Enzo Cerusico (1937 – 1991). Italian film actor. He appeared in 55 films between 1951 and 1984.
Cerusico's first role on American television was in a 1966 episode of I Spy filmed in Rome. Producer Sheldon Leonard held a casting call for an English-speaking actor to play the kid brother of the female Italian guest star. Cerusico spoke no English but with a friend's help he memorized one line — "I studied English in the school since four years" — and managed to bluff his way into an interview with Leonard.
Leonard realized Cerusico wasn't fluent in English but he thought the young man possessed "Jean Paul Belmondo's jaunty virility and the swaggering charm of Maurice Chevalier." Leonard chose Cerusico for the I Spy guest role and Cerusico learned his lines phonetically and delivered them by rote.
Cerusico later played the title character in My Friend Tony, an hour-long crime drama that aired on NBC in 1969.
- "Rosso di capelli, privo di complessi, ottimista, per niente canterino..." (Red-haired, complex-free, optimistic, no singing at all).
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