Sergio Fantoni
Sergio Fantoni ( born August 7, 1930 in Rome ) is an Italian actor, director, writer and voice actor.
Life
Sergio Fantoni came from a family of actors. His parents, Cesare Fantoni and Afra Arrigoni Fantoni, worked as a theater actor and were often associated with theater tours go. Fantoni grew up in Marino and Piombino, often separated from his parents.
He studied engineering and architecture and worked initially only in passing as an actor at summer festivals and as a speaker in radio productions. 1949 received by the director Raffaello Matarazzo Fantoni his first film role: a small supporting role in the period film Paola e Francesco with Odile Versois. 1951 played Fantoni, on the side of Vittorio Gassman, his first starring role in the film The Lion of Amalfi ( Il leone di Amalfi), directed by Pietro Francisci. 1951 was Fantoni also his debut as a stage actor in the founded by Gassman together with Luigi Squarzina 1951 own theater group, the Compagnia del teatro di arte italiano. Luchino Visconti occupied Fantoni in 1953 as Jason in his staging of the play Medea by Euripides. In addition, in 1954 gave him the small role of Luca in his film Desire ( Senso ). From 1954 to 1955 played Fantoni at the Piccolo Teatro of Giorgio Strehler in Milan, where he played the Guglielmo in The Trilogy of summer by Carlo Goldoni and the Camille Desmoulins in I Giacobini by Federico Zardi. 1955 Fantoni was seen in a television production of the play The Merchant of Venice.
As a stage performer Fantoni played a wide repertoire, the plays of William Shakespeare, the Italian comedy writers of the 18th century, the drama of the century, but also included pieces of European modernism and contemporary theater. He was seen during his career in the theater in numerous major and minor roles in plays by Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Anton Chekhov, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Luigi Pirandello, Thornton Wilder and Harold Pinter. Multiple Fantoni also worked as a theater director and wrote plays, including Tutta colpa di Garibaldi.
In the 1950s, Fantoni has starred in numerous historical adventure films, in various Italian Cinecitta - productions and international co-productions. He played the power-mad Eteocles in Hercules and the Queen of the Amazons, the upright soldiers Giacomo Feo in Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna on the side of Virna Lisi, the villain Teocrito in The Battle of Marathon ( La Battaglia di Maratona ) and the courtier Haman in The Sword of Persia. In 1960, he starred in the movie drama Dangerous Nights (I delfini ) together with Claudia Cardinale.
From the 1960s Fantoni joined more significant in international productions and made several films in Hollywood. Often he was employed here as a seductive, exotic lover. On the side of Hildegard Knef 1963 he was a passionate lover Orloff in Catherine of Russia ( Caterina di Russia). Elke Sommer was his partner in the spy film The price. With Doris Day, he played in 1965 in the film comedy Do not disturb, in the refined psychological thriller with devilish regards, the last film by French director Julien Duvivier, he played in 1967, with Senta Berger as a partner, the seedy Dr. Frederic Launay. In 1971, he starred in the spaghetti westerns Matalo. In 1987, he took a role in Peter Greenaway film The Belly of an Architect.
From the 1970s Fantoni was repeatedly seen in TV series, TV movies and mini-series on Italian television. For some sensation made his appearance in the mini- series Delitto di stato, where he starred as the first male performer in Italian television completely naked. In 1986, he played in the second season of the series The Octopus Colonel Ettore Ferretti. In 1999 he had an episode starring role in the series Commissario Montalbano La voce del subsequently violino.
Sergio Fantoni was also extensively worked as a voice actor throughout his film career. For the Italian cinema he was also the voice of Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Rock Hudson, Alan Ladd, Max von Sydow, Ivan Desny and Maximilian Schell.