Teddy Reno
Teddy Reno , born in Ferruccio Merk Ricordi (born July 11, 1926 in Trieste , Italy ), is an Italian pop and pop singer as well as an actor in domestic and German films.
Live and act
The son of an engineer with Austrian roots - hence the German-sounding name Merk - was forced by the Mussolini fascists in the 1930s to Italianize his name and change it to "Ricordi". Reno made his first appearance in 1938 during an amateur singing competition in Rimini. Immediately after the liberation by the Americans, Reno began his professional musician career in 1945 at Radio Trieste. In the following year he joined the English orchestra company Teddy Fosters and toured through occupied Germany as well as other European countries and North Africa. Teddy Reno founded his own record label, the Compagnia Generale del Disco, as early as 1948 and had enormous success with soulful songs, especially in the 1950s, also far beyond Italy's borders.
After Reno was able to achieve a second and a third place at the Sanremo Festival , the most important singing competition in Italy, in 1953 , his victorious tour through Europe began. Along with the German citizens' longing for Italy again, Reno also gained enormous popularity in Adenauer Germany. This led to the fact that he not only sang several records in German, which served the (West) German longing for sun, sand and sea in southern climes and the dream of dolcefarniente , but also that his soulful songs in several films, the served this stereotype of Italy.
In the 1960s, with the advent of English-language pop music, its popularity across Europe waned, but Teddy Reno continued to be a sought-after singer in Italy. In 1962, meanwhile, his film career came to a standstill. After getting to know and love the very young up- and-coming singer Rita Pavone , the two made four films together in 1966 and 1967, married the following year (1968) and finally moved to Switzerland, whose citizenship Reno later took on. Teddy Reno has not made a film since 1968 and has also gradually withdrawn from singing.
Filmography
- 1951: Miracolo a Viggiù
- 1953: Saluti e baci
- 1954: Le vacanze del sor Clemente
- 1954: Ballata tragica
- 1954: dance in the sun
- 1955: Vendicata!
- 1956: Totò, Peppino and the easy girl (Totò, Peppino e la… malafemmina)
- 1956: Totò, Peppino ei fuorilegge
- 1956: Due sosia in allegria
- 1957: My very bottom tester (Totò, Vittorio e la dottoressa)
- 1957: Peppino, le model e… "chella là"
- 1957: Under palm trees by the blue sea
- 1958: A journey into happiness
- 1959: Destinazione Sanremo
- 1959: My beautiful husband (Il nemico di mia moglie (Il marito bello))
- 1959: dream revue
- 1959: When the bells ring brightly
- 1960: hit rockets
- 1960: I Teddy boys della canzone
- 1960: Sanremo - La grande sfida
- 1962: Il giorno più corto
- 1966: Rita la zanzara
- 1967: Non stuzzicate la zanzara
- 1967: Stage pigs (La feldmarescialla)
- 1967: Blue beans for a hallelujah (Little Rita nel west)
Record releases in Germany
- 1954: It was in Napoli many years ago - Villa Bella (Polydor 22319)
- 1954: Senor - The way to your heart (Polydor 22355)
- 1954: Once in a Lifetime - Sun Song (Polydor 22356)
- 1955: Addio - Baby, my baby (Polydor 23107)
- 1955: In San Marino - Stay with me (Polydor 23161)
- 1957: Under palm trees by the blue sea - Serenata D'amore (Polydor 23458)
- 1958: Piccolissima Serenata - Amore Mio (Polydor 23703)
- 1969: Give your wife red roses every now and then - dance this dance with me (Polydor 53170)
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1384.
Web links
- Teddy Reno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Teddy Reno at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reno, teddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merk Ricordi, Ferruccio (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian pop singer and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |