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- Ayrton Senna da Silva was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil to a wealthy family. When he was four years old his father Milton bought him a go-kart, and by age eight Ayrton was regularly competing in karting events. His career progressed quickly, and in 1982 he moved to England to pursue his racing. In 1984 he came to the attention of the whole world by racing in Formula One. Over the next ten years he won the World Championship three times and engaged in some controversial racing with France's Alain Prost and England's Nigel Mansell. Ayrton Senna was killed on 1 May 1994 in a race at the San Marino Grand Prix when his car, which had been beset with problems the entire season, inexplicably left the track and crashed into the concrete barrier. His was the last death in Formula One due to the major safety reforms that the tragic weekend at Imola had brought about. He was voted by over two hundred of his fellow Formula One drivers as the best driver of all time in a 2010 poll. Senna was also a humanitarian who discreetly donated millions to help those less fortunate in his native country.
- Yvonne Sanson was born on 29 August 1925 in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Conformist (1970), Chains (1949) and Nobody's Children (1951). She died on 23 July 2003 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Maria Antonietta Beluzzi was born on 26 July 1930 in Bologna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Amarcord (1973), La vita provvisoria (1963) and The Last Concert (1976). She died on 6 August 1997 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Carlo D'Angelo was born on 2 February 1919 in Milan, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Great Silence (1968), Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966) and Romeo e Giulietta (1964). He died on 9 June 1973 in Bologna, Italy.- Adolfo Lastretti was born on 18 November 1937 in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Syndicate Sadists (1975), The Lion of the Desert (1980) and Spasmo (1974). He died on 5 May 2018 in Loiano, Bologna, Italy.
- Actor
- Writer
Giustino Durano was born on 5 May 1923 in Brindisi, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), Fate un bel sorriso (2000) and The Queen of the Pirates (1960). He was married to Graziella Galvani. He died on 18 February 2002 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Francesco Laudadio was born on 2 January 1950 in Mola di Bari, Puglia, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Madame (2004), Grog (1982) and Roma dodici novembre 1994 (1995). He died on 6 April 2005 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Gianni Cavina was born on 9 December 1940 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for The House with Laughing Windows (1976), La via degli angeli (1999) and Festival (1996). He died on 26 March 2022 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Roberto Freak Antoni was born on 16 April 1954 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band (1996), Skiantos Videonovela (1990) and Paz! (2002). He died on 12 February 2014 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Raffaele Pisu was born on 24 May 1925 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Consequences of Love (2004), Se non avessi più te (1965) and So in Love (1964). He died on 31 July 2019 in Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Andrea Bosic was born on 15 July 1919 in Gomilsko, Maribor, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Sandokan the Great (1963), Duel of the Titans (1961) and Danger: Diabolik (1968). He died on 9 January 2012 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Composer
- Actor
- Writer
Ezio Bosso was born on 13 September 1971 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for I'm Not Scared (2003), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005). He died on 15 May 2020 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
His father was the renowned violinist and music teacher Michelangelo Abbado. He is the brother of the composer Marcello Abbado and therefore uncle of the conductor Roberto Abbado. After school, Abbado studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. From 1956 to 1968 he was married to Giovanna Cavazzoni. Together they became parents to the theater manager Alessandra Abbado and the opera director Daniele Abbado. In 1957 he moved to Vienna, where he went to school with conductor teacher Hans Swarowsky. In 1968, Abbado began working for the Milan opera house "Scala", where he worked in various functions until 1986. The conductor was committed to opening up the so-called "high culture" to the common people, who had once been the audience and protagonists of traditional Italian opera.
From 1979 to 1988, Abbado was also principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Replaced by Riccardo Muti at the helm of La Scala in Milan, Abbado moved to Vienna in 1986 to take over the management of the State Opera until 1991. From 1990 to 2002 he was chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. However, cancer interrupted Abbado's artistic career in the late 1990s. After his recovery, the internationally celebrated conductor only appeared at concerts sporadically. In spring 2004, Abbado's guest appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic was a great success. In the spring of 2005, Abbado conducted Mozart's "Magic Flute" for the first time, with which he celebrated great success in Baden-Baden and Italy. At the end of May 2005, the maestro gave three concerts in Berlin to sold-out houses.
