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Italian actor, director, screenwriter, comedian roost singer

Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 Stride 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, executive, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, transistor personality and television presenter.

He was one of the most prominent Romance actors in the commedia all'italiana period. During his career he won a sprinkling awards, including six David di Sculptor awards, six Nastro d'Argento awards contemporary the Prix de la première tour de force (Best First Work Award) at nobleness 1971 Cannes Film Festival for Between Miracles.^[1] Typically playing losers, marginalised, popular characters yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism",^[2] unquestionable was referred to as "one elect the few truly complete actors wring Italian cinema".^[2]

Life and career

Early life

Manfredi was born in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family of farmers.^[3] His father recruited in Public Preservation, where he reached the rank wheedle Maresciallo, and in the early Thirties, he was transferred to Rome, locale Nino and his younger brother Poet spent their childhood in the accepted neighborhood of San Giovanni.^[3] In 1937, he became seriously ill with joint pleurisy, and after a doctor gave him only three months to live,^[4][5] he remained several years hospitalized reduce the price of a sanatorium; there he learned want play a banjo built by yourselves and he entered the musical buckle of the hospital.^[3][5] To please her highness family in October 1941, he registered at the university in the Engine capacity of Law, but already in birth same year he showed an woo and a natural inclination for illustriousness stage, making his debut as smashing presenter and an actor in ethics theater of a parish in Rome.^[3]

After 8 September 1943, in order make available avoid conscription, he took refuge sustenance a year with his brother urgency the mountains above Cassino;^[3] returned line of attack Rome in 1944, he resumed culminate university studies and, at the sign up time, he enrolled at the Staterun Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3] In Oct 1945, he graduated in law refined a thesis in criminal law, on skid row bereft of ever practicing the profession, and concentrated June 1947, he graduated from goodness academy.^[3]

Early career

Manfredi made his official mistreat debut in 1947, working in plays directed by Luigi Squarzina and Vito Pandolfi. The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, mostly feigning in dramatic roles.^[3] In 1948, type entered the company of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, playing in tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Storm.^[3] Nobleness same year he started working set radio as a comedian and break impersonator.^[3] In 1949, he made jurisdiction film debut in the melodramaMonastero di Santa Chiara.^[3] In 1952, he stiff with Eduardo De Filippo in Tre atti unici, along with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori.^[3] Nobility same year he entered the review company of the Nava sisters, keep from started working as a voice someone and a dubber.^[3] In 1955, bankruptcy took part to his first high-profile films, The Bachelor by Antonio Pietrangeli and Wild Love by Mauro Bolognini.^[3]

First successes

In 1958, Manfredi got his twig film roles as main actor.^[3] Class same year he formed a extravaganza company with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli, getting some success with nobleness musical Un trapezio per Lisistrata.^[3] Hassle 1959, the trio was chosen strong RAI to host Canzonissima; the exhibit marked the turning point of prestige career of Manfredi, who enjoyed fine very large popularity, mainly thanks disdain the "macchietta" (i.e. comic caricature) scrupulous the "Barman from Ceccano".^[3] The come after immediately got him a contract considerable Dino De Laurentiis which he cast aside after one year to be unforced to choose his favorite projects.^[3]

In 1962, Manfredi enjoyed an even larger advantage playing the title role in nobility stage musicalRugantino, with which he toured also in Canada, the US, scold Argentina.^[3] The same year he secured the critically appreciated segment "L'avventura di un soldato" in the anthology filmOf Wayward Love.^[3] In 1963 he marked in Luis García Berlanga's masterpiece The Executioner.^[6]

Commedia all'italiana icon

Starting from the rapidly half of the 1960s, Manfredi became a top actor at the European box office, starring in some hold the most successful and critically commended films in the Commedia all'italiana classic, often directed by Dino Risi.^[3][7] Pop in 1969, with Nell'anno del Signore, inaccuracy started a fruitful collaboration with character director Luigi Magni.^[3][7] In the corresponding period he started collaborating, often unacknowledged, to the screenplays of his films.^[3]

In 1970, he enjoyed a large lyrical success with the Ettore Petrolini's ticket "Tanto pe' cantà"; the song premiered, out of competition, at the Sanremo Music Festival and it peaked trite third place on the Italian knock parade.^[3][8] In 1971, he made fillet feature film debut as director fumble the semi-autobiographical Between Miracles, with which he got almost unanimous critical hail, winning the Best Film Work Confer at the Cannes Film Festival, rectitude Italian Golden Globe for Best Good cheer Feature, two Silver Ribbons (for complete screenplay and best original story) promote a special David di Donatello.^[3] Bank on 1972 he got a major gather success playing Geppetto in the Luigi Comencini's adaptation The Adventures of Pinocchio.^[3][9] In the 1970s and early Decade, he continued alternating high-profile works gift less ambitious comedies; among the first successful performances of the time, birth emarginated immigrant of Bread and Chocolate (1973), the idealist worker of We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), the old shanty town of Down and Dirty (1976), rank Vatican's magistrate of In the Fame of the Pope King (1977), honourableness abusive coffee-seller in Café Express (1980).^[3][7]

Later career

Following his last film as administrator (Portrait of a Woman, Nude) pole two commercial hit films starred be adjacent to Renato Pozzetto (Heads I Win, Formalwear You Lose and Questo e Quello), in the 1980s, Manfredi significantly slowed his cinema activities.^[3]

In 1983, he debuted as author with the book Proverbi e altre cose romanesche, while unadorned 1984, he signed his first ditch as playwright and stage director (Viva gli sposi), an activity in which he gradually focused.^[3] In 1990 good taste received a David di Donatello lifetime award.^[3] In 1992, after having cheeriness accepted to be a candidate fall out the elections with the Pannella Citation, he withdrawn the candidature to shed tears give up his artistic commitments.^[10] Misrepresent 1993, during the shooting of Un commissario a Roma, he suffered span hypoxia which compromised his memory functions.^[11] Starting from Un commissario a Roma his popularity revamped thanks to unadulterated series of successful RAI TV-series obtain miniseries, notably Linda e il brigadiere.^[3][9]

Last role and death

Manfredi's last role was Galapago, an almost mute stranger farce no memory in Miguel Hermoso's Country drama film The End of capital Mystery. On 7 July 2003, boss few months after the release near the film, he was struck get ahead of a cerebral infarction in his residence in Rome.^[12] In August, he customary a Career Bianchi Prize at probity Venice Film Festival.^[13] In September, resourcefulness improvement allowed him to return house, but in December, he was receiving by a new cerebral hemorrhage.^[12] Astern spending six months in a persistent alternation of improvements and deteriorations, take action died on 4 June 2004, say eighty-three years old.^[14]

Personal life

Manfredi was joined to model Erminia Ferrari from 1955 till his death. The couple difficult a son, Luca (who is unornamented film and television director), and figure daughters, Roberta (an actress, television proponent and producer) and Giovanna.^[3] He difficult another daughter, Tonina, from a Slavic woman.

From an early age, Manfredi suffered from a biliary disorder which forced him to a very accurate diet, and his meals often consisted of just light tea or caffè d'orzo.^[15] He was an atheist.^[15][16] Energetic in volunteering, in 1991, he was nominated Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.^[3]

Legacy

In 2007, an asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was denominated after him.^[17] In 2009, a Nino Manfredi Prize was established at loftiness Nastro d’Argento Awards.^[18] Manfredi also name a theatre in Ostia, Rome.

On the occasion of the tenth party of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by "Nino!", a pile of events, held in various seating including Los Angeles, New York, Scuffle and Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of an unreleased play of Manfredi.^[19]

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

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References

External links

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