Walter Chiari
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Walter Chiari, stage name of Walter Annichiarico (2 March 1924 - 20 December 1991), who was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles.
Born in Verona, Chiari achieved a certain degree of international success in films such as The Little Hut (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1966), and The Valachi Papers (1972). He appeared opposite Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti's film Bellissima (1951). He also appeared on Broadway in the musical The Gay Life (1961).
He appeared in They're a Weird Mob (1966), the last of the Powell and Pressburger films, based on a popular Australian novel by John O'Grady. He also appeared in the Australian film Squeeze a Flower in 1970.
Chiari died of heart attack in Milan, at home, on 21 December 1991. The very same day he had undertaken a complete, positive medical check up.
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Filmography
- Vanità, directed by Giorgio Pàstina (1946)
- Totò al Giro d'Italia, directed by Mario Mattòli (1948)
- Che tempi!, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1948)
- Quel fantasma di mio marito, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1950)
- L'inafferrabile 12, directed by Mario Mattoli (1950)
- I cadetti di Guascogna, directed by Mario Mattòli (1950)
- Vendetta... sarda, directed by Mario Mattòli (1951)
- Il padrone del vapore, directed by Mario Mattòli (1951)
- O.K. Nerone, directed by Mario Soldati (1951)
- È l'amor che mi rovina, directed by Mario Soldati (1951)
- Arrivano i nostri, directed by Mario Mattòli (1951)
- Abbiamo vinto!, directed by Robert Stemmle (1951)
- Era lui... sì! sì!, directed by Metz and Marchesi (1951)
- Bellissima, directed by Luchino Visconti (1951)
- Oggi sposi, directed by Metz and Marchesi (1952)
- Noi due soli, directed by Marino Girolami (1952)
- Lo sai che i papaveri, directed by Metz and Marchesi (1952)
- Era lei che lo voleva!, directed by Marino Girolami and Giorgio Simonelli (1953)
- Cinque poveri in automobile, directed by Mario Mattòli (1952)
- Il sogno di Zorro, directed by Mario Soldati (1952)
- L'ora della verità, directed by Jean Delannoy (1952)
- Viva la rivista!, directed by Enzo Trapani (1953)
- Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!, directed by Glauco Pellegrini (1953)
- Siamo tutti Milanesi, directed by Mario Landi (1953)
- Cinema d'altri tempi, directed by Steno (1954)
- Questa è la vita - episode "Marsina stretta", directed by Aldo Fabrizi (1954)
- Gran varietà, directed by Domenico Paolella (1954)
- Un giorno in pretura, directed by Steno (1954)
- Avanzi di galera, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi (1954)
- Accadde al commissariato, directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1954)
- Rosso and nero, directed by Domenico Paolella (1955)
- Io piaccio, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1955)
- Vacanze d'amore, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1955)
- Nanà, directed by Christian-Jaque (1954)
- Io sono un sentimentale, directed by John Berry (1955)
- Accadde al penitenziario, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1955)
- Moglie and buoi, directed by Leonardo De Mitri (1956)
- Donatella, directed by Mario Monicelli (1956)
- Mio zio Giacinto, directed by Ladislao Vajda (1956)
- La capannina, directed by Mark Robson (1957)
- Buongiorno tristezza!, directed by Otto Preminger (1958)
- Festa di maggio, directed by Luis Saslavsky (1958)
- Amore a priva vista, directed by Franco Rossi (1958)
- I zitelloni, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1958)
- La ragazza di piazza San Pietro, directed by Piero Costa (1958)
- Le sorprese dell'amore, directed by Luigi Comencini (1959)
- L'amico del giaguaro, directed by Giuseppe Bennati (1958)
- Parque de Madrid, directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry (1959)
- Un mandarino per Teo, directed by Mario Mattòli (1960)
- Femmine di lusso, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1960)
