Highest rated movie: Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Lowest rated movie: Wife for a Night (1952)
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Movies starring Paolo Stoppa have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 73%.
Rocco and His Brothers - released in 1960 - is Paolo Stoppa's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 108 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Paolo Stoppa is Wife for a Night - released in 1952 - with a score of 60% based on 1 reviews.
Paolo Stoppa (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor and dubber.
Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. As a stage actor, his most celebrated works include those after World War II, when he met director Luchino Visconti: the two, together with Stoppa's wife, actress Rina Morelli, formed a trio whose adaptions of works by authors such as Chekhov, Shakespeare and Goldoni became highly acclaimed.
He debuted in television in 1960 in the drama series Vita col padre e con la madre, reaching the top of the popularity in the 1970s, in particular in the adaption of crime novels by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Il giudice e il suo boia and Il sospetto) and Augusto De Angelis.
As a film actor, Stoppa made some 194 appearances between 1932 and his retirement in 1983: films he appeared in include popular classics such as Miracolo a Milano (1951), Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), Viva l'Italia! (1961), Il Gattopardo (1962), La matriarca (1968), Amici miei atto II (1982). He also had a role in the Sergio Leone epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and cameoed in Becket (1964).
Stoppa was also a renowned dubber of films into Italian. He began this activity in the 1930s as dubber of Fred Astaire. Other actors he dubbed include Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas and Paul Muni.
Paolo Stoppa has acted in films with Claudia Cardinale, Romolo Valli, Marcella Rovena and Alain Delon.
Paolo Stoppa has worked with these film directors: Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini.
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