Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi (born June 9, 1938 in Subiaco , † February 15, 2018 in Torri in Sabina ) was an Italian actor .
Life
Capponi was discovered by director Vittorio De Seta after attending an acting school and cast in a prominent role in Un uomo a metà 1965. By the end of the 1970s he played in numerous movies , mixing important works by Paolo Taviani , Valerio Zurlini , Nelo Risi and others with pure commercial goods, including numerous crime films or one of his rare leading roles in the comic book adaptation Mister X. He sometimes used the pseudonym "Norman Clark". From 1977 he turned increasingly to television work and played on stage, where he a. a. received good reviews under Nello Rossati in August Strindberg's Believer or under Antonello Agliotti in Anton Chekhov's Der Kirschgarten . At the beginning of the 1990s, after an ambitious project for the RAI school television and now in smaller roles, he appeared more frequently in the cast lists of movies. In 2003 he retired into private life.
Since 1975 Capponi was married to fellow actor Mara Venier .
Filmography (selection)
- 1965: Un uomo a metà
- 1966: Jonny Madoc (Due once di piombo)
- 1967: King of Hearts (Le Roi de cœur)
- 1968: El Alamein suicide mission (Commandos)
- 1969: Grade 7 - The boys of violence (I ragazzi del massacro)
- 1969: The Nun of Monza (La monaca di Monza)
- 1970: Battalion of the Lost (Uomini contro)
- 1970: The law of silence (E venne il giorno dei limoni neri)
- 1970: Mafia Chess (Scacco alla mafia)
- 1970: Women tormented to the point of madness (Le foto proibite di una signora per bene)
- 1971: March order to hell (Il sergente Klems)
- 1971: The nine-tailed cat (Il gatto a nove code)
- 1972: The riddle of the silver crescent moon (Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso)
- 1974: Apaches know no fear (Abbasso tutti viva noi)
- 1977: Antonio Gramsci - The Years in Prison (Antonio Gramsci - I giorni del carcere)
- 1991: In the name of the father and the son (Au Nom du père et du fils)
- 1991: Michelangelo - Genius and Passion (A Season of Giants)
- 2003: The Devil's Dam (La diga) (TV movie)
Web links
- Pier Paolo Capponi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Addio a Pier Paolo Capponi, attore di cinema e tv, da Fernando Di Leo a Mara Venier
- ^ Roberto Poppi, article Claudio Pier Paolo Capponi , in: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome 1998, pp. 95/96
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Capponi, Pier Paolo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clark, Norman (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Subiaco |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th February 2018 |
| Place of death | Torri in Sabina |