Born in Milan, the son of a Neapolitan father and a Florentine mother, at 9 years old D'Angelo was part of the Voci Bianche choir at La Scala.

[1] After studying law at the University of Milan, in 1941 he started working on radio and shortly later as a film dubber.

[1] In 1947 he made his stage debut at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, under Giorgio Strehler.

[1] D'Angelo was also diction teacher at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts and recorded several albums of prose and poetry.

[2] D’Angelo died at the Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic in Bologna on June 9, 1973, at the age of 54.