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- Piero Angela was born on 22 December 1928 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for Superquark (1995), Control (1987) and Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta (2000). He was married to Margherita Pastore. He died on 13 August 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1928-2022
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Mike Bongiorno was born on May 26th, 1924 in New York City, New York, USA as Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno. He was known as the king of the Italian Quiz show. He hosted, among others: Lascia o raddoppia? (1955), Rischiatutto (1970), Telemike (1987), Tutti x uno (1992), and 3,125 episodes of La ruota della fortuna (1987). Bongiorno was married 3 times and with his last wife, Daniela Zuccoli, had 3 children: Michele Bongiorno, Nicolò Bongiorno and Leonardo (born on September 5th, 1989). Bongiorno died on September 8th, 2009 in Monte Carlo, Monaco, at 85.1924-2009- Gigi Sabani was born on 5 October 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for OK, il prezzo è giusto! (1983), Gli inaffidabili (1997) and Due di tutto (1982). He died on 4 September 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1952-2007
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Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone). Growing up in the slums of Pozzuoli during the second World War without any support from her father, she experienced great sadness in her childhood. Her life took an unexpected turn for the best when, at age 14, she entered into a beauty contest and placed as one of the finalists. It was here that Sophia caught the attention of film producer Carlo Ponti, some 22 years her senior, whom she later married. Perhaps he was the father figure she never experienced as a child. Under his guidance, Sophia was put under contract and appeared as an extra in ten films beginning with Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950), before working her way up to supporting roles. In these early films, she was credited as "Sofia Lazzaro" because people joked her beauty could raise Lazzarus from the dead.
By her late teens, Sophia was playing lead roles in many Italian features such as La favorita (1952) and Aida (1953). In 1957, she embarked on a successful acting career in the United States, starring in Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Legend of the Lost (1957), and The Pride and the Passion (1957) that year. She had a short-lived but much-publicized fling with co-star Cary Grant, who was nearly 31 years her senior. She was only 22 while he was 53, and she rejected a marriage proposal from him. They were paired together a second time in the family-friendly romantic comedy Houseboat (1958). While under contract to Paramount, Sophia starred in Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Key (1958), The Black Orchid (1958), It Started in Naples (1960), Heller in Pink Tights (1960), A Breath of Scandal (1960), and The Millionairess (1960) before returning to Italy to star in Two Women (1960). The film was a period piece about a woman living in war-torn Italy who is raped while trying to protect her young daughter. Originally cast as the more glamorous child, Sophia fought against type and was re-cast as the mother, displaying a lack of vanity and proving herself as a genuine actress. This performance received international acclaim and was honored with an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Sophia remained a bona fide international movie star throughout the sixties and seventies, making films on both sides of the Atlantic, and starring opposite such leading men as Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, and Charlton Heston. Her English-language films included El Cid (1961), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arabesque (1966), Man of La Mancha (1972), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). She gained wider respect with her Italian films, especially Marriage Italian Style (1964) and A Special Day (1977), both of which co-starred Marcello Mastroianni. During these years she received a second Oscar nomination and won five Golden Globe Awards.
From the eighties onward, Sophia's appearances on the big screen came few and far between. She preferred to spend the majority of her time raising sons Carlo Ponti Jr. (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973). Her only acting credits during the decade were five television films, beginning with Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980), a biopic in which she portrayed herself and her mother. She ventured into other areas of business and became the first actress to launch her own fragrance and design of eyewear. In 1982 she voluntarily spent nineteen days in jail for tax evasion.
In 1991 Sophia received an Honorary Academy Award for her body of work, and was declared "one of world cinema's greatest treasures." That same year, she experienced a terrible loss when her mother died of cancer. Her return to mainstream films in Ready to Wear (1994) was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. She followed this up with her biggest U.S. hit in years, the comedy Grumpier Old Men (1995), in which she played a sexy divorcée who seduces Walter Matthau. Over the next decade Sophia had plum roles in a few independent films like Soleil (1997), Between Strangers (2002) (directed by Edoardo), and Lives of the Saints (2004). Still beautiful at 72, she posed scantily-clad for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar. Sadly, that same year she mourned the death of her 94-year-old spouse, Carlo Ponti. In 2009, after far too much time away from film, she appeared in the musical Nine (2009) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis. These days Sophia is based in Switzerland but frequently travels to the states to spend time with her sons and their families (Eduardo is married to actress Sasha Alexander). Sophia Loren remains one of the most beloved and recognizable figures in the international film world.1934- Actor
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The son of Italian theatre critic Antonio Cervi, Gino Cervi was one of the most famous Italian actors, first on stage, then on screen and finally on television. He appeared in his first play in 1924, a year after his father's death. He won world fame with three movies directed by Alessandro Blasetti: Aldebaran (1935), Ettore Fieramosca (1938), and An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939). After the WWII, his film career flourished, and then on television, he found new fame as Inspector Jules Maigret in a series of TV Movies based on the novels of Georges Simenon.1901-74- Actor
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Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball player. He debuted on stage in 1943 and soon felt home in all classical theatre works. Since 1946 he also worked at the movies and his first big role there was the criminal in Bitter Rice (1949). This fixed him to his main parts: The ambiguous gentleman inflicting pain and pleasure at the same time. He also participated in the Italian comedies and in American movies but the latter with only minor success. As a homage to his passion for the theatre he directed a cinema version of the play Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957).1922-2000- Actor
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Alberto Lupo was born on 19 December 1924 in Genoa, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Lion of Thebes (1964), Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958) and The Giant of Marathon (1959). He was married to Lyla Rocco. He died on 13 August 1984 in San Felice Circeo, Italy.1924-84- Actress
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Anna Maria Guarnieri was born on 20 August 1934 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for ...e le stelle stanno a guardare (1971), David Copperfield (1965) and Come l'amore (1968). She has been married to Luciano Virgilio since 29 May 2010.1934- Actress
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Enrica Bonaccorti was born on 18 November 1950 in Savona, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for A Bigger Splash (2015), Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) and Cagliostro (1975).1950- Actor
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Robert Powell was born on Thursday, June 1st, 1944, five days before D-Day, on Tuesday, June 6th, 1944, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. In 1964, he started his acting career while attending Manchester University. In 1967, he made his film debut, and later landed his first starring role in The Italian Job (1969). Some of his well-known movies include Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Ken Russell's Tommy (1975) and Mahler (1974), the sequel or remake of The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), and the popular TV series, Doomwatch (1970). Robert ended his bachelor life, when he married Barbara "Babs" Lord, on Friday, August, 29th, 1975. They are parents of two children (1 son & 1 daughter). In 1982, Robert won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Imperative (1982). He won the best actor award at the Paris Film Festival for Harlequin (1980). For his portrayal of Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth he received best actor awards from TV Times and Italian TV Times, the international arts prize at the Fiuggi Film Festival, grand prize at the Saint-Vincent Film Festival, and a nomination as best actor from The Irish Academy of Film and Television arts. In reference to his role as Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth, Robert said, "I hope Jesus Christ will be the last in my line of sensitive young men for quite a while."1944- Umberto Orsini was born on 2 April 1934 in Novara, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Damned (1969), Emmanuelle 3 (1977) and Solomon (1997).1934
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Corrado Pani was born on 4 March 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Daughter of Cleopatra (1960), Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and Amazons of Rome (1961). He was married to Nadia Strebernik Pani and Renata Monteduro. He died on 2 March 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1936-2005- Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian movie star known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a former soccer player who often was compared to Burt Lancaster, was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Calabria, Italy, the son of a prominent lawyer and his aristocratic wife. At the University of Turin, Vallone took degrees in law and philosophy and then entered his father's law firm.
