Giovanni "Pupo" De Luca (18 December 1924 – 18 December 2006) was an Italian actor and jazz musician.
Born in Milan, after the World War II De Luca started his career in the theaters of his hometown, performing in revues, dialect theatre, and dramas. He had his breakout in the late 1960s, with the role of Fritz in the RAI TV-series Nero Wolfe. In films, he was mainly active as a character actor, except for a number of main roles in a few low budget comedies.[1]
De Luca was also well known as a jazz drummer, and his collaborations include Chet Baker, Franco Cerri, Enrico Intra, Bud Shank, and Gianni Basso. With Intra and Gianni Buongiovanni he is considered a "founding father" of the cabaret Derby Club in his hometown.[2]
De Luca retired from showbusiness in the early 1990s and moved to Lanzarote, Canary Islands, where he died in 2006, aged 82 years old.[2]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | La vita agra | Don Torneri | ||
| 1966 | Wake Up and Die | |||
| 1968 | Bandits in Milan | Uomo della 1100 | ||
| 1968 | Seven Times Seven | TV Journalist | Uncredited | |
| 1970 | Una storia d'amore | Doctor | ||
| 1971 | Long Live Robin Hood | Wrong Priest | ||
| 1971 | Vacation | |||
| 1971 | The Double | The Police Commissioner | ||
| 1971 | That's How We Women Are | Guest of Alberta | (segment "Il mondo cammina") | |
| 1971 | Roma Bene | Third lover of Dede Marescalli | ||
| 1971 | Trinity Is Still My Name | Prior | ||
| 1972 | The Eroticist | Bugging Officer | ||
| 1972 | Decameron nº 2 - Le altre novelle del Boccaccio | Puccio | ||
| 1972 | Le calde notti del Decameron | Fra' Gerbino | ||
| 1972 | Decameron proibitissimo (Boccaccio mio statte zitto) | Fra' Pasquale | ||
| 1972 | Novelle galeotte d'amore | |||
| 1972 | Man of the East | Prison Director | ||
| 1972 | Finalmente... le mille e una notte | Samandar | ||
| 1972 | Decameroticus | Husband of Elisa | ||
| 1973 | Maria Rosa la guardona | |||
| 1973 | Il tuo piacere è il mio | |||
| 1973 | Primo tango a Roma - Storia d'amore e d'alchimia | Olimpio Orsini | ||
| 1973 | Special Killers | Cabbie | ||
| 1973 | Mamma... li turchi! | Biscardo | ||
| 1973 | I giochi proibiti de l'Aretino Pietro | Francesco de' Bardi | (segment "4 Wives") | |
| 1973 | Patroclooo! E il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone | Nardi | ||
| 1973 | Elena sì... ma di Troia | Menelaos | ||
| 1973 | Bruna, formosa, cerca superdotato | |||
| 1974 | Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno | Director's Assistant | Uncredited | |
| 1974 | Anche gli angeli tirano di destro | Restaurant Owner | ||
| 1974 | Carnalità | Aurelio / Orsani's Butler | ||
| 1974 | The Balloon Vendor | Antiquarian | ||
| 1974 | Manone il ladrone | Frate | ||
| 1974 | La svergognata | Nino Bernardi | ||
| 1975 | La cognatina | Parish Priest | ||
| 1975 | L'ammazzatina | Brigadiere Bragolin | ||
| 1975 | Conviene far bene l'amore | |||
| 1975 | Le dolci zie | don Fiorello | ||
| 1975 | Hallucination Strip | Assistente del commissario | ||
| 1976 | La professoressa di lingue | Aristide Toppetti | ||
| 1976 | I violenti di Roma bene | |||
| 1976 | Terror in Rome | Comm. Carli | ||
| 1976 | Il compromesso... erotico (Menage a quattro) | Don Camillo | ||
| 1977 | Amore all'arrabbiata | |||
| 1978 | Ring | Gegè | ||
| 1984 | Domani mi sposo | Father of Arturo | ||
| 1987 | Teresa | Prior | ||
| 1990 | Towards Evening | Judge |