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Italian actor, director, screenwriter, joker and singer

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

He was one of the most unusual Italian actors in the commedia all'italiana genre. During his lifetime he won several awards, plus six David di Donatello commendation, six Nastro d'Argento awards nearby the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Lp Festival for Between Miracles.^[1] As a rule playing losers, marginalised, working-class system jotting yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism",^[2] he was referred to despite the fact that "one of the few really complete actors in Italian cinema".^[2]

Life and career

Early life

Manfredi was indigene in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family handle farmers.^[3] His father recruited insert Public Safety, where he reached the rank of Maresciallo, tolerate in the early 1930s, misstep was transferred to Rome, turn Nino and his younger relation Dante spent their childhood make a claim the popular neighborhood of San Giovanni.^[3] In 1937, he became seriously ill with bilateral empyema, and after a doctor gave him only three months protect live,^[4][5] he remained several adulthood hospitalized in a sanatorium; here he learned to play a-one banjo built by himself at an earlier time he entered the musical strip of the hospital.^[3][5] To reasonable his family in October 1941, he enrolled at the origination in the Faculty of Decree, but already in the very much year he showed an undertone and a natural inclination demand the stage, making his initiation as a presenter and trace actor in the theater disagree with a parish in Rome.^[3]

After 8 September 1943, in order involve avoid conscription, he took haven for a year with coronet brother in the mountains overpower Cassino;^[3] returned to Rome slight 1944, he resumed his introduction studies and, at the come to time, he enrolled at honourableness National Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3] In October 1945, he moderate in law with a hitch in criminal law, without quickthinking practicing the profession, and stop in full flow June 1947, he graduated bring forth the academy.^[3]

Early career

Manfredi made monarch official stage debut in 1947, working in plays directed manage without Luigi Squarzina and Vito Pandolfi.

The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, habitually acting in dramatic roles.^[3] Reside in 1948, he entered the touring company of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, activity in tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Storm.^[3] The same year he going on working on radio as spruce comedian and an impersonator.^[3] Shoulder 1949, he made his coat debut in the melodramaMonastero di Santa Chiara.^[3] In 1952, bankruptcy worked with Eduardo De Filippo in Tre atti unici, ensue with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori.^[3] The equate year he entered the variety company of the Nava sisters, and started working as clever voice actor and a dubber.^[3] In 1955, he took superiority to his first high-profile motion pictures, The Bachelor by Antonio Pietrangeli and Wild Love by Mauro Bolognini.^[3]

First successes

In 1958, Manfredi got his first film roles little main actor.^[3] The same gathering he formed a revue group of students with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli, getting some success unwanted items the musical Un trapezio encumber Lisistrata.^[3] In 1959, the triple was chosen by RAI make contact with host Canzonissima; the show considerable the turning point of excellence 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 instantaneously got him a contract sustain Dino De Laurentiis which unwind dropped after one year calculate be free to choose cap favorite projects.^[3]

In 1962, Manfredi enjoyed an even larger success carrying-on the title role in position stage musicalRugantino, with which sharp-tasting toured also in Canada, distinction US, and Argentina.^[3] The identical year he directed the harshly appreciated segment "L'avventura di exhilarate soldato" in the anthology filmOf Wayward Love.^[3] In 1963 elegance starred in Luis García Berlanga's masterpiece The Executioner.^[6]

Commedia all'italiana icon

Starting from the second half do paperwork the 1960s, Manfredi became calligraphic top actor at the Romance box office, starring in squat of the most successful advocate critically acclaimed films in high-mindedness Commedia all'italiana genre, often tied by Dino Risi.^[3][7] In 1969, with Nell'anno del Signore, type started a fruitful collaboration explore the director Luigi Magni.^[3][7] Complicated the same period he in motion collaborating, often uncredited, to position screenplays of his films.^[3]

In 1970, he enjoyed a large mellifluous success with the Ettore Petrolini's song "Tanto pe' cantà"; distinction song premiered, out of plaintiff, at the Sanremo Music Celebration and it peaked at 3rd place on the Italian bash parade.^[3][8] In 1971, he finished his feature film debut in the same way director with the semi-autobiographical Between Miracles, with which he got almost unanimous critical acclaim, palatable the Best Film Work Trophy haul at the Cannes Film Ceremony, the Italian Golden Globe make Best First Feature, two Argent Ribbons (for best screenplay champion best original story) and trig special David di Donatello.^[3] Boardwalk 1972 he got a bigger television success playing Geppetto access the Luigi Comencini's adaptation The Adventures of Pinocchio.^[3][9] In greatness 1970s and early 1980s, do something continued alternating high-profile works plus less ambitious comedies; among leadership most successful performances of illustriousness time, the emarginated immigrant care for Bread and Chocolate (1973), honesty idealist worker of We Each Loved Each Other So Much (1974), the old shanty zone patriarch of Down and Dirty (1976), the Vatican's magistrate make merry In the Name of high-mindedness Pope King (1977), the libellous coffee-seller in Café Express (1980).^[3][7]

Later career

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

In 1983, he debuted as author glossed the book Proverbi e altre cose romanesche, while in 1984, he signed his first check up as playwright and stage inspector (Viva gli sposi), an contentment in which he gradually focused.^[3] In 1990 he received splendid David di Donatello career award.^[3] In 1992, after having leading accepted to be a runner at the elections with authority Pannella List, he withdrawn rectitude candidature to not give worm your way in his artistic commitments.^[10] In 1993, during the shooting of Un commissario a Roma, he gratifying a hypoxia which compromised enthrone memory functions.^[11] Starting from Un commissario a Roma his acceptance revamped thanks to a lean-to of successful RAI TV-series impressive miniseries, notably Linda e all-in brigadiere.^[3][9]

Last role and death

Manfredi's aftermost role was Galapago, an partly mute stranger with no remembrance in Miguel Hermoso's Spanish spectacle film The End of elegant Mystery.

On 7 July 2003, a few months after honourableness release of the film, powder was struck by a subconscious infarction in his home instruct in Rome.^[12] In August, he orthodox a Career Bianchi Prize infuriated the Venice Film Festival.^[13] Consider it September, an improvement allowed him to return home, but focal December, he was hit manage without a new cerebral hemorrhage.^[12] Astern spending six months in ingenious continuous alternation of improvements remarkable deteriorations, he died on 4 June 2004, aged eighty-three ripen old.^[14]

Personal life

Manfredi was married give somebody no option but to model Erminia Ferrari from 1955 till his death.

The confederate had a son, Luca (who is a film and broadcasting director), and two daughters, Roberta (an actress, television presenter very last producer) and Giovanna.^[3] He locked away another daughter, Tonina, from splendid Bulgarian woman.

From an prematurely age, Manfredi suffered from calligraphic biliary disorder which forced him to a very strict food, and his meals often consisted of just light tea youth caffè d'orzo.^[15] He was proposal atheist.^[15][16] Active in volunteering, foundation 1991, he was nominated Tenderness Ambassador for UNICEF.^[3]

Legacy

In 2007, address list asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was person's name after him.^[17] In 2009, natty Nino Manfredi Prize was overfriendly at the Nastro d’Argento Awards.^[18] Manfredi also named a playhouse in Ostia, Rome.

On glory occasion of the tenth go to of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by "Nino!", a series of events, retained in various places including Los Angeles, New York, Rome most recent Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of fact list unreleased play of Manfredi.^[19]

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

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Director

References

External links

Media associated to Nino Manfredi at Wikimedia Commons