year, in Massimo Troisi's film I Thought It Was Love, for which he won the David di Donatello award as best supporting actor. He went on writing comedy sketches and a variety of TV show episodes and wrote plays for the theatre. In 1994 made his first film as director, L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci, a movie inspired to Andrea Pazienza's comic strips. In 1998 he wrote his second feature film, Barbara, rewritten for the theatre a few years later. In the same year he wrote Tobia al Caffè, a film by Gianfranco Mingozzi. In 1999 he wrote the screenplay Outlaw, a film by Enzo Monteleone, nominated by the Italian National Sindacate of film Journalists amongst the best Italian scripts in 2000. His debut in literature in 2001, was with Quasi quattordici (Nearly fourteen), almost an autobiographic story, a diary of a child in a southern country of Italy. In November 2005 he won the Solinas Prize with Casamatta Vendesi, best comedy screenplay. Sfiorarsi is his third feature film and was written together with the actress and scriptwriter Valentina Carnelutti. Sfiorarsi is awarded in several national and international festivals, a distribution Atalante Film in collaboration with the Film School Sentieri Selvaggi in Rome, Italy. In 2007 he wrote the screenplay Sandrine in the rain.
In 2008 starts to shooting the Short Movie, The Day After, in 2009 the short film Giro Giro Tondo and in 2012, One Hundred Second, selected in the Short Film Corner at Cannes Festival. In 2010 is among the finalist of the screenplay Solinas with Cinq, sei, sett, ott, written with Valentina Russo. Since 2005, the Association of Humanity and Culture La Teca, holds seminars on the craft of the actor, creative writing workshops, script, direction and cinematic language, in Rome, Trento, Genova, Legnano, Lugano, Sassari.
2012 he founded the production company Gris Medio with the greek photographer and greek cinematographer Efthymia Zymvragaki.
2015 his fourth feature: Rocco tiene tu nombre, shooted in Barcelona, has his world wide premiere at RIFF (Rome independent Film Festival).- Editor
- Editorial Department
Marco Rizzo was born on 25 April 1984 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. Marco is an editor, known for This Is the Way (2014), Henry (2010) and Ricordi? (2018).- Director
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- Producer
Alessandro Piva was born in 1966 in Salerno, Italy. He is a director and editor, known for The Head Is Spinning (2000), Henry (2010) and Mio cognato (2003).- Actor
Ed Agresti was born on 4 October 1900 in Salerno, Italy. He was an actor. He died on 1 January 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Massimo Venturiello was born on 4 August 1957 in Roccadaspide, Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Il capo dei capi (2007), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) and L'ispettore anticrimine (1993).- Actress
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Jole Fierro was born on 22 November 1926 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nerone e Messalina (1953), La strada dei giganti (1960) and Bell' Antonio (1960). She died on 27 March 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Antonio Carluccio is an OBE, OMRI and a much loved and respected Italian cookery writer, chef, restaurateur and food expert. He was born on the Amalfi Coast in the South and raised in the wooded North-West has given Antonio a rare and privileged breadth of culinary knowledge. It was here, in Piedmont, at the age of seven that Antonio started his life-long past-time of hunting and collecting mushrooms and fungi with his father.
After time spent living in Germany, in 1975 Antonio moved to London and while learning English, traded as a wine merchant of Italian wines. His hobby of studying and collecting wild mushrooms continued to flourish as he found many varieties growing in the English countryside close to London, almost completely undiscovered.
Antonio took over the Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden in 1981, which traded for 26 years. In 1991 Antonio opened a deli next to the restaurant and in 1998 started the first Carluccio's Caffè in Market Place, London.
In 1983 Antonio made his first appearance on BBC 2 talking about Mediterranean food and at the same time was asked to write his first book, An Invitation to Italian Cooking. Subsequently he has written thirteen books, published worldwide and made numerous television programs including the hugely popular Antonio Carluccio's Northern Italian Feast and Southern Italian Feast.
In 2011 his travels around Italy were filmed for the popular BBC series Two Greedy Italians, made with friend and fellow chef Gennaro Contaldo. Recognition
In 1998, Antonio was awarded the Commendatore OMRI by the President of Italy for services to Italian gastronomy, the equivalent of a British knighthood. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary OBE.
Carluccio's operates from over 57 UK locations. In addition the company has granted franchises over two territories: the first over Ireland with presently one location open in Dublin; the second over 6 countries in the Middle East including three locations presently open in Dubai. - Writer
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Enzo D'Ambrosio was born on 5 March 1931 in Camerota, Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and producer, known for Ma il buon Dio è proprio in gamba? (1998), Emmanuelle on Taboo Island (1976) and Shadows Unseen (1972).- Actress
- Producer
Anna Ferraioli Ravel was born on 3 September 1988 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for I fratelli De Filippo (2021), Zamora (2024) and Guarda in alto (2017).- Antonia Gorga was born on 20 October 1950 in Sala Consilina, Salerno, Italy. She was married to Giacinto Gorga. She died on 3 March 2017 in Wayne, New Jersey, USA.