Biography
Renato Scarpa (14 September 1939 – 30 December 2021) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 85 films from 1969 to 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia page Renato Scarpa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Il mio amico Massimo
2022
as Sé stesso
The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.

Per tutta la vita
2021
as Emilio
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.

The Two Popes
2019
as Camerlengo
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and ...

Tomorrow's a New Day
2019
as Direttore Teatro Stabile
When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first ...

Nevermind
2018
A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakab...

The Stolen Caravaggio
2018
as Arturo Onofri
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she rec...

Manuel
2018
as Sor Attilio
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of free...

Thus Spoke De Crescenzo
2017
Tracing the journey of a free thinker, engineer, writer, scriptwriter, actor and director through his life and work, Così Parlo De Crescenzo harnesses...

Le verità
2017
Uberto degli specchi
2016

Tommaso
2016
as Mario
Tommaso has just left his first wife but he will meet a new person who will change everything in his life.

The professor's night
2016
It’s 3 a.m. Sergio and his wife Anna are deeply sleeping when the phone starts ringing. On the other side of the phone, an hesitant voice says: “There...

Cain
2015

Tale of Tales
2015
as Barber
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomon...

Mia madre
2015
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Last Tango
2015
as God
Alberto Tango is the owner of a small and shabby detective agency in the area close to Naples. His collaborator is Corrado, naive boy with some proble...

Santini's Network
2014
as Fortunato Santini
Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous ...

Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
2013
as Pio XI
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Ro...

Long Live Freedom
2013
as Arrighi
Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal,...

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
2012
as Anselmo Vitali
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed w...

We Have a Pope
2011
as Card. Gregori
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...

Eroi per caso
2011
as generale Corradi
In 1918 Cesare Magnozzi, a roman photographer, is drafted and together with Don Silvano they escort a soldier to the trench.

The Tourist
2010
as Arturo the Tailor
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

Un amore su misura
2007
as Giudy

Honolulu Baby
2001
as Anselmi
Alberto Columbo is an engineer, sent on a useless mission in Melancias, an isolated village in Brazil, leaving behind Margherita, his unsatisfied, car...

The Son's Room
2001
as Headmaster
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Ravanello pallido
2001
as Serafino Pace
Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma do...

Azzurro
2000
as Giorgio
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, ...

Tobia al caffè
2000
as Proprietario caffè
The film is set in the elegant café "Il Quattro Palme" traditionally frequented by intellectuals, lovers of lyric music and poetry.

Ribelli per caso
2000
as Armando

Joseph of Nazareth
2000
The people of Jerusalem are suffering under the reign of Herod, and are hoping to be delivered from the Roman occupiers by the Messiah whose arrival, ...

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
as Tailor
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
1999
as Papa
In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift e...

Esther
1999
as Eunuch
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

On Guard
1997
as Paolo Campagnoli
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a ...

Roseanna's Grave
1997
as Doctor Sergio Benvenuto
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery ...

Croce e Delizia
1995
as Produttore
An Italian troupe is busy in Paris filming an adaptation of La Traviata. The dressmaker Rosa, in love with the lead actor, identifies herself with Vio...

Joseph
1995
as Bäcker
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Jo...

The Postman
1994
as Telegrapher
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Only You
1994
as Alitalia Gate Attendant
Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to m...

Abraham
1993
as König von Sodom
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...

Sud
1993
Production Design
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Erit...

A Soul Split in Two
1993
as Department store manager
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights...

Stefano Quantestorie
1993
as Stefano's Father
Stefano is now forty years old but has not yet found his purpose in life, remaining an eternal dreamer waiting for that decisive enlightenment. With h...

Condition Critical
1992
as Carlo
Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles.

The Raffle
1991
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible...

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Michel Martinelli
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

To Want to Fly
1991
as impiegato fotocopie
Maurizio works in a dubbing studio and puts sound effects into cartoons. One day his hands turn into cartoon ones, with a life of their own.

Traces of an Amorous Life
1990
as Giuseppe Breschi
What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.
Una casa a Roma
1989

The Icicle Thief
1989
as Don Italo
Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that h...
Delitti esemplari
1988

Julia and Julia
1988
as Police Inspector
Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day....

Down There in the Jungle
1988
as Spartaco

32nd of December
1988
as Oscar, il figlio di Carlotta
Three episodes about the relativity of time.

L'estate sta finendo
1987
as detective Piacciconi
15-year-old Giuliana doesn't want to spend the summer with her rich mother, so—without a word—she leaves with Romeo, the son of the janitor of her bui...

Via Montenapoleone
1987
as marito di Francesca
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diver...
Cronaca nera
1987
as Enrico Pozzi

A me mi piace
1985
as il direttore dell'emittente
Arturo is a Tv content autor scared by the love. Mike is an old american friend that come to visit him because his girlfriend has broken with him. Ev...

Fatto su misura
1985

Il Mistero di Bellavista
1985
as Dottor Cazzaniga
A doorman and a street cleaner, intrigued by the passage of Halley's Comet, ask Professor Bellavista if they can observe the sky through his telescope...

Thus Spoke Bellavista
1984
as Dott. Cazzaniga
In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment...

Ladies & Gentlemen
1984
as Misoni
Catello Coppola is a journalist dreaming a scoop to revive his career. Unexpected help comes following the death of a friend, who appears to him in a ...

Benvenuta
1983
as Le journaliste
A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking ...

I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982
as professore
Giacomino, tired of living at home with his parents, goes to his own place, but his neighbour, mr. Giuseppe, convinces himself to teach Giacomino abou...

Spaghetti House
1982
as The Accountant
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

Grog
1982
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local televisi...

Ad ovest di Paperino
1982
as Don Vincenzo
It is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti and Benvenuti, who won the Nastro d'Argento for Best N...

Buddy Goes West
1981
as Logan
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doct...

I'm Starting from Three
1981
as Robertino
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

Rosaura alle 10
1981
as Commissario
Behind Rosaura lies a story involving a man who is a permanent guest at the boarding house, the painter Camillo Canegato; ahead of her, an improvised ...

Men or Not Men
1980
as Cane Nero
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., me...

Fun Is Beautiful
1980
as Sergio
Three stories set in summer Rome, three characters all played by Verdone: an awkward young man meets a Spanish tourist; another one plans a trip towar...

Quattro Delitti: Per Due Testoni
1979
as Il Biondo
Milan: a drifter, hungry for money, allows himself to be corrupted and carries out a murder on commission.

A Dangerous Toy
1979
as Gun Shop Clerk
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he...

Beyond Good and Evil
1977
as Psychiatrist
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-...

Chiunque Tu Sia
1977
as Roberto Briviglieri
Arrived in Naples to work in the Doumenec family's factories, engineer Stefano Mascardi meets Rita, wife of Junio Doumenec, eldest son of the indust...

An Average Little Man
1977
as prete
A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his go...

Suspiria
1977
as Prof. Verdegast
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly...

The Fiend
1977
as Livraghi
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.

Colpita da improvviso benessere
1976
as Director
Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.

The Messiah
1975
as Herod's brother
Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undr...

Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975
as Inspector Morabito
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrate...

Policewoman
1974
as farmacista
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

Somewhere Beyond Love
1974
as Doctor
Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilia...

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg

Giordano Bruno
1973
as Fra Tagagliolo
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice....

Don't Look Now
1973
as Inspector Longhi
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

St. Michael Had a Rooster
1972
as Battistrada
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling a...

In the Name of the Father
1971
as Father Corazza
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned...

Under the Sign of Scorpio
1969
An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is e...