Renato Pozzetto

Renato Pozzetto
150 px Renato Pozzetto (1988)
Born	(1940-07-14) 14 July 1940 Laveno-Mombello
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Director, comedian, singer
Years active	1964–-present

Renato Pozzetto (born 14 July 1940) is an Italian actor, director, stand-up comedian and singer.

Biography

Pozzetto was born into a working class family from Milan and grew up in the town of Gemonio (in the Province of Varese). After graduation, he made his debut as a comedian at the Derby Club in Milan.

In 1964 he and his childhood friend Cochi Ponzoni formed the duo Cochi & Renato. They recorded several successful songs, often written in collaboration with Enzo Jannacci. These songs often had a satirical and/or nonsense take. Their most popular hits include "La canzone intelligente" ("The intelligent song", a satire about songwriting) and "E la vita, la vita". From the mid 1970s through the first half of the 1990s Pozzetto enjoyed a prolific career in film, where he became famous for his trademark pronounced Milanese accent and for his shy and stuttering way of speaking. In te mid-2000s, following almost two decades of separation, he reunited with Ponzoni.

Selected filmography

• Per amare Ofelia (1974)
• La poliziotta (1974)
• Di che segno sei? (1975)
• Il padrone e l'operaio (1975)
• Due cuori, una cappella (1975)
• The Career of a Chambermaid (1975)
• Sturmtruppen (1976)
• Oh, Serafina! (1976)
• Black Journal (1977)
• Tre tigri contro tre tigri (1977)
• Io tigro tu tigri egli tigra (1978)
• Neapolitan Mystery (1979)
• La patata bollente (1979)
• I'm Photogenic (1980)
• Mia moglie è una strega (1980)
• Nessuno è perfetto (1981)
• Culo e camicia (1981)
• Fico d'India (1981)
• The Haunted House (1982)
• Testa o croce (1982)
• Questo e quello (1983)
• Un povero ricco (1983)
• Il ragazzo di campagna (1984)
• Lui è peggio di me (1985)
• È arrivato mio fratello (1985)
• 7 chili in 7 giorni (1986)
• Grandi magazzini (1986)
• Da grande (1987)
• Noi uomini duri (1987)
• Le comiche (1990)
• Piedipiatti (1991)
• Le comiche 2 (1991)
• Ricky e Barabba (1992)
• Le nuove comiche (1994)
• Mollo tutto (1995)
• Papà dice messa (1996)
• Nebbia in Val Padana (Tv series) (2000)
• Un amore su misura (2007)
• Oggi sposi (2009)
• What a Beautiful Surprise (2015)

External links

• Official website
• Renato Pozzetto at the Internet Movie Database