Vallone played semi-professional soccer but never realized his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Subsequently, he became a sports reporter for L'Unita, a communist newspaper, and also a drama critic for La Stampa. During World War II, Vallone served with the anti-Fascist resistance.
His first job as a movie actor was a bit part in We the Living (1942) (aka, "We the Living"), but Vallone was not serious about acting as a career. Hired as a researcher on a film about labor unrest, director Giuseppe De Santis cast Vallone as a soldier competing with Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in what became the neo-realist classic Bitter Rice (1949) ("Bitter Rice"). The film propelled Vallone, pronounced a natural actor by De Santis, into international stardom and ended his journalism career.
Vallone became a major star in Italy in the 1950s and then a player in the global film industry, making movies in Italian, French and English. Vallone achieved popularity with American audiences in the 1960s, starting with his supporting roles in Two Women (1960) ("Two Women") and El Cid (1961), both co-starring Sophia Loren. Other major actresses he co-starred with on film and stage included Gina Lollobrigida, Anna Magnani, Melina Mercouri, Simone Signoret, and Elena Varzi, to whom he was married for 52 years, until his death in 2002.
Vallone's first "American" role was as the incest-minded Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone in Sidney Lumet's film of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (1962) ("A View from the Bridge"). Other prominent roles in American films included Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963), Roger Corman's The Secret Invasion (1964), Harlow (1965) starring Carroll Baker, and Henry Hathaway's Nevada Smith (1966).
Vallone played many priests during his long career, culminating with the cardinal-confessor of mobster Michael Corleone, a priest who becomes pope and is murdered in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990). Appearing for the other side, Vallone was memorable as the Mafia boss Altabani in the original The Italian Job (1969).1916-2002 - Giulia Lazzarini was born on 24 March 1934 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Mia madre (2015), The Place (2017) and Les Misérables (1964). She was previously married to Carlo Battistoni and Vincenzo De Toma.1934
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Michele Placido was born on 19 May 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Caravaggio's Shadow (2022). He has been married to Federica Vincenti since 14 August 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to Simonetta Stefanelli and Ilaria Lezzi.1946- Giuliana de Sio was born on 2 April 1956 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She is an actress, known for La piovra (1984), The Pool Hustlers (1983) and The Wicked (1991).1956
- Andrea Giordana was born on 27 March 1946 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Eneide (1971), The Count of Monte Cristo (1966) and Provincia segreta (1998).1946
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Lea Massari was born on 30 June 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Indian Summer (1972). She has been married to Carlo Bianchini since 13 November 1963.1933- Actor
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Enzo Tortora was born on 30 November 1928 in Genoa, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Il campanile d'oro (1955), Italia piccola (1957) and Giallo (1987). He died on 28 May 1988 in Milan, Italy.1928-88- Actor
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The best Italian impersonator. He was born in Naples, Campania, Italy. His father was a law office bearer, he had Polish ancestors and a German grandmother. After Law Studies and an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as a voice imitator. He made some theatre appearances performing parodies of singers and politicians and he became popular with the Italian television shows "Doppia Coppia" (1969) and "Formula Due" (1973). He has been nicknamed "thief of souls" by the great director Federico Fellini for his extraordinary capability to imitate not only the voice of characters, but also their physical features and attitudes. In an interview just before is death, he listed a total of 1156 voices he had imitated in his career. He sank into a deep depression after the divorce of his beloved wife. On December 3rd, 1979, Noschese committed suicide by shooting himself while under care for clinical depression in Rome, at the age of 47.1932-79- Actor
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Ugo Pagliai was born on 13 November 1937 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor, known for Un antico manoscritto (2019), The Man Without a Face (1975) and Shadowman (1974).1937- Actor
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Ubaldo Lay was born on 14 April 1917 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Treasure Island (1959), Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan (1960) and David Copperfield (1965). He was married to Olga Elena Bogaro. He died on 27 September 1984 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1917-84- Actor
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Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said, "I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that you had a vocation. I have realized subsequently that I didn't have one at all. I don't believe in God. But I did believe at the time in this notion that you were being called." He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archaeology and linguistics, and became proficient in Irish. He played football (soccer) in Dublin with the Stella Maris Football Club.
Byrne worked in archaeology after he left UCD but maintained his love of the Irish language, eventually writing Draíocht (Magic), the first drama in Irish on Ireland's national Irish television station, TG4, in 1996.
He discovered his acting ability as a young adult. Before that he worked at several occupations: archaeologist, cook, bullfighter, schoolteacher of Spanish. He began acting when he was 29 - at first on stage at the Focus Theatre and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, later joining the Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre in London.
Byrne came to prominence in the final season of the Irish television show The Riordans, later starring in the spin-off series, Bracken. He made his film debut in 1981 as Lord Uther Pendragon in John Boorman's King Arthur epic, Excalibur.
Byrne was featured as therapist Dr. Paul Weston in the critically acclaimed HBO series In Treatment (2008).
In his return to theater in 2008, he appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot with the New York Philharmonic, which was featured in a PBS broadcast in the Live From Lincoln Center series in May of 2008.
Byrne did not visit America until he was 37. In 1988, Byrne married actress Ellen Barkin with whom he has two children. The couple separated amicably in 1993 and divorced in 1999. Byrne resides in Brooklyn, New York.
In November 2004, Byrne was appointed a UNICEF Ireland Ambassador.
In 2007 Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards at the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. This was for lifetime achievement in acting. He also received the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, of Trinity College, Dublin, on February 20, 2007. He was awarded an honorary degree in late 2007 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to Irish and international film".1950- Actor
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Francesco 'Nino' Castelnuovo was born to humble beginnings in Lombardy, the second of four brothers. His working life began with a series of stints in various jobs, including house painting, as a mechanic and as a sales agent, after which he decided to take drama classes at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. A first screen appearance in 1957 was followed by a motion picture debut two years later. He had a small supporting part in Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960), but his career only gained traction with a co-starring role opposite Catherine Deneuve in the romantic musical drama The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (though his scenes were subsequently re-dubbed). Castelnuovo's greatest popularity came via the small screen, as Renzo Tramaglino, key protagonist of the mini-series I promessi sposi (1967), a period piece set during the Spanish occupation of Lombardy in the 17th century and based on a best-selling novel by Alessandro Manzoni. Other appearances have included both American and Italian-produced westerns (The Reward (1965), The 5-Man Army (1969)) among notably cosmopolitan casts. By the early 70s, Castelnuovo acted primarily on stage, in serial television and was seen for several years in commercials for Olio Cuore, a corn oil company. His final fling on the international scene was a small role in [The English Patient (1996)] as an archaeologist, recalled in flashback scenes by the lead character Almásy. Castelnuovo retired in 2016. He was married to the actress Danila Trebbi.1936-2021- Warner Bentivegna was born on 18 July 1931 in Crotone, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Possessed (1972), The Trojan Horse (1961) and I grandi camaleonti (1964). He died on 6 December 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1931-2008
- Stunning Italian actress Virna Lisi, a brief but lovely Hollywood import in the 1960's, was merely one of a plethora of European movie beauties who proved over the course of their long careers, that they were capable of more than just visual performances.
Born Virna Lisa Pieralisi on November 8, 1936, she began her film career as a 17-year-old teen with a co-starring part with the musical drama ...e Napoli canta! (1953) (Naples Sings!). Cast initially for her photographic beauty, she gained more experience in such early pictures as Lettera napoletana (1954) and La corda d'acciaio (1954) before earning her first top-billed movie lead in Piccola santa (1954) opposite Rosario Borelli. Other late 50's/early 60's films that helped steam up her image included Luna nova (1955), Le diciottenni (1955), La rossa (1955), The Doll That Took the Town (1957), Lost Souls (1959) opposite Jacques Sernas, Don't Tempt the Devil (1963) (Don't Tempt the Devil), Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961) (His Excellency Stayed to Dinner], the Italian-made spectacle, Duel of the Titans (1961) and an innocent role in the French-made Eva (1962) starring the scheming Jeanne Moreau in the title role.
The pert and sexy star later made a decorative dent in late 1960's Hollywood as a tempting blue-eyed blonde opposite the likes of Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), Frank Sinatra in Assault on a Queen (1966) and Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966). Confined once again to the same type of glamour roles (she turned down the title role of "Barbarella"), she returned to Europe within a couple of years but hardly fared better with such nothing special movies as Anyone Can Play (1967), The Girl Who Couldn't Say No (1968), The Christmas Tree (1969), The Statue (1971), Bluebeard (1972) and White Fang (1973) and its sequel Challenge to White Fang (1974).
Come middle age, however, a career renaissance occurred for Virna. She began to be perceived as more than just a tasty dish and was given a wide variety of quality mature performances. As the stature of her films improved, she began winning foreign awards right and left for such European pictures as Beyond Good and Evil (1977), The Cricket (1980), Time for Loving (1983), Buon Natale... Buon anno (1989) and Va' dove ti porta il cuore (1996) (Follow Your Heart). It all culminated in the lifetime role of the malevolent "Caterina de Medici" in Queen Margot (1994) for which she captured both the César and Cannes Film Festival awards, not to mention the Italian Silver Ribbon award.
Virna continued reigning supreme on TV as a character lead and support player into the millennium with parts in such TV movies as the title role in Anna's World (2004) and Donne sbagliate (2007) (Steel Women) as well as Italian TV series work. Starring as the matriarch in the excellent family film drama Il più bel giorno della mia vita (2002), Virna would find her last excellent movie role in the award-winning dramedy Latin Lover (2015). Having passed away on December 14, 2014, at age 78, of lung cancer, the actress received a couple of award nominations posthumously for her work here. Survived by her son Corrado, her longtime husband (from 1960), architect Franco Pesci (1934-2013), died a year earlier.1936-2014 - Actress
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Leading Italian actress of all media, born Lydia (or Lidia) Alfonsi in Parma, the daughter of well-to-do middle class parents. She briefly trained in accountancy before venturing on to the stage as a member of student amateur theatrical troupes. With "Gli amici della prose" she performed a play by Luigi Pirandello which won her a best actress competition in Pesaro. Having attracted the attention of one of the judges, the director Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Alfonsi was invited to join his company and duly made her professional theatrical debut in 1946. From 1950, she also appeared on screen, wrote and recited poetry, as well as writing and working in radio as a voice actress. Though acclaimed for her roles on the classical stage (including as Medea, Phaedra and Electra) she is probably best known abroad as a protagonist of peplum and swashbuckler films like Hercules (1958), Morgan the Pirate (1960) and The Trojan Horse (1961) (all starring muscleman Steve Reeves). Alfonsi also co-starred alongside Boris Karloff in Mario Bava 's atmospheric psycho- thriller Black Sabbath (1963) (her character coming to a sticky end at the hands of Milo Quesada). This was originally shot with the cast voicing their lines in English, only for the dialogue to be wiped, dubbed into Italian and subtitled. She had another first-billed role in Lady Dynamite (1973) as the eponymous heroine, exacting Sicilian-style vendetta in Palermo on the local Mafia don responsible for the murder of her husband. For the small screen, Alfonsi essayed the ill-fated 18th century aristocrat Luisa Sanfelice in a seven-episode miniseries.
Alfonsi was named a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic by then-president of Italy Alessandro Pertini. She retired from screen acting in 1997.1928-2022- Kenneth "Ken" Marshall was born on June 27, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor. He gained international attention for playing the title role in the Italian-based historical TV-series Marco Polo (1982), with Burt Lancaster and Leonard Nimoy. Other Italian productions were Liliana Cavani's The Skin (1981) and Sergio Sollima's Berlin '39 (1993). He is especially known for his roles in science-fictions films and TV-series such as Krull 1983 and Quantum Leap 1989. In 1997 he received a nomination (OFTA Television Award) for best male actor as Lt. Commander Michael Eddington in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.1950
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Kabir Bedi is one of India's most famous international actors, with a career that spans from Bollywood to Hollywood and Europe, in films, television, theatre, and radio.
Kabir's Italian series "SANDOKAN" made him a major star across all of Europe.
He starred in one of the world's most-watched TV series, "THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL"
He acted in the James Bond "OCTOPUSSY".
He has been a voting member of the "Oscars Academy" (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) since 1982.
In recent years, he has acted in 5 films in 5 languages: English, Italian, Hindi, Malayalam, and Telegu.
He is the Honorary Brand Ambassador for Sight Savers India, which performed over 5 million free eye operations across India.
He is the Honorary Brand Ambassador of Care & Share Italia, which educates children from kindergarten to university in the homes and centers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India.
To top it all, he has been Knighted by the Italian Republic with its highest civilian honour, "Cavaliere".1946- Philippe Leroy was born on 15 October 1930 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for The Night Porter (1974), La Femme Nikita (1990) and The Hole (1960).1930
- Carole André was born on 11 March 1953 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Sandokan (1976), Face to Face (1967) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983).1953
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Tino Buazzelli was born on 13 July 1922 in Frascati, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Papà Goriot (1970), A Maiden for the Prince (1965) and Nero Wolfe (1969). He was married to Ermelina Banfi. He died on 20 October 1980 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1922-80- Actor
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Paolo Ferrari was born on 26 February 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor and writer, known for Orgoglio (2004), Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964) and Nero Wolfe (1969). He was married to Laura Tavanti and Marina Bonfigli. He died on 6 May 2018 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1929-2018- Actor
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For French art film lovers, Giorgio Albertazzi appeared out of nowhere and literally fascinated them in Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's unidentified object known as Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Elegant, seductive, with a hypnotizing Italian accent, he tried to persuade an elegant, seductive woman speaking in a singsong voice that he had been her lover the year before in the same luxury hotel ... The lady, the marvelous 'Delphine Seyrig'did not seem to remember him. And life imitating art, it looked as if Giorgio Albertazzi, despite a haunting presence in a haunting film would also return to oblivion immediately after the release of this atypical movie; The man of one film? Of course not. He did make others in his native country, but mainly minor unpretentious works, nothing on a par with Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Obviously, cinema has helped the actor to keep body and soul together, nothing more. His contribution to Italian television is more ambitious, either as an actor, a scriptwriter or a director. His best role on the small screen may be Dostoievsky's moving Prince Miskin in Giacomo Vaccari's remarkable mini-series L'idiota (1959). He also interpreted Dante Alighieri and Don Giovanni in two interesting TV films or series directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. And wearing the three hats of actor (as Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde), writer (adapting Robert Louis Stevenson and director, he was very successful with Jekyll (1969). However, Albertazzi's main activity and great love has always been the stage. An actor since 1949 and still active after all these years, he debuted in William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" under the direction of Luchino Visconti. Since then he has performed in scores of plays by Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, Gabriele D'Annunzio, among others. Into the bargain, this great name of the Italian theatre has been running a dramatic school from the mid-nineties as well as the Teatro di Roma since 2003. All in all, Giorgio Albertazzi did not come out of nowhere when Alain Resnais, a director who has always loved actors, chose him for being X the stranger in Last Year at Marienbad (1961). And he did not return to oblivion either. Just ask Italian theatre lovers if they have forgotten him and you will see!1923-2016- Writer
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One of the most important journalists in Italian television. His program "Il Fatto", in which an important fact of politics or society is discussed daily, has been one of the most followed in RAI history. But it has been closed by direct order of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi for having criticized his politics and fortune. It has been the first case of censure in Italian television.1920-2007- Writer
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Maurizio Costanzo was born on 28 August 1938 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for A Special Day (1977), The Vatican Affair (1968) and Melodrammore (1978). He was married to Maria De Filippi, Marta Flavi, Flaminia Morandi and Lori Sammartino. He died on 24 February 2023 in Rome, Italy.1938-2023- Giuliano Ferrara was born on 7 January 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Azzurri (1985), Non ho tempo (1973) and S.B.: I Knew Him Well (2012). He has been married to Selma Dell'Olio since 1987.1952
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Paolo Frajese was born on 22 August 1939 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Apriti Sabato (1977), La domenica sportiva (1954) and Les 4 vérités (1987). He was married to Ester Vanni and Marina Hedman. He died on 9 June 2000 in Paris, France.1939-2000- Actor
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Emilio Fede was born on 24 June 1931 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Messina, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Paparazzi (1998), Italian Business (2017) and Studio Aperto (1991). He has been married to Diana De Feo since 1964. They have two children.1931- Ruggero Orlando was born on 5 July 1907 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Porto (1934), Il pap'occhio (1980) and The Voyage of Tanai (1971). He died on 18 April 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1907-94
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Tito Stagno was born on 4 January 1930 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Marinai senza stelle (1948), La domenica sportiva (1954) and The Big Step (2019). He was married to Edda Lavezzini. He died on 1 February 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1930-2022- Writer
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Bruno Vespa was born on 27 May 1944 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Yes for Europe (1996), 100 minutes pour convaincre (2002) and Porta a Porta (1996). He has been married to Augusta Iannini since 1977. They have two children.1944- Mino Damato was born on 1 December 1937 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He died on 16 July 2010 in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.1937-2010
- Tiziana Ferrario was born on 3 September 1957 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Paparazzi (1998), Giovanni XXIII, Il pensiero e la memoria (2008) and Ci vediamo in TV (1996).1957
- Lilli Gruber was born on 19 April 1957 in Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italy. She has been married to Jacques Charmelot since 15 July 2000.1957
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Sergio Zavoli was born on 21 September 1923 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Zoom su Federico Fellini (1965), Il Grido (1957) and Blood on the Balcony (1962). He died on 4 August 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1923-2020- Nicoletta Orsomando was born on 11 January 1929 in Casapulla, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Festival di Sanremo (1951), Come, quando, fuori, piove (1984) and Domenica in (1976). She was married to Roberto Rollino. She died on 21 August 2021 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1929-2021
- Gabriella Farinon was born on 17 August 1941 in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy. She is an actress, known for Assignment: Outer Space (1960), Una spada nell'ombra (1961) and Blood and Roses (1960).1941
- Gabriella Golia was born on 2 February 1959 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Stangata in famiglia (1976), I vicini di casa (1991) and Unomania (1992).1959
- Fiorella Pierobon was born on 18 March 1960 in Somma Lombardo, Varese, Italy. She is an actress, known for Oltre la quarta dimensione (1996), Missione d'amore (1993) and Festivalbar (1986).1960
- Anna Maria Gambineri was born on 22 March 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was married to Gianenrico Cambiaso. She died on 31 May 2017 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1936-2017
- Aba Cercato was born on 1 May 1939 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is an actress, known for Le avventure di Laura Storm (1965) and Za-bum (1964).1939
- Rosanna Vaudetti was born on 19 December 1937 in Ancona, Marche, Italy. She is an actress, known for Le faremo tanto male (1998), Incantesimo (1998) and Jeux sans frontières (1965). She has been married to Antonio Moretti since 1965.1937
- Marina Morgan was born on 10 August 1943 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Three Musketeers (1991), The Third Eye (1966) and Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? (1966).1943
- Eleonora Brigliadori (born 18 February 1960) is an Italian model, actress and television personality. In 2016, she sparked controversy in Italy because of her views on chemotherapy and tumors. Born in Milan, already active as a runway model, Brigliadori began her television career in 1977, as an assistant of Enzo Tortora in the RAI variety show "Portobello". One year later, at 18 years old, she made her acting debut on stage, in "The Marriage of the petty bourgeois" at the Theatre of the Royal Villa in Monza. In 1980 she was chosen as the main announcer of the newborn Canale 5. Brigliadori came to the success with the Rai Uno Saturday night show "Fantastico", that she hosted alongside Pippo Baudo and Heather Parisi in 1984. In 1988 she was dismissed from presenting the Zecchino d'Oro Festival as she had appeared as covermodel of the men's magazine "Playmen". In more recent years, she starred on some television reality shows, including ice-skating-themed "Notti sul ghiaccio" and "L'Isola dei Famosi", the Italian equivalent to "Survivor".1960
- Mariolina Cannuli is known for Help Me, My Love (1969), Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) and Stasera Fernandel (1968).1940
- Maria Giovanna Elmi was born on 25 August 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Il Bi e il Ba (1986), Dal primo momento che ti ho visto (1976) and Dario Gay feat. Mauro Plati Coruzzi: Inno della pettegola (2020). She is married to Gabriele Massarutto.1940
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Gino Bramieri was born on 21 June 1928 in Milan, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Maniac (1980), Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977) and Gli italiani e le donne (1962). He died on 18 June 1996 in Milan, Italy.1928-96- Actor
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Born in Naples in 1903, Peppino De Filippo debuted at the age of 6 in Scarpetta's 'Miseria e Nobilta' in Rome. He studied the piano and went away to college for two years. During WWI, back in Naples, he joined Scarpetta's company 'Molinari', and it was here that he met Totò. At 22, he joined the company of Salvatore De Muto, but had to return to the Scarpetta company after his estranged father, Vincenzo Scarpetta, passed away. Thus he, his brother Eduardo and their sister Titina, started work. In 1929 Peppino married Adela Carloni and their son, Luigi was born the year after. The three staged their own brand of comedy and worked alongside the likes of Tina Pica, Carlo Pisacane, Agostino Salvietti and Giovanni Berardi. In 1932 Peppino starred in his first film, "Tre Uomini in Frak". Success in all Italian theatres followed until 1945, when due to 'differences' between the two brothers led to the dissolution of the company. In 1945, Peppino separated from his wife of 16 years and he debuted with his new company with "I Casi Sono Due" at the Teatro Olimpia in Milan. From 1959 to 1969 he managed the Teatro delle Arti in Rome, and had worldwide success internationally during those years. In 1977 he married Clelia Mangano, his business partner. He died on 26 January 1980.1903-80- Actor
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Renato Rascel was born on 27 April 1912 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and composer, known for The Overcoat (1952), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) and Zodiac (2007). He was married to Giuditta Saltarini, Huguette Cartier and Tina De Mola. He died on 2 January 1991 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1912-91- Actor
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Pippo Franco was born on 2 September 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for La gatta da pelare (1981), Nerone (1977) and Remo e Romolo (Storia di due figli di una lupa) (1976). He is married to Piera Bassino. They have two children. He was previously married to Laura Troschel.1940- Actor
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His acting career started when he was 15 in a theatre (Centro Teatro Spazio). In 1969 he founded the group "I saraceni" (later renamed "La smorfia") with Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena. He became famous to the TV audience between 1976 and 1979 with two TV programs "Non Stop" and "Luna Park". First movie "Ricomincio da tre" in 1981.1953-94- Actor
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With to Totò and Peppino De Filippo, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia has been the best couple of the Italian comic cinema. Both sicilian, of Palermo, began on the roads of sicilian city, in the tradition of the ballad singer and the actors of the Comedy of the Art. Scenes, imitations, witticism, movements of puppet that entertained the public gather around they. One of the interpretations more celebrates of Franco Franchi was the parody of Hitler: years after, in 1967, will re-propose it in the movie "Due marines e un generale", with Buster Keaton to his last film. The debut of the couple happens in 1954, to the theatre "Costa" of Castelvetrano (Trapani, Sicily). The execute a parody centralized on the song "Core 'ngrato". Ciccio tries to sing the song but he's often interrupted by Franco. The sketch collects much success because has got all the necessary one to true comic actor - the mimic art, the ability to invent witticismes, the comic times - and also for the scene in which Franco transformed him in the precisest balance.
To the definition of the two personages has contributed Lucio Fulci, that directed them for the first time in 1962, in "I due della legione straniera". Was their first movie as protagonists, but - like the director in an interview has remembered - the film-producer, the Titanus, in that moment in phase of relaunching, did not think that it could to meet with success; for this reason don't appear like film-producer. The film instead obtained very success and so the producer decide to appear in the new edition of the movie. Franco and Ciccio are launched in a series of movies and many parodies of every kind: from the Western to the Action, the Thriller to the Comedy. When Sergio Leone direct "Per un pugno di dollari" and "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo", Franco and Ciccio are the protagonists of "Per un pugno nell'occhio" and "Il bello, il brutto, il cretino". To the movie "Indovina chi viene a cena", a manifesto of the antiracism in the American society, of the end of the Sixty, Franco and Cicco answer with "Indovina chi viene a merenda". In 1972, they play the parody the Thriller; that one of the DarioArgento of "Il gatto a nove code" (more "the American" of "the animal" trilogy). Directed by Richard Kean (Osvaldo Civirani), is "Due gattoni a nove code... e mezzo ad Amsterdam", in the part of two photographers to the center of an intrigue, after to have photographed a man. In 1973, Franco, directed by Nando Cicero, is the protagonist of "Ku fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore", parody of "Dalla Cina con furore", the movie with Bruce Lee.
In 1975, Ciccio directs and interprets "L'Esorciccio", parody of "L'Esorcista", whose popularity and consideration from part of the critic increase proportionally with pass of the years. Beside he there is not Franco; to his place Lino Banfi, that began to define the personage with which has become famous. To part the surrealistic scene of beginning, with Ciccio, archaeologist, that discovers the famous medallion, from which part all the vicissitude, the movie is characterized from a series of original ideas - the location in the Latium province, the passage of the object, the final scene - than renders one of the more amazing parodies in the italian cinematography, and initiator of a kind ("Frankenstein Junior", by Mel Brooks, is of some year after). Their cinematographic activity has been frantic, above all from the half to the end of Sixties. Between 1964 and the 1966 interpreted approximately forty films. To this purpose, they did not lack to remember the frenzy during this period, when they were found again to work also in three movies in the same day and to change the dresses of scene in car, during the movement from a set to the other. In kind it was be a matter of movie in which the script was reduced to the minimum and the film-producer counted on their ability to make all the movie, in order to reduce the costs and therefore the financings, knowing that then however at least it would have tripled to box-office the investment. Franco and Ciccio worked very much, accepting all the script proposed. Because - they remembered with pride and bitterness - feared to remain without job. They knew the value of the job, because had known the poverty.
