Checco duuring – Wikipedia

Checco during , at the registry office Francesco during , (Rome, November 19, 1893 – Rome, January 5, 1976), was an Italian actor and poet.
Popular Roman actor and poet, he played with frankness and bonomy a certain Roman character. Husband of the actress Anita Durante, he had two daughters, both actresses: Leila and Luciana. The latter is the wife of the actor Marcello Pando and mother of the voice actor Francesco.

Born in Rome in 1893 in via dei Salumi, in the Trastevere district, while he was employed at a wholesale sales company of fabrics, he began to recite in a philodramatic, where he met his future wife Anita. Subsequently, in 1918, he entered together with Anita, in the company of the great Ettore Petrolini, ^[first] together with which the comedy wrote One-hundred of these days (1921). Always with Petrolini, he recited first of Italy and then, for six months, in the main cities of South America: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, San Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Campinas. ^[2]

During the aspire, however, to the role of Capocomico. In 1928 he left Petrolini and decided to form his own company. He made his debut on April 7 with his Primary company of the Roman comedy at the Traiano Theater in Civitavecchia with Ruganto’s comedy by Augusto Jandolo. ^[3] He made the whole apprenticeship, starting to act with alternating fortune in the small towns of Lazio until they landed on success in Rome’s cinemas. ^[4]

Starting from 1950, with his Stable company of the Roman theater He recited in the summer at Villa Aldobrandini, and in the winter season at the Rossini Theater, theater that already with Zanazzo and Tamburri had become the center of the Roman dialectal theater. In the interval of the comedies he used to declaim his verses. He often made use of the collaboration of Giggi Spaducci.

Very refined as a character, he did not disdain to support the prevalent theatrical activity that of a film actor, playing numerous films ^[5] With important directors such as Luigi Zampa, Mario Camerini, Mario Soldati, Dino Risi and others. Among the best known titles can be remembered: Rome at 11 am 1952, Polycarpo, writing officer of 1959, Straziamami but of kisses saziami of 1968, On the day of the Lord of 1970, In the name of the Italian people of 1971.

In the sixties some comedies in dialect were broadcast on television by Rai. He also recited in the television script Gian Burrasca’s newspaper , starring Rita Pavone, aired in eight episodes in 1964-65 and replied in the following years.

He also participated in numerous radio programs of the local broadcaster Radio Roma, such as Radio Campidoglio It is Field of flowers .

He died in the hometown, at eighty -two years old, the eve of the 1976 Epiphany. On 28 December 1975 he had starred for the last time in The discovery of America by Alberto Retti, alongside Nello Gambini. ^[6]

Checco Durante was buried at the Verano cemetery of Rome, together with his wife, son -in -law and both disappeared daughters in 2014. ^[7]

Like Ettore Petrolini and Gino Cervi, he was started at Freemasonry ^[8] .

• Capitol , Sunday weekly of Roman life, local broadcast of Rome and Lazio, since 1945, then replaced in 1956 by a similar broadcast Field of flowers , all with the direction of Giovanni Gigliozzi, from the first to 1974, when all the local broadcasts for the reform of the programs were closed. With Gisella Monaldi (La Sora Tuta), Fiorenzo Fiorentini (Er Sor du Fode), Tatiana Farnese, Enrico Urbini (the switchboard operator), Sergio D’Alba, Checco Durante, Isa Bellini, Dora Paci, Isa Di Marzio (Orazio Pennacchioni), Valerio degli Abbati, Sergio Fantoni, Giuliano Isidori, Franco Latini (Il Cperorino), Italo Carelli, Pina Piovani, Elio Pandolfi, Rino Salviati, Antonella Steni, Renato Izzo, Michele Gammino, Nando Bruno, Renato Turi, Zoe Incrocci, Gina Mascetti, in Gambini, Giusy Valeri, Enzo Liberti, the singers Giorgio Onorato and Giulia Jandolo, and many others.

• The general Mr. , single act by Luigi Chiarelli, directed by Guglielmo Morandi, broadcast on 12 December 1947
• Don desperate desire for excess of good heart , comedy by Giovanni Giraud, directed by Checco Durante and Mario Landi, broadcast on July 4, 1956.
• Views … if you are born, by Rina Paltrinieri, broadcast on 11 August 1958.
• Pig on and take home, of Rina Paltrinieri, broadcast on 18 July 1960.
• Ruganto’s comedy , by Augusto Jandolo, directed by Guglielmo Morandi, broadcast on January 17, 1961.
• The forgetful by Emilio Caglieri, directed by Enzo Liberti and Fernanda Turvani, broadcast on 12 August 1962.
• The exam , directed by Fernanda Turvani, broadcast on August 22, 1963.
• Gian Burrasca’s newspaper , Regia di Lina Wertmüller, 1964.
• My dear puppets , directed by Enzo Liberti and Luigi Di Gianni, broadcast on November 30, 1965.