Abbado was considered a supporter of young musicians, for whom he founded the European Union Youth Orchestra in 1978, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1988, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 1997 and finally the Mozart Orchestra in 2004. The youth orchestras support the training of young talent with scholarships. In 2003 he was honored with the Praemium Imperiale. In August 2005, Abbado, after Vienna, was also made an honorary citizen of Lucerne, whose music festival he was closely associated with. For the 250th year of Mozart's birth, Abbado designed numerous Mozart Orchestra initiatives in 2006. In 2008 he received the Wolf Prize. On August 30, 2013, Claudio Abbado was appointed senator for life by President Giorgio Napolitano. In the same year, his book "My World of Music" was named science book of the year in Austria.
Claudio Abbado died on January 20, 2014, at the age of eighty, in Bologna after a long battle with cancer.- Raoul Grassilli was born on 25 October 1924 in Bologna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Le cinque giornate di Milano (1970), Bel Ami (1979) and La fine dell'avventura (1969). He died on 24 July 2010 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Fanfulla was born on 26 February 1913 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Fellini Satyricon (1969), Son of the Red Corsair (1959) and Dark Purpose (1964). He died on 5 January 1971 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Dino Grandi was born on 4 June 1895 in Mordano, Bologna, Italy. He died on 21 May 1988 in Bologna, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Silvio Bagolini was born on 4 August 1914 in Bologna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Bullocks (1953), David Copperfield (1965) and The Prisoner of the Iron Mask (1961). He died on 26 September 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Memo Benassi was born on 21 June 1886 in Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Affairs of Messalina (1951), Il trattato scomparso (1933) and Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1943). He died on 24 February 1957 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Eugenio Duse was born on 24 January 1889 in Senigallia, Marche, Italy. He was an actor, known for L'albergo degli assenti (1939), Cainà (1922) and La damigella di Bard (1936). He died on 24 November 1969 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Fanny Marchiò was born on 1 June 1904 in Corfu, Greece. She was an actress, known for The White Sheik (1952), Variety Lights (1950) and Ma chi te lo fa fare? (1948). She was married to Renato Navarrini. She died on 6 September 1980 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Patrizia Vicinelli was born on 23 August 1943 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress and director, known for Errore di gruppo (1973), In viaggio con Patrizia (1995) and Transfert per camera verso Virulentia (1967). She died on 9 January 1991 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Giorgio Celli was born on 16 July 1935 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Balsamus l'uomo di Satana (1970), Thomas... ...gli indemoniati (1970) and La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone (1975). He died on 11 June 2011 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Ernesto Almirante (24 September 1877 - 13 December 1964) was an Italian film and stage actor. Born in Mistretta into a family of actors, Almirante worked several years on stage along his father Nunzio. He was also active as agent and organizer of several stage companies. After an occasional film role in the 1919 mute film "Federica d'Illirio", starting from mid-1930s Almirante became one of the most active character actors of his time. In 1955 he retired from acting and moved into a retirement home for actors in Bologna. He was the uncle of politician Giorgio Almirante.
- Olga Solbelli was born on 11 May 1898 in Verghereto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Loves of Hercules (1960), La figlia del capitano (1947) and Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937). She was married to Pietro Meda. She died on 8 September 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Gigliola Frazzoni was born on 22 February 1923 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She died on 3 December 2016 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Bella Starace Sainati was born on 2 June 1878 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Cavalleria rusticana (1939), Nozze di sangue (1941) and Ten Commandments (1945). She was married to Alfredo Sainati. She died on 4 August 1958 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Pina Gallini was born on 19 March 1888 in Bondeno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937), Addio Kira! (1942) and Sangue sul sagrato (1950). She died on 31 January 1974 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Mariù Pascoli was born on 1 January 1935 in Tripoli, Libya. She was an actress, known for Piccolo mondo antico (1941), Gran premio (1944) and Senza famiglia (1946). She was married to Gian Luigi Degli Espositi. She died on 6 November 2018 in Bologna, Italy.
