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Ettore Petrolini is a Actor and Scriptwriter Italien born on 13 january 1884 at Rome (Italie)
Ettore Petrolini (January 13, 1884 – June 29, 1936) was an Italian stage and film actor, playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is considered one of the most important figures of avanspettacolo, vaudeville and revue. He was noted for his numerous caricature sketches, and was the "inventor of a revolutionary and anticonformist way of performing". Petrolini is also remembered for having created the Dadaist character Fortunello. His contribution to the history of Italian theater is now widely acknowledged, especially with regard to his influence on 20th century comedy. His iconic character Gastone became a byword in Italian for a certain type of stagey snob.
Petrolini's sympathies for, and impertinences towards, the Fascist regime were complex. Petrolini was admired and befriended by Mussolini, even though his Nerone caricature was widely perceived as a parody of the dictator. It has been suggested that the Nerone character – first created by Petrolini in 1917 – may actually have influenced Mussolini's own mannerisms. Although a public supporter of the regime, Petrolini did not refrain from satire, including a famously disrespectful rejoinder after Mussolini had presented him with a medal.
Forced to quit the stage in 1935 following a severe attack of angina pectoris, he died aged 52, in Rome, on June 29, 1936. The corpse, dressed in a tailcoat of his celebrated character Gastone, was buried at the Cemetery of Verano. On 19 July 1943, during the first bombing of Rome, his tomb – a rectangular chapel – was hit, breaking the marble bust and severely damaging the coffin containing the remains of the actor.
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Nationality Italie
Birth 13 january 1884 at Rome (Italie)
Death 29 june 1936 (at 52 years) at Rome (Italie)
Birth 13 january 1884 at Rome (Italie)
Death 29 june 1936 (at 52 years) at Rome (Italie)
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In 1923, Petrolini was initiated into Freemasonry.Petrolini's sympathies for, and impertinences towards, the Fascist regime were complex. Petrolini was admired and befriended by Mussolini, even though his Nerone caricature was widely perceived as a parody of the dictator. It has been suggested that the Nerone character – first created by Petrolini in 1917 – may actually have influenced Mussolini's own mannerisms. Although a public supporter of the regime, Petrolini did not refrain from satire, including a famously disrespectful rejoinder after Mussolini had presented him with a medal.
Forced to quit the stage in 1935 following a severe attack of angina pectoris, he died aged 52, in Rome, on June 29, 1936. The corpse, dressed in a tailcoat of his celebrated character Gastone, was buried at the Cemetery of Verano. On 19 July 1943, during the first bombing of Rome, his tomb – a rectangular chapel – was hit, breaking the marble bust and severely damaging the coffin containing the remains of the actor.
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Filmography of Ettore Petrolini (4 films)
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Tutto il mondo ride (1952)
, 1h40Directed by Ignazio Ferronetti
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Aldo Fabrizi
, 55minutesDirected by Carlo Campogalliani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Molière au cinéma
Actors Ettore Petrolini, Dria Paola, Checco Durante
Roles Sganarello
Rating65%
Après avoir essayé pendant longtemps sur la scène, Ettore Petrolini réinvente Sganarelle, d'une manière proche au caractère Bertoldo de Giulio Cesare Croce. Se référant à Petrolini, le critique de cinéma Filippo Sacchi avait écrit " Vous devez l'accepter tel qu'il est, avec son tempérament et ses qualités admirables ... avec le grotesque et la blague qui échappent même sans logique dans le genre comique"
Nerone (1930)
, 1h20Directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Genres Comedy
Actors Ettore Petrolini, Alfredo Martinelli, Mercedes Brignone, Alessandro Blasetti, Lilla Brignone
Roles Gastone/Nerone/Fortunello/Pulcinella/himself
Rating68%
The film features some unforgettable characters (more precisely in Italian: macchiette) created by Ettore Petrolini: Gastone, Fortunello and Nero. Nero, who rides a bicycle, which burns Rome with a match, that calls the fire department by phone from the imperial palace. There is also Petrolini in his dressing room surrounded by admirers, including a young girl who returns to the theater the next day, between the two was born a flirt, but the actor will not leave the theater to go out with her.
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47 Talking Corpses (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Silvana Pampanini, Carlo Croccolo, Aldo Bufi Landi, Tina Lattanzi, Adriana Benetti
Rating69%
The story is set in a small town near Naples early 1900. Baron Antonio Peletti is a stingy and cruel man who thinks only to spend the bare minimum needs for his son and future daughter-in-law, even if he lives in a luxurious house. The servant Contrado is forced to go hungry because of that miser, in fact every time that Antonio has to spend even a penny to buy something complained of unnecessary waste, exclaiming: "And I pay, and I pay!!" But one day his grandson who want to steal the box full of gold coins Antonio, hide under the bed has a way of revenge. But in order to steal the tape, the grandson needs the complicity of all higher institutions in the country, including the mayor, one of the most bitter enemies of Antonio. In fact, the man wants to build a primary school for the children of the village, but the cruel Antonio prevents the funding because they do not want to throw out a penny!. So the pharmacist really wants to deceive Antonio with a sleeping pill into believing that it gave him to drink a poison accidentally. Antonio bait this trap and believed to be in Hell, really desolate set up by the villagers, and then the hairs Baron finds a soul who persuades him to donate money to the mayor of the box to set up the school. Only then Antonio would be redeemed from their sins in the past and would go to the Paurgatory. However, during the operation something is wrong and Antonio realizes the trap of the villagers. The nephew not to lose money steals the cassette and runs away in a balloon with his girlfriend but Antonio joins him and the three hovering in the air. But due to a failure of the balloon starts to descend towards the sea and so must lighten it; Antonio will be forced into tears and throw away his box full of gold coins. He is now supposed to be sunk somewhere near Sardinia, but at the end of the story the baron, coming back from the island on a monkey in the very day of inauguration, eventually understands his mistakes and accepts to finance the project of founding the school.
, 55minutesDirected by Carlo Campogalliani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Molière au cinéma
Actors Ettore Petrolini, Dria Paola, Checco Durante
Rating65%
Après avoir essayé pendant longtemps sur la scène, Ettore Petrolini réinvente Sganarelle, d'une manière proche au caractère Bertoldo de Giulio Cesare Croce. Se référant à Petrolini, le critique de cinéma Filippo Sacchi avait écrit " Vous devez l'accepter tel qu'il est, avec son tempérament et ses qualités admirables ... avec le grotesque et la blague qui échappent même sans logique dans le genre comique"
Nerone (1930)
, 1h20Directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Genres Comedy
Actors Ettore Petrolini, Alfredo Martinelli, Mercedes Brignone, Alessandro Blasetti, Lilla Brignone
Rating68%
The film features some unforgettable characters (more precisely in Italian: macchiette) created by Ettore Petrolini: Gastone, Fortunello and Nero. Nero, who rides a bicycle, which burns Rome with a match, that calls the fire department by phone from the imperial palace. There is also Petrolini in his dressing room surrounded by admirers, including a young girl who returns to the theater the next day, between the two was born a flirt, but the actor will not leave the theater to go out with her.