Marino Masè

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Marino Masè (born March 21, 1939 in Trieste ) is an Italian actor and voice actor .

Life

Masè was born in Trieste . As a teenager he joined the workshop for young actors (Laboratorio di Giovani Attori) at Franco Cristaldi's Italian production company Vides and studied acting with Alessandro Fersen . In 1960 he made his stage debut as a stage actor in the play L'arialda by Giovanni Testori , directed by Luchino Visconti . A few more theater roles followed. He made his film debut in 1961 as Linus in Richard Pottier's adventure film Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1961) . Luchino Visconti, who already knew Masé from the theater, gave him a small role as a tutor in his epic film The Leopard (1963).

In the first half of the 1960s, Masè played several leading roles in Italian and French films. He had his first artistically demanding role as Ulysse in the film Die Karabinieri (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard . He embodied one of two literate peasants who are promised great fortunes and financial prosperity if they go to war for their king. Masè had been suggested for the lead role of Ulysse by Roberto Rossellini , who worked as a screenwriter on the film. In the episode film I mostri (1963) by Dino Risi, he was seen in the 20th episode L'oppio dei popoli alongside Michèle Mercier ; he embodied the young lover of a woman who cheats on her husband while he watches television all day . In the film drama With his fist in his pocket (1965) by director Marco Bellocchio , he played the role of the older, cynical and self-dissatisfied brother Antonio, who is preparing to start his own family and want to make it prosperous . As the only "normal" person in the family, he is despised by his younger brother (played by Lou Castel ). He then had a supporting role (as Italian gendarme Aldo) next to Louis de Funès in the comedy The Gendarme from Broadway (1965). After his participation in this film, he was by MGM for in Hollywood turned television series Jericho committed (1966); Masé lived and shot for some time in the USA .

After promising beginnings with leading roles in the 1960s, Masè was later cast mainly as a supporting actor. Masè took part in numerous Italian and international productions; he worked with important directors. He played u. a. in The Night Porter by Liliana Cavani (1974; as American musician Atherton), in Tenebrae by Dario Argento (1982, as John), in The Informer by Pasquale Squitieri (1985, as Lieutenant Colonel of the Carabinieri), in The Professor , the director -Debut of Giuseppe Tornatore (1986, original title: Il camorrista ) ( 1986 ), in The Belly of the Architect by Peter Greenaway (1987, as Trettorio), in The Godfather - Part III by Francis Ford Coppola (1990, as Giorgio Lupo) and in Nel mio amore by Susanna Tamaro (2004, as an old priest).

Masè continued to be seen as the main actor in the 1970s and 1980s. However, his main roles were mostly limited to artistically less demanding roles in horror films , exploitation films and action films . He had a supporting role as the attractive groom Thomas Stack in the horror film Lady Frankenstein (1971). Due to his good looks and his physical presence, Masé also received several roles in erotic films and sex films , in which he sometimes appeared naked. In the Italian sexploitation film Emanuela - All lusts of this world (1977) he played the role of the Iranian minister Cassim, who turns out to be the boss of a girl trafficking ring, directed by Joe D'Amato . In the erotic film Scandalous Emanuelle - The Desire to Watch (1986), he embodied the surgeon and husband Diego , again under the direction of Joe D'Amato , who no longer succeeds in sexually satisfying his much younger wife and in passing her on to other men Sexual intercourse rented. In the soft porno Nadine's Erotic Games (1987), he played the rich Viktor, who made his villa available for fashion shoots and was involved in erotic games staged by his ex-wife in order to win him back. In the erotic film Erotic Games (1988) he played Roberto, the ex-lover of an attractive widow (played by Moana Pozzi ), who is supposed to prepare the two precocious daughters of the widow who are trying to seduce Roberto for their exams.

Masè has worked for Italian television in numerous television series and films, including a. in Alone Against the Mafia (1989), in the first season of the soap opera Vivere (1999) and in the second season of the television series Valeria medico legale (2002).

In 2006 he appeared with Ottavia Fusco in Rome in the one-act play Piazzale Loreto by Pasquale Squitieri, which also directed. The focus of the piece is a conversation between Edda Ciano and an old Sodale .

Masè also worked as a voice actor throughout his film career .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Gli Attori. , Page 310/311. Gremese Editore 1998. ISBN 88-7742-261-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Gli Attori. , Page 310/311. Gremese Editore 1998. ISBN 88-7742-261-0
  2. ^ Squitieri: "Con Piazzale Loreto denuncio la rimozione del passato" in: Il Giornale of August 31, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Masè, Marino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mase, Marino; Masé, Marino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste