[1] Born in Udine, after a bachelor's degree in business Pepe got a job as a banking clerk, which he quit to perform in the theater company led by Roldano Lupi and Paola Borboni.

[2] He later entered some of the major companies of the time, working among others with Vittorio De Sica, Dina Galli, Ruggero Ruggeri and Sergio Tofano.

[2] In the second post-war, he served as artistic director of several theaters, including the Teatro Stabile di Torino [it].

[2] Starting from Giorgio Strehler's 1953 rendition of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and until late 1970s he frequently worked at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.

[2] Also active in films, radio and television and as a dubber, he retired from acting in the early 1980s, and in his late years directed a theater school in the Friulian language.