Raoul Grassilli

{{Short description|Italian actor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

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| birth_place = Bologna, Italy

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| death_place = Bologna, Italy

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Raoul Grassilli (25 October 1924 – 24 July 2010) was an Italian actor.

Born in Bologna, Grassilli graduated from the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1948, and started his career on stage with Ruggero Ruggeri.{{cite news|last1=Alessandra Comazzi|title=Raoul Grassilli, grande attore|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2010/07/27/blogs/cose-di-tele/raoul-grassilli-grande-attore-JXlXnBXlHx9xQD8zBGDUPO/pagina.html|accessdate=25 December 2014|newspaper=La Stampa|date=27 July 2010}}{{cite book|last=Peppino Ortoleva, Barbara Scaramucci|title=Enciclopedia della Radio|publisher=Garzanti Libri, 2003}} Active among others in the theatrical companies of Alida Valli, Tino Buazzelli, Gino Cervi and Giorgio Strehler, he is best known for his roles in several RAI TV-series, starting from Anton Giulio Majano's Il Caso Maurizius (1961).{{cite news|title=Addio a Raoul Grassilli volto della tv in bianco e nero|url=http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/07/26/news/addio_a_roul_grassilli_l_attore_scomparso_sabato-5846980/|accessdate=25 December 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=26 July 2010}}

==Selected filmography==

• The Corsican Brothers (1961)
• Pelle viva (1962)
• Invasion 1700 (1962)
• Desert War (1962)
• Catherine of Russia (1963)
• The Head of the Family (1967)
• Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
• Povero Cristo (1975)