Santo Cilauro
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Santo Cilauro (aka Santo Ghauro) born in Melbourne, Australia in 1962, is an Australian television and feature film producer and screenwriter.
He is a currently a member of the Working Dog production company which produced The Panel television show and the movie, The Castle.
He played weatherman Geoffrey Salter on Frontline (1994–97), Stix on Funky Squad (1995), and IT technician Griffin on the Shaun Micallef sitcom Welcher & Welcher (2003). Cilauro was, with Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner, co-author of the Jetlag Travel Guides to Molvanîa, Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro. He also created the popular internet character Zladko Vladcik. As a passionate Collingwood supporter, he often name-dropped the club in his sketches; he recently wrote a chapter of the Collingwood supporter's book, "The Barrackers Are Shouting".
In the mid to late 1980s Santo was part of The D-Generation (D-Gen) Breakfast show on Eon FM (now Triple M Melbourne). Characters played were "Wayne from St Albans" and the original wog hoon , he of the midnight orange Monaro "Gino Tagliatoni".
He was one of the regular cast of The Late Show in 1992–1993.
During his radio career Cilauro often received mail with misspellings of his name, the most notable and fondly remembered being "Snato Ghauro".
Other credits include:
- Thank God You're Here (TV series) (2006-), Executive Producer, Performer
- The Dish (2000), Producer, Screenwriter
- The Castle (1997), Screenwriter
Cilauro is a noted supporter and active particpant of charities. Athletes as Role Models Tour (ARMTour) is an example where he organised a group of Australian sports people and celebrities to travel to remote communities as a way of promoting education and healthy lifestyles to Australia's indigenous youth.
[edit] External links
- Santo Cilauro on IMDB
- Vodafone lifts indigenous kids up to the stars Cilauro's work with ARMTour
