Nino Castelnuovo

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Nino Castelnuovo (actually Francesco Castelnuovo ; born October 28, 1936 in Lecco , † September 6, 2021 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .

Life

Castelnuovo was born the first of four children to a baker; He broke off his education to support his family with work. After experience as a mechanic, painter and factory worker, he moved to Milan, where he found employment as a representative for a publishing house and attended acting courses at the Piccolo Teatro . With his friends Luigi Bertolini and Cino Tortorella, he created the children's television program Zurli, mago del giovedì in 1957 , in which he also appeared as a pantomime. As a result of his commitment, she left the theater school, whose statutes did not allow her students to work for television. Nevertheless, it also gave him his first film role. In 1959 Castelnuovo played alongside Claudia Cardinale andPietro Germi , who also directed, in the drama Unter smooth Haut . Soon labeled as a typical “young man from the people”, well-known directors such as Luchino Visconti , Giuseppe De Santis , Luigi Comencini and Carlo Lizzani made use of his services for supporting roles.

The main role was transferred to Castelnuovo in Un giorno da leoni , in which he portrayed one of the saboteurs against the Germans and that of the brother of a mentally ill in Giorno per giorno disperatamente by Alfredo Giannetti . The actor celebrated his international breakthrough in 1964 to the applause of foreign critics with the male lead in the film musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg alongside Catherine Deneuve . International offers also followed. In Italy itself, he was not clearly noticed by the public until 1967 through the miniseries The Fiancées . At the same time, the role as Renzo Tramaglino fixed him on the character of the good, naive, courageous, romantic boy, whom he interpreted in the following years in numerous cinema and television films, all of which were no longer able to arouse outstanding interest. Tired of repetitions, he was hardly active in these media from the end of the 1970s.

It wasn't until the mid-1980s that he began working on television again. With the role of D'Agostino Castelnuovo achieved a certain amount of attention again in 1996 in the Oscar-winning film The English Patient , but most of his later film and television productions were little known outside of Italy.

For this he worked regularly for Italian theaters, such as (as a late example) 2002 in the play Prima Pagina , the Italian adaptation of the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur , published in 1928 .

From 2005 Castelnuovo was almost blind and from then on only rarely worked as an actor. He took his last film role in 2016. He died in September 2021 at the age of 84 after a lengthy illness.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: Father against his will (Era di venerdì 17)
  • 1959: Under smooth skin (Un maledetto imbroglio)
  • 1960: Glut (The Angel Wore Red)
  • 1960: Rocco and his brothers (Rocco ei suoi fratelli)
  • 1960: The way back (Tutti a casa)
  • 1961: The Hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo)
  • 1961: Despair every day (Giorno per giorno disperatamente)
  • 1963: Marriage in Sicilian (La smania addosso)
  • 1964: 90 nights and one day
  • 1964: The Cherbourg umbrellas (Les parapluies de Cherbourg)
  • 1965: A young world (Un mondo nuovo)
  • 1965: Seven Ride to Hell (The Reward)
  • 1966: Django - His hymn book was the Colt (Le colt cantarono la morte e fu… tempo di massacro)
  • 1966: The Creatures (Les Créatures)
  • 1966: We're going to town (Andremo in città)
  • 1969: The girlfriend was always there (Verto certissimi anzi… probabile)
  • 1969: The Five Feared (Un esercito di cinque uomini)
  • 1969: Lady of the Camellias 2000 (Camille 2000)
  • 1969: love and anger (Amore e rabbia)
  • 1973: The felt louse (L'emmerdeur)
  • 1973: God protects the lovers
  • 1974: The Minors (La minorenne)
  • 1974: Summer love (Un amour de pluie)
  • 1975: The Mysterious Killer (Nude per l'assassino)
  • 1975: When sweet teens fall apart (Quella età maliziosa)
  • 1979: Star Odyssey (Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio)
  • 1985: Kidnapped (A viso coperto)
  • 1993: The children's clinic (Amico mio)
  • 1996: The English Patient (The English Patient)
  • 1999: Priest in action (Un prete tra noi)
  • 2003: Senza la parola fine
  • 2006: Questa è la mia terra (TV series, three episodes)
  • 2010: Il sottile fascino del peccato
  • 2013–2015: Le tre rose di Eva (TV series, 28 episodes)
  • 2016: The Legacy Run

Web links

Commons : Nino Castelnuovo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ilmessaggero.it/AMP/persone/nino_castelnuovo_morto_roma_malattia-6181350.html
  2. ↑ Andrea Orbicciani, Article Nino Castelnuovo , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998, pp. 108/109
  3. ↑ libero.news ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.libero-news.it
  4. ^ Nino Castelnuovo sta male, l'appello della moglie in tv: "I politici ci aiutino". April 22, 2018, accessed on September 22, 2020 (it-IT).
  5. ↑ Addio a Nino Castelnuovo, interpretò Renzo nei Promessi Sposi - Cultura & Spettacoli. September 7, 2021, accessed September 7, 2021 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Castelnuovo, Nino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castelnuovo, Francesco (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
BIRTH DATE October 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Lecco , Italy
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Rome