Marco Tulli 20 November 1920 20 March 1982 was an Italian character actor probably best known in the role of Smilzo in the Don Camillo film series Born in Rome Tulli debuted as actor while he was still a university student at the end of the Second World War He was a prolific character actor in comedy films often playing roles of curious and nosy persons He was also very active on stage in which he worked with Giorgio Strehler and Luciano Lucignani and as television actor Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Tulli licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia