Giancarlo Nicotra
Giancarlo Nicotra (born April 30, 1944 in Rome , † June 12, 2013 in Formello ) was an Italian child actor, director and voice actor .
Life
Nicotra is part of an acting family, so his father is Antonio Nicotra . Several of his nephews and cousins are also active as actors or voice actors.
In 1950 he had his first film appearance as a child actor in Guido Brignone's Il nido di falasco ; until 1960 followed work for u. a. Carlo Borghesio , Mario Costa and Mario Monicelli as well as for Steno , in whose L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù he had his most famous appearance alongside Totò , Orson Welles and Viviane Romance . In addition, he was active as a voice actor during this time and was z. B. the Italian voice of the youthful master of Rin-Tin-Tin . Television works can also be found in his catalog raisonné, for example in Tom Jones and Canne al vento by Mario Landi . From the second half of the 1960s, Nicotra was active in various functions for television; he worked as a dubbing director (and still as a speaker), editor, assistant director and director of small films for television formats. He supplied programs such as Black Out , La Sberla , which made him famous in 1978, Grand Hotel , Senza rete and Tutto compresso with material and was jointly responsible for the partly new concepts of these programs, which offered a colorful mixture of elements. In 1976 he made his only motion picture as a director, Vai col liscio .
In 1983 he was appointed by the President of Mediaset , Silvio Berlusconi , to be in charge of the new comic show Drive In , which represented a decisive step for commercial television. Nicotra was also signed up for follow-up programs; he shot an impressive number of programs for the RAI channels and for Canale 5 . In addition, he was occasionally active as a theater director and often as the author of television specials on numerous greats in the show and film industry.
In 2011 Nicotra went to the People's Republic of China and founded the company Spazio Danza in Shanghai . After a long illness, he died in June 2013.
Filmography (selection)
- actor
- 1950: Destiny in the Moor (Il nido di falasco)
- 1952: Angels from the basement apartment (Gli angeli delle quartiere)
- 1960: The Adventures of the Skull Pirates (Il terrore die mari)
- Director
- 1976: Vai col liscio
Web links
- Giancarlo Nicotra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Synchronized work at Mondo the Doppiatori
- obituary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poppi and a few other sources name Catania , the birthplace of his father
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi . Rom, Gremese 2002, p. 309
- ^ Obituary in Il Tempo from June 12, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicotra, Giancarlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian child actor, director and voice actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12th, 2013 |
| Place of death | Formula free |