--- name: "Teco Celio" canonical: "https://film.one/person/teco-celio" fi1m_id: "teco-celio" imdb_id: "nm0148081" tmdb_id: 73873 wikidata_id: "Q66554608" roles: ["Actor"] born: "17 October 1952" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 83 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-03T01:29:39.449290+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Teco Celio ## Identity Teco Celio - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/teco-celio - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** teco-celio - **IMDb ID:** nm0148081 - **TMDB ID:** 73873 - **Wikidata ID:** Q66554608 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66554608, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73873 Actor. Born 17 October 1952 in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 17 October 1952, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland - **Active:** 1994–2019 - **Also known as:** Francesco Celio - **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 90 (1), 2010s 76 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66554608, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73873 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Three Colors: Red*](https://film.one/film/three-colors-red.md) (90) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Teco Celio, also credited as Francesco Celio, is a Swiss actor. Born in Lugano, he began his career with appearances in French television series after moving to Paris, before making his film debut in Italy in the 1980s. He is known for roles including the bartender in Krzysztof Kieślowski's *Three Colors: Red* (1994), Gran Maestro in *Welcome to the South* (2010), an actor in *We Have a Pope* (2011), Gary in *Rose Island* (2020), and Saverio in *Three Floors* (2021). Celio has appeared in numerous Italian and French productions across film and television. Celio is the son of Nello Celio, a Swiss politician who served as President of the Swiss Confederation. In 2015 he received the Cinema Ticino award at the Locarno Festival. *Sources: imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Pinocchio* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Giudice Gorilla — [page](https://film.one/film/pinocchio-2019.md) - *Three Colors: Red* (1994), Fi1m 90, as Bartender — [page](https://film.one/film/three-colors-red.md) ## Complete filmography (69) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Palace* (2023), as Chef Othmar - *A Brighter Tomorrow* (2023), as Psicoanalista - *La tentazione di esistere* (2023), as Guerri - *What a Life!* (2023), Actor - *Papaya 69* (2023), as Massimo - *The Desired War* (2022), as Franco - *Three Floors* (2021), as Saverio - *Rose Island* (2020), as Gary - *Romantic Guide to Lost Places* (2020), as Concierge Excelsior/Piano Bar - *Moon Landing* (2020), as Adamo - *Pinocchio* (2019), as Giudice Gorilla — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/pinocchio-2019.md) - *Don't Stop Me Now* (2019), as Gerard Colasante - *Lucia's Grace* (2018), as Giulio Ravi - *The Armadillo's Prophecy* (2018), as Sig. Panatta - *Frontaliers Disaster* (2017), Actor - *The Last Prosecco* (2017), as Isacco Pitusso - *Non si ruba a casa dei ladri* (2016), as Her Muller - *The Complexity of Happiness* (2015), as Bernini Sr. - *Goodbye and See You Soon* (2015), as Roberto le photographe - *1992* (2015), series, as Bortolotti - *Una pallottola nel cuore* (2014), series, as Don Renato - *The Hole* (2014), as Giudice - *A Fairy Tale Wedding* (2014), as Casimiro - *Zoran: My Nephew the Idiot* (2013), as Giustino - *Everything Everything Nothing Nothing* (2012), as Vescovo - *Welcome to the North* (2012), as Leghista - *The Last Man on Earth* (2011), as Giuseppe Geri - *We Have a Pope* (2011), as Actor - *Meet My Friend* (2010), as Herr Volker - *Unlikely Revolutionaries* (2010), as Martino - *Welcome to the South* (2010), as Gran Maestro - *One Life, Maybe Two* (2010), as Pietro Carli - *La Vallée delle ombre* (2009), as Don Guido - *Don't Think About It* (2008), as Walter Nardini - *Big City* (2007), as l'italien - *Days and Clouds* (2007), as Acct. Terzetti - *Italian Dream* (2007), as Raniero - *La Grande Peur dans la montagne* (2006), as Le maire - *Our Country* (2006), as Padre di Matteo - *Texas* (2005), as Aldo Baretti - *Cefalonia* (2005), series, as capitano Landauer - *Fame Chimica* (2004), as Padre di Claudio - *Life Kills Me* (2002), as Le père de Myriam - *Probably Love* (2001), as Pietro - *Le lycée* (2000), series, as Eugène - *La Crim'* (1999), series, as Capitaine Paul Moreau - *Une journée de merde !* (1999), as Le patron du café - *L'Enfant Et Les Loups* (1998), as Bastien - *Full Moon* (1998), as Flavio Gilardi - *The Truce* (1997), as Colonnello Rovi - *The Adventures of Pinocchio* (1996), as Henchman - *Élisa* (1995), as Samuel's Lover - *Le cri coupé* (1994), as doctor - *Three Colors: Red* (1994), as Bartender — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/three-colors-red.md) - *Bienvenue à Bellefontaine* (1992), as Marcel - *Family Express* (1991), as Giorgio - *Zanzibar* (1989), as Bruno - *Les Jupons de la révolution* (1989), series, Actor - *The Bathroom* (1989), as le barman - *La mano senza volto* (1989), Actor - *Preuve d'amour* (1988), as Bob Green - *Jenatsch* (1987), as L'historien Cavelti - *Le Cimetière des durs* (1986), as Saïd - *Innocenza* (1986), as Battelliere - *Harem* (1985), Actor - *No Man's Land* (1985), as L'indicateur - *Rapt ou la Séparation des races* (1984), as Manu - *Casting* (1983), as Man of the cast - *Hecate* (1982), as Le capitaine Berta --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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