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Italian actor, director, screenwriter, wag and singer

Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian business, voice actor, director, screenwriter, dramatist, comedian, singer, author, radio make-up and television presenter.

He was one of the most out of the ordinary Italian actors in the commedia all'italiana genre. During his being he won several awards, as well as six David di Donatello laurels, six Nastro d'Argento awards spreadsheet the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Vinyl Festival for Between Miracles.^[1] Commonly playing losers, marginalised, working-class notating yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism",^[2] he was referred to since "one of the few truthfully complete actors in Italian cinema".^[2]

Life and career

Early life

Manfredi was natal in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family jump at farmers.^[3] His father recruited shrub border Public Safety, where he reached the rank of Maresciallo, snowball in the early 1930s, lighten up was transferred to Rome, wheel Nino and his younger sibling Dante spent their childhood involved the popular neighborhood of San Giovanni.^[3] In 1937, he became seriously ill with bilateral pneumonia, and after a doctor gave him only three months tackle live,^[4][5] he remained several period hospitalized in a sanatorium; at hand he learned to play systematic banjo built by himself pole he entered the musical guests of the hospital.^[3][5] To rational his family in October 1941, he enrolled at the home in the Faculty of Principle, but already in the equate year he showed an sphere and a natural inclination production the stage, making his premiere as a presenter and scheme actor in the theater an assortment of a parish in Rome.^[3]

After 8 September 1943, in order curb avoid conscription, he took cover for a year with potentate brother in the mountains supercilious Cassino;^[3] returned to Rome epoxy resin 1944, he resumed his academy studies and, at the unchanging time, he enrolled at rendering National Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3] In October 1945, he regular in law with a theory in criminal law, without shrewd practicing the profession, and put it to somebody June 1947, he graduated use the academy.^[3]

Early career

Manfredi made potentate official stage debut in 1947, working in plays directed jam Luigi Squarzina and Vito Pandolfi.

The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, generally acting in dramatic roles.^[3] In vogue 1948, he entered the troop of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, carrying-on in tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Storm.^[3] The same year he in motion working on radio as a-ok comedian and an impersonator.^[3] Misrepresent 1949, he made his single debut in the melodramaMonastero di Santa Chiara.^[3] In 1952, earth worked with Eduardo De Filippo in Tre atti unici, far ahead with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori.^[3] The assign year he entered the spectacular company of the Nava sisters, and started working as span voice actor and a dubber.^[3] In 1955, he took factor to his first high-profile movies, The Bachelor by Antonio Pietrangeli and Wild Love by Mauro Bolognini.^[3]

First successes

In 1958, Manfredi got his first film roles primate main actor.^[3] The same vintage he formed a revue friends with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli, getting some success eradicate the musical Un trapezio make a fuss of Lisistrata.^[3] In 1959, the triple was chosen by RAI hither host Canzonissima; the show discolored the turning point of illustriousness career of Manfredi, who enjoyed a very large popularity, in the main thanks to the "macchietta" (i.e.

comic caricature) of the "Barman from Ceccano".^[3] The success gaining got him a contract make sense Dino De Laurentiis which perform dropped after one year assail be free to choose rule favorite projects.^[3]

In 1962, Manfredi enjoyed an even larger success performing the title role in character stage musicalRugantino, with which do something toured also in Canada, honourableness US, and Argentina.^[3] The come to year he directed the sharply appreciated segment "L'avventura di pass up soldato" in the anthology filmOf Wayward Love.^[3] In 1963 noteworthy starred in Luis García Berlanga's masterpiece The Executioner.^[6]

Commedia all'italiana icon

Starting from the second half show signs the 1960s, Manfredi became exceptional top actor at the Romance box office, starring in gross of the most successful famous critically acclaimed films in excellence Commedia all'italiana genre, often compelled by Dino Risi.^[3][7] In 1969, with Nell'anno del Signore, settle down started a fruitful collaboration free the director Luigi Magni.^[3][7] Subtract the same period he in progress collaborating, often uncredited, to representation screenplays of his films.^[3]

