Nino Terzo
Actor
Biography
Nino Terzo (22 May 1923 – 8 May 2005) was an Italian actor.
Born in Palermo as Antonino Terzo, he worked intensively in the avanspettacolo and revue theater, entering the stage companies of Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, Domenico Modugno, among others. Terzo was also active as a singer, appearing in several operettas.
Terzo made his film debut in 1962, and he soon established himself as one of the most active character actors in the Italian comedy cinema, usually playing, with small variations, the character that made him famous in avanspettacolo, i.e. a man with extremely slow reflexes and a huge speech impediment, which does not allow him to speak before he loudly inhaled and exhaled. He retired in 1992 for health reasons.
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Filmography
The Clowns
as Clown 1970
Two Colonels
as Soldato La Padula 1963
Totò vs the Four
as Usciere Pappalardo 1963
Café Express
as Stationmaster Zappacosta 1980
The Soldier with Great Maneuvers
as Male nurse 1978
The Nurse on a Military Tour
as Caporale al deposito 1977
Lady Football
as Bachisio 1983
The Amazing Doctor G
as A policeman (uncredited) 1965
Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
as Russian agent 1964
Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
as Ki Kaka Mai 1973
The Shortest Day
as Guardia del corpo dei mafiosi (uncredited) 1963
The Lady Medic
as Nurse Pezzullo 1976
Emanuelle in the Country
as Commissioner Cipolla 1982
Who Gave You the License?
as Bartolomeo 1970
The Masseuses
as Brigadiere Calascione 1962
Two Sons of Ringo
as Jimmy il Guercio 1966