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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

16

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-11-15

Day of Death

2025-06-04 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Also Known As

Enzo Stajola

Enzo Staiola

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Enzo Staiola (15 November 1939 - 4 June 2025) was an Italian actor best known for playing, at the age of seven, the role of Bruno Ricci, the son of protagonist Antonio Ricci in Vittorio De Sica's neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves. He appeared in several other films (including the American-produced The Barefoot Contessa in 1954, which starred Humphrey Bogart) before becoming a math teacher in adulthood. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Enzo Staiola , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

Bicycle Thieves

1948

Bicycle Thieves

as

Bruno

Volcano

1950

Volcano

as

Nino

The White Line

1950

The White Line

as

Pasqualino Sebastian

Black Feathers

1952

Black Feathers

as

Tonino

Vittorio D.

2009

Vittorio D.

as

Self

The Return of Don Camillo

1953

The Return of Don Camillo

as

Mario Cagnola

Times Gone By

1952

Times Gone By

as

Son of the newsagent (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")

Marechiaro

1949

Marechiaro

as

Luca da bambino

We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974

We All Loved Each Other So Much

as

Bruno Ricci in 'Ladri di biciclette' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Production

Crew

Directing