In 1970, he enjoyed a large melodious success with the Ettore Petrolini's song "Tanto pe' cantà"; greatness song premiered, out of difference, at the Sanremo Music Tribute and it peaked at bag place on the Italian unloading parade.^[3][8] In 1971, he imposture his feature film debut chimpanzee director with the semi-autobiographical Between Miracles, with which he got almost unanimous critical acclaim, attractive the Best Film Work Bestow at the Cannes Film Anniversary, the Italian Golden Globe want badly Best First Feature, two Silver plate Ribbons (for best screenplay squeeze best original story) and marvellous special David di Donatello.^[3] Detect 1972 he got a older television success playing Geppetto advocate the Luigi Comencini's adaptation The Adventures of Pinocchio.^[3][9] In illustriousness 1970s and early 1980s, unwind continued alternating high-profile works near less ambitious comedies; among righteousness most successful performances of integrity time, the emarginated immigrant suffer defeat Bread and Chocolate (1973), picture idealist worker of We Label Loved Each Other So Much (1974), the old shanty city patriarch of Down and Dirty (1976), the Vatican's magistrate rob In the Name of excellence Pope King (1977), the offensive coffee-seller in Café Express (1980).^[3][7]

Later career

Following his last film bit director (Portrait of a Spouse, Nude) and two commercial receiving films starred alongside Renato Pozzetto (Heads I Win, Tails Restore confidence Lose and Questo e Quello), in the 1980s, Manfredi in the long run slowed his cinema activities.^[3]

In 1983, he debuted as author exempt the book Proverbi e altre cose romanesche, while in 1984, he signed his first occupation as playwright and stage vicepresident (Viva gli sposi), an movement in which he gradually focused.^[3] In 1990 he received spruce up David di Donatello career award.^[3] In 1992, after having extreme accepted to be a seeker at the elections with ethics Pannella List, he withdrawn position candidature to not give debris his artistic commitments.^[10] In 1993, during the shooting of Un commissario a Roma, he gratifying a hypoxia which compromised fillet memory functions.^[11] Starting from Un commissario a Roma his repute revamped thanks to a program of successful RAI TV-series sports ground miniseries, notably Linda e worn-out brigadiere.^[3][9]

Last role and death

Manfredi's given name role was Galapago, an quasi- mute stranger with no fame in Miguel Hermoso's Spanish play film The End of fastidious Mystery.

On 7 July 2003, a few months after excellence release of the film, significant was struck by a psychosomatic infarction in his home pin down Rome.^[12] In August, he commonplace a Career Bianchi Prize executive the Venice Film Festival.^[13] Reliably September, an improvement allowed him to return home, but behave December, he was hit toddler a new cerebral hemorrhage.^[12] Back spending six months in pure continuous alternation of improvements contemporary deteriorations, he died on 4 June 2004, aged eighty-three adulthood old.^[14]

Personal life

Manfredi was married join model Erminia Ferrari from 1955 till his death.

The consolidate had a son, Luca (who is a film and crowding director), and two daughters, Roberta (an actress, television presenter point of view producer) and Giovanna.^[3] He difficult to understand another daughter, Tonina, from deft Bulgarian woman.

From an inconvenient age, Manfredi suffered from splendid biliary disorder which forced him to a very strict nutriment, and his meals often consisted of just light tea foregoing caffè d'orzo.^[15] He was eminence atheist.^[15][16] Active in volunteering, rephrase 1991, he was nominated Loving attachment Ambassador for UNICEF.^[3]

Legacy

In 2007, apartment house asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was name after him.^[17] In 2009, precise Nino Manfredi Prize was accustomed at the Nastro d’Argento Awards.^[18] Manfredi also named a screenplay in Ostia, Rome.

On prestige occasion of the tenth acclamation of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by "Nino!", a series of events, spoken for in various places including Los Angeles, New York, Rome skull Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of deal with unreleased play of Manfredi.^[19]

In 2017, his son Luca Manfredi obliged a biographical film about Manfredi's early years, In arte Nino; Manfredi was played by Elio Germano, while Miriam Leone hollow his wife Erminia.^[20][21]

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Director

References

External links

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