- Egisto Olivieri was born on 21 March 1880 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Il caso Haller (1933), Partenza ore 7 (1946) and The Little School Mistress (1934). He died on 4 March 1962 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Enzo Biliotti was born on 28 June 1887 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Don Cesare di Bazan (1942), The Spirit and the Flesh (1941) and Villafranca (1934). He was married to Lia Di Lorenzo. He died on 19 November 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Fulvia Mammi (Rome, May 25, 1927 - Bologna, June 6, 2006) was an Italian actress. She attended the Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D'Amico and was a theater actress (the "Piccolo Teatro di Milano" by Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler), television and cinema, as well as voice actress. She continued her career on tour with Giuseppe Patroni Griffi company, until the seventies, in which she is dedicated to the teaching of drama in several young actresses (Nastassja Kinski, Isabella Ferrari), and her latest passion, painting . In 1952 she had a son, Guido, by the director Eriprando Visconti. She died at dawn on June 4, 2006 in Bologna, guest of the rest home for artists.- Armando Marra was born on 10 January 1926 in Naples, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Name of the Rose (1986) and No grazie, il caffè mi rende nervoso (1982). He died on 24 July 2011 in Bologna, Italy.
- Carla Astolfi was born on 11 September 1931 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Albakiara (2008), The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Tutti defunti... tranne i morti (1977). She died on 21 May 2017 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Franco Patanè was born in 1908 in Acireale, Sicily, Italy. Franco is known for Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) and Tosca (1961). Franco died in 1968 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Lara Saint Paul, born Silvana Savorelli in 1946, is an Italian singer, actress, impresario and record producer. She was born in Asmara to an Italian father and Eritrean mother, and moved to Italy as a young girl. Lara studied singing under the guidance of a teacher who had performed at the Scala di Milano, Prof. Tina Brini. Lara made Italy her new home. It was the magic land of the Condoteieri of the Renaissance and Fellini, a land rich in temperament and lyricism.
She longed for music from the beginning. As a girl, curious about music, Lara was spending enchanted hours listening to the magnificence of gopels and spirituals. At sixteen, Lara went to the Sanremo Festival, the mecca of the Italian song. She was immediately recognized as an emerging talent. Success came in 1967 when she changed her record company and started singing under the flag of manager-industrialist Pier Quinto Cariaggi, soon to become her Pygmalion and her husband. They had two daughters, Manuela and Guendalina.
Lara Saint Paul's first public performance was in 1962 at the Festival della canzone italiana, also known as the Sanremo Music Festival, in Italy. She went by the name of Tanya and performed the ballad I Colori Della Felicitá.
Her big success arrived when she returned to Sanremo in 1968 as one of the two performers of the song, titled Mi va di cantare. The other performer was Louis Armstrong, and they performed alongside Lionel Hampton. Louis Armstrong is quoted by Lara Saint Paul as saying that she was "one of the most talented singers I ever met in all my life." She also participated in Sanremo in 1972 with Se non fosse tra queste mie braccia lo inventerei and in 1973 with Una Casa Grande. She was a finalist three times in the Sanremo Music Festival.
In 1988, Lara Saint Paul was a producer and conductor for the Sanremo Music Festival at the Casino di Sanremo.
Lara Saint Paul has worked with many notable talents in the music industry. Her songs Non preoccuparti and Adesso ricomincerei were produced and arranged by American producer Quincy Jones in 1973. In the same year she released an Italian cover version of Killing Me Softly with His Song, originally composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, titled Mi fa morir cantando. Lara Saint Paul has worked and performed with notables such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Roberta Flack, Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder. Her popular 1977 album Saffo Music, recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Ware, featured The Pointer Sisters on backing vocals, guitar by Ray Parker Jr., bass by Chuck Rainey and was mixed by Bill Conti. The largest markets for her music outside of Italy and Europe are Argentina, Brazil and Japan. One of her 1970s tracks, So, is featured on several current popular lounge music compilations. The majority of her work was released in Italy on the record label Company Discografica Italiana (CDI) and later Lasapa, both of which she owned with her husband, Italian producer and showman Pier Quinto Cariaggi.
In 1982 she brought the aerobics craze to Italy, working closely with actress and fitness guru Jane Fonda. The video, book and music album, titled Aerobic Aerobica, Aerobic Dance, and a single titled AAA Aerobica, were parts of an exercise program with songs performed by Lara Saint Paul. The program was a huge hit and went on to achieve cult status in Italy. Aerobic Dance won a Gold Record in Italy for sales. A clothing line and The Aerobic Center fitness clubs licensed with the name Lara Saint Paul were also created that featured the aerobics program.
