Leopoldo Trieste

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Leopoldo Trieste (born May 3, 1917 in Reggio Calabria , † January 25, 2003 in Rome ) was an Italian actor , director and screenwriter .

Life

Trieste first appeared as a writer of dramas and comedies; his first work “La frontiera” had its world premiere in July 1945 in Rome. In the following year, “Cronaca” was shown in Milan, an anticipation of the plays about the Roman Dolce Vita generation. In 1948 “NN” was finally released, the conclusion of the moral trilogy of post-war Italy. In the following years Trieste collaborated on scripts for Pietro Germi , Aldo Vergano and Claudio Gora and made his debut in 1952 (after a small appearance five years earlier) with his friend Federico Fellini in Die Bittere Liebe as an actor, which he did almost 130 years in the coming decades Roles as character actors remained arrested, including numerous trend-setting and successful films from also international production. He portrayed about the Bud Spencer film Flatfoot on the Nile to Signor Roberto and starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather II in do not look now , and in The Sicilian Clan with. In the German-speaking world, he became known to a wide audience in particular through his embodiment of the character Beppo street sweeper in the Michael Ende book adaptation Momo .

In 1996 Trieste received the Silver Ribbon and a David di Donatello for The Man Who Makes the Stars . In 1985 he had already received a silver ribbon for Heinrich IV .

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

  • 1956: Città di notte
  • 1960: Il peccato degli anni verdi

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mymovies.it (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Trieste, Leopoldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trieste, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio Calabria
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2003
Place of death Rome