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, have the first role to outside of the sort until then followed. With to Totò, they recite in "Che cosa sono le nuvole?", third episode of the movie "Capriccio all'italiana" (1967). Ciccio had all the characteristics for being also interpreter of personages different from those of Italian comedy. In "Amarcord", Federico Fellini entrust to him the part of a man with a from the troubled destiny, perhaps the personage more famous of this movie. The face of Ciccio Ingrassia was a commutabile mask from the comicality to the drama, natural, whose distinguishing features seemed remodeled with the life, from first part of the his existence, that one of the poverty of never "calm" people, never "normal" ("La violenza: Quinto potere", direct by Florestano Vancini, 1972). A awfully sicilian face, popular and aristocratic. To half of Seventies, Franco and Ciccio had a period in which the their careers will proceed in separate way. But soon they resumed the way in common, landing in television, where they were protagonists of many varieties of success to the beginning of Eighties.
In 1985, the director Jean Jacques Annaud, for the selection of the actors for "Il nome della rosa", had chosen FrancoFranchi in order to interpret the part of "Salvatore", deformed monk, former follower of a heretic, then ends again in the presence of Inquisition. Franco refused the part - great opportunity of international renown - because did not want the public, accustomed to his traditional image, saw he in the cloth of a personage that must to be repulsive to the limits of the horror. Like for every other naturally comic actor, the art by Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia was founded on a complex articulation, derived from their history and from their experiences, which, also develop on the side of the irony, were also the premise for the ability to recite in dramatic or surrealist contexts. Franco died on the 9 December 1992, and his funeral happened in the historical center of Palermo, and was attended by many citizens. Ciccio died on the 28 April 2003.1928-92- Actor
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He met Franco Franchi in 1954, and they formed a memorable duo in over 130 films, but he showed his talent in many films of important Italian directors, Fellini, Comencini and Pasolini. His performance in Fellini's film Amarcord (1973) was memorable. His only son, Giampiero, is an appreciated actor of theatre and television.1922-2003- Sound Department
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Oreste Lionello was born on 18 April 1927 in Rhodes, Greece. He was an actor, known for Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964), Nerone (1977) and Attenti a quei P2 (1982). He was married to Ninni Lionello. He died on 19 February 2009 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1927-2009- Actor
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Rome, 2017.9.27 The best way to describe Francesco's place in the Italian entertainment landscape, is to compare him to a blend of Stephen Fry and the late Robin Williams. Knowledgeable, versatile and gifted with a contagious energy, Salvi is regarded as a pillar of Italian comedy, whose acting abilities have also seen him leading in major Italian drama productions. He first found fame in the early '80 with comedy sketch shows and a variety of television programs. His own TV shows "The MegaSalviShow", and the "Si Salvi chi Può'" show established him as a leading comedy talent. Francesco also forged a great music career, earning with 5 platinum and 7 gold albums. Francesco Salvi's filmography includes over 60 feature film title and numerous TV series, that saw him work with the likes of Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Giovanni Ribisi, James Marsden and Virna Lisi to name a few - and directors like Peter Greenaway, Ulrich Stark, Oscar® awards Robert Moresco, Michael Radford.1953- Actor
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Ezio Greggio is born in Cossato, Italy on the 7th of April 1954. He is a Tv show host, Actor, Director, Producer and Screenwriter. His success and fame within the movie and tv industry has spanned over 40 years.
Television. In October 1978 he starts off his career with La Sberla on RaiUno. In 1981 he is one of the protagonists of Tutto Compreso on RaiDue. His first major debut in Italian Tv comes in 1983 with the first edition of the famous Drive In on Italia Uno. This was a variety tv show that brought him to win 26 Telegatti Awards over the span of his long career. In September 2009 he received again the prestigious Political Satire Prize of Forte Dei Marmi. On 19th October 2012 he collected the Una Vita Per Cinema Prize in Rome and on the 31st of October in Monte Carlo, the 2012 Premio Cultura Award, an award given to Italian personalities present in the principality of Monaco who distinguished themselves in the artistic, musical, literary and cultural fields. On the 7th of November 1988, he hosts with Gianfranco D'Angelo the first episode of the first year of Striscia La Notizia, a satirical news tv show for which Ezio Greggio has become the face of and ambassador for over 32 years. He also won a Platinum Telegatto Award for the 2007/2008 season, 31 Tv Oscar Awards (in 2013 a Platinum Tv Oscar Award for the 3.500 episodes of Striscia La Notizia he hosted) and other journalistic awards. Since 1988, Ezio Greggio has hosted over 4.000 episodes of satirical news television show, Striscia la Notizia to this day.
Cinema. As an actor, Ezio Greggio has performed in over 30 films between cinema and TV movies over the years. He has been directed by some of the most important and well known comedy directors in Italy and Internationally, such as Carlo Vanzina, Castellano, Pipolo, Neri Parenti, Pupi Avati, Mel Brooks and Nick Hamm. In 2008 he is one of the leading men in Pupi Avati's Il Papà Di Giovanna, which had its first screening at the Venice Film Festival. This was his first dramatic role. The film had great success on its opening night at the 65th Venice Film Festival and further down the road upon its release, it continued to get acclaimed success from the the most renowned and respected critics in Italy and internationally. For his role, Ezio won the Nastro D'Argento, Globo D'oro Speciale dalla stampa estera, Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano, Taormina Arte Award at the Taormina Film Festival and the Premio Reggio Calabria Film Festival. Ezio has also directed 4 films. In 2011 he direct and stars in the very first Italian 3D movie of all time, Box Office 3D-the film of films. This film was presented at the 68th Venice Film Festival, inaugurating the Sala Grande. The movie was one of the most viewed at the Venice Film Festival and in cinemas in Italy in 2011. Box Office 3D also received a major prize at the Festival del Cinema di Pompei. In 2015 and 2018 he was awarded the Ischial Global Film Festival Legend Award. In 2016 and 2019 he received the Troisi Prize in Salina, on the occasion of the Mare Festival. Also in Salina, in 2017, during the same event, he collected the CRAL Premio Metropolitan City of Messina. In July 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ICFF Film Festival in Toronto where 2 of his films were screened in Toronto and Montreal. At this Festival, he received the Excellence Award from the Italian Ambassador to Ottawa, Claudio Taffuri.