Lara has been featured in many television specials in Italy and around Europe, starting with the variety show Quelli Della Domenica in 1968, for RAI. A 1970-1971 edition of the RAI network TV show Canzonissima featured Lara Saint Paul, bringing Italian film and music personalities together on TV. The 1992 Lara Superspecial show spectacular for Eurovisione and RAI 2 was broadcast all over Europe and in 19 countries, featuring Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Harry Belafonte and Luciano Pavarotti. This highly successful television special received a special prize from the Italian critica televisa. The Lara Superspecial orchestra was arranged by Gian Marco Gualandi, who also participated in Lara Saint Paul's 1992 European Tour.
More recently, in 2005 and 2007 she was on Italian television for retrospectives featuring the life of Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and his wife Barbara were personal friends of Lara Saint Paul, and Sinatra's return to Italy in 1986 after 24 years abroad had been orchestrated by Lara Saint Paul's husband, Pier Quinto Cariaggi, who had also organized Sinatra's 1987 Italian tour.
Using the name Lara Cariaggi, she co-produced and wrote the 1995 television documentary The Best is Yet to Come with her husband Cariaggi. It was an extensive biography about the life of their friend, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, and Lara was the interviewer for the documentary.
The Italian awards show Viva Hollywood for RAI, a production of Lara Saint Paul's husband Pier Quinto Cariaggi and his company Galenter Entertainment, was co-presented and co-produced by Lara Saint Paul. It started in 1988 and every year brought Hollywood stars to Italy to present them with a Merit of Achievement Award for their work. It was a success for the Italian RAI network and had very high annual ratings. Bette Davis received the first award in 1988. The nominees stayed at the five star Villa d'Este hotel in Cernobbio and were awarded a bronze statuette for lifetime achievement at the televised awards show. Some of the guests, such as Kirk Douglas, had a personal meeting with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican arranged for them by Lara Saint Paul and Cariaggi.- Giannina Chiantoni was born on 24 June 1881 in Bernalda, Basilicata, Italy. She was an actress, known for Re Lear (1910), ...e Napoli canta! (1953) and The Duchess of Parma (1937). She was married to Ernesto Sabbatini. She died on 17 May 1972 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actress
Ebe Stignani was born on 11 July 1904 in Naples, Italy. She was an actress, known for Aida (1953). She died on 4 October 1974 in Bologna, Italy.- Vittorio Martinelli was born on 27 November 1926 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor. He was married to Irmela Helga Kleidt and ? Seeger. He died on 8 April 2008 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Giorgio Consolini was born on 28 August 1920 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Bellezze a Capri (1951), La leggenda del piave (1952) and Festival di Sanremo (1951). He died on 28 April 2012 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Piergiorgio Farina was born on 12 October 1938 in Goro, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for Casa dell'amore... la polizia interviene (1978), $10,000 Blood Money (1967) and Il... Belpaese (1977). He died on 28 July 2008 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Renata Viganò was born on 17 June 1900 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was a writer, known for L'Agnese va a morire (1976). She died on 23 April 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Mirella Falco was an actress, known for Villa Arzilla (1990), Tomorrow We Dance (1982) and Luci lontane (1987). She died on 6 November 2013 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Dario Parisini was born on 1 December 1966 in Bentivoglio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for La piovra (1984), Obsession: A Taste for Fear (1987) and Festa di laurea (1985). He died on 9 June 2022 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Gilda Marchiò was born on 9 July 1884 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Spirit and the Flesh (1941), Cortocircuito (1943) and Two Orphans (1942). She died on 22 October 1954 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Renato Lelli was born in 1899. Renato was a writer, known for I colpevoli (1957), All'insegna delle sorelle Kadar (1957) and Night on the Highway (1960). Renato died on 15 August 1962 in Bologna, Italy.
- Isabella Ceola was born in 1969 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She died on 18 March 1997 in Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Mimi Aylmer was born on 29 May 1896 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for La straniera (1930), La telefonista (1932) and Colei che tutto soffre (1914). She died on 20 October 1992 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Federico Collino was born on 5 December 1892 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Sissignora (1942), Dora Nelson (1939) and Passaporto rosso (1935). He died on 5 July 1975 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Carlo Aldini was born on 6 May 1894 in Pieve Fosciana, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt (1930), Adventures Inc. (1929) and Hunted People (1926). He died on 21 March 1961 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Quinto Parmeggiani was born on 3 March 1926 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (1966), The Weekend Murders (1970) and The Sex Machine (1975). He died on 3 January 2018 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.