Biography
Originario di San Pietro a Patierno, quartiere della periferia nordorientale di Napoli, ebbe un'infanzia molto difficile e, a causa delle condizioni economiche della sua famiglia, lasciò presto la scuola e cominciò a lavorare saltuariamente come cantante ai matrimoni e come gelataio alla Stazione di Napoli Centrale. Dopo una breve gavetta musicale, giunse ad un immediato successo in ambito regionale con il suo primo album, 'A storia mia (1976), pubblicato grazie a fondi familiari. L'album ebbe ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Il Re di Napoli - Storia e leggenda di Mario Merola
2024
as Sé stesso
Titanus 1904
2024
as Self
La divina cometa
2023
as Magio poesia
Buon compleanno Massimo
2023
as Sé stesso
It Was the Son
2012
Thanks
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they...
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
as Self
Una notte
2007
as Raffaele
4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
2006
as O' Mister (segment "Meglio di Maradona")
Four stories about football.
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as Self
Incantato
2003
as Domenico "Nino"
Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with i...
Aitanic
2000
as Leonardo Di Capri-Neon
Aitanic
2000
Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
Christmas Vacation 2000
1999
as Pasquale Esposito
Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent...
Tifosi
1999
as Gennaro Scognamiglio
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.
Paparazzi
1998
as Ciro "3000" Cuccuriello
A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity.
To Die for Tano
1997
Music
Shot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried siste...
Attenti a noi due
1994
as Nino
Attenti a noi due
1994
Original Music Composer
Fatalità
1991
as Nino Santoro
La ragazza del metrò
1989
as Nino
Nino is a pianist, he runs into Valentina in the underground and falls for her. Valentina is rich but she tells nothing to Nino who is proud. Andrea w...
La ragazza del metrò
1989
Original Music Composer, Screenplay
Nino is a pianist, he runs into Valentina in the underground and falls for her. Valentina is rich but she tells nothing to Nino who is proud. Andrea w...
The Guy From the Stands
1987
as Nino
Nino establishes a club of supporters of Naples, fighting against the violence in the stadiums. But the Camorra hinders its project.
Fotoromanzo
1986
as Nino
Nino and Anna grow-up as neighbors and song-writing partners. They gradually fall in love, but eventually go there separate ways. Years later, they en...
Fotoromanzo
1986
Original Music Composer, Story
Nino and Anna grow-up as neighbors and song-writing partners. They gradually fall in love, but eventually go there separate ways. Years later, they en...
Giuro che ti amo
1986
as Nino Esposito
Giuro che ti amo
1986
Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Director
Popcorn e patatine
1985
as Nino Ronca
In love with the beautiful Anna, Nino follows her on vacation to Taormina and, to impress her, pretends to stay in a luxurious hotel. The misunderstan...
Popcorn e patatine
1985
Original Music Composer, Story
In love with the beautiful Anna, Nino follows her on vacation to Taormina and, to impress her, pretends to stay in a luxurious hotel. The misunderstan...
Neapolitan Boy in New York
1984
as Nino
The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who wants to emigrate to Naples.
Neapolitan Boy in New York
1984
Original Music Composer, Story
The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who wants to emigrate to Naples.
Jeans and T-Shirt
1983
as Nino
Nino is a young and poor boy who meets Annamaria, a rich spoiled girl who's on holiday with his father in Capri.
The Disco
1983
as Nino Maritozzi
Hired as a pizza chef in a resort town, Nino tries to resist the advances of a hotel owner’s daughter while his true love back home awaits his return.
The Disco
1983
Original Music Composer
Hired as a pizza chef in a resort town, Nino tries to resist the advances of a hotel owner’s daughter while his true love back home awaits his return.
L'ammiratrice
1983
as Nino
L'ammiratrice
1983
Music
Tradimento
1982
as Nino Esposito
Giuramento
1982
as Nino Esposito
The Student
1982
as Nino Esposito
Mario Ferrara Villalta, a nobleman, does not realize that Nino Esposito is secretly a confidant of Don Alfredo Spinosa, a boss of the Camorra , and Ro...
The Student
1982
Music
Mario Ferrara Villalta, a nobleman, does not realize that Nino Esposito is secretly a confidant of Don Alfredo Spinosa, a boss of the Camorra , and Ro...
L'Ave Maria
1982
as Se stesso
L'Ave Maria
1982
Original Music Composer
Celebrità
1981
as Pasqualino Capece
A humble Neapolitan with singing ambitions, being broke, resorts to bag-snatching. He's arrested and while in jail he takes part in a singing contest ...
Celebrità
1981
Music
A humble Neapolitan with singing ambitions, being broke, resorts to bag-snatching. He's arrested and while in jail he takes part in a singing contest ...