Monte Carlo Film Festival. Ezio Greggio is the President and presenter of the Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival. This is the only festival worldwide that is entirely dedicated to Comedy. In 2022 it had its 19th edition. The festival was initially founded and created by Greggio and the legendary Italian director, Mario Monicelli. Ever since it has helped to expand and help the genre remain in the forefront of worldwide cinema and also helping young up and coming directors and actors emerge into the industry by giving them a platform to show their art. The festival's success in the last few years has put it in the ranks of all of the most well-known and well respected festivals in the world. Over the last 19 years the MCFF has had Emir Kusturica, Claude Lelouch, John Landis, Michael Radford, Peter Bogdanovich, Gabriele Muccino and Vittorio Storaro as Presidents of the Jury. Greggio was awarded the honour for his efforts in the construction of the Monte Carlo Film Festival de la Comédie.
Books, Solidarity Associations and Other Awards. As author, Ezio Greggio has written 5 successful books, all edited by Mondadori. The books are titled, Presto che è tardi (1997), Chi se ne fut-fut (1998), È lui o non è lui? Cerrrto che è lui (1999), E su e giù e trik e trak (2003), In una certa manieeera (2005). With the royalties these books have received, Ezio Greggio founded the, Ezio Greggio's Association for Premature Babies, who in collaboration with Un Calcio Al Bisogno and with the Italian National Magistrates Association, have donated in over 25 years of activity, incubators , respirators and monitors in neonatal centres in over 70 hospitals in Italy, saving over 15.000 babies lives. In December 2005, in honour of the 10 years of his association, Greggio was awarded the title of "Neonatologist ad Honorem" in Pavia by the Italian Neonatology Society. In 2015 on the occasion of the 20 years of his activity, he received an important recognition in Bergamo for the commitment and great generosity in favour of newborns and for always being in unison with Italian Neonatologists. In addition, on June 6th 2015, he collected the Friend Of Children award in Rome awarded by the Italian society of Pediatrics for his commitment to the rights and health of infants and children and for the initiatives to benefit the weakest and more fragile. On May 16 2019, as part of the XXI Congress of the Italian Society of Pediatrics, Ezio received the Burgio Prize, in memory of the greatest Italian paediatrician, for the commitment made in favour of premature babies. For some years, the Ezio Greggio Association has become international and has also made donations to foreign countries.
Institutional Offices. In April 2015, Ezio Greggio was the most voted in his constituency in the elections called by the Italian State in foreign cities for the Presidency of the Principality of Monaco of Com.It.Es (Committee of Italians Abroad). The Com.It.Es is a representative body of Italians, established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which collaborates with the Italian Embassy of Monaco, where the Com.It.Es has its headquarters.1954- Actor
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Gianfranco D'Angelo was born on 19 August 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Remo e Romolo (Storia di due figli di una lupa) (1976), Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo (1988) and Girls Will Be Girls (1980). He was married to Anna-Maria. He died on 15 August 2021 in Rome, Italy.1936-2021- Enzo Braschi was born on 27 April 1949 in Genova, Italy. He is an actor, known for L'odissea (1991), Urban Animals (1987) and Italian Fast Food (1986).1949
- Gino Cogliandro is known as the "father of Italian Comedy", being a founding member of the comedy trio Trettre'. Trettre' are a trio of Italian actors and stand-up comedians who gained great popularity in the early 1980s with their performances in several TV programs like Drive In. The trio was formed by Gino Cogliandro, with Mirko Setaro and Eduardo Romano. Trettre formed in 1975, being a catalyst of Gino's continued popularity across Italy today.1949-2022
- Mirko Setaro was born on 1 August 1952 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor, known for Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì (1985), Giggi il bullo (1982) and Italian Fast Food (1986).1952
- Edoardo Romano was born on 2 January 1942 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì (1985), Incantato (2003) and Giggi il bullo (1982).1942
- Giorgio Faletti was born on 25 November 1950 in Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Notte prima degli esami (2006), The Killer in My Eyes and Appunti di un venditore di donne (2021). He was married to Roberta Bellesini. He died on 4 July 2014 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.1950-2014
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Sergio Vastano was born on 20 December 1952 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Gratta e vinci (1996), The Three Musketeers (1991) and Tic Toc (2023).1952- Tinì Cansino was born on 23 September 1959 in Volos, Magnisia, Greece. She is an actress, known for Arabella: Black Angel (1989), Nightmare in Venice (1989) and Delizia (1986).1959
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He was born in the Apulian city of Andria and at the age of three, moved to Canosa di Puglia. Lino Banfi became one of the most well-known actors in Italian "sexy comedies" in the 1970s. In the 1980s he reached the peak of his fame by appearing in movies such as "L'allenatore nel pallone", "Vieni avanti cretino", "Il commissario Lo Gatto" and "Occhio, "Malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio"; he recently portrayed Grandpa Libero in Italian TV series "Un medico in famiglia". During his career nearly all of Lino Banfi's characters spoke with the distinctive pronunciation of the Bari dialect. Lino and his wife Lucia have been married since 1962 and have two children, Walter and Rosanna; Rosanna is also an actress. In 2000, Lino Banfi became a Goodwill Ambassador for the Italian National Committee for UNICEF.1936- Actor
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Boldi was born in Luino on 23 July 1945. In 1955 his family moved to Milan, where he joined evening classes and began working as a window-dresser and then as a door-to-door salesman for a pastry company. In 1968 he started performing in cabaret. In the 1970s he did not perform, but managed a bar-latteria in Milan. On September 29, 1973, he married Marisa Selo (cousin of Formula One driver Michele Alboreto). Their marriage lasted until Selo's death on April 8, 2004.1945- Enrico Beruschi was born on 5 September 1941 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Elisa di Rivombrosa (2003), On/Off (2011) and Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977).1941
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Pino Caruso was born on 12 October 1934 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977), Lei è colpevole, si fidi! (1985) and La governante (1974). He was married to Marilisa Ferzetti. He died on 7 March 2019 in Sacrofano, Lazio, Italy.1934-2019- Actor
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Tullio Solenghi was born on 21 March 1948 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for I promessi sposi (1990), Il Trio: Allacciare Le Cinture Di Sicurezza (1990) and La rossa del Roxy Bar (1995). He is married to Laura Fiandra. They have two children.1948- Actress
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Anna Rita Marchesini (Orvieto, November 19, 1953 - Orvieto, July 30, 2016) was an actress, comedy, voice actress, writer and Italian imitator. She was part of the trio with Massimo Lopez and Tullio Solenghi, who has worked continuously from 1983 to 1994 and is exceptionally reconstituted for the last time in 2008 - albeit for only three television evenings - to celebrate 25 years since the founding. After the dissolution of the Trio, the actress has continued its activities alongside Solenghi in the years 1994 - 1995, and then go alone the theater actress career.1953-2016- Actor
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Massimo Lopez was born on 11 January 1952 in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for I promessi sposi (1990), Zootopia (2016) and One Thousand and One Nights (2012).1952- Actor
