Cesare Polacco
Cesare Polacco was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Venice, Polacco started his career in 1920 in the stage company of Emilio Zago, with whom he played most of the Goldoni's repertoire. In 1928 he moved to Rome, where in addition to theatre he started appearing in films and working as a dubber. Being of Jewish origin, he was temporarily forced to abandon acting because of the 1938 Fascist racial laws, resuming his activities at the end of the war, in 1945. Also active on radio and television, he got a large popularity thanks to the Inspector Rock character he played in Carosello, in a series of giallo-comedy shorts aired between 1957 and 1968.
Polacco was also a voice actor, having dubbed a number of actors which include Ward Bond, Anthony Quinn, Chill Wills, Howard da Silva, Louis Calhern, Richard Boone and Boris Karloff in several of their films. In his animated roles, he provided the Italian voice of Happy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as well as one of the crows in Dumbo.
Personal life
Polacco was married to the actress Eugenia Zorn until her death in 1940. They had three daughters; Elena, Arduina and Marina. In 1947, he married the actress Clelia Bernacchi.
Loyalty of Love – Il banditore al patiboloGolden Arrow – Casellante stazione ferroviariaLo squadrone bianco – El FennekHands Off Me! – Il capomastroThe Former Mattia Pascal – Un ospite della pensioneTonight at Eleven – Il benzinaioA Thousand Lire a Month – Carletto, l'altro padrinoMad Animals – Il creditoreThe Fornaretto of Venice – BarnabaTorna, caro ideal! – Il medicoManon Lescaut – Un dei tre creditoriLa última falla Il signore della taverna Kean – Il medicoIl ponte dei sospiri Il Bazar delle idee The Siege of the Alcazar – VenegasEternal Melodies – HaydnPinocchio – The Coachman La forza bruta – Paolo PeregoThe Prisoner of Santa Cruz – Sandro, suo maritoMarco Visconti Merchant of Slaves – Un mercanteFedora – L'usuraio BarnsteinWe the Living – Member of the Epuration CommissionO sole mio The Adulteress – Il vecchio dei gioielliBlack Eagle – Il segretario SputingFury – LawyerL'ebreo errante Fear and Sand – BanderilleroThe Earth Cries Out – JafremBuried Alive – FerdinandoA Night of Fame – Israelian DelegateToto Looks for a House – Vice custodeToto the Sheik – MohamedFugitive in Trieste La prigioniera di Amalfi La campana di San Giusto Rigoletto e la sua tragedia – SparafucileTipi da spiaggia – Prince JoakimThe Employee – Police Inspector RockThose Two in the Legion – Police CommissionerThe Godfather – Don Carlo Tramonti