Remo Remotti (Rome, 1924 – 2015) was an Italian actor, playwright, painter, sculptor and poet. Although he is best known for his character roles in film, his career began in the visual arts and in writing.
After graduating in law, he moved to Peru, where he attended an art school and began painting. After the bankruptcy of a taxi company he had founded there, he returned to Italy, where he married Maria Luisa Loy, sister of the director and screenwriter Nanni Loy. There he started writing plays, often directing and acting in his own comedies.
Later, several theatre companies asked him for character parts, and in the late 1970s he began a prolific film career as a character actor. His credits include Brutto e cattivo... no, Il gabbiano (1977), Otello (1986) and The Godfather Part III (1990). Some of his works are held at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, and he also wrote poems, usually sonnets in Roman dialect.