Roberto Bisacco

Italian television, stage and film actor (1939–2022)

Roberto Bisacco
Bisacco in 1975
Born	(1939-03-01)1 March 1939 Turin, Italy
Died	10 October 2022(2022-10-10) (aged 83) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1939-2022

Roberto Bisacco (1 March 1939 – 10 October 2022)^[1] was an Italian television, stage and film actor.

Life and career

Born in Turin, after enrolling at the university in the faculty of economics and having worked for a year as an accountant in a large company, Bisacco decided to pursue an acting career and enrolled at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome in 1960.^[2] He made his film debut in 1963, as the main actor of Gli arcangeli by Enzo Battaglia.^[2] Bisacco's breakout role was Mario in the RAI television series I miserabili (1964) directed by Sandro Bolchi;^[2] later Bisacco appeared in roles of weight on several successful television works and also began a busy stage career, while his film career was less significant, with dozens of roles of little weight.^[2]

Selected filmography

The Archangels (1963) - Roberto
Modesty Blaise (1966) - Enrico
Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold (1967) - Sergio
Col cuore in gola (1967) - David
Romeo and Juliet (1968) - Lord Paris
Fräulein Doktor (1969) - Schell
I dannati della Terra (1969)
Camille 2000 (1969) - Gastion
Detective Belli (1969) - Claudio
Delitto al circolo del tennis (1969) - Sandro
Vergogna schifosi (1969) - Andrea
La califfa (1970) - Bisacco
Torso (1973) - Stefano Vanzi
Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) - Donati
Stavisky (1974) - Juan Montalvo de Montalbon
La Cage aux Folles II (1980) - Ralph
The Assisi Underground (1985) - Prof. Rieti
Vendetta dal futuro (1986) - Cooper
Grandi cacciatori (1988) - Hermann
Millions (1991) - Osvaldo Ferretti
Infelici e contenti (1992) - Petrilli
Mashamal - ritorno al deserto (1998) - Mantovano
Lo strano caso del signor Kappa (2001)

References

^ La Rai di via Verdi omaggia Roberto Bisacco. L'attore torinese scomparso a 83 anni (in Italian)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131.