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Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball player. He debuted on stage in 1943 and soon felt home in all classical theatre works. Since 1946 he also worked at the movies and his first big role there was the criminal in Bitter Rice (1949). This fixed him to his main parts: The ambiguous gentleman inflicting pain and pleasure at the same time. He also participated in the Italian comedies and in American movies but the latter with only minor success. As a homage to his passion for the theatre he directed a cinema version of the play Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957).- Actress
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Rosanna Schiaffino was born on 25 November 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for La mandragola (1965), The Miracle of the Wolves (1961) and Romulus and the Sabines (1961). She was married to Giorgio Enrico Falck and Alfredo Bini. She died on 17 October 2009 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Writer
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Born Luigi Montefiori in 1942 near Genoa, Italy, the future actor provided artwork for various advertising agencies in Genoa before moving to Rome in 1966. Though he intended to further his art career, he became involved with a crowd of film people who urged him to put his good looks to advantage in the movies. Parts in Italian westerns soon followed, usually under the pseudonym "George Eastman". (He once reportedly missed out on a role in a Franco Nero western because his height made Franco Nero look too short.) Never quite "typed", the actor soon moved into other film genres playing good guys, bad guys, and good-bad guys. These parts often exploited his athletic physique by having him remove his shirt, perhaps most memorably in Lina Wertmüller's _Belle Starr (1968) where he suffered through a memorable torture scene involving a boot-spur. However, a few parts in English-language films, such as Charlton Heston's _Call of the Wild, The (1972)_ failed to significantly broaden his appeal. He also began to write or collaborate on scripts and in 1989 he directed his first movie: _DNA Formula Letale (1989)_. Details on his private life are sketchy but some sources indicate that he's the father of a daughter.- Ombretta Colli was born on 21 September 1943 in Genoa, Italy. She is an actress, known for La terrazza (1980), Good News (1979) and War Between the Planets (1966). She was previously married to Giorgio Gaber.
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In her native town, Genova, she attended the Foreign Languages High School. But as early as at the age of 15 she started winning Beauty Contests: first Miss Seaside, then Miss Liguria. In 1986 Sabrina starts her career as a show-girl, in the TV program "Premiatissima" with Johnny Dorelli. Later on she took part in the Channel 5 show "Grand Hotel": it was on that occasion that she met DJ and producer Claudio Cecchetto. The same year Cecchetto produces for her "Sexy Girl", Sabrina's first hit in the Italian and German charts. Between 1987 and 1988 the Artist takes part as a singer in the "Sandra & Raimondo TV Show": during the Summer her first album is released, with the simple title "Sabrina". With "BOYS" (recently remixed for the international markets) Sabrina tops all European, South-American and Australian charts. In Spain she is considered a true sex-symbol for her sunny and mediterranean beauty. In England she is produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman for the single "All of me". In 1990 next to Raffaella Carrà, Sabrina is back on TV in the show "Ricomincio da 2" on RAI 2 Channel. In 1991 Sabrina takes part in Sanremo Festival, in a duet with Jo Squillo with the song "Siamo Donne", later included in the album "Over the Pop" and, after a new successful international tour, she gets back to Channel 5 to compére the show "Bellezze sulla neve" ("Beauties on the snow"). A long period of work in a recording studio bring Sabrina to a radical artistic change. In Summer '94 a new artistic career is started: with a production team headed by Monti-Portaluri and Zafret, is released the mix "Rockaville" , which again gets a good success not only in Italy. The collaboration carries on with the mix "Angel Boy" which sees the participation of famous English rapper Neal A.D. In Summer '95 the single CD "Fatta e rifatta" is released, an ironic song that was much talked about by the press and media. In October '95 her first rock album, completely in Italian language, is released. The title is "Maschio dove sei" ("Male, where are you"), and is produced by Massimo Riva, with the collaboration of Vasco Rossi. Sabrina's sudden change to rock is well accepted, and the album gets released in several European countries.- Writer
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Pietro Germi was born on 14 September 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Railroad Man (1956), Divorce Italian Style (1961) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966). He was married to Olga D'Aiello and Anna Bancio. He died on 5 December 1974 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Born Maria Pia Vaccarezza in Genoa, the daughter of a carpenter, Conte spent her youth in Sestri Levante before moving to Genoa to study classical ballet. After a few experiences as a child actress, she was first noted as a fotoromanzi model, then she decided to pursue an acting career and enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1962. Conte made her acting debut in 1961, in the Marco Bellocchio's short film "La colpa e la pena", then she appeared in a number of films and TV-series, often in secondary roles, being sometimes credited as Mary P. Count. She was also occasionally active as a voice actress and a dubber. She retired in the late 1970s. She was married to actor Giuseppe Rinaldi (1919-2007) and is the mother of actress Francesca Rinaldi.
