Italian male stage actors

Gerardo Amato (born 15 October 1948) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

Luigi Pistilli (19 July 1929 – 21 April 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television.At one time Pistilli was one of Italy's most respected actors of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's finest interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St Joan of the Stockyards.He is known to Italian horror movie buffs mainly for his three 1972 thrillers Twitch of the Death Nerve, Iguana with the Tongue of Fire and Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key. Pistilli committed suicide in 1996 at age 66.

Antonio Pierfederici (18 March 1919 – 6 January 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Antonio Petito (22 June 1822, in Naples – 24 March 1876) was an Italian stage actor and playwright. He was a notable Pulcinella performer, and an important figure of Neapolitan theater in the 19th century. Petito was the son of another Pulcinella, Petito Salvatore and Donna Peppa. It was his father who initiated him with wearing a mask during a theatrical performance at the Teatro San Carlino in Naples. Petito first performed at the Teatro San Ferdinando in 1831. Petito was not only known for his acting facial expressions, but also for his work as a playwright despite being illiterate. Unable to write well, he used assistants, mostly commonly Giacomo Marulli. After his death, the San Carlino theater remained open for only a short time, having lost its most well known performer.
Neapolitan Carousel is a 1954 Italian comedy film about Antonio "Pulcinella" Petito. In 1982, the RAI dedicated a seven-part television drama, Petito story, to him. He was the great grandfather of Enzo Petito, a character actor in Sergio Leone classic 1966 Spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Francesco Paolantoni (born 3 March 1956) is an Italian film, stage and television actor and comedian.
Born in Naples, Paolantoni studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, then he started a career as a dramatic stage actor in the late 1970s. In 1987 he debuted as a comedian in Renzo Arbore's variety show Indietro tutta, but the real success came in 1996, with Gialappa's Band's Mai dire Gol and later with the participation in Quelli che... il Calcio. He was also active in films, in which he worked with Paolo Virzì, Mario Martone, Cristina Comencini and Sabina Guzzanti, among others.

Corrado Pani (4 March 1936 – 2 March 2005) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Elio Pandolfi (17 June 1926 – 11 October 2021) was an Italian stage, film and television actor, radio personality, and voice actor.

Giuseppe Pambieri (born 18 November 1944) is an Italian stage, television and film actor.

Egisto Olivieri (1880–1962) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including The Little School Mistress (1934). His final film appearance was in Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan (1951)

Carlo Micheluzzi (1886–1973) was an Italian stage and film actor.