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Romolo Valli is a Actor Italien born on 7 february 1925 at Reggio Emilia (Italie)

Romolo Valli

Romolo Valli
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Nationality Italie
Birth 7 february 1925 at Reggio Emilia (Italie)
Death 1 february 1980 (at 54 years) at Rome (Italie)

Romolo Valli (7 February 1925 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor.

Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked both for the stage and the silver screen. Among the directors he collaborated with were Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim, and Luchino Visconti, who cast Valli in three feature films (Il Gattopardo, Morte a Venezia, Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) and the episode Il lavoro of Boccaccio '70. Valli died in a car accident.

Biography

Il passa une licence en droit à Parme en 1949, plus pour satisfaire son père que par envie de devenir avocat. L'étudiant manifesta en effet des préférences pour tout ce qui était spectacle : spectacles de revue, lectures sur scène, critiques théâtrales et cinématographiques, organisation de cercles cinématographiques, mise en scène de comédies.

Le tout avec les possibilités limitées du Reggio de l'après-guerre, jusqu'à ce qu'en 1949 il eût sa chance en entrant dans la compagnie du Carrozzone de Fantasio Piccoli, où il débuta avec un Miles Gloriosus qui eut un grand succès. Il passa trois ans dans cette compagnie, puis en 1952 fit une tournée en Amérique du Sud avec le Piccolo Teatro di Milano, et ses interprétations retinrent l'attention dans le Jules César de Shakespeare, La giara d'après Pirandello, L'ingranaggio et La moglie ideale.

1954 fut une année décisive : avec Giorgio De Lullo, Rossella Falk, Tino Buazzelli et Anna Maria Guarnieri il constitua la Compagnia dei Giovani, où entrèrent également par la suite Elsa Albani et Ferruccio De Ceresa. Malgré les grands mérites de De Lullo, ce fut en réalité Valli, du fait de sa grande culture, qui fut l'âme de la compagnie jusqu'à l'année de sa dissolution, en 1974.

Parmi les très nombreuses interprétations théâtrales, Lorenzaccio, Le Journal d'Anne Frank, Six personnages en quête d'auteur et Henri IV de Pirandello, Le Malade imaginaire, L'amica delle mogli, Così è (se vi pare), Terra di nessuno (en compagnie de De Lullo) et, last but not least, Prima del silenzio.

Sa carrière cinématographique fut aussi importante. Parmi ses films, Polycarpe, maître calligraphe de Mario Soldati, La Grande Guerre et Un bourgeois tout petit petit de Mario Monicelli, La Fille à la valise de Valerio Zurlini et surtout Le Guépard, Mort à Venise de Luchino Visconti, et Il était une fois la révolution, de Sergio Leone, où il interprète le personnage du docteur Villega, médecin et leader de la révolution qui, sous la torture, révèle les noms de ses compagnons de lutte qui sont exécutés par la coalition gouvernementale mexicano-prussienne.

Il a travaillé aussi à la radio, dans la populaire émission Gran Varietà où il jouait le personnage du « maleducatore ».

Dans ses dernières années, outre ses interprétations régulières au Teatro Eliseo de Rome, il était aussi directeur du Festival des Deux Mondes de Spolète. Il mourut dans un accident de la circulation. Il est enterré dans le temple de la Renommée du cimetière monumental de Reggio en Émilie, auprès de Maria Melato.

On a donné son nom au grandiose théâtre de sa ville natale, anciennement Théâtre municipal.

Best films

Death in Venice (1971)
(Actor)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
(Actor)
Womanlight (1979)
(Actor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Romolo Valli (37 films)

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Womanlight
Womanlight (1979)
, 1h45
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Heinz Bennent, Jacques Dynam, Lila Kedrova, Romolo Valli
Roles Galba
Rating63% 3.1955353.1955353.1955353.1955353.195535
Michel erre dans les rues de Paris, se refusant à aller prendre son avion. Avant qu'il s'en aille, sa femme mourante lui a dit qu'elle prendra les traits de la prochaine femme qu'il rencontrera. C'est alors que Michel rencontre Lydia, dont la souffrance ressemble à la sienne.
An Average Little Man, 1h58
Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Romolo Valli, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renato Malavasi, Enrico Beruschi
Roles Dott. Spaziani
Rating77% 3.899833.899833.899833.899833.89983
Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) is a petty bourgeois, modest white collar worker nearing retirement in a public office in the capital. His life is divided between work and family. With his wife (Shelley Winters) he shares high hopes for his son, Mario (Vincenzo Crocitti), a newly qualified accountant, not a particularly bright boy who willingly assists in the efforts which his father employs to make it in the same office.
Bobby Deerfield, 2h4
Directed by Sydney Pollack, Alvin Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Films about cancer, Road movies
Actors Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romolo Valli, Gérard Hernandez
Roles Uncle Luigi
Rating58% 2.902392.902392.902392.902392.90239
Formula One auto racer Bobby Deerfield is a calculating, control-obsessed loner who has become used to winning the checkered flag on the track. But after he witnesses a fiery crash that kills a teammate and seriously wounds a competitor, Deerfield becomes unsettled by the spectre of death.
The Devil's Advocate, 1h44
Directed by Guy Green
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors John Mills, Paola Pitagora, Stéphane Audran, Jason Miller, Leigh Lawson, Daniel Massey
Roles Cardinal Marotta
Rating63% 3.180943.180943.180943.180943.18094
In 1958, the Catholic Church is investigating the case of a mysterious individual, Giacomo Nerone (Leigh Lawson), who is said to have performed miracles in a remote village in southern Italy (Scontrone), before being executed by Italian Communist partisans in 1944. The process involves a "Devil's advocate", who is tasked with discovering any details about the subject's life that would indicate their canonisation would be inappropriate.
Holocaust 2000, 1h46
Directed by Alberto De Martino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna, Spiros Focás
Roles Charrier
Rating55% 2.75862.75862.75862.75862.7586
Despite doomsday warnings from throngs of locals, wealthy industrialist Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) makes the controversial decision to build a nuclear power plant near a sacred cave in the Middle East. But before Caine can reap the benefits of his latest bid for global domination, he discovers that his son, Angel (Simon Ward), is the Antichrist, who is planning to use his father's project to trigger the end of the world.
1900
1900 (1976)
, 5h20
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Alida Valli, Burt Lancaster
Roles Giovanni Berlinghieri
Rating76% 3.8023053.8023053.8023053.8023053.802305
Born on the day of the death of renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi—27 January 1901—Alfredo Berlinghieri and Olmo Dalcò come from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Alfredo is from a family of landowners led by his populist grandfather (also called Alfredo), while Olmo is an illegitimate peasant. Olmo's grandfather, Leo, is the foreman and peasants' strong man who verbally and spiritually carries out a duel of wits with grandfather Alfredo. As Alfredo is somewhat rebellious and despises the falseness of his family, in particular his weak but abusive and cynical father Giovanni, he befriends Olmo, who was raised as a socialist.
Conversation Piece, 2h
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Claudia Cardinale, Claudia Marsani
Roles Michelli
Rating73% 3.695163.695163.695163.695163.69516
Retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa (Silvana Mangano) and her companions: her lover (Helmut Berger), her daughter (Claudia Marsani) and her daughter's boyfriend (Stefano Patrizi) and is forced to rent to them an apartment on an upper floor of his home. From this point on, his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
What?
What? (1972)
, 1h52
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome, Romolo Valli, Guido Alberti, Carlo Delle Piane
Roles Giovanni
Rating55% 2.752422.752422.752422.752422.75242
Set in an unnamed coastal city in Italy, the film tells a story of an American girl, Nancy (Sydne Rome) who, after a sexually assault attempt, takes shelter in a villa filled with strange guests. There, she gets into a relationship with a retired pimp Alex (Marcello Mastroianni).
Duck, You Sucker, 2h37
Directed by Sergio Leone, Alberto De Martino
Origin Italie
Genres War, Action, Western
Themes Political films, Buddy films
Actors Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti, Franco Graziosi, Antoine Saint-John
Roles Dr. Villega
Rating76% 3.801043.801043.801043.801043.80104
In Revolution-torn 1913 Mexico, Juan Miranda, a Mexican outlaw leading a bandit family, robs a coach of wealthy men and rapes a female passenger who insulted him. Passing by on a motorcycle is John (Seán) H. Mallory, an early Irish Republican explosives expert, who is working in Mexico as a silver mine blaster. Discovering his skill with dynamite and nitroglycerine, Juan relentlessly tries to force John to join him on a raid on the Mesa Verde National Bank.
Ciao, Federico!, 1h
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Nino Rota, Giuseppe Rotunno, Dante Ferretti, Martin Potter
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2386253.2386253.2386253.2386253.238625
Reportage, en 1968, sur le tournage du film Satyricon. Interviews de Federico Fellini, commentaires de quelques-uns de ses acteurs, ainsi que des membres de son entourage.
Death in Venice, 2h10
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Films about viral outbreaks, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Björn Andrésen
Roles Hotel Manager
Rating73% 3.698283.698283.698283.698283.69828
The protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
The Story of Romance and Knife, 1h48
Directed by Sergio Corbucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori, Vittorio Caprioli, Romolo Valli, Maurizio Arena, Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Roles Maresciallo
Rating58% 2.9422952.9422952.9422952.9422952.942295
The story is set in Rome in 1900. In a seedy area of the city, "borgataro" Nino Patroni, called in Roman dialect "Er Più of Borgo Santo Spirito", seeks to marry a fellow rogue with his sister. Nino also tries to fix himself with the beautiful turbines Rosa, but the girl is disputed by the protagonist with the squire Augustarello, leader of a gang of thugs in the village adverse to that of Nino. After moments of respite and battles with stab wounds, Nino manages to make peace with the family of Augustarello; as a matter of fact, after Nino wounded in a duel, Augustarello accidentally killes himself with his stab.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1h34
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Helmut Berger, Alessandro D'Alatri
Roles padre di Giorgio
Rating72% 3.6429253.6429253.6429253.6429253.642925
In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, a group of young friends get together for afternoons of tennis and happy times. Some of them are Jewish and a rising tide of Fascism has imposed increasingly anti-Semitic restrictions in their lives. Barred from regular tennis clubs, they go to play at the grand, walled estate owned by the Finzi-Contini, a wealthy, intellectual and sophisticated Jewish family. The two young Finzi-Contini, Alberto and his sister Micol, have organized a tennis tournament. Oblivious to the threats around them, life still seems to be sunny at the large Finzi-Contini estate, keeping the rest of the world at bay.