Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi ( born June 15, 1920 in Rome, † February 25, 2003 ) was an Italian film, television and theater actor and director, screenwriter and voice actor.

Life

Born into a musical family - his father was a music professor - began Sordi already in elementary school with the theater at first with the staging of puppet plays. In addition, he also sang in the choir of the Sistine Chapel. The Milan Acting Academy, he had to give up after a short time because of his Roman dialect.

Back in Rome began Sordi 1937 as an extra in Cinecittà and soon became voice actor for Oliver Hardy, Robert Mitchum and Anthony Quinn. He also worked in theater and as a radio speaker.

Sordi emerged especially in comic roles. He became famous for his work with Federico Fellini, whose films such as The Bitter Love ( 1952), The Loafer (1953) and Fellini's Roma ( 1971), he played leading roles. Success had granted him with the role of seeking after extramarital love affairs Amedeo Gian Luigi Polidoro in Comedy Amore in Stockholm, which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Actor. This was followed by the role of the wealthy Count Emilio Ponticelli breaking pilots in the English-language production Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965).

Sordi appeared as an actor in over 150 film and television productions. In the Film Festival in Venice in 1995, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. After his death at the age of 82 years the coffin of popular actor was laid out in the City Hall of Rome.

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