Nico Pepe

Nico Pepe
Born	Domenico Pepe (1917-01-19)19 January 1917 Udine, Italy
Died	13 August 1987(1987-08-13) (aged 70) Udine, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1936–1981

Nico Pepe (19 January 1917 – 13 August 1987) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1936 and 1981.^[1]

Born in Udine, after a bachelor's degree in business Pepe got a job as a banking clerk, which he quit to perform in the theater company led by Roldano Lupi and Paola Borboni.^[2] He later entered some of the major companies of the time, working among others with Vittorio De Sica, Dina Galli, Ruggero Ruggeri and Sergio Tofano.^[2] In the second post-war, he served as artistic director of several theaters, including the Teatro Stabile di Torino [it].^[2] Starting from Giorgio Strehler's 1953 rendition of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and until late 1970s he frequently worked at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.^[2]

Also active in films, radio and television and as a dubber, he retired from acting in the early 1980s, and in his late years directed a theater school in the Friulian language.^[2] He was married to actress Clara Auteri [it].^[2]

• Nico Pepe at IMDb
• Nico Pepe at AllMovie

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