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Giorgio Albertazzi
May 28, 1923 – August 20, 2016
In 1943 joins the Salò Republic, holding the rank of Lieutenant in the 3rd company of the Legion Tagliamento. In 1945 after the defeat of the Republic of Salò is arrested for having commanded, in the days leading up to the release, a firing squad, he spent two years in prison before being freed in 1947 following the so-called "Amnesty Togliatti ". Graduated in architecture, he devoted himself thereafter to acting in soap operas, theatre, cinema, on television. He debuted on stage in 1949 in Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, directed by Luchino Visconti, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In 1964, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare, makes its debut at the Old Vic Theatre in London with Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli with female protagonists Anna Proclemer and Anna Maria Guarnieri. In 1969 he acted in Jekyll, based on the novel the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, his first and only film as a film director is Gradiva , 1970, with Laura Antonelli, the movie flopped was withdrawn from cinemas.
In 1969 at La Scala in Milan is Oedipus in Oedipus (Sophocles) with incidental music by Andrea Gabrieli for directed by Giorgio De Lullo, Anna Proclemer, Renzo Palmer, Gualtiero Tumiati, Mario Erpichini, GabrieleLavia, Alfredo Bianchini, Roberto Rizzi and Tonino Pierferici. In 1974 he took part in the television series Philo Vance, where she plays the part of detective created by S.S. Van Dine. At La Fenice Theatre in Venice in 1980 he directed and adaptation of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg's incidental music and a narrator with Anna Proclemer, Elisabetta Pozzi and Bianca Toccafondi directed by Piero Bellugi.
In 1994 he founded and directed, together with the Association City project, the laboratory performing arts Volterra Verse, the breath,singing, from where will come dozens of young actors and actresses.
In 1996 it was candidate to the Chamber in Tradate: backed by the centre-right, he got 31 percent of the vote and was defeated by the representative of the Northern League Carlo Ambrogio Frigerio. In 1997 he collaborated with singer Giuni Russo in Verba Tango, contemporary music and poetry show that sees the production of Ezio Trapani. In 1999 the port Borges in Tango with the students of the school of Volterra.
Since 2003 he is Director of the Teatro di Roma. Partner on the stage and in life is the actress Bianca Toccafondi, in 2004 the public pays homage to the career award Gassman. At the same time, brings to the stage, along with Dario Fo, a series of broadcasts lectures on theatre in Italy, later broadcast by RAI. On 10 February 2006 he played the song of Ulysses, from Dante, during the opening ceremony of the Turin Olympics. In 2007 he marries in Rome, with a civil ceremony with the Florentine noblewoman Pia de'Tolomei, the two have 36 years apart, 84 Aaron, and 48. In 2009 he recorded for RAI 2 a reading of Divine Comedy among the ruins of the historic center of L'Aquila after the earthquake; on 1 St September he received the honorary citizenship of Ricadi. In 2014 took part in the 10th edition of dancing under the stars on Rai 1. Aaron died on 28 August of 2016 to Villa Tolomei di Sticciano, home of his wife.
Past productions
1964/ Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet
1969/ Oedipus Rex, directed by Giorgio De Lullo
1989/ Memoirs of Hadrian, directed by Maurizio Scaparro
Filmography
1951/ Lorenzaccio, directed by Raffaello Pacini
1952/ Youth on trial, directed by Ferruccio Cerio
1952/ Art. 519 Penal Code, directed by Leonardo Cortese
1952/ Don Camillo, not credited, directed by Julien Duvivier
1953/ Weights of Venice, directed by Gian Paolo Callegari
1953/ The merchant of Venice, directed by Pierre Billon
1954/ Betrayed, directed by Mario Bonnard
1954/ Delirium, directed by Pierre Billon and Giorgio Capitani
1954/ Shadow Men, directed by Francesco De Robertisi and Odoardo Fiory
1957/ The White Nights by Luchino Visconti
1959/ The idiot, written, directed by Giacomo V
1960/ Red lips, directed by Giuseppe Bennati
1961/ Death of a bandit, by Giuseppe Amato
1961/ last year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais
1962/ The Red, directed by Helmut Kautner
1962/ Eva, directed by Joseph Losey
1963/ Secret Violence, directed by Giorgio Moser
1965/ Dante's Life, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
1967/ I Married You for Allegria, directed by Luciano Salce
1968/ Caroline Mon Cheri, directed Deny de La Patellière
1970/ Gradiva, directed by Giorgio Albertazzi
1971/ This filthy marvellous world, directed by Mino Loy and Luigi Scattini
1972/ The assassination of Trotsky, directed by Joseph Losey
1974/ The night, directed by Tonino Cervi
1974/ 5 Women for the killer, directed by Stelvio Massi
1975/ Mark the COP, directed by Stelvio Massi
1981/ George Sand, directed by Giorgio Albertazzi
1988/ The Angels of Power, tv film directed by Giorgio Albertazzi
1985/ All years once a year, directed by Gianfrancesco Lazotti
1966/ Fatal Frames – Frames Mortals, directed by The Party
1998/ Crime against Crime, directed by Aldo Florio
1999/ They called them .... Bandits! directed by Pasquale Sallal
2001/ All the knowledge in the world, directed by Eros Puglielli
2003/ Lawyer De Gregorio, directed by Pasquale Sallal
2004/ Now and forever, directed by Vincenzo Verdecchi
2006/ AD Project, home video, directed by Eros Puglielli
2008/ Anger, directed by Louis Black
2011/ Some people say No, directed by Giovambattista Avellino
2016/ Antonio syndrome
2016/ Romantic Adventure, directed by David Carrillo
Television
Crime and punishment, directed by Franco Enriquez
Spectra, by Mario Ferrero
Piccolo Mondo Antico
The Idiot
Dante's Life, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Don Giovanni, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Jekyll, directed by Giorgi Albertazzi
Almayer's folly, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Philo Vance, directed by Marco Leto
Passions, directed by Fabrizio Costa
The Rival, directed by Alain Nahum
The House of The Beffe,directed by Pier Francesco Pingitore