Cesare Polacco

Cesare Polacco (14 May 1900 – 2 March 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Life and career
Born in Venice, Polacco started his career in 1920 in the stage company of Emilio Zago, with whom he played most of the Goldoni's repertoire. In 1928 he moved to Rome, where in addition to theatre he started appearing in films and working as a dubber. Being of Jewish origin, he was temporarily forced to abandon acting because of the 1938 Fascist racial laws, resuming his activities at the end of the war, in 1945. Also active on radio and television, he got a large popularity thanks to the Inspector Rock character he played in Carosello, in a series of giallo-comedy shorts  aired between  1957 and 1968.

Partial filmography

 * Loyalty of Love (1934) - Il banditore al patibolo
 * Golden Arrow (1935) - Casellante stazione ferroviaria
 * Lo squadrone bianco (1936) - El Fennek
 * Hands Off Me! (1937) - Il capomastro
 * The Former Mattia Pascal (1937) - Un ospite della pensione
 * Tonight at Eleven (1938) - Il benzinaio
 * A Thousand Lire a Month (1939) - Carletto, l'altro padrino
 * Mad Animals (1939) - Il creditore
 * The Fornaretto of Venice (1939) - Barnaba
 * Torna, caro ideal! (1939) - Il medico
 * Manon Lescaut (1940) - Un dei tre creditori
 * La última falla (1940)
 * Il signore della taverna (1940)
 * Kean (1940) - Il medico
 * Il ponte dei sospiri (1940)
 * Il Bazar delle idee (1940)
 * The Siege of the Alcazar (1940) - Venegas
 * Eternal Melodies (1940) - Haydn
 * Pinocchio (1940) - The Coachman (Italian version)
 * La forza bruta (1941) - Paolo Perego
 * The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941) - Sandro, suo marito
 * Marco Visconti (1941)
 * Merchant of Slaves (1942) - Un mercante
 * Fedora (1942) - L'usuraio Barnstein
 * We the Living (1942) - Member of the Epuration Commission
 * O sole mio (1946)
 * The Adulteress (1946) - Il vecchio dei gioielli
 * Black Eagle (1946) - Il segretario Sputing
 * Fury (1947) - Lawyer
 * L'ebreo errante (1948)
 * Fear and Sand (1948) - Banderillero
 * The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Jafrem
 * Buried Alive (1949) - Ferdinando
 * A Night of Fame (1949) - Israelian Delegate
 * Toto Looks for a House (1949) - Vice custode
 * Toto the Sheik (1950) - Mohamed
 * Fugitive in Trieste (1951)
 * La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)
 * La campana di San Giusto (1954)
 * Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956) - Sparafucile
 * Tipi da spiaggia (1959) - Prince Joakim
 * The Employee (1960) - Police Inspector Rock
 * I due della legione (1962) - Police Commissioner
 * The Godfather (1972) - Don Carlo Tramonti (uncredited)