Marcello Mastroianni

Nathali · July 5, 2013

So ,apparently there isn`t a topic for him yet...

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI

Date of Birth 28 September 1924, Fontana Liri, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death 19 December 1996, Paris, France (pancreatic cancer)

Birth Name Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni

Height 5' 9¼" (1.76 m)

Mini Biography

Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy on 28 September 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian department of "Eagle Lion Films" in Rome and joined a drama club, where he was discovered by director Luchino Visconti. In 1957 Visconti gave him the starring part in his Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation Um Rosto na Noite (1957) and in 1958 he was fine as a little thief in Mario Monicelli's comedy Os Eternos Desconhecidos (1958). But his real breakthrough came in 1960, when Federico Fellini cast him as an attractive, weary-eyed journalist of the Rome jet-set in A Doce Vida (1960); that film was the genesis of his "Latin lover" persona, which Mastroianni himself often denied by accepting parts of passive and sensitive men. He would again work with Fellini in several major films, like the exquisite 8½ (1963) (as a movie director who finds himself at a point of crisis) and the touching Ginger e Fred (1986) (as an old entertainer who appears in a TV show). He also appeared as a tired novelist with marital problems in Michelangelo Antonioni's A Noite (1961), as an impotent young man in Mauro Bolognini's O Belo Antônio (1960) , as an exiled prince in John Boorman's Principe sem palacio (1970), as a traitor in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Allonsanfàn (1974) and as a sensitive homosexual in love with a housewife in Ettore Scola's Um Dia Muito Especial (1977). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divórcio à Italiana (1961), Um Dia Muito Especial (1977), and Olhos Negros (1987). During the last decade of his life he worked with directors, like Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bertrand Blier and Raoul Ruiz, who gave him three excellent parts in Três Vidas & Uma Só Morte (1996). He died of pancreatic cancer on December 19, 1996.