Nino Castelnuovo

Nino Castelnuovo
Castelnuovo in 1968
Born	Francesco Castelnuovo (1936-10-28) 28 October 1936 (age 80) Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Occupation	Actor

Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (born 28 October 1936) is an Italian actor of film, stage and television.

He appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film The Bloodstained Lawn (1973), and the spaghetti-westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).

He was born in Lecco, Lombardy into a humble family. After being a house painter, a mechanic and a workman, at a young age Castelnuovo moved to Milan where he started working as a sales agent and at the same time he enrolled the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.

In 1957, still very young, he debuted as a mime in the RAI children's television show Zurli il mago del giovedì.

Castelnuovo landed a small part in crime mystery film Un maledetto imbroglio (The Facts of Murder, 1959), directed by Pietro Germi, and continued to play supporting roles in films, including the dramas The Hunchback of Rome, directed by Carlo Lizzani; and Rocco and His Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti; both were released in 1960.