Paolo Carlini

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Paolo Carlini (born January 6, 1922 in Santarcangelo di Romagna , † November 3, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .

Life

Carlini started his career as a stage actor at a young age after receiving his speech training from Teresa Franchini . The athletic, tall and personable actor then became one of the most popular young heroes alongside great women of the theater scene such as Emma Gramatica , Elsa Merlini or Anna Proclemer . He performed particularly well as the protagonist in Henrik Ibsen pieces or as “Stanley Kowalski” in Endstation Sehnsucht . Other notable roles were in the “Teatro Stabile” Venice alongside Diana Torrieri or as a young hero of the “Compagnia Spettacoli Errepì”, with whom he appeared alongside Gino Cervi in Il cardinale Lambertini and in Cyrano de Bergerac . In 1960 Carlini became a member of Franco Enriquez's drama troupe , with whom he performed Shakespeare , and a year later he was seen alongside Ornella Vanoni in Marcel Achard's The Idiot , directed by Silverio Blasi .

In addition to his theater work, he was already involved in a number of engagements in front of the film camera during the Second World War, making his debut here in a supporting role in Addio, giovinezza! . He had a role in international cinema in 1953 as Audrey Hepburn 's hairdresser in William Wyler's comedy A Heart and a Crown .

His fame led to his first television engagements as early as 1954; First and foremost, Carlini remained a hard-working theater actor, who in the 1950s was able to celebrate great stage successes in numerous plays alongside Gramatica, Eva Maltagliati and several times with Lea Padovani . Towards the end of this decade, the romantic hero also tried his hand at comedies; here too he was granted success. His television breakthrough came in 1957 when he became known nationwide again as a partner of Lea Padovani with the television adaptation of "Il romanzo di un giovane povero". His performance was also awarded the “Microfone d'argento”. In the following years , Carlini appeared in several television films, not always in leading roles, before he began working again for the screen from 1963, starting with Gian Vittorio Baldi's debut film Luciano, una vita bruciana , which was only published four years later .

Carlini died of thrombosis at the age of 57. After his death reports of homosexual relations with the Roman Catholic clergy were published, including rumors of a relationship with the future Pope Paul VI.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrico Lancia, article Paolo Carlini , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese 1998, p. 98
  2. ↑ z. B. Dino Marturtano in the Corriere della Sera on January 27, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Carlini, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Santarcangelo di Romagna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1979
Place of death Rome