Marcello Mastroianni
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Marcello Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Italian film actor noted for performances in A Special Day and La Grande bouffe.
Biography
Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice.
In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in I Miserabili (1947).
He soon became a major international star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society.
Mastroianni followed La dolce vita with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a movie in Fellini's 8½.
Mastroianni was married to Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926 - 1999) from 1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara. His brother Ruggero Mastroianni (1929 - 1996) was a highly regarded film editor who not only edited a number of his brother's films, but appeared alongside Marcello in Scipione detto anche l'Africano, a sword and sandals film released in 1971.
He also had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with the actress Catherine Deneuve, his longtime lover during the seventies. Both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72, as was his partner at the time, author and filmmaker Anna Maria Tato.
According to Christopher Wiegand and Paul Duncan in their book 'Federico Fellini, when Mastroianni died in 1996, the Trevi Fountain, which is so famously associated with him due to his role in Fellini's La dolce vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute.
Filmography
- Marionette by Carmine Gallone (1939)
- Una storia d'amore by Mario Camerini (1942)
- I bambini ci guardano by Vittorio De Sica (1944)
- I miserabili by Riccardo Freda (1948)
- Vent'anni by Giorgio Bianchi (1949)
- Vertigine d'amore by Luigi Capuano (1949)
- Domenica d'agosto by Luciano Emmer (1950)
- Contro la legge by Flavio Calzavara (1950)
- Vita da cani by Steno and Mario Monicelli (1950)
- Cuori sul mare by Giorgio Bianchi (1950)
- Atto d'accusa by Giacomo Gentilomo (1951)
- Passaporto per l'oriente by Montgomery Tully, Romolo Marcellini (1951)
- Parigi è sempre Parigi by Luciano Emmer (1951)
- La muta di Portici by Giorgio Ansoldi (1952)
- Sensualità by Clemente Fracassi (1952)
- Tragico ritorno by Pier Luigi Faraldo (1952)
- L'eterna catena by Anton Giulio Majano (1952)
- Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna by Luciano Emmer (1952)
- Penne nere by Oreste Biancoli (1952)
- Lulù by Fernando Cerchio (1953)
- Febbre di vivere by Claudio Gora (1953)
- Non è mai troppo tardi by Filippo Walter Ratti (1953)
- Gli eroi della domenica by Mario Camerini (1953)
- Il viale della speranza by Dino Risi (1953)
- Schiava del peccato by Raffaello Matarazzo (1954)
- La principessa delle Canarie by Paolo Moffa (1954)
- Cronache di poveri amanti by Carlo Lizzani (1954)
- Tempi nostri by Alessandro Blasetti [episoeo: Il pupo] (1954)
- Giorni d'amore by Giuseppe De Santis (1954)
- Casa Ricordi by Carmine Gallone (1954)
- Peccato che sia una canaglia by Alessandro Blasetti (1954)
- Tam tam mayumbe by Gian Gaspare Napolitano (1955)
- La bella mugnaia by Mario Camerini (1955)
- La fortuna di essere donna by Alessandro Blasetti (1956)
- Il bigamo by Luciano Emmer (1956)
- Il medico e lo steegone by Mario Monicelli (1957)
- Padri e figli by Mario Monicelli (1957)
- La ragazza della salina by František Čáp (1957)
- Il momento più bello by Luciano Emmer (1957)
- Le notti bianche by Luchino Visconti (1957)
- Racconti d'estate by Gianni Franciolini (1958)
- Amore e guai by Angelo Dorigo (1958)
- I soliti ignoti by Mario Monicelli (1958)
- Il nemico di mia moglie by Gianni Puccini (1959)
- Un ettaro di cielo by Aglauco Casadio (1959)
- La Legge by Jules Dassin (1959)
- Tutti innamorati by Giuseppe Orlandini (1959)
- Ferdinando I, re di Napoli by Gianni Franciolini (1959)
- La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini (1960)
- Il bell'Antonio by Mauro Bolognini (1960)
- Adua e le compagne by Antonio Pietrangeli (1960)
- Fantasmi a Roma by Antonio Pietrangeli (1961)
- La notte by Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
- L'assassino by Elio Petri (1961)
- Divorzio all'italiana by Pietro Germi (1961)
- Vita privata by Louis Malle (1962)
- Cronaca familiare by Valerio Zurlini (1962)
- 8½ by Federico Fellini (1962)
- I compagni by Mario Monicelli (1963)
- Ieri, oggi, domani by Vittorio De Sica (1963)
- Matrimonio all'italiana by Vittorio De Sica (1964)
- L'uomo dei cinque palloni by Marco Ferreri (1965)
- Oggi, domani e dopodomani by Luciano Salce, Marco Ferreri, Eduardo De Filippo [episodie L'uomo dei cinque palloni] (1965)
- Casanova 70 by Mario Monicelli (1965)
- La decima vittima by Elio Petri (1965)
- Io, io, io... e gli altri by Alessandro Blasetti (1966)
- Poppies Are Also Flowers by Terence Young (1966)
- Spara forte, più forte... non capisco! by Eduardo De Filippo (1966)
- Lo straniero by Luchino Visconti (1967)
- Questi fantasmi by Renato Castellani (1968)
- Amanti by Vittorio De Sica (1968)
- Diamonds for Breakfast by Christopher Morahan (1968)
- Dramma della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca by Ettore Scola (1970)
- I girasoli by Vittorio De Sica (1970)
- Leo the Last by John Boorman (1970)
- Giochi particolari by Franco Indovina (1970)
- Scipione detto anche l'africano by Luigi Magni (1971)
- Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 by Alfredo Giannetti (1971)
- Permette? Rocco Papaleo by Ettore Scola (1971)
- La moglie del prete by Dino Risi (1971)
- Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres by Nadine Trintignant (1972)
- La cagna by Marco Ferreri (1972)
- What? by Roman Polanski (1972)
- Mordi e fuggi by Dino Risi (1973)
- La Grande Bouffe by Marco Ferreri (1973)
- Niente di grave: suo marito è incinto by Jacques Demy (1973)
- Rappresaglia by George Pan Cosmatos (1973)
- L'idolo della città by Yves Robert (1973)
- Touche pas à la femme blanche by Marco Ferreri (1974)
- Allonsanfàn by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1974)
- La pupa del gangster by Giorgio Capitani (1975)
- Divina creatura by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (1975)
- Per le antiche scale by Mauro Bolognini (1975)
- La donna della domenica by Luigi Comencini (1975)
- Culastrisce nobile veneziano by Flavio Mogherini (1976)
- Todo modo by Elio Petri (1976)
- Signore e signori, buonanotte by Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Nanni Loy, Ettore Scola, Luigi Magni (1976)
- Mogliamante by Marco Vicario (1977)
- Una giornata particolare by Ettore Scola (1977)
- Doppio delitto by Steno (1977)
- Giallo napoletano by Sergio Corbucci (1978)
- Ciao maschio by Marco Ferreri (1978)
- Così come sei by Alberto Lattuada (1978)
- Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova, si sospettano moventi politici by Lina Wertmüller (1978)
- L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile by Luigi Comencini (1979)
- La terrazza by Ettore Scola (1980)
- La città delle donne by Federico Fellini (1980)
- Fantasma d'amore by Dino Risi (1981)
- La pelle by Liliana Cavani (1981)
- La Nuit de Varennes by Ettore Scola (1982)
- Oltre la porta by Liliana Cavani (1982)
- Gabriela, Cravo e Canela by Bruno Barreto (1983)
- Storia di Piera by Marco Ferreri (1983)
- Il generale del armata morta by Luciano Tovoli (1983)
- Enrico IV by Marco Bellocchio (1984)
- Le due vite di Mattia Pascal by Mario Monicelli (1985)
- Maccheroni by Ettore Scola (1985)
- Il volo by Theodoros Angelopoulos (1986)
- Ginger e Fred by Federico Fellini (1986)
- Intervista by Federico Fellini (1987)
- Miss Arizona by Pál Sándor (1987)
- I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo by Amanzio Todini (1987)
- Oci ciornie by Nikita Mikhalkov (1987)
- Splendor by Ettore Scola (1989)
- Che ora è? by Ettore Scola (1989)
- Stanno tutti bene by Giuseppe Tornatore (1990)
- Cin cin by Gene Saks (1990)
- Verso sera by Francesca Archibugi (1990)
- To meteoro vima tou pelargou by Theodoros Angelopoulos (1991)
- Le voleur d'enfants by Christian De Chalonge (1991)
- Used People by Beeban Kidron (1992)
- Di questo non si parla by María Luisa Bemberg (1993)
- Un, deux, trois, soleil by Bertrand Blier (1993)
- Prêt-à-Porter by Robert Altman (1994)
- Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma by Agnès Varda (1995)
- Al di là delle nuvole by Michelangelo Antonioni (1995)
- Sostiene Pereira by Roberto Faenza (1995)
- Trois vies et une seule mort by Raúl Ruiz (1996)
- Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo by Manoel de Oliveira (1997)