Giorgio Albertazzi

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Giorgio Albertazzi

Giorgio Albertazzi (born August 20, 1923 in San Martino a Mensola , Florence , † May 28, 2016 in Roccastrada ) was an Italian actor and television director .

Life

Albertazzi joined the fascist Italian Social Republic as a young man and made it to lieutenant. After it was broken up, he was imprisoned for two years for collaboration. After the amnesty by Palmiro Togliatti , the turning architecture student at the acting work and had quickly Fotoromanzi with.

Albertazzi made his theater debut in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and played in numerous classics in the following decades, many of them for television. From the beginning of the 1950s he could also be seen on the big screen and interpreted a total of around 50 roles in this medium. His probably best-known film role was in the classic film Last Year in Marienbad as a mysterious man trying to convince a woman that he was once her lover. Since 1969 he was also responsible as a director for several television films, for example for the miniseries George Sand in 1981. Since 2003 he has been director of the Teatro di Roma .

In the 1950s he was privately friends with fellow actress Anna Proclemer , who also appeared with him in plays for many years. In 2007 he married his long-time partner, 36 years his junior, Pia de Tolomei.

In 1988 he wrote his memoirs ; In 1996 Albertazzi was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , in 2003 with the Benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte .

Filmography (selection)

Giorgio Albertazzi (right) with Ignazio Marino (center) and Giorgio Napolitano (left) in the Teatro Argentina 2014
  • 1951: Lorenzaccio
  • 1952: Don Camillo and Peppone (Le Petit monde de Don Camillo)
  • 1954: Treason (Tradita)
  • 1954: You have to forget me (Delirio)
  • 1960: Red lips - slim legs (Labbra Rosse)
  • 1961: Last year in Marienbad (L'année dernière è Marienbad)
  • 1962: The Red One (La rossa)
  • 1962: Eva
  • 1968: Caroline Chérie (Beautiful as Sin) (Caroline Chérie)
  • 1974: Philo Vance (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 1975: The hot angels (La nottata)
  • 1996: Fatal Frames - Fotogrammi mortali
  • 2001: All the knowledge in the world (Tutta la conoscenza del mondo)
  • 2016: La Sindrome di Antonio

literature

  • Fabio Poggiali: Giorgio Albertazzi, l'ultimo imperatore, 2005, 305 pages
  • Giorgio Albertazzi: Un perdente di successo, 1988, ISBN 88-17-53014-X

Web links

Commons : Giorgio Albertazzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morto Giorgio Albertazzi, il grande attore aveva 92 anni
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 16
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Albertazzi, Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor and television director
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH San Martino a Mensola , Florence
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2016
Place of death Roccastrada