- Un dollaro di fifa, directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1960)
- I baccanali di Tiberio, directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1960)
- Vacanze in Argentina, directed by Guido Leoni (1960)
- Walter and i suoi cugini, directed by Marino Girolami (1961)
- La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo, directed by Marino Girolami (1961)
- Mariti a congresso, directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico (1961)
- I magnifici tre, directed by Giorgio Simonelli (1961)
- Lui, lei and il nonno, directed by Anton Giulio Majano (1961)
- Ferragosto in bikini, directed by Marino Girolami (1961)
- Bellezze sulla spiaggia, directed by Romolo Girolami (1961)
- La moglie di mio marito, directed by Tony Roman (1961)
- Il giorno più corto, directed by Sergio Corbucci (1962)
- L'attico, directed by Gianni Puccini (1962)
- Copacabana Palace, directed by Steno (1963)
- Due contro tutti, directed by Alberto De Martino and Antonio Momplet (1962)
- Gli Italiani and le donne, directed by Marino Girolami (1962)
- Gli onorevoli, directed by Sergio Corbucci (1963)
- Il giovedì, directed by Dino Risi (1963)
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella, directed by Marino Girolami (1963)
- La rimpatriata, directed by Damiano Damiani (1963)
- Obiettivo ragazze, directed by Mario Mattòli (1963)
- Gli imbroglioni, directed by Lucio Fulci (1963)
- Follie d'estate, directed by Carlo Infascelli and Edoardo Anton (1963)
- Le tardone, directed by Marino Girolami and Javier Setó (1964)
- I motorizzati, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1964)
- I maniaci, directed by Lucio Fulci (1964)
- Se permettete, parliamo di donne, directed by Ettore Scola (1964)
- I gemelli del Texas, directed by Steno (1964)
- Le motorizzate, directed by Marino Girolami (1964)
- Thrilling - episode "Sadik", directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro (1965)
- Amore all'italiana, directed by Steno (1966)
- Här kommer bärsärkarna, directed by Arne Mattsson (1965)
- Colpo grosso ma non troppo, directed by Gérard Oury (1965)
- Gli eroi del West, directed by Steno (1965)
- Made in Italy, directed by Nanni Loy (1965)
- Falstaff, directed by Orson Welles (1965)
- Ischia operazione amore, directed by Vittorio Sala (1966)
- Io, io, io... and gli altri, directed by Alessandro Blasetti (1966)
- They're a Weird Mob (aka Sono strana gente), directed by Michael Powell (1966)
- La più bella coppia del mondo, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (1968)
- Capriccio all'italiana - episode "La gelosia", directed by Mauro Bolognini (1968)
- Quei temerari sulle loro pazze, scatenate, scalcinate carriole, directed by Ken Annakin (1969)
- Squeeze a Flower, directed by Marc Daniels (1970)
- Joe Valachi - I segreti di Cosa Nostra, directed by Terence Young (1972)
- Amore mio, non farmi male, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1974)
- Due prostitute a Pigalle, directed by László Szabó (1975)
- Son tornate a fiorire le rose, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1975)
- La banca di Monate, directed by Francesco Massaro (1975)
- Per amore di Cesarina, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1976)
- Passi furtivi in una notte boia, directed by Vincenzo Rigo (1976)
- Come ti rapisco il pupo, directed by Lucio De Caro (1976)
- Ride bene... chi ride ultimo - episode "Prete per forza", directed by Walter Chiari (1977)
- La bidonata, directed by Luciano Ercoli (1977)
- Tanto va la gatta al lardo..., directed by Marco Aleandri (1978)
- Ridendo and scherzando, directed by Marco Aleandri (1978)
- Belli and brutti ridono tutti, directed by Domenico Paolella (1979)
- Tre sotto il lenzuolo - episode "No, non è per gelosia", directed by Paolo Dominici (1979)
- Romanzo, directed by Massimo Mazzucco (1986)
- Kafka la colonia penale, directed by Giuliano Betti (1988)
- Tracce di vita amorosa, directed by Peter Del Monte (1990)
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