20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights

Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)

Italian writer (1906-1972)

Italian writer (1898-1957)

Italian writer (1916–1991)

Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata ("the prince of laughter"), was an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, dramatist, poet, singer and lyricist. He is commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. While best known for his funny and sometimes cynical comic characters in theatre and then many successful comedy films made from the 1940s to the 1960s, he also w

Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)

Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (1921–2004)

Italian–English writer (1875–1950)

Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)

Slovenian writer (1903-1967)

Hungarian Italian writer and film director

Italian writer and judge (1892–1953)

Italian writer (1907–1954)

Italian writer (1870-1921)

Italian film director (1921–2005)

Italian actor (1930-2020)

Italian actor (1886-1973)

Italian writer (1911-1980)

Italian playwright, theatre director and actress

Italian librettist (1867-1925)

Italian writer (1934-2006)

Italian art critic and writer (1909-1976)

Italian writer (1909–1977)

Italian playwright, librettist and director (1884–1970)

Italian actor (1937–1985)

Italian actor, theatre director, and playwright

Italian writer (1874–1934)

Brazilian actor (1934-2006)

Italian actor and playwright (1853–1925)

Italian playwright and stage actor (1888–1950)

Italian poet (1944–1996)

Italian opera librettist (1863-1934)

Italian journalist and writer (1851-1914)

Italian actor

Italian screenwriter, film critic, and actor (1928-2009)

Italian screenwriter and film director (1910-1993)

Italian writer (1899-1977)

Italian publisher (1898–1992)

Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter

Italian journalist, writer and playwright (1891-1941)

Italian playwright, actor, and songwriter (1919–2006)

Italian playwright, journalist and writer (1887–1956)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1917-2001)

Italian writer (1904-1976)

Italian actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and songwriter (1884–1936)

Italian writer, screenwriter, film critic, lyricist and playwright (1902-1963)

Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter (1922–2004)

Italian actress and screenwriter

Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher (1911–2001)

Italian actor, screenwriter and film director

Italian actor, comedian and director (born 1957)

Italian dramatist (1922–2010)

Italian writer (1935–1989)

Italian illustrator, cartoonist, animator and writer (1880–1964)

Italian activist (1952–1983)

Italian writer (1867-1927)

Italian librettist and poet (1848–1919)

Italian playwright (1880-1947)