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Turi Ferro
Catania, 10 January 1921 – 11 May 2001 Sant'Agati Battiati
Turi began acting in Theater Coppola of Catania, in the company run by his father's dramatic society art Brigade William Irons. In 1948 started acting with his wife Ida Carrara in Red Company of San Secondo di Roma. In theatre plays many works by Luigi Pirandello, bringing on stage the giants of the mountain, unfinished Sicilian writer. In 1957 he and his wife creates The ente Teatrale Sicily by combining the best regional theatre actors they include Umberto Spataro, Salvo Randone, Rosina Anselmi. In 1958 along with Umberto Spataro and Mehdi founded the Teatro Stabile di Catania. In 1965 directed by Luigi Squarzina is called to interpret the play the great hope, written by Carlo Marcello Rietmann. For the cinema turned over 30 film in 2002 was supposed to play Geppetto in Pinocchio by Benigni. Roberto Benigni remembers him:
"Candide tragic, humble and high. Was the Gale of my dreams. I will continue to dream about it. He was an actor of great beauty, the face could live with the same force real landscapes and places fiabieschi. There had met to begin a journey together in the most beautiful fairy tale in the world."
Turi dies at the age of 80 years to Sant'Agati of Battiati due to a heart attack.
Past productions
1958/ Magic, by Luigi Capuana
1958/ Liolà, by Luigi Pirandello
1959/ Lu Pidagna Knights
1960/ The housekeeper, Vitaliano Brancati, directed by Luigi Squarzina
1961/ Il marchese di Ruvolito
1961/ The public prosecutor
1961/ The Mystery Inn
1964/ Cod
1964/ But it's not a serious thing
1965/ Dajla
1965/ Inquisition
1966/ The cuckoo clock
1966/ Boris Godunov
1962/ The she-Wolf, by Giovanni Verga
1962/ The man and his death, by Giuseppe Berto
1962/ The giants of the mountain, by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Giorgio Strehler
1967/ Rustic Cavalry
1967/ Master-don Gesualdo, by Giovanni Verga
1968/ Ah, Wildernessi
1970/ The air of the continent, directed by Turi Ferro, and Marcello Sartarelli
1971/ The candidate
1977/ The visitor
1977/ Thel Council of Egypt
1980/ Six characters in search of an author by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Giancarlo Cobelli
1983/ Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
1986/ Antigone, by Sophocles
1994/ The Viceroy, by Federico De Roberto
1996/ The visitor, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
1998/ I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga
Think Giacomino!, by Luigi Pirandello
Each in his own way, by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Luigi Squarzina
The Day of the Owl, by Leonardo Sciascia
The Council of Egypt, Leonardo Sciascia
The miser, by Molière
The catch, by Andrea Camilleri
Television
Mastro Don Gesualdo, with Lydia Alfonsi and Enrico Maria Salerno
The village master, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Melissa, by Francis Durbridge
The tales of Marshal, by Mario Soldati
The world, by Luigi Pirandello
Luca's secret, by Ignazio Silone
I Nicotera
The fifth woman
And then if they leave? with Virna Lisi
Filmography
1962/ A man for burning
1964/ Extramarital affair
1965/ I knew her well
1966/ Rita the Mosquito
1967/ Don't tease the mosquito
1969/ Seven times seven
1970/ A case of conscience
1971/ Scipio Africanus, directed by Luigi Magni
1971/ The investigation and closed forget, directed by Damiano Damiani
1972/ Charges of murder for a student, directed by Mauro Bolognini
1972/ Violence: Fifth Power, directed by Florestano Vancini
1972/ Mimi metallurgical wounded in honour, directed by Lina Wertmüller
1973/ The Black Hand, directed by Antonio Racioppi
1973/ Malice, directed by Salvatore Samperi
1973/ Manhood, directed by Paolo Cavara
1974/ The housekeeper, directed by Giovanni Grimaldi
1974/ The SLOWPOKE, directed by Paolo Cavara
1975/ Virgin named Mary, directed by Sergio Nasca
1975/ The barons, directed by Gian Paolo Lomi
1977/ That night tonight!, directed by Ghigo De Chiara
1977/ Was interesting, directed by Sergio Nasca
1978/ Bloodletting between two men in the case of a widow. Suspected political movements, directed by Lina Wertmüller
1978/ Ernesto, directed by Salvatore Sampei
1981/ The round, directed by Tonino Cervi
1988/ The stakes, directed by Sergio Nasca
1988/ And you don't want to go!, directed by Giorgio Capitani
1991/ Malizia 2000, directed by Salvatore Samperi
1988/ You laugh, by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani