Tiberio Murgia
Tiberio Murgia (born February 5, 1929 in Oristano , † August 20, 2010 in Tolfa ) was an Italian actor .
Life
Murgia was born in poor conditions in Sardinia and after a time worked as a salesman for the communist newspaper Unità and as secretary of the youth organization of the KPI in a Belgian coal mine. He then moved to Rome and earned his living as an assistant in a restaurant, where he was discovered in 1958 by Mario Monicelli, who found the ideal cast in him for a role in Thieves Have a Hard Time. From then on, Murgia specialized in his more than 110 roles in the portrayal of the small, cunning, often somewhat slow Sicilian worker or a small crook.
Murgia often worked with Walter Chiari and Ugo Tognazzi , in the 1970s he was often a partner of Italian comedy actors in the then flourishing erotic comedies. He was active until shortly before his death from the effects of Alzheimer's disease . He also worked for television and made commercials.
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: Thieves have it hard (Thieves have it hard)
- 1959: It was called the great war (La grande guerra)
- 1959: Hercules and the Queen of the Amazons (Ercole e la regina di Lidia)
- 1959: Terror in Oklahoma (Il terrore dell'Oklahoma)
- 1960: The Swedes (Le Svedesi)
- 1965: The gendarme from Broadway (Le gendarme à New York)
- 1966: The great coup of Casablanca (L'Homme de Marrakech)
- 1967: Ric e Gian alla conquista del West
- 1968: You don't catch men with pistols (La ragazza con la pistola)
- 1971: Le juge
- 1980: The Umbrella Killer (Le coup à parapluie)
- 1981: Give the monkey sugar (Innamorato pazzo)
- 1982: The old Huns drove wildly (Attila flagello di Dio)
- 1985: Big Deal - Thieves have a hard time (I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo)
- 2001: The Rebellion (Ribelli per caso)
- 2008: Chi nasce tondo
Web links
- Tiberio Murgia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary at cinema-tv (Italian)
- Obituary of Cronache dalla Sardegna (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography at mymovies (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murgia, Tiberio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oristano , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 2010 |
| Place of death | Tolfa , Italy |