- Stunning leading actress Delia Boccardo was an eye-catching beauty who graced Italian and international films for over four decades. Born in Genoa, Italy on January 29, 1948, but raised in a small fishing village called Nerv,i she studied at colleges in both Switzerland and London before returning to Italy and enrolling at a film school in Rome.
Briefly appearing on the stage, Delia made her debut at age 18 with a prime role in the "spaghetti western" Death Walks in Laredo (1967) (Death Walks in Laredo). She then co-starred with French actor Philippe Leroy in the action adventure drama L'occhio selvaggio (1967) (The Wild Eye) before making her third film, and first English-speaking appearance, as the leading lady to Alan Arkin in the misguided comedy Inspector Clouseau (1968) with Arkin an unsuccessful Peter Sellers replacement as the klutzy title French detective.
The lovely actress would go on to become a seductive foil and/or love interest in numerous late 60's and 70's films. Additional European-filmed appearances by Boccardo had her co-starring opposite some of Europe's most handsome and virile actors: Franco Nero in the crime dramas Detective Belli (1969); and High Crime (1973); Bekim Fehmiu in the US-produced epic The Adventurers (1970); suave Giancarlo Giannini in Una macchia rosa (1969); Pierre Clémenti in The Year of the Cannibals (1969); actor/director/co-writer Nino Manfredi in the comedy Between Miracles (1971); U.S. import Scott Holden in the Italian western Panhandle 38 (1972); and Luc Merenda in the action thrillers Shoot First, Die Later (1974) and Silent Action (1975). She even found herself a co-star to good-looking famed skier Jean-Claude Killy in Snow Job (1972). She was also among the English-speaking star ensemble of Tentacles (1977), with John Huston, Shelley Winters Henry Fonda and Bo Hopkins.
Continuing into the early 1980s, Delia proved an entrancing Athena in the Italian-made Hercules (1983), starring Lou Ferrigno; portrayed Mary Magdalene in the TV-movie The Day Christ Died (1980); graced the mini-series Martin Eden (1979); was part of the multi-star cast of the WWII historical drama The Assisi Underground (1985) starring James Mason, Irene Papas and Maximilian Schell.
Delia has remained primarily in Italian films since then including Aphrodite (1982) starring Horst Buchholz; Sposi (1988); The Return of Casanova (1992) starring Alain Delon; Dichiarazioni d'amore (1994) (Declarations of Love); Questo è il giardino (1999) and Sole negli occhi (2001). She finished her career on TV as the star of the Italian romantic drama series Incantesimo (1998). - Actor
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Corrado Invernizzi was born on 25 April 1965 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Ford v Ferrari (2019), Marco Polo (2014) and Doctor Who (2005).- Actor
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Very popular actor and writer in Italy. He worked in over 80 movies and TV series. Known especially for portraing the character of "Fantozzi" on several movies. Paolo Villaggio was born on December 30, 1932 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was known for Fantozzi (1975) (aka Fantozzi), Fantozzi 2 (1976), Fantozzi in Heaven (1993) and the TV Series Carabinieri (2002). He was married to Maura Albites. He died on July 3, 2017 in Rome, Lazio, Italy, just 7 months after completing his last movie W gli Sposi (2019).- Carmen Russo was born on 3 October 1959 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for Io Jane, tu Tarzan (1989), The Porno Killers (1980) and La maestra di sci (1981). She has been married to Enzo Paolo Turchi since 26 June 1987. They have one child.
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Claudio Gora was born on 27 July 1913 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Febbre di vivere (1953), The Facts of Murder (1959) and Tormento d'amore (1956). He was married to Marina Berti. He died on 13 March 1998 in Rocca Priora, Lazio, Italy.- Animation Department
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Enrico Casarosa was born on 20 November 1971 in Genoa, Italy. He is known for Luca (2021), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and Coco (2017).- She never found the international cross-over fame destined for Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, and most American audiences would not recognize her name, but voluptuous, visually stunning Eleonora Rossi Drago certainly made male hearts pulsate in Europe with her scores of princesses and temptresses throughout Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. She eventually earned respect as a fine actress and elevated her status in the films of Luigi Comencini and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others. But for the most part, she gamely played the sex card in a career that stretched a bit past two decades.
She was born Palmira Omiccioli (some sources also list Palmina as her first name, near Genoa, Italy (Columbus' birthplace) on September 23, 1925, the daughter of a sea captain. She married at the age of 17 and bore a daughter Fiorella but the marriage (to a gentleman named Rossi) did not last. She then found work as a department store mannequin and began actually designing couture clothing herself. An arresting beauty, she started competing in beauty contests and wound up in fourth place in the "Miss Italy" pageant. Gina Lollobrigida came in third. The attention lured her to films.
She moved to Rome and in 1949 began receiving small movie roles while using her married name of Rossi. Her first two big breaks came with Behind Closed Shutters (1951) [Behind Closed Shutters] with Massimo Girotti, a melodrama about prostitution, and the highly controversial Sensualita (1952) [Sensuality] in which Marcello Mastroianni and Amedeo Nazzari violently quarrel over her affections. The earlier picture was directed by Luigi Comencini and considered a strong success. The highly impressed Comencini went on to cast Eleonora as a female lead in his next film La tratta delle bianche (1952) [The White Slave Trade or Girls Marked for Danger], another tawdry melodrama about prostitution that co-starred Vittorio Gassman and also showcased the up-and-coming Sophia Loren.
It was obvious that Rossi-Drago had the makings of a bosomy sex goddess but she constantly strove to better her acting reputation in classier material. In 1955 she won critical notice on stage as Helena in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" opposite Marcello Mastroianni as Astrov. Her finest hour in films came about that same year with the release of Antonnini's The Girlfriends (1955) [The Girlfriends], in which she starred in the rags-to-riches story of a humble girl who becomes a respected owner of a fashion salon and the social class struggle therein. Among her other standout roles in the 1950s were Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957), again opposite Vittorio Gassman, who also directed, and the award-winning Italian/French co-production Violent Summer (1959), in which she played a married woman approaching middle age who surrenders herself to a younger man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) during the summer of '43 and height of fascism. The film earned her the "Silver Ribbon" award, voted for by Italian film journalists, and the "best actress" award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina.
In order to work continuously, however, she was forced to take on provocative roles of lesser quality -- roles that usually emphasized her physical attributes or enhanced the scenery around her. While Sophia Loren had a Carlo Ponti to promote her internationally, Rossi-Drago was less fortunate. By the 1960s she was relegated to such unmemorable adventures, horrors and sword-and-sand spectacles as David and Goliath (1960) [David and Goliath] with Orson Welles playing King Saul; The Carpet of Horror (1962) [The Carpet of Horror]; and Sword of the Conqueror (1961) [Sword of the Conqueror] opposite a raping and pillaging Jack Palance. Elsewhere, she was pretty much overlooked in the epic ensemble as Lot's wife in John Huston's mammoth failure The Bible in the Beginning... (1966).
