Attilio Dottesio (16 July 1909 – 12 February 1989) was an Italian film character actor and singer.

Born in Brescia, Dottesio began his career in France, where first he obtained some success as a pop singer and later debuted as an actor in the film The Pearls of the Crown directed by Sacha Guitry.

[1] Back in Italy, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, then he began an intense career as a character actor.

[1] His first Italian film was La peccatrice by Amleto Palermi (1940).

[1] In 1955, he had his only experience as a director, with the documentary film Amazzonia terra sconosciuta.