Which French comedian is best known for his portrayal of an irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the Don Camillo series of motion pictures?
"Gino Cervi Gino Cervi (; 3 May 1901 – 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor. Cervi was born in Bologna as Luigi Cervi. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi (""Peppone""), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great understanding and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the"
"The World of Don Camillo Don Camillo (internationally released as The World of Don Camillo) is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed, produced and starred by Terence Hill. It is the remake of ""Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo"" (1952). In a small village in Emilia Romagna, the parish priest Don Camillo repeatedly collides with the communist mayor Peppone. The two do not share anything in common and the slights are continuous, at some times coming to blows with one another. Don Camillo coaches the football team of young boys of the village, and the day of the final match"
"Don Camillo Don Camillo is a character created by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi, whose name, and some of his character, is based on an actual Roman Catholic priest, World War II partisan and detainee at the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, named Don Camillo Valota (1912–1998). Guareschi was also inspired by Don Alessandro Parenti, a priest of Trepalle, near the Swiss border. The fictional Don Camillo is one of two main protagonists of Guareschi's short stories, the other being the communist mayor of the town, Peppone. The stories are set in what Guareschi refers to as"
"the twinning ceremonies. Only Peppone and the other comrades from Brescello will know the priest's real identity. During the Russian stay they will face a series of situations that will show them both the political contradictions of Soviet Russia and the normal life of its common people. Don Camillo in Moscow Don Camillo in Moscow (, ""Comrade Don Camillo"") is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It's the fifth and penultimate film in the Don Camillo series. After receiving a tractor as a gift from the kolkhoz of an unnamed Soviet village, communist mayor Peppone plans to"
"is near. Peppone however, to make a joke in bad taste to the enemy, corrupts the referee. Don Camillo realizes it and fights again with him; so Don Camillo is exiled. But the citizens of the village do not agree, and so Peppone is forced to make up for betraying their confidence in the government. The World of Don Camillo Don Camillo (internationally released as The World of Don Camillo) is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed, produced and starred by Terence Hill. It is the remake of ""Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo"" (1952). In a small village in"
"Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione (""Don Franco and Don Ciccio in the year of protest"") is a 1970 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marino Girolami. Don Franco and Don Ciccio are the respective pastors of the two principal parishes of a village in Sicily. The two have different ideals about society, and so they always fight by way: Don Franco is a priest more open to the social level, which supports the protests of the young communists, while Don Ciccio is a severe priest of the old"
"1954 novel, ""Phai Daeng"" (Red Bamboo). Don Camillo Don Camillo is a character created by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi, whose name, and some of his character, is based on an actual Roman Catholic priest, World War II partisan and detainee at the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, named Don Camillo Valota (1912–1998). Guareschi was also inspired by Don Alessandro Parenti, a priest of Trepalle, near the Swiss border. The fictional Don Camillo is one of two main protagonists of Guareschi's short stories, the other being the communist mayor of the town, Peppone. The stories are set"
"Don Camillo in Moscow Don Camillo in Moscow (, ""Comrade Don Camillo"") is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It's the fifth and penultimate film in the Don Camillo series. After receiving a tractor as a gift from the kolkhoz of an unnamed Soviet village, communist mayor Peppone plans to twin Brescello with the unnamed town. After some failed attempts to block the major's plan, Don Camillo ultimately tricks Peppone into including him (under a false name and with forged papers) among the Italian communist representatives going on the other side of the iron curtain to attend"
"Carlo Romano Carlo Romano (8 May 1908 – 16 October 1975) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and voice actor. Romano was the son of actress Dina Romano and the younger brother of actor Felice Romano. He appeared in 94 films between 1934 and 1975. He also wrote for 14 films between 1955 and 1975. He was also a famous voice actor, most notably the Italian voice of Don Camillo (played by French actor Fernandel) and the Italian voice of Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Lou Costello and Edward Andrews. In his animated film roles, Romano voiced several characters in the Italian"
"hot-headed Peppone, the communist mayor of a village in the ""Little World"" of a Po River Valley town. These stories have many times been made into films, and television and radio programs; most notably in the series of films featuring Fernandel as Don Camillo. By 1956 his health had deteriorated and he began to spend time in Switzerland for health reasons. In 1957 he retired from the post of editor of ""Candido"" but remained a contributor. He died in 1968 in Cervia from a heart attack. ""La rabbia"", 1963. Co-director with Pier Paolo Pasolini. Giovannino Guareschi Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi"
"school, who speaks in Latin and who hates communists protesters. One day the two bitterly quarrel over a disputed land of the city: Don Franco would create there a public park, with the support of the communists, while Don Ciccio would fain give it to the municipality for other interests. So the two fathers decide to settle the matter with a game of football. Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione (""Don Franco and Don Ciccio in the year of protest"") is a 1970 Italian comedy film written and directed by"
"Giovannino Guareschi Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; 1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo. Giovannino Guareschi was born in Fontanelle di Roccabianca in the Province of Parma in 1908. He hailed from a middle-class family. Guareschi always joked about the fact that he, a large man, was baptized Giovannino, a name meaning ""little John"" or ""Johnny"". In 1926 his family went bankrupt, and he could not continue his studies at the University of Parma. After working at various minor jobs, he started to write"
"Camillo departs for his new destination, Peppone asks him to come back soon and promises that Camillo's successor will not last long under his attention. Julien Duvivier is 55 when he films ""Le petit monde de Don Camillo"" in the Italian town of Brescello. The film was produced by Francinex (Paris) and Rizzoli Amato (Rome). It belongs to a long series of Franco-Italian (or Italo-French) coproductions which provided hundreds of movies to the cinema during 30 years after World War II. In ""Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo"" (released in Italy as simply ""Don Camillo"") one of the characteristics is"
"tall and strong with hard fists. For the films, the town chosen to represent that of the books was Brescello (which currently has a museum dedicated to Don Camillo and Peppone) after the production of movies based on Guareschi's tales, but in the first story Don Camillo is introduced as the parish priest of Ponteratto. Don Camillo is constantly at odds with the communist mayor, Giuseppe Bottazzi, better known as Peppone (meaning, roughly, ""Big Joe"") and is also on very close terms with the crucifix in his town church. Through the crucifix he hears the voice of Christ. The Christ"
"Party has scheduled an elections rally in their town, and mobilize in force to break it up — only to discover virtually no local Liberals have turned up; the Liberal speaker, a middle-aged professor, speaks to a predominantly Communist audience and wins its grudging respect by his courage and determination. In one story, Don Camillo visits the Soviet Union, pretending to be a comrade. In another, the arrival of pop culture and motorcycles propels Don Camillo into fighting ""decadence"", a struggle in which he finds he has his hands full, especially when the Christ mainly smiles benevolently on the young"
"in the crucifix often has far greater understanding than Don Camillo of the troubles of the people, and has to constantly but gently reprimand the priest for his impatience. What Peppone and Camillo have in common is an interest in the well-being of the town. They also appear to have both been partisan fighters during World War II; one episode mentions Camillo having braved German patrols in order to reach Peppone and his fellow Communists in the mountains and administer Mass to them under field conditions. While Peppone makes public speeches about how ""the reactionaries"" ought to be shot, and"
"be highly considered for sainthood. La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo is an Italian television miniseries (two-part TV film) based on the true story of Don Pietro Pappagallo (1888–1944), a Catholic priest and Italian anti-fascist who assisted victims of Nazism and Fascism in Rome during World War II and was arrested and executed in the Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It was produced by 11 Marzo Cinematografica and Rai Fiction, directed by Gianfranco Albano, written by Stefano Gabrini and Furio Scarpelli, and stars Flavio Insinna as Don Pietro. It was"
"stories and Marseille jokes. He appeared in his first film in 1926 and continued making films until the Second World War. He is best known for his appearances in ""César"" directed Marcel Pagnol, as the ill-advised friend of Marius, and with Fernandel in ""Ignace"" directed by Pierre Colombier. Doumel Louis Alfred Doumet, known by his stage name of Doumel, (born 2 December 1889 in Marseille; died 23 May 1954 in Reillanne) was a French actor and comedian active in the inter-war years. Having moved to Paris thanks to the passion for the southern style, which flowered at the time with"
"Aldo Fabrizi Aldo Fabrizi (; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known in United Kingdom for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ""Rome, Open City"" and as partner of Totò in a number of successful comedies. Born in Rome into a humble family, Fabrizi debuted on stage in a suburban theater in 1931. He soon got a local success thanks to his comical sketches and ""macchiette"" (i.e. comical monologues caricaturing stock characters), and became a star of the Roman revue and avanspettacolo. He made"
"La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo is an Italian television miniseries (two-part TV film) based on the true story of Don Pietro Pappagallo (1888–1944), a Catholic priest and Italian anti-fascist who assisted victims of Nazism and Fascism in Rome during World War II and was arrested and executed in the Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It was produced by 11 Marzo Cinematografica and Rai Fiction, directed by Gianfranco Albano, written by Stefano Gabrini and Furio Scarpelli, and stars Flavio Insinna as Don Pietro. It was first released in 2006 and"
"the fourth series beginning on 6 October. In 1980, the BBC produced the television series ""The Little World of Don Camillo"", based on the stories, starring Italian-German actor Mario Adorf as Don Camillo and Englishman Brian Blessed as Peppone. The narrator and Voice of the Christ was Cyril Cusack. In Colombia the stories were adapted into a TV comedy called ""Don Camilo"". The Italian Communist era was changed to a Colombian period called ""La Violencia"" when the Liberal and Conservative parties were fighting to maintain power in Colombia. The comedy was produced from 1987 to 1988 by the now defunct"
"of the ticket theft of the show he had to play in the town of Muzillac in the department of Morbihan, and the way he was treated by the municipality after the theft, who refused to reimburse him. He then made a sketch of it. Treated at La Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, he was cured two months after the incident. Guy Montagné Guy Montagné (born 6 March 1948) is a French actor, comedian and radio personality. From 1976 to 1978, Guy Montagné portrayed in several episodes the role of Guyomard in the television series ""Commissaire Moulin"". In 1978, Stéphane Collaro engaged"
"Don Camillo preaches fire and brimstone against ""godless Communists"", they actually grudgingly admire each other. Therefore, they sometimes end up working together in peculiar circumstances, though keeping up their squabbling. Thus, although he publicly opposes the Church as a Party duty, Peppone takes his gang to the church and baptises his children there, which makes him part of Don Camillo's flock; also, Peppone and other Communists are seen as sharing in veneration of the Virgin Mary and local Saints. Don Camillo also never condemns Peppone himself, but the ideology of communism which is in direct opposition to the church. As"
"amiable young village priest, Don Alberto Avallone (Marc Porel) and his strangely reserved mother Aurelia (Irene Papas). Don Alberto runs a boys' group at the church, which the murder victims belonged to, and encourages the boys to play soccer on the church grounds to keep them off the streets and out of trouble. As the local priest, he is well known and respected in the area. Meanwhile, Captain Modesti and his aide visits Francesco (George Wilson), an eccentric old hermit living in a tumbledown stone hut in the hills overlooking the town, who practises black magic, offering charms and potions"
"for the priest's continuous interference with the investigation. The series received two awards at the 42nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2002: Terence Hill won the award for Best Actor and Alessandro Jacchia won the award for Best Producer. ""The Father Dowling Mysteries"" ""Sarge"" Don Matteo Don Matteo is an Italian television series which has been showing on Rai 1, Italian national television's first channel, since 2000. The protagonist of the series is Father Matteo (portrayed by Terence Hill), a Catholic priest in a parish of the town of Gubbio (PG), who is also known for his unrivaled talent in investigating"
"the Catholic Church as a titular see. Today, the town is most famous for being the set for the film series of Peppone and Don Camillo, played by Gino Cervi and Fernandel and based on the books by Giovannino Guareschi. Brescello has dedicated a museum to these two character, which houses many props, including a tank which was used in a scene from ""Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone"" (""Don Camillo's Last Round""). The current church was rebuilt between 1829 and 1837 replacing the ancient medieval church that once stood here. Inside it has a nave and two aisles with six"
"Don Matteo Don Matteo is an Italian television series which has been showing on Rai 1, Italian national television's first channel, since 2000. The protagonist of the series is Father Matteo (portrayed by Terence Hill), a Catholic priest in a parish of the town of Gubbio (PG), who is also known for his unrivaled talent in investigating local crime stories. Father Matteo is a wise and respected person who really manages to understand people's problems, and always appears to be willing to help. Thanks to his charm and positivity, he often helps criminals on their way to redeeming and he"
"Jean-Pierre Marielle Jean-Pierre Marielle (born 12 April 1932) is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred films in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen (""Les Galettes de Pont-Aven""), to the serial killer (""Sans mobile apparent""), to the World War II hero (""Les Milles""), to the compromised spy (""""), to the has-been actor (""Les Grands Ducs""), to his portrayal of Jacques Saunière in (""The Da Vinci Code (film) "", acting always with the same excellence whatever the quality of the movie in itself. He is well known for"
"Peppone honorable in the parliament of Deputies at Montecitorio. However the two have a pure and provincial spirit, not suitable to the cruelty of the city, and so they come back soon in their small town in the Po valley. While Don Camillo is planning, a betrayal, a wedding in a Catholic ceremony for the son of Peppone, the mayor tries to deceive the priest with a lucky win on the lottery. Don Camillo then responds with a proposed deal on the sale of a gas station. Since Peppone, being a Communist, can not deal with money, while he had"
"Édouard Molinaro Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (""Oscar"", etc.), ""My Uncle Benjamin"" (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), ""Dracula and Son"" (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated ""La Cage aux Folles"" (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi). Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although he had almost exclusively been producing works for television. In 1996, his cinematic work was awarded the René Clair Award,"
"in which he is portrayed by Clifford Rose. Abbé de Coulmier François Simonet de Coulmier (September 30, 1741 – June 4, 1818) was a French Catholic priest, originally a member of the Premonstratensian canons regular, and an active member of the French legislature at the start of the French Revolution and again during the First French Empire. Coulmier was born in Dijon in 1741. While serving as the pastor of Abbéville, he was elected as a representative of the First Estate in the Estates General, later serving in the National Constituent Assembly. It is not clear whether or not he"
"books, ""Le Petit monde de Don Camillo"". It met with immediate popular success and he followed its success with ""The Return of Don Camillo"" (1953). The series continued with other directors. In ""Voici le temps des assassins"" (1956), Jean Gabin plays a decent restaurateur in Les Halles who is swindled by a cynical young woman, Catherine, (Danièle Delorme). Duvivier co-wrote and directed two films in 1957: the drama ""Lovers of Paris"" (starring Gérard Philipe) and the comedy-thriller ""The Man in the Raincoat"" (starring Fernandel and Bernard Blier). ""Marie-Octobre"" (1959) followed, featuring Danielle Darrieux, Serge Reggiani, and Bernard Blier amongst others."
"Scola's ""We All Loved Each Other So Much"", and a special David di Donatello for his career in 1988. He was also awarded at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for best screenplay for ""Cops and Robbers"". In 1990 Poste italiane issued a stamp in his honor. Aldo Fabrizi Aldo Fabrizi (; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known in United Kingdom for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ""Rome, Open City"" and as partner of Totò in a number of successful comedies. Born in"