Nello Mascia

Nello Mascia (born 28 December 1946)^[1] is an Italian theater, film and TV actor. He has appeared in more than forty feature films since 1970.^[2][3][4]

Nello Mascia
Mascia in 2016
Born	(1946-12-28) 28 December 1946 (age 77) Sala Consilina, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1971-present

Life and career

Mascia was born in the province of Salerno in 1946.^[5] He started his career in the stage company by Eduardo De Filippo, before founding his own company shortly later.^[6] He made his feature film in 1972 and played numerous roles in feature films^[7][8] and TV films and series.

Mascia also worked for the theater as stage director,^{[9][10][11][12]} ans is particularly noted as an interpreter of Commedia dell'arte repertoire and of Neapolitan theatre.^[13][14][15]

Selected filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Delitti, amore e gelosia [it]		[8]
1982	Core mio [it]		[8]
1993	Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto [it]		[8]
1995	The Second Time		[8]
1996	I'm Crazy About Iris Blond		[8]
1998	The Dinner		[8]
1999	Non con un bang [it]		[16]
2001	One Man Up		[8]
2004	City Limits		[7]
2006	The Past Is a Foreign Land		[7]
2007	The Girl by the Lake		[17]
2010	Gorbaciof		[7]
2013	Sodoma - L'altra faccia di Gomorra [it]		[7]
2014	Another South		[7]
2019	L'immortale	Don Aniello Pastore	[7]
2022	Nostalgia		[18]

Short films

• Mehari (1994) directed by Gianfranco de Rosa^[19]

Television

• La fine di un regno, directed by Alessandro Blasetti (1970)
• L'esperimento, (1971)
• La signora Ava, (1975)
• Storie della camorra, (1978)
• L'eredità della priora, (1980)
• Tre operai (1980)
• Nel regno del Sud, directed by Ansano Giannarelli (1988)
• Sound, miniseries (1988)^[20]
• Il conto Montecristo, (1996)
• Un posto al sole, (1996-2001)
• Assunta Spina, miniseries (2006)
• Capri, series(2006-2008)^[21]
• Colpi di sole, series (2007)^[22]
• Don Matteo 8 /10, series (2011)
• Rossella, series (2012)
• L'oro di Scampia, (2014)
• Il sistema, series (2016)^[23]
• Gomorra, series (2016-2021)^[24]
• Dov'è Mario?, series (2016)
• Esterno Notte, series (2021)
• Un eroe piccolo piccolo, series (2021)
• Tutto per mio figlio, (2022)
• Noi siamo leggenda, series (2023)

References

1. MYmovies.it. "Nello Mascia". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-09.
2. "Nello Mascia". MUBI. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
3. "Nello Mascia". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
4. "Nello Mascia biografia". ComingSoon.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-09.
5. "Nello Mascia | www.napolifilmfestival.it". www.napolifilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
6. Palazzi, Renato (19 February 1982). "E si è rivelato un attore". Corriere della sera. p. 25.
7. "Nello Mascia - attori - filmografie". Filmitalia (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-10.
8. "Cinematografo: Cast". www.cinematografo.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
9. "Recensione dello spettacolo "Filumena Marturano", con Nello Mascia e Gloriana, al Teatro San Ferdinando di Napoli". 27 December 2015.
10. Chaffee, Judith; Crick, Oliver (2014-11-20). The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-61336-7.
11. ""Viviani per strada" di Nello Mascia". teatro Trianon Viviani (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-09.
12. Cairns, Christopher (2019-01-04). The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance, Design: Volume II: Design, Image and Acting. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-64036-0.
13. "Cultura, al teatro Trianon Viviani di Napoli Nello Mascia apre la rassegna di gennaio dedicata a Raffaele Viviani". www.ilmessaggero.it (in Italian). 2024-01-05. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
14. Mauriello, Marzia (2016). Drammi di genere: Femminile e maschile nel teatro di Raffaele Viviani (in Italian). libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-6292-742-0.
15. Forum Italicum. Department of Modern Languages, Florida State University. 2005.
16. NON CON UN BANG (in Italian), retrieved 2024-02-10
17. Maltin, Leonard (2014-09-02). Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-698-18361-2.
18. "NOSTALGIA". Festival de Cannes. 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
19. Marlow-Mann, Alex (2012-09-07). New Neapolitan Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-8765-7.
20. Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s r l. "Sound (1989)". mymovies.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
21. MYmovies.it. "Capri". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-10.
22. Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s r l. "Colpi di sole (2007)". mymovies.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
23. MYmovies.it. "Il sistema". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-10.
24. Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s r l. "Gomorra - La serie (2014)". mymovies.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.

External links

• Nello Mascia at IMDb
• Mascia's filmography at Carol Levi & Company
• Interview at SuccedeOggi (In Italian)