---
name: "Walter Santesso"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/walter-santesso"
fi1m_id: "walter-santesso"
imdb_id: "nm0763492"
tmdb_id: 5966
wikidata_id: "Q1662519"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 February 1931"
died: "20 January 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T09:12:13.230315+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."
---

# Walter Santesso

## Identity

Walter Santesso

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/walter-santesso
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** walter-santesso
- **IMDb ID:** nm0763492
- **TMDB ID:** 5966
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1662519
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Santesso, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1662519, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763492/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5966

Actor. Born 27 February 1931 in Padua. Died 20 January 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 February 1931, Padua
- **Died:** 20 January 2008
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Santesso, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1662519, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763492/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5966

## Biography

Walter Santesso was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in supporting roles in numerous Italian films from the early 1950s onwards.

He is best known for portraying the news photographer Paparazzo in Federico Fellini's *La Dolce Vita* (1960). The character's name subsequently entered common usage as the term for intrusive celebrity photographers.

Santesso later directed and wrote several films, including the children's film *La carica delle patate* (1979), which received an award at the Giffoni Film Festival.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Fi1m 88, as Paparazzo — [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Il volo di Teo* (1990), Director
- *La carica delle patate* (1979), Writer, Director
- *Virgin Merchants* (1969), Actor
- *Eroe vagabondo* (1966), Director, Writer
- *Girl from La Mancha* (1963), as Diego
- *Objetivo: las estrellas* (1963), as Lucas
- *Cronache del '22* (1961), as Gianni
- *Danger in the Middle East* (1960), Actor
- *Madri pericolose* (1960), as Peppino, il fotografo detto Dolce Vita
- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), as Paparazzo — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/la-dolce-vita.md)
- *I mafiosi* (1959), Actor
- *Adventure in Capri* (1959), as Giulio
- *Legs of Gold* (1958), as Teodoro
- *A Sailor's Promises* (1958), Actor
- *Il cielo brucia* (1958), as Damonte
- *The Tanks of El Alamein* (1957), as Gennaro
- *The Cheerful Squadron* (1954), as Defaulter
- *I cinque dell'Adamello* (1954), as Piero
- *Love song* (1954), as Mario
- *Serenata amara* (1952), as Fabrizio
- *The Man in My Life* (1952), as Michel
- *The Last Sentence* (1951), as University Peer

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