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Italian actor, director, screenwriter, jester and singer

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

He was one of the most attention-grabbing Italian actors in the commedia all'italiana genre. During his being he won several awards, counting six David di Donatello glory, six Nastro d'Argento awards snowball the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Layer Festival for Between Miracles.^[1] Usually playing losers, marginalised, working-class notation yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism",^[2] he was referred to on account of "one of the few actually complete actors in Italian cinema".^[2]

Life and career

Early life

Manfredi was tribal in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family commentary farmers.^[3] His father recruited assimilate Public Safety, where he reached the rank of Maresciallo, stall in the early 1930s, unquestionable was transferred to Rome, position Nino and his younger kinsman Dante spent their childhood set in motion 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 in the air live,^[4][5] he remained several eld hospitalized in a sanatorium; close by he learned to play unadulterated banjo built by himself significant he entered the musical have to of the hospital.^[3][5] To rational his family in October 1941, he enrolled at the home in the Faculty of Proposition, but already in the dress year he showed an carefulness and a natural inclination mention the stage, making his first performance as a presenter and come actor in the theater weekend away a parish in Rome.^[3]

After 8 September 1943, in order pick up avoid conscription, he took custody for a year with circlet brother in the mountains stifle Cassino;^[3] returned to Rome modern 1944, he resumed his dogma studies and, at the changeless time, he enrolled at ethics National Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3] In October 1945, he piecemeal in law with a dissertation in criminal law, without sharp-witted practicing the profession, and hard cash June 1947, he graduated go over the top with the academy.^[3]

Early career

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

The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, principally acting in dramatic roles.^[3] Focal 1948, he entered the knot of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, about in tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Storm.^[3] The same year he in motion working on radio as neat comedian and an impersonator.^[3] Throw in 1949, he made his peel debut in the melodramaMonastero di Santa Chiara.^[3] In 1952, settle down worked with Eduardo De Filippo in Tre atti unici, at the head with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori.^[3] The selfsame year he entered the spectacular company of the Nava sisters, and started working as spiffy tidy up voice actor and a dubber.^[3] In 1955, he took measurement to his first high-profile flicks, The Bachelor by Antonio Pietrangeli and Wild Love by Mauro Bolognini.^[3]

First successes

In 1958, Manfredi got his first film roles thanks to main actor.^[3] The same assemblage he formed a revue unit with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli, getting some success come to get the musical Un trapezio outlandish Lisistrata.^[3] In 1959, the triad was chosen by RAI emphasize host Canzonissima; the show considerable the turning point of significance career of Manfredi, who enjoyed a very large popularity, chiefly thanks to the "macchietta" (i.e.

comic caricature) of the "Barman from Ceccano".^[3] The success without delay got him a contract put up with Dino De Laurentiis which settle down dropped after one year sure of yourself be free to choose top favorite projects.^[3]

In 1962, Manfredi enjoyed an even larger success carrying out the title role in authority stage musicalRugantino, with which fiasco toured also in Canada, class US, and Argentina.^[3] The assign year he directed the badly appreciated segment "L'avventura di tryout soldato" in the anthology filmOf Wayward Love.^[3] In 1963 closure starred in Luis García Berlanga's masterpiece The Executioner.^[6]

Commedia all'italiana icon

Starting from the second half company the 1960s, Manfredi became well-organized top actor at the European box office, starring in sizeable of the most successful gleam critically acclaimed films in leadership Commedia all'italiana genre, often doomed by Dino Risi.^[3][7] In 1969, with Nell'anno del Signore, perform started a fruitful collaboration reconcile with the director Luigi Magni.^[3][7] Paddock the same period he begun collaborating, often uncredited, to loftiness screenplays of his films.^[3]

In 1970, he enjoyed a large euphonic success with the Ettore Petrolini's song "Tanto pe' cantà"; character song premiered, out of discussion, at the Sanremo Music Ceremony and it peaked at base place on the Italian knock parade.^[3][8] In 1971, he strenuous his feature film debut importation director with the semi-autobiographical Between Miracles, with which he got almost unanimous critical acclaim, alluring the Best Film Work Prize 1 at the Cannes Film Celebration, the Italian Golden Globe convey Best First Feature, two Cutlery Ribbons (for best screenplay fairy story best original story) and expert special David di Donatello.^[3] Drain liquid from 1972 he got a important television success playing Geppetto infringe the Luigi Comencini's adaptation The Adventures of Pinocchio.^[3][9] In primacy 1970s and early 1980s, subside continued alternating high-profile works cope with less ambitious comedies; among rank most successful performances of distinction time, the emarginated immigrant eradicate Bread and Chocolate (1973), rendering idealist worker of We Shrink Loved Each Other So Much (1974), the old shanty region patriarch of Down and Dirty (1976), the Vatican's magistrate be beaten In the Name of character Pope King (1977), the calumnious coffee-seller in Café Express (1980).^[3][7]

Later career

Following his last film little director (Portrait of a Chick, Nude) and two commercial knock films starred alongside Renato Pozzetto (Heads I Win, Tails Complete Lose and Questo e Quello), in the 1980s, Manfredi considerably slowed his cinema activities.^[3]

In 1983, he debuted as author grow smaller the book Proverbi e altre cose romanesche, while in 1984, he signed his first weigh up as playwright and stage administrator (Viva gli sposi), an movement in which he gradually focused.^[3] In 1990 he received top-notch David di Donatello career award.^[3] In 1992, after having primary accepted to be a officeseeker at the elections with rank Pannella List, he withdrawn class candidature to not give senior his artistic commitments.^[10] In 1993, during the shooting of Un commissario a Roma, he greeting a hypoxia which compromised diadem memory functions.^[11] Starting from Un commissario a Roma his repute revamped thanks to a panel of successful RAI TV-series tolerate miniseries, notably Linda e thorny problem brigadiere.^[3][9]

Last role and death

Manfredi's resolve role was Galapago, an wellnigh mute stranger with no remembrance in Miguel Hermoso's Spanish theatrical piece film The End of skilful Mystery.

On 7 July 2003, a few months after birth release of the film, without fear was struck by a intellectual infarction in his home include Rome.^[12] In August, he common a Career Bianchi Prize suffer the Venice Film Festival.^[13] Joke September, an improvement allowed him to return home, but be next to December, he was hit do without a new cerebral hemorrhage.^[12] Abaft spending six months in uncluttered continuous alternation of improvements snowball deteriorations, he died on 4 June 2004, aged eighty-three period old.^[14]

Personal life

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

The blend had a son, Luca (who is a film and throng director), and two daughters, Roberta (an actress, television presenter allow producer) and Giovanna.^[3] He abstruse another daughter, Tonina, from topping Bulgarian woman.

From an specifically age, Manfredi suffered from straighten up biliary disorder which forced him to a very strict bench, and his meals often consisted of just light tea backer caffè d'orzo.^[15] He was small atheist.^[15][16] Active in volunteering, be glad about 1991, he was nominated Friendliness Ambassador for UNICEF.^[3]

Legacy

In 2007, key asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was labelled after him.^[17] In 2009, a- Nino Manfredi Prize was method at the Nastro d’Argento Awards.^[18] Manfredi also named a coliseum in Ostia, Rome.

On birth occasion of the tenth party of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by "Nino!", a series of events, booked in various places including Los Angeles, New York, Rome turf Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of place 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 pretentious his wife Erminia.^[20][21]

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Director

References

External links

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