Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo Trieste ( May 3, 1917 in Reggio Calabria, † January 25, 2003 in Rome ) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
Life
Trieste was first appointed as an author of dramas and comedies in appearance; his first " La frontiera " had in July 1945 in Rome premiered. The following year, was shown in Milan " Cronaca ", an anticipation of the pieces to the Roman Dolce Vita generation. 1948 finally appeared "NN", the conclusion of morality trilogy of postwar Italy. In the aftermath cooperated Trieste screenplays for Pietro Germi, Aldo Vergano and Claudio Gora and debuted in 1952 (after a brief appearance five years earlier ) with his friend Federico Fellini in Lo Sceicco blanco as an actor, which activity he in the coming decades in almost 130 roles remained arrested as a character actor, including many pioneering and successful films and international production. He portrayed about Bud Spencer movie Flatfoot on the Nile, Signor Roberto and starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II, in If not Look Now and The Clan of the Sicilians with. In the German -speaking world, he was a wide audience especially through his embodiment of FIG Beppo known street sweeper in the Michael Ende book adaptation Momo.
For the man who makes the stars Trieste received in 1996 the Silver band and a David di Donatello. In 1985, he had already been awarded a Silver Ribbon for Henry IV.