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An actor very much in the tradition of Italian comics, Montesano has demonstrated his talent in many sophisticated comedies, expecially when he has worked for important directors, like Monicelli or Steno. However, his qualities can also be seen in grotesque comedies or in films without any apparent meaning. He has been elected for PDS party in 1994 for the European Parliament. He is an avid fan of football, supporter of Lazio.1945- Actor
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Paolo Panelli was born on 15 July 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Siamo tutti pomicioni (1963), Splendor (1989) and Towards Evening (1990). He was married to Bice Valori. He died on 18 May 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1925-97- Actor
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Andrea Brambilla was born on 21 August 1946 in Varese, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Belle al bar (1994), L'esercito più pazzo del mondo (1981) and Andy e Norman (1991). He was married to Pamela Aicardi. He died on 24 October 2013 in Milan, Italy.1946-2013- Nino Formicola was born on 12 June 1953 in Milan, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for L'esercito più pazzo del mondo (1981), My Dearest Friends (1998) and Andy e Norman (1991). He has been married to Alessandra Raya since 16 September 2018.1953
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Walter Chiari was born on 8 March 1924 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Romance (1986), Vanità (1947) and The Little Hut (1957). He was married to Alida Chelli. He died on 20 December 1991 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.1924-91- Gigi Sammarchi was born on 2 November 1949 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is an actor, known for L'odissea (1991), Don Tonino (1988) and Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone (1985).1949
- Andrea Roncato was born on 7 March 1947 in San Lazzaro di Savena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is an actor, known for Fantozzi subisce ancora (1983), L'odissea (1991) and Il lupo di mare (1987). He has been married to Nicole Moscariello since 22 October 2017. He was previously married to Stefania Orlando.1947
- Aldo Biscardi was born on 26 November 1930 in Larino, Molise, Italy. He was an actor, known for Paparazzi (1998), Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) and L'allenatore nel pallone (1984). He died on 8 October 2017 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1930-2017
- Adriano De Zan was born on 20 May 1932 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for La domenica sportiva (1954), Il dio di Roserio (1971) and Maurizio Costanzo Show (1982). He died on 24 August 2001 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.1932-2001
- Enrico Ameri was born on 15 April 1926 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Last Minute (1987), Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (1974) and In the Name of the Italian People (1971). He died on 7 April 2004 in Albano Laziale, Lazio, Italy.1926-2004
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Nando Martellini was born on 7 August 1921 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for How to Rob the Bank of Italy (1966), The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964) and L'allenatore nel pallone (1984). He died on 5 May 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1921-2004- Actor
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Sandro Ciotti was born on 4 November 1928 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Il profeta del gol (1976), La grande prugna (1999) and Bandiera bianca (1966). He died on 18 July 2003 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1928-2003- Writer
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One of the most esteemed RAI correspondents for over fifty years, Gianni paints the stories of North and South America's social realities and customs using moving pictures. He produced and directed a History of Jazz, History of Central and South American Music, as well as History of Boxing, all seminal anthologies. In 1981, Italy's President Pertini awarded Gianni the Saint Vincent Prize for the best TV journalist of the year. From 1981 to 1984 he was the author and host of Blitz, a very successful Italian TV show, which hosted one-thousand-four-hundred guests from all over the world. Gianni interviewed icons like Federico Fellini, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Gabriel García Márquez, Enzo Ferrari and Eduardo De Filippo to name a few. In 1987, Minà produced a historic documentary, interviewing Cuba's President Fidel Castro for 16 hours. Three years later, in 1990, he interviewed Fidel again for a report on the end of communism. He later published two books based on these reports. Minà also wrote for Sperling & Kupfer Ed.: Marcos e l'insurrezione zapatista (Marcos and the Zapatist Insurrection), Un continente desaparecido (A lost Continent), Il Papa e Fidel (The Pope and Fidel), Storie (Stories), Un mondo migliore è possibile (A better world is possible). Some of his best known documentary films: Muhammad Ali, una storia americana (Muhammad Ali, an American story); Marcos: aquí estamos (Marcos: Here we are), dealing with the long march of the Zapatists through Mexico; Rigoberta Menchù, una donna maya per la pace (Rigoberta Menchù, a Mayan woman for peace); Diego Maradona: non sarò mai un uomo comune (Diego Maradona: I'll never be a common man); and C'era una volta il cinema: Sergio Leone e i suoi film (Once upon a time there was cinema: Sergio Leone and his films), a unique production with the participation, among others, of Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Claudia Cardinale and Ennio Morricone. Between 1996 and 1998 Minà produced and directed the TV program, Storie (Stories), in which he interviewed such luminaries as the Dalai-Lama, Jorge Amado, John John Kennedy, Martin Scorsese, Isabella Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Luis Sepúlveda. In 2004, he produced and directed, with Surffilm, Traveling with Che Guevara, which won the Golden Zénith for Best Documentary at the Montreal World Film Festival and also won at the Festival of Valladolid. In 2007 he produced and directed, with Rai Trade and Gazzetta dello Sport, Maradona: I'll never be a common man, the history of the Argentinian soccer player in ten episodes. The series garnered record DVD sales in Italy. In the same year, Gianni Minà was awarded the Berlinale Kamera for the ensemble of his career at the 57th Berlin Festival, the prize honouring his series of six documentaries titled "Cuban Memories", which was also presented at the Seville film Festival. His latest feature length documentary: "Pope Francis, Cuba and Fidel" recounts how four of the most influential religious and political leaders of the world (Pope Francis, Obama, Fidel and Raul Castro) come to Cuba and brainstorm on ways to lift the senseless and antiquated American embargo. His most recent book, "Il Mio Ali" (My Ali) was published last year in Italy. It contains a collection of articles Gianni wrote about Muhammad Ali. They were closest friends.1938- Maurizio Barendson was born on 9 November 1923 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was a writer, known for Flashback (1969), Sport Superstar (1978) and 90º Minuto (1970). He died on 24 January 1978 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1923-78
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Milva was born on 17 July 1939 in Goro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress and composer, known for Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964), Via degli specchi (1983) and Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986). She was married to Maurizio Corgnati. She died on 23 April 2021 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.1939-2021- Music Department
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Iva Zanicchi was born on 18 January 1940 in Ligonchio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Three Musketeers (1991), L'odissea (1991) and Una ragazza tutta d'oro (1967). She was previously married to Tonino Ansoldi.1940