Nino Manfredi

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Nino Manfredi (1990)

Nino Manfredi (actually Saturnino Manfredi ; born March 22, 1921 in Castro dei Volsci , Province of Frosinone , † June 4, 2004 in Rome ) was an Italian actor , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Manfredi studied law and then graduated from the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome. He worked for radio and got his first engagement at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan , where he was successful in Molnar's Liliom . He was married to the former photo model Erminia Ferrari . His daughter Roberta and his son Luca are also in the film business.

In 1948 he made his film debut in the short film Tenori per forza and only appeared in small roles in the 1950s. He played his first major leading role in 1959 in Gianni Puccini's L'impiegato . In the early 1960s, Nino Manfredi established himself as an actor with the role of a man persecuted by bad luck in Luigi Comencini's Raped in Chains (1961) and in Luigi Zampa's Anni ruggenti (1962) as a small clerk who is mistaken for an influential fascist. He was involved in numerous Italian-French co-productions until the late 1970s, appeared frequently in television shows and became a popular comedian in Italian film. His grotesque film characters, including an ecclesiastical dignitary in Luigi Magnis In nome del Papa Re (1977), the busybody Trafficone in Sergio Corbucci's La mazzetta (1978) and the illegal coffee salesman in Nanni Loys Café express (1980) won him a wide audience. In the 1980s he reduced his work in film and television in favor of more frequent stage appearances.

Manfredi's first cinematic directorial work was one of the four episodes of L'amore difficile (1962), but he only made his solo directing debut in 1971 with Per grazia ricevuta . For this film, Nino Manfredi was awarded the prize for the best first work at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 . His next film, Nudo di donna , made in 1981 in collaboration with Alberto Lattuada , had only moderate success.

Manfredi was the editor of a collection of Roman idioms and a cookbook.

In July 2003, Nino Manfredi suffered a stroke from which he did not recover. He died in June 2004 in a Roman hospital at the age of 83. Manfredi was buried in the family grave on Campo Verano in Rome.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: Monastero di Santa Chiara - Director: Mario Sequi
  • 1949: Torna a Napoli - Director: Domenico Gambino
  • 1951: Anema e core - Director: Mario Mattoli
  • 1953: A Sunday in Rome (La domenica della buona gente)
  • 1955: The Lovers (Gli innamorati)
  • 1956: The cheerful holiday hotel (Tempo di villeggiatura)
  • 1958: The Greyhound of Venice (Venezia, la luna e tu)
  • 1958: Don Vesuvio and the house of the rascals (Il bacio del sole (Don Vesuvio))
  • 1958: Night watchman, thief and maid (Guardia, ladro e cameriera)
  • 1958: Cannon Serenade (Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano)
  • 1959: L'impiegato
  • 1959: Thieves are people too (Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti)
  • 1960: The corpse is in the wrong suitcase (Crimen)
  • 1961: The Last Judgment does not take place (Il giudizio universale)
  • 1961: raped in chains (A cavallo della tigre)
  • 1962: Erotica (L'amore difficile)
  • 1962: Anni ruggenti
  • 1962: The girl from Parma (La parmigiana)
  • 1963: marriages for three (Alta infedeltà)
  • 1963: The Executioner (El verdugo)
  • 1965: The Dolls (Le bambole)
  • 1965: I knew her well (Io la conoscevo bene)
  • 1965: Made in Italy (Made in Italy)
  • 1966: A rose for everyone (Una rosa per tutti)
  • 1966: Our boss is a lady (Operazione San Gennaro)
  • 1966: Affair in Italian (Adulterio all'italiana)
  • 1967: Father of the family (Il padre di famiglia)
  • 1968: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
  • 1969: General strike (Contestazione generale)
  • 1970: Avola raiding party - yes, where are the cannons (Rosolino Paternò soldato)
  • 1971: The cross-eyed saint (Per grazia ricevuta) - also director
  • 1971: Roma Bene - love and sex in Rome
  • 1972: Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) (TV miniseries)
  • 1972: Girolimoni - the monster of Rome (Girolimoni - Il mostro di Roma)
  • 1973: Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata)
  • 1974: We were so in love (C'eravamo tanto amati)
  • 1976: The dirty, the ugly and the mean (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi)
  • 1977: In nome del Papa Re
  • 1978: La mazzetta
  • 1979: Il giocattolo
  • 1980: Café express
  • 1981: The Naked Woman (Nudo di donna / Nude femme) - also directed
  • 1987: Helsinki - Napoli - All Night Long
  • 1987: The miraculous experiences of Pontius Pilatus (Secondo Ponzio Pilato)
  • 1990: Alberto and Tradition (Alberto Express) - Director: Arthur Joffé
  • 1991: Mima - Director: Philomène Esposito
  • 1994: Colpo di luna - Director: Alberto Simone
  • 1995: The Flying Dutchman ( De vgende Hollander ) - Director: Jos Stelling
  • 2000: La carbonara - Director: Luigi Magni

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de: Nino Manfredi is dead Article from June 4, 2004
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Nino Manfredi
personal data
SURNAME Manfredi, Nino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manfredi, Saturnino (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Castro dei Volsci , Frosinone Province
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2004
Place of death Rome