Enzo Petito

Biography

Enzo Petito (born February 19, 1911), born Vincenzo Squatriti, is an Italian film and stage character actor. A theatre actor under Eduardo De Filippo in the 1950s in the Teatro San Ferdinando of Naples, with whom he was professionally closely associated, Petito also appeared in several of his films, often co-starring Eduardo or/and brother, Peppino De Filippo, brothers who are considered to be amongst the greatest Italian actors of the 20th century. Petito played minor roles in some memorable commedia all'Italiana movies directed by the likes of Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli in the late 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing alongside actors such as Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Anna-Maria Ferrero, and Totò. Although never a leading actor, he made a number of small appearances as character actors alongside Italy's leading film stars in films throughout the early to mid 1960s and is arguably best known in world cinema for his role as the store keeper in the Sergio Leone classic Spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. His roles ranged from storekeepers and cobblers to priests and homeless men. His role of most esteem, however, is perhaps as Napolean in Sergio Corbucci's comedy Chi si ferma è perduto in 1963. Filmography A che servono questi quattrini? as the notary (1942) Ballata tragica as the boatswain (1954) Poverty and Nobility (1954) Ci sposeremo a Capri (1956) Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia as Giovanni (1959) Il vedovo (1959) Il Mattatore as Il cavalier Pizzola-to (uncredited) (1960) The Last Judgement (1961) L'oro di Roma (1961) La cuccagna as Galliano Rubinace, Rossella's Father (1962) I quattro monaci as Padre Guardiano (1962) Ultimatum alla vita (1962) Roaring Years (1962) Il criminale as a homeless man (1962) Chi si ferma è perduto as Napoleon (1963) Made in Italy as The Usher (segment "4 'Cittadini, stato e chiesa', episode 1") (1965) Io, io, io... e gli altri (1966) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as the Storekeeper (1966)