Sergio Fantoni

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Sergio Fantoni (born August 7, 1930 in Rome ; † April 17, 2020 there ) was an Italian actor , director , author and voice actor .

Life

Sergio Fantoni came from a family of actors. His parents, Cesare Fantoni and Afra Arrigoni Fantoni, worked as theater actors and were often touring the theater. Fantoni grew up in Marino and Piombino , often separated from his parents.

He first studied engineering and architecture and initially only worked as an actor at summer festivals and as a speaker in radio productions . In 1949 Fantoni received his first film role from the director Raffaello Matarazzo : a small supporting role in the period film Paola e Francesco with Odile Versois . In 1951 Fantoni starred alongside Vittorio Gassman in the film The Lion of Amalfi (Il leone di Amalfi) , directed by Pietro Francisci . In 1951 Fantoni also made his debut as a theater actor in the theater group Gassman founded together with Luigi Squarzina in 1951, the Compagnia del teatro di arte italiano . Luchino Visconti cast Fantoni in 1953 as Jason in his staging of the play Medea by Euripides . He also gave him the small role of Luca in his film Sehnsucht (Senso) in 1954 . From 1954 to 1955 Fantoni played at the Piccolo Teatro by Giorgio Strehler in Milan , where he played Guglielmo in The Trilogy of Summer Holidays by Carlo Goldoni and Camille Desmoulins in I Giacobini by Federico Zardi . In 1955 Fantoni was seen in a television production of the play The Merchant of Venice .

As a stage actor, Fantoni played a wide repertoire , which included plays by William Shakespeare , the Italian comedy writers of the 18th century, the drama of the turn of the century , but also plays from European modernism and contemporary theater. During his theater career he was seen in numerous roles , both large and small, in plays by Molière , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Anton Chekhov , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Luigi Pirandello , Thornton Wilder and Harold Pinter . Fantoni also worked several times as a theater director and wrote plays , including Tutta colpa di Garibaldi .

In the 1950s Fantoni starred in numerous historical adventure films , in various Italian cinecitta productions and in international co-productions. He played the power-obsessed Eteocles in Hercules and the Queen of the Amazons , the upright soldier Giacomo Feo in Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna at the side of Virna Lisi , the villain Teocrito in The Battle of Marathon (La Battaglia di Maratona) and the courtier Haman in The Sword of Persia . In 1960 he starred in the film drama Dangerous Nights (I delfini) together with Claudia Cardinale .

From the 1960s Fantoni appeared increasingly in international productions and shot various films in Hollywood . He was often used as a seductive, exotic lover. At the side of Hildegard Knef he was in 1963 the passionate lover Orloff in Katharina von Russland (Caterina di Russia) . Elke Sommer was his partner in the spy film Der Preis . He played with Doris Day in the 1965 film comedy Do not disturb! In which sophisticated psychological thriller diabolically yours , the last film by the French director Julien Duvivier , he played in 1967, with Senta Berger as a partner, the seedy Dr. Frederic Launay. In 1971 he was in the spaghetti westerns Matalo to see. In 1987 he took on a role in Peter Greenaway's film The Architect's Belly .

From the 1970s Fantoni was also seen several times in television series, television films and multi-parts on Italian television. His appearance in the mini-series Delitto di stato caused quite a stir , where he was the first male actor to be seen completely naked on Italian television. In 1986 he played Colonel Ettore Ferretti in the second season of the series Alone against the Mafia . In 1999 he had a leading role in the episode La voce del violino in the series Commissario Montalbano .

Sergio Fantoni has also worked extensively as a voice actor throughout his film career . For Italian cinema he was the voice of Marlon Brando , Henry Fonda , Gregory Peck , Rock Hudson , Alan Ladd , Max von Sydow , Ivan Desny and Maximilian Schell, among others .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Sergio Fantoni
  2. ↑ in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Gli Attori. Gremese Editore 1998. ISBN 88-7742-261-0
  3. ↑ Vita Sergio Fantoni biography at www.mymovies.it
  4. ↑ Tutta colpa di Garibaldi on Teatro.it. Retrieved April 18, 2020
  5. ↑ Il mondo dei doppiatori. La pagina di Sergio Fantoni Directory of Sergio Fantoni's synchronized roles
personal data
SURNAME Fantoni, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2020
Place of death Rome