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name: "Enzo Cannavale"
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born: "5 April 1928"
died: "18 March 2011"
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# Enzo Cannavale

Actor. Born 5 April 1928 in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy. Died 18 March 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 April 1928, Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy
- **Died:** 18 March 2011
- **Also known as:** Vincenzo Cannavale

## Biography

Enzo Cannavale, also credited as Vincenzo Cannavale, was an Italian actor. Born in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, he began his career in Neapolitan theatre in the late 1940s and appeared in more than 100 films from 1949 until his death.

He gained prominence in genre cinema, notably as Caputo alongside Bud Spencer in the Flatfoot series, including *The Knock Out Cop* (1973), *Flatfoot in Hong Kong* (1975), *Flatfoot in Africa* (1978) and *Flatfoot in Egypt* (1980). In 1988 he played Spaccafico in Giuseppe Tornatore’s *Cinema Paradiso* and Alfonso Caputo in Luciano De Crescenzo’s *32 dicembre*, for which he received the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor.

Cannavale continued working in film and television into the 2000s, including roles in *The Comics* (1990) and *My Friends Act III* (1985).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cinema Paradiso* (1988), Fi1m 84, as Spaccafico — [page](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md)

## Also known for

- *The Country Boy* (1984), Blind Man
- *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1972)
- *The Comics* (1990), Il prete
- *My Friends Act III* (1985), Cav. Ferrini
- *The Treasure of San Gennaro* (1966), Gaetano
- *The Knock Out Cop* (1973), Caputo
- *Flatfoot in Africa* (1978), Caputo
- *Flatfoot in Egypt* (1980), Caputo

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