about me
ACTOR
AT SCHOOL I WAS THE BEST LAST STUDENT IN THE CLASS
(Marcello Marchesi)
Bruno Maccallini was born on 7 March 1960 in Avezzano, Abruzzo, Italy.
He graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts “Silvio d’Amico” in Rome in 1982 and began his career as a stage actor, quickly establishing himself as a leading performer in the great tradition of Italian comedy while working with some of Italy’s most distinguished theatre directors.
In 1987 he made his feature-film debut in Sotto… sotto… strapazzato da anomala passione, directed by Academy Award winner Lina Wertmüller.
After a successful career in Italy as an actor, theatre producer and director, he achieved widespread recognition throughout the German-speaking world thanks to a series of highly successful television films, becoming one of the best-known Italian personalities in Germany.
Through his production company, Mac Produzioni, he has created and produced numerous cultural documentaries for Italian and German television, including more than sixty hours of programming for RAI.
Together with actress Jutta Speidel, he co-authored four bestselling books published by Ullstein Verlag, selling more than 100,000 copies and reaching the top of the German paperback bestseller charts.
He later published Die italienischen Momente im Leben with Piper Verlag and a successful cookbook with Christian Verlag.
In 2014 he received the Tourism Ambassador Award, presented by the Travel Industry Club and ITB Berlin.
In 2021 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Antonello Falqui Association, established to preserve and promote the artistic legacy of one of Italy’s greatest television directors.
Alongside his acting career, he has also developed a successful musical activity. Together with Anglo-German mezzo-soprano Friederike Krum, he released the album Classic Christmas, which reached No. 1 in Germany’s Classical Christmas Charts.
In 2023, together with theatre scholar Antonella Ottai, he created the KABARETT WEIMAR Trilogy, a theatrical project inspired by the cabaret culture of the Weimar Republic. Premiering at Rome’s Teatro Vascello in April 2024, it received enthusiastic acclaim from both audiences and critics. The project also led to a radio series of the same name for Rai Radio3.
The initiative further includes the workshop Una risata allunga la vita?, developed in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Rome and Teatro Vascello, followed by Cattiverie – When Humour Turns Black, produced for the Teatro di Roma.
Long - Term Icon
A face, a personage, a rock-solid link with his audience which has lasted almost 30 years
He became well-konwn throughout Germany and several other european countries in the 1990s with the Nescafé Tv-commercials.
After a break of almost 30 years, the well-known advertising and the iconic character Angelo came back.
Nescafé’s new commercial ‘The Visit’ (2020-2021) aroused the strongest emotions among viewers. This is shown by an analysis by German System1 Research.
For this purpose, different commercials for coffee were tested and examined for their emotional strength. System1 Research conducted the study among 600 German consumers aged 18 to 65 in February 2020. In the end, Nescafé-Angelo won.
Bruno Maccallini processed more than 22 million GIF searches in 2020.
