
Diego Abatantuono
Acting
115
Acting Credits
1
Directed
Biography
Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother from Como. The latter worked as wardrober in a Milanese jazz and later cabaret club, Derby, whose owner was Abatantuono's uncle. He started to work at Derby first in lighting, then as artistic director and later as an actor.
Known For

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Self

Grand Hotel Excelsior
Il mago di Segrate

Lend Me Your Wife
Uomo dell'Enel
Il mondo alla rovescia: appunti sul cabaret milanese
Himself

Sanremo Music Festival
Self - Special Guest

Un milanese a Milano - Walter Valdi
Sé stesso

C'era una volta il Derby Club
Himself

Doctor on Call
Pierfrancesco Mai
Filmography

Mrs. Christmas
2025

Life Is Life
2025
as Giacomo

Make a Wish
2025
as Ettore

Un milanese a Milano - Walter Valdi
2025
as Sé stesso

The Last Week of September
2024
as Pietro Rinaldi

Mostruosamente Villaggio
2024
as Sé stesso

C'era una volta il Derby Club
2024
as Himself

Improvvisamente a Natale mi sposo
2023
as Lorenzo

Enzo Jannacci - Vengo anch'io
2023
as Self

Amazing - Fabio de Luigi
2023
as Himself

Amazing - Fabio de Luigi
2023

Improvised Christmas
2022
as Lorenzo

Steno
2022

Il mammone
2022
as Piero Bonelli
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Doctor on Call
2021
as Pierfrancesco Mai

Dinner Club
2021
as Diego Abatantuono

Ridatemi mia moglie
2021
as Renato

LOL: Last One Laughing Italy
2021
as Self

La mia banda suona il pop
2020
as Franco Masiero

When Mom Is Away... With the Family
2020
as Babbo Natale

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019
as Self

Compromessi sposi
2019
as Diego

Volare
2019
as Mario

My Big Gay Italian Wedding
2018
as Roberto

My Beloved Enemy
2018
as Enzo Stefanelli

Mister Happiness
2017
as Guglielmo Gioia

I babysitter
2016
as Gianni Porini

The Strongest Weapon
2016
as Luigi Freddi (voice)

Belli di papÃ
2015
as Vincenzo Liuzzi

L'assalto
2014
as Giancarlo

Soap Opera
2014
as Gaetano

Well-Off People
2014
as Patrizio Azzesi

Indovina chi viene a Natale?
2013
as Giulio Sereni

Buona giornata
2012
as Romeo Telleschi

Ti stimo fratello
2012

The Worst Christmas of My Life
2012
as Alberto

Area paradiso
2012
as Furio

Gli Squallor
2012
as Self

Things from Another World
2011
as Mariso Golfetto

Happy Family
2010
as Marta's Father

The Friends At The Margherita Café
2009
as Al

The New Monsters Today
2009

2061 - Un anno eccezionale
2007
as Professor Maroncelli

L'abbuffata
2007
as Neri

A Dinner for Them to Meet
2007
as Sandro

Buona la prima!
2007
as Suggeritore

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me
2006
as Donato Cavallo / Franco Alfano / Felice 'Tirzan'

Fiorello & Baldini Visti da dietro
2006

Il giudice Mastrangelo
2005
as Diego Mastrangelo

Christmas Rematch
2004
as Franco Mattioli

I'm Not Scared
2003
as Sergio

Colorado
2003
as Presentatore

Colorado
2003
as Conduttore

Amnèsia
2002
as Sandro
Il mondo alla rovescia: appunti sul cabaret milanese
2002
as Himself

Our Tropical Island
2001
as Alberto Brogini

Unfair Competition
2001
as Umberto Melchiorri

Momo
2001
as Mastro Hora (voice)

Metronotte
2000

Tifosi
1999
as Vito 'Zebrone' La Monica

Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?
1999
as Ospite

Paparazzi
1998
as Ugo "King" Conti

Children of Hannibal
1998
as Tommaso

Marriages
1998
as Paolo
Comici
1998

Nirvana
1997
as Solo

Camere da letto
1997
as Dario

The Best Man
1997
as Angelo Beliossi

Il barbiere di Rio
1996
as Matteo

Viva San Isidro!
1995
as Padre Pedro

Camerieri
1995
as Mario Tangaro

Il toro
1994
as Franco Montagner

Per amore, solo per amore
1993
as Joseph

On the Dark Continent
1993
as Fulvio Colombo

Here Comes the Storm
1993
as Damiano Fortezza

Puerto Escondido
1992
as Mario Tozzi

Scherzi a Parte
1992
as Conduttore

Mediterraneo
1991
as Sgt. Nicola Lo Russo
Il commissario Corso
1991
as commissario Bruno Corso

Christmas Vacation '90
1990
as Nick

Turné
1990
as Dario Nigri

Marrakech Express
1989
as Ponchia

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
1989
as L'inquirente

Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano)
1988
as Man at the racecourse (uncredited)

I cammelli
1988
as Camillo

Strana la vita
1988
as Dario

Eurocops
1988
as Commissario Bruno Corso

The Secret of the Sahara
1988
as Orso

The Last Minute
1987
as Duccio Venturi

A Boy from Calabria
1987
as Nicola Sileca

Christmas Present
1986
as Franco Mattioli

Il Ras del quartiere
1983
as Domingo Ras

Arrivano i miei
1983
as Julio Navarro

Attila Scourge of God
1982
as Aldarico/Attila

Grand Hotel Excelsior
1982
as Il mago di Segrate

Eccezzziunale... veramente
1982
as Donato Cavallo/Franco Alfano/Felice "Tirzan"

Viuuulentemente mia
1982
as Achille Cotone

An Ideal Adventure
1982
as Duccio

Unfaithfully Yours
1982
as Piero

Che fai... ridi?
1982

I Fichissimi
1981
as Felice

I Carabbinieri
1981
as Brigadiere Esposito

The Tango of Jealousy
1981
as Diego

Fantozzi Against the Wind
1980
as Cecco, il nipote del fornaio

In the Pope's Eye
1980
as Don Gabriele

Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980
as Don Gabriele

Prickly Pears
1980
as Capo delle "Belve"

Una vacanza bestiale
1980
as Galeazzo

Arrivano i gatti
1980
as Felice

Lend Me Your Wife
1980
as Uomo dell'Enel

Saxofone
1978
as The chatty Guest at the restaurant

Young, Violent, Dangerous
1976
as Lucio

Sanremo Music Festival
1951
as Self - Special Guest