• Pygmalion , Comedy by G. B. Shaw, directed by Guglielmo Morandi, broadcast on February 10, 1947
• The pantographer of Luigi Sharzina, iraduction of Louis Squarzina, Taken Y The 30 Gennial 195.

• The forgetful , directed by Gennaro Righelli (1936)
• The black corsair , directed by Hamlet Palermo (1937)
• The Brothers , directed by Corrado D’Errico (1937)
• Duet vagabond , directed by Guglielmo Giannini (1938)
• Small king , directed by Redo Romagnoli (1940)
• The School of Timidi , directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1941)
• Don Giovanni , directed by Dino Falconi (1942)
• Perdition , directed by Carlo Campogalliani (1942)
• Signorinette , directed by Luigi Zampa (1942)
• The tame bisbetics , directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (1942)
• The crusader train , directed by Carlo Campogalliani (1943)
• I lower the misery! , directed by Gennaro Righelli (1944)
• The innocent Casimiro , directed by Carlo Campogalliani (1945)
• I lower the wealth! , directed by Gennaro Righelli (1946)
• The sun still arises , directed by Aldo Vergano, Giuseppe De Santis (1946)
• Rage , directed by Goffredo Alessandrini (1947)
• The strike of the millions , directed by Raffaello Matarazzo (1947)
• The secret of Don Giovanni , directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1947)
• Opium fumery , directed by Raffaello Matarazzo (1947)
• Many dreams on the streets , directed by Mario Camerini (1948)
• The island of Montecristo , directed by Mario Sequi (1948)
• Holy dishonor , directed by Guido Brignone (1949)
• Twenty years , directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1949)
• Loves and poisons , directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1949)
• The two sisters , directed by Mario Volpe (1950)
• Spring song , directed by Mario Costa (1950)
• Variety lights , directed by Alberto Lattuada (1950)
• Falasco’s nest , directed by Guido Brignone (1950)
• Virginity , directed by Leonardo De Mitri (1951)
• Gentlemen, in a carriage! , directed by Luigi Zampa (1951)
• Best wishes and children! , directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1951)
• Rome at 11 am , directed by Giuseppe De Santis (1951)
• The voice of silence , Regia di Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1952)
• One hundred small mothers , directed by Giulio Morelli (1952)
• Easy years , directed by Luigi Zampa (1953)
• If I won one hundred million , directed by Carlo Campogalliani, Carlo Moscovini (1953)
• Forbidden women , directed by Giuseppe Amato (1953)
• William Tell , directed by Jack Cardiff (1953)
• The slave of sin , directed by Raffaello Matarazzo (1954)
• The last race , directed by Piero Costa (1954)
• Long live cinema! , directed by Enzo Trapani (1954)
• The car of Moncenisio , directed by Guido Brignone (1954)
• It happened between the bars , directed by Giorgio Cristallini (1955)
• The wife is the same for everyone , directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1955)
• Mask motif , directed by Stefano Canzio (1955)
• The port of hope , directed by Enzo Liberti (1955)
• Love process , directed by Enzo Liberti (1955)
• The straight , directed by Mario Amendola (1957)
• Love and trouble … , directed by Angelo Dorigo (1958)
• Polycarpo, writing officer , directed by Mario Soldati (1959)
• Granada, goodbye! , directed by Marino Girolami (1967)
• Straziamami but of kisses saziami , directed by Dino Risi (1968)
• On the day of the Lord , directed by Bruno Corbucci (1970)
• In the name of the Italian people , directed by Dino Risi (1970)
• Much of Paolina , directed by Nello Rossati (1973)

• Adurrio: dramatic monologue in verses in Roman dialect Belluno, tip. Fracchia, 1917.
• Na piena ar cinematogrefo Belluno, tip. Fracchia, 1917.
• Grumiro Belluno, tip. Fracchia, 1917.
• Galeotto: dramatic monologue in Roman verses Rome, home ed. Music. F.lli Franchi, 1918.
• Roman verses Rome, The diffusion, 1923.
• Shut up Rome, school typ. D. Luigi Guanella, 1942.
• Li Racconti The Nonno: Poesie Roman Rome, Graphic Arts, 1947.
• Watercolor – A Lo mirror To ii Volume, Role, Tip. Lubi’R, 1971.
• My memories; My poems Rome, tip. Don Guanella, 1973.
• Bernardina nun is the fool: 3 acts in Roman dialect Rome, tip. Nicola Ricci, 1986.

• S. Sallusti, Checco during , in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , Rome, Treccani, to the voice online edition

• Sisto Sallusti, During, Francesco , in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , vol. 42, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 1993.
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• ( IN ) Checco during . are Internet Movie Database , IMDB.com.
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• Checco during the by fewer soldiers from the newspaper Evening print of 10 August 1940, p. 4. Historical archive. URL consulted on 9/06/2012
• He died during Petrolini’s friend from the newspaper The print of 6 January 1976, p. 8. Historical archive. URL consulted on 9/06/2012