Walter Chiari made 112 films, but Italian cinema never really adopted him. In the theater he was a star of musical comedy and revue theater.
He was a charismatic prose actor (from "The Odd Couple" with Renato Rascel in 1966 to "Endgame" by Beckett twenty years later) He owes his success above all to the TV of which he became a regular protagonist since 1958. In 1985, once again a repentant - the same one who accused Enzo Tortora - sent him back before the judges accusing him of trading cocaine.