Things did not improve into the decade and after appearing with Helmut Berger in the critically-panned retelling of Dorian Gray (1970) and Pier Angeli in the pedestrian Sergio Bergonzelli giallo In the Folds of the Flesh (1970) [In the Folds of the Flesh], she decided to call it quits. Blending back inconspicuously into mainstream society, she married Sicilian businessman Domenico La Cavera in 1973, and eventually retired to Palermo, Italy. She died at age 82 of a brain hemorrhage on December 2, 2007, and was survived by her second husband and daughter. - Actress
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Cinzia Monreale was born on 22 June 1957 in Genoa, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for The Beyond (1981), Turbo (2000) and Cave of the Sharks (1978).- Rita Calderoni was born on 22 February 1951 in Rossiglione, Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for Amori morbosi di una contessina (1977).
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Duccio Tessari was born on 11 October 1926 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for My Son, the Hero (1962), Puzzle (1974) and Una voglia da morire (1965). He was married to Lorella De Luca and Laura Viola. He died on 6 September 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
- Max Parodi was born on 22 September 1967 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Monamour (2005), Black Angel (2002) and La morte di pietra (2008).
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Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theater, he became the assistant director to Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Pigeon Shoot, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extramarital. His second movie, The Reckless, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965; it's about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
After having filmed for Paramount the heist movie Grand Slam (1967) and the gangster film Machine Gun McCain (1969) in the US, Montaldo returned to Italy to direct The Fifth Day of Peace (1970), Sacco and Vanzetti (in competition at Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Actor 1971) and Giordano Bruno (1973). These films received great recognition and were widely appreciated at various film festivals around the world. The theme of the Resistance underlined And Agnes Chose to Die (1977).
In 1980 the director engaged in the production of a television series about the exploration of Marco Polo, an international co-production with RAI, BBC and NBC. It was filmed in Italy, the Middle East, Tibet, Mongolia and China. It was shown in 76 nations, and won 4 Emmy Awards. Other awards worldwide for cinematography, production design and costumes were received. Montaldo's experience with China reveals a turning point in his work.
Other films he directed are Closed Circuit (in competition at the Berlinale in 1978 and in permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art), A Dangerous Toy (1979), The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987), Control (1987), and Time to Kill (1989).
Always worked with an international cast. Some of the actors that worked with him are: Burt Lancaster, Rupert Everett, Nicolas Cage, Philippe Noiret, Janet Leigh, Edward G. Robinson, John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Rade Serbedzija, Charlotte Rampling, Ingrid Thulin, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, F. Murray Abraham, Leonard Nimoy.
Some of his usual collaborators have been score composer Ennio Morricone and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
Montaldo is also internationally recognized as a Opera director, directed commercials, documentaries and experimental film technology projects. From 1999 he was president of RAI Cinema, a major film production company, for 5 years in which the movies he produced became box office hits, won awards all over the world and formed a new generation of Italian directors.
In 2001 he was appointed Cavaliere di Gran Croce by the president of Italy, one of the top honors of the Republic.- Marisa Solinas was born on 30 May 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Killer Goodbye (1968), La città dell'ultima paura (1975) and Boccaccio '70 (1962). She was married to Panone, Italo. She died on 12 February 2019 in Rome, Italy.
- Alice Arcuri was born on 11 February 1984 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for Viola (2022), The Rule of Lead (2014) and Don Matteo (2000).
- Maurizio Lastrico was born on 31 March 1979 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Sei donne: Il mistero di Leila (2023), Don Matteo (2000) and America Latina (2021).
- Strongman who won role of Maciste in Cabiria (1914), and took the character's name as his own stage name in a series of films for the next 14 years. After Pagano's death, the character of Maciste was played by several other actors.
- Lyda Borelli was born on 22 March 1884 in Rivarolo Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Malombra (1917), Satan's Rhapsody (1917) and Love Everlasting (1914). She was married to Vittorio Cini di Monselice. She died on 1 June 1959 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Elizabeth Seal was born on 28 August 1933 in Genoa, Italy. She is an actress, known for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), Mack the Knife (1989) and BBC Play of the Month (1965).
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Paolo Costella was born in Genoa, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for "La Carne" (1991), "Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno" (2002), "Perfetti Sconosciuti" (2016), "A casa tutti bene" (2018), "Gli anni più belli" (2020), "Per tutta la vita" (2021), "Supereroi" (2021), "L'ordine del tempo".- Alessandro Tedeschi was born in 1980 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for My Love (2023), The Invisible Witness (2018) and The Land of the Sons (2021).
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Ignazio Oliva was born on 26 September 1970 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for Stealing Beauty (1996), Young Satellite Amani Yassets F.C. (2006) and The Triumph of Love (2001).- Carla Signoris was born in Genoa. Actress, writer, dubber, singer for fun, she owes her fame to a long activity in theatre, television and cinema for which she has received prestigious awards. She made her debut at the "Teatro Stabile di Genova" where she worked for several seasons with various directors including Marco Sciaccaluga and Elio Petri. In 1984, she was among the founders of the Teatro dell'Archivolto. The only woman in the Broncoviz group, on RAI she took part in Avanzi, Tunnel, Hollywood Party, La Tv delle Ragazze, which made the history of Italian television. She hosted Colorado Café and was in the cast of La Grande Notte, Crozza Italia, Crozza Alive, hosting also Grande Amore for two seasons on Rai 3. She was among the protagonists of the highly-successful series Tutti pazzi per amore, and recently Studio Battaglia - Affari di Famiglia always on Rai Uno s well as Monterossi on Prime Video. She has worked with some of the leading directors on the Italian film scene from Elio Petri to Gabriele Salvatores, from Carlo Mazzacurati to Ferzan Ozpetek, as well as Silvio Soldini, Leone Pompucci, Fausto Brizzi, Riccardo Milani, and Susanna Nicchiarelli. She was the Italian voice of the fish Dory in Disney's blockbuster animated movies Finding Nemo and Finding Dory and later dubbed Miss Krum in Netfix's animated film Klaus. She starred in the My Sky campaign for Sky Italia. Since 2015, she has been a testimonial for AIRC, the Italian Association for Cancer Research. She has written three books published by Rizzoli: Ho sposato un deficiente, Meglio vedove che male accompagnate and E Penelope si arrabbiò. During her career she has been nominated for a David di Donatello, won two Nastri d'Argento, the XXXIV Premio Satira Politica Forte dei Marmi, the Flaiano Prize and in 2022 the Manfredi Prize promoted, like the Nastri d'Argento, by the Italian Film Journalists Association, which was presented to her on the stage of the Teatro Antico during the 65th Taormina Film Festival.
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Massimo Popolizio was born on 4 July 1961 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Sono tornato (2018), The Predators (2020) and The Great Beauty (2013).- Enzo Paci was born on 27 January 1973 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Capitan Basilico 2 - I Fantastici 4+4 (2011), Maratona di New York and Don Matteo (2000). He has been married to Romina Uguzzoni since 2013.
- Alessia Giuliani was born in 1972 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for Il maresciallo Rocca (1996), Love Under House Arrest (2019) and Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015).
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Andrea Bruschi was born in Genoa, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Ferrari (2023), Mozart in the Jungle (2014) and Bent (2018).- Actress
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Giorgia Wurth was born on 5 June 1979 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for Allegra, Dark Resurrection (2007) and The President's Staff (2019).- Director
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Gianluigi Calderone was born on 9 March 1944 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Love Under the Elms (1975), Appassionata (1974) and Giacinta (1980).- Franco Gatti was born on 4 October 1942 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Le Dernier Dimanche (2012), Novyy god v derevne Glukharevo (2010) and Domenica Live (2012). He was married to Stefania Picasso. He died on 18 October 2022 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
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Silvio Alfonso Nacucchi is an Italian writer, producer and director, known for the feature films Megan (2019), Beyond Love (2014) and his festival awarded titles. He is an appreciated writer and director: all his works achieved international distribution. His stories, based on original and unpredictable plots, contain always interesting characters. He was Syd Field's student (scriptwriter) and he attended New York Film Academy (director). From 2007 to 2016 he's juror at one of the best European screenplay competitions: Endas International Screenplay Competition. He also teaches acting (Meisner Method), directing and screenwriting.- Actor
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Enrique Piñeyro was born in 1956 in Genoa, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004), El rati horror show (2010) and Esperando al mesías (2000).- Giuditta Rissone was born on 28 August 1895 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for 8½ (1963), Eugenie Grandet (1946) and Doctor, Beware (1941). She was married to Vittorio De Sica. She died on 31 May 1977 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Alberto Lupo was born on 19 December 1924 in Genoa, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Lion of Thebes (1964), Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958) and The Giant of Marathon (1959). He was married to Lyla Rocco. He died on 13 August 1984 in San Felice Circeo, Italy.- Producer
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Giorgio Gasparini was born on 22 March 1963 in Genoa, Italy. He is a producer and production manager, known for La Chimera (2023), Le pupille (2022) and Pure Hearts (2017).- Editor
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Marco Ruffatti BFE is an award winning Film and TV editor known for his work on Harry: The Interview (2023), Narco Wars (2020), Back to the Titanic (2020), Genius by Stephen Hawking (2016), Serpico (2019), Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved (2019), Being Keegan (2017). He works across genres on TV Series, long form documentaries and independent drama.
Marco has been working as Film & TV Editor in London, (UK) since 1999.
He is a full member of BFE and BAFTA.- Director
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Luciano Francesco Silighini Garagnani Lambertini born in Genoa on 02/23/1976. Graduated in philosophy and theology , he worked between Milan and Los Angeles where he began collaborating first as a casting assistant and then as production manager and director. In Italy he began working as an organizer and television manager since 1993, collaborating with Mediaset, Rai, Mtv and Sky to then move on to become solely a film director and producer. In 2000 he founded the company Lsg with the task of providing management services and artistic consultancy both to companies and to Tv productions as well as to the artists of the Italian television and cinema scene. He made his film directorial debut with the short film "I tre attimi", producing in 1994. His greatest success came with the short movie Seline. The movie is presented at the Efm of the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Bridge of the Venice Film Festival in 2016, winning many international festivals. He was also a television author and director as well as artistic director for some broadcasts of Rai. He became a membership of the "Italian Casting Union" and manages the selection of actors. In 2005 he began to work in the United States as casting assistant for many Hollywood productions and in 2014 moved his main activity to movies production management. Director of more than 90 TV shows and 22 feature movies, producer of over one hundred television programmes and thousand TV spot and commercials. Is a shareholder of Merlin Entertainments, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 21st Century Fox, Warner Bros Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company. The Pope Francis grants him the Knight Cross of the Benemerenti medal (Holy See, 15 January 2021). The Silighini Company Llc (also known as LSG and RREI Productions) is a Italian -Owned American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The Silighini Company was founded in 1993 by Luciano Francesco Silighini Garagnani Lambertini, The company later expanded and was launched in 2000 under the name Lsg Productions as a distribution and sales organization. By 2001 they were producing and co-financing films, and by 2005 they started fully financing films. Among the company's early successes was Seline. In 2014, it hired producer Caroline Ross to evolve the company into a mini-studio, maintaining creative oversight financing and producing its own slate of mainstream wide release films. In 2016, it became an independent film production company. The new company added major development, production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution branches. The Silighini company's films are also distributed theatrically and on home video in Usa, Europe and in Canada by Lsg Productions.- Actor
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Gabriele Carrara was born on 15 August 1954 in Rapallo, Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Women's Camp 119 (1977), Wheels on Meals (1984) and Casa privata per le SS (1977).- Music Department
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Paganini's musical talent was recognized at an early age, and his ambitious father drove him hard to succeed, even withholding food if his son did not perform to his satisfaction on the violin. Escaping his father's domineering influence in his late teens by fleeing to Lucca, Paganini came to the attention of Princess Elisa Baciocchi, Napoléon Bonaparte's sister. He was employed as her court solo violinist for several years before deciding to freelance around Europe. He was an immediate sensation, and gained the attention and admiration of both concert goers and other composers. An electrifying performer whose skill with the violin and guitar was almost supernatural, Paganini was rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil in return for his artistic abilities. Plagued by ill health since childhood, he retired to France, where he died in the spring of 1840.- Actor, comedian, and TV host who debuted in 1986 in the theater. In 1994, he got a degree from Genoa's Theater School and he performed in several plays such Richard III, Hamlet, and Ivanov. With his partner in comedy Paolo Kessisoglu, whom he met at an audition, they first appeared on TV in "Ciro, il figlio di Target", and many other shows after: "MTV trip", "Mai dire Gol", "Le Iene Show", "Camera Cafè", "Super Ciro", "La Strana Coppia", "Scherzi a parte", "Colorado". He hosted the 2011 and 2012 Festival di Sanremo. Between 1999 and 2021, he appeared on the big screen in "E allora mambo!", "Tandem", "E se domain", "Asterix alle Olimpiadi", "Immaturi", "Un fidanzato per mia moglie", "Un figlio di nome Erasmus". Luca Bizzarri has also dubbed some animated projects such as: "Le follie dell'Imperatore/ The Emperor's New Groove", "La foresta magica/ El bosque animado", "Sitting ducks". From 2017 to 2021 he hosted the show "Quelli che il calcio" with Paolo Kessisoglu and Mia Ceran, and in 2020, with Mondadori he published his first book "Disturbo della pubblica quiete". In November 2021, he appeared on the big screen in "Per tutta la vita" directed by Paolo Costella. He and Paolo Kessisoglu currently provide satiric commentary on the show "DiMartedì" hosted by Giovanni Floris, and he's on the podcast "Non hanno un amico", produced by Chora Media.
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Since the mid-1960s, Edda Dell'Orso has provided haunting wordless vocals to a large number of film scores by Ennio Morricone and other prominent, mostly Italian composers of those times; Piero Piccioni, Bruno Nicolai, Roberto Pregadio and Luis Bacalov.
But her name is synonymous with Morricone and in particular, the soundtracks of the original spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, such as "A Fistful of Dollars", "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" and "Once Upon A Time In The West", where her dramatic voice was deployed as an instrument for the first time and to revolutionary effect.
The singer's sensuous and often playful vocals help provide tense atmospheres and dreamy moods to these soundtracks, as well as to the scores for Leone's "A Fistful Of Dynamite", composer Piccioni's lovely music for the film "Scacco Alla Regina", and Spanish composer Anton Garcia Abril's strange but highly effective score for the offbeat 1967 sci-fi drama "4-3-2-1 Morte!", that with Edda's assistance somehow successfully helps blend an atonal chamber orchestra with a go-go beat and cartoon jazz.
In the 1970s, Edda contributed to two films by Italian shock horror director Dario Argento, including "L'uccello Dalle Plume di Cristallo" (The Bird With Crystal Plumage), and then in 1976 collaborated with the Italian progressive instrumental group Goblin (often used by Argento as well) for "Perche Si Uccidono?" (Why Do They Kill Themselves), a film essay about drugs and self-destruction.
She continues to perform and lives today in Italy with her husband, conductor and composer Giacomo Dell'Orso. Their last name translates to "of the bear".- Actor
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Marcello Cesena was born on 5 September 1956 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Il cosmo sul comò (2008), Our Tropical Island (2001) and Peggio di così si muore (1995). He has been married to Alessandro Iovine since 18 April 2020.- Actor
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Ugo Fangareggi was born on 30 January 1938 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), Ho un buco giovedì (2013) and Il letto in piazza (1976). He was married to Antonietta Ermini. He died on 20 October 2017 in Rome, Italy.