Lucio Allocca
{{Short description|Italian actor (born 1943)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|5 July 1943}}
| birth_place = Naples, Italy
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}}Lucio Allocca (born 5 July 1943) is an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Naples, in 1966 Allocca graduated from the School of Dramatic Art of the Politecnico di Napoli, and was mainly active on theatre, in which he worked with important names such as Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Mario Martone, Ugo Gregoretti, Michele Galdieri, Mario Scaccia, and Renato Carpentieri. Also a playwright and a theatrical director, he his artistic director of the Theatre de Poche in his hometown.
Allocca got his first film major role in 1979, in Salvatore Piscicelli's Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy, and then specialized in character roles.{{cite book |last1=Lancia |first1=Enrico |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli artisti : Vol. 3, Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri |date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-8440-213-4 |page=15 |language=it |chapter=Allocca, Lucio}} He is best known for the role of Otello Testa in the long-running soap opera Un posto al sole.{{cite news |last1=Manca|first1=Mario|title=«Un Posto al Sole», Lucio Allocca: «Io, cuore d'atleta (dopo l'infarto)» |url=https://www.vanityfair.it/show/tv/2018/09/15/lucio-allocca-intervista-otello-un-posto-al-sole-infarto |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.vanityfair.it/show/tv/2018/09/15/lucio-allocca-intervista-otello-un-posto-al-sole-infarto |archive-date=11 February 2022 |url-status=live|access-date=11 February 2022 |work=Vanity Fair |date=15 September 2018 |language=it-IT}}{{cbignore}} In 2018 he suffered a heart attack and underwent an angioplasty surgery.{{cite news |last1=Chiapparino |first1=Melina |title=Paura per Otello: l'attore di «Un posto al sole» colpito da infarto |url=https://www.ilmattino.it/spettacoli/televisione/infarto_lucio_allocca_otello_upas_posto_sole-3773735.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.ilmattino.it/spettacoli/televisione/infarto_lucio_allocca_otello_upas_posto_sole-3773735.html |archive-date=11 February 2022 |url-status=live|access-date=11 February 2022 |work= Il Mattino|date=3 June 2018 |language=it}}{{cbignore}}
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Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male television actors
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:Italian dramatists and playwrights
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