Giorgio Albertazzi

Giorgio Albertazzi ( born August 20, 1923 in San Martino a Mensola, Florence ) is an Italian actor and television director.

Life

Albertazzi joined as a young man of the Italian Social Republic and rose to the rank of lieutenant. After their defeat, he was hospitalized collaboration two years in jail. After the amnesty by Togliatti, the architecture student turned to the actor's work and looked quickly in Fotoromanzi with.

In the theater Albertazzi debuted in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and played in the following decades in numerous classics, many of them for television. From the early 1950s he was also seen on the big screen - until today he performed about 50 roles in this medium. Since 1969 he was a director responsible for some of television films, as for the mini-series George Sand in 1981. Since 2003 he has been director of the Teatro di Roma ''.

Privately, he was in the 1950 long with fellow actress Anna Proclemer that occurred with him for many years in stage plays, friends. In 2007, he married his long-time, 36 years younger girlfriend Pia de Tolomei.

In 1988, he wrote his memoirs; Albertazzi 1996 was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2003 with the Benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte.

Filmography (selection)

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