Renato Rascel (27 April 1912 – 2 January 1991), was a Italian film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972.In the early thirties, and after a long apprenticeship in companies avanspettacolo, Renato Ranucci decides to take the name of art "Rachel" (named after a French powder very popular at that time), then Italianized in "Rascel "In compliance with directives issued by Achille Starace on behalf of the fascist government. An anecdote tells how the official Minculpop impose even wanted to call themselves "Rascel", in which the young Renato witty but appears to have replied: "Change the first Manin in" Manin ", and then again."In 1932 Rascel is writing from the troupe of brothers Schwartz nell operetta to recite "Al Cavallino Bianco", which debuts at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on February 24 of 1933, coming from noted theater critic Renato Simoni, who in his article commends its qualities acrobatics.In 1939, during a break in the dressing room, writes cast the first verses of what sounds like another of his surreal rhymes: "It came the storm / It s time / who is good and who is wrong / and who is as the par, "that the public Notes with a laugh general and liberating, almost wanting to defuse the thicken on a new war in which the words of the song seems to refer not too covertly.1986 is his last appearance in theater, the side s Walter Chiari with which interprets "Final batch of Samuel Beckett. Renato Rascel leaves life almost on tiptoe, reduced to a frail man in a hospital bed the quiet hum the songs that once made him famous, without anything of brio and vivacity claimant and musician who was in his years of gold, but rather resembles one of his characters: the centenary 61 Enrico told that the stage of the Sistine hundred years of vicissitudes of his life and Italy combined.