Vittorio Mezzogiorno

Vittorio Mezzogiorno ( born December 16, 1941 in Cercola; † January 7, 1994 in Milan ) was an Italian actor.

Biography

The son of a grain merchant studied after high school at least one year medicine. After that, he began studying the law, during which he made first acting experience in student theater. After the examination and subsequent Doctor of rights Mezzogiorno shifted his professional focus entirely on the spectacle. On stage he played under the direction of Eduardo De Filippo in the Compagnia. He appeared on the side of famous colleagues such as Aldo Giuffrè and Carlo Giuffré in pieces of Aristophanes, Bert Brecht and Eugene Ionesco. The ensemble of Peter Brooks Le Mahabharata, a ten-hour epic about the Indian mythology, the Mezzogiorno was in the role of the demigod Arjuna two years touring the world and gave guest performances at the Festival of Avignon ( 1985), the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Paris, Athens, Barcelona, Madrid, Lyon, Zurich, Los Angeles, New York, Perth, Adelaide, Copenhagen, Glasgow and Tokyo.

Mezzogiornos theater performances also were influenced mainly by working with great directors. His debut in this medium he gave in 1975 in Jean -Louis Comollis La Cecilia. In his film career spanning nearly twenty years he played the youngest of the three brothers ( alongside Philippe Noiret and Michele Placido ) in Francesco Rosi's eponymous drama, in Jean -Jacques Beineix ' Drama The Moon in the Gutter ( alongside Gérard Depardieu ), Patrice Chéreau in the seduced man - L' Homme blessé, in Dino Risi's comedy ... and life goes on, in Werner Herzog's mountaineering drama Cerro Torre - provocative and Marco Bellocchio in Drama - scream of Stone, in Jenatsch ( by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer) and mid season - each directed by Daniel Schmid the conviction that at the Berlinale won a Silver Bear in 1991.

As early as 1963 he was directed by Leonardo Cortese in an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas Luisa Sanfelice his television debut. In the following three decades Mezzogiorno starred in numerous acclaimed by film critics and public television productions, such as 1979 in the multi-part film adaptation of Jack London's Martin Eden, as Mussolini's confidant Alessandro Pavolini in Drama I and Il Duce ( with Bob Hoskins as " Duce " ) and in the first three parts of the lavishly produced period film the French Revolution, in which he drew Jean- Paul Marat as uncompromising fanatics. Also in the multipart implementation of Peter Brooks Mahabharata ( The Dice Game / The War / The Banishment ) was Mezzogiorno back of the party. Although he was seen in 1965 in four episodes of the TV series Le avventure di Laura Storm, remained rare appearances in television series. However, the first and most only major series role increased its international reputation: In 1990 he joined the succession of embodied by Michele Placido, " Corrado Cattani " as a fearless and relentless investigator in the fifth season of the hit production alone against the mafia. The main role of the " Commissario Davide Licata " should also be his last professional activity: In the 6th season of the Mafia - hunter died the Serientod.

On October 14, 1972 Mezzogiorno married his colleague Cecilia Sacchi. From this marriage two children were born. His daughter, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, also works as an actress. 1993 Mezzogiorno had to be treated for cancer. On January 7, 1994, he died at the age of only 52 years in Milan after a heart attack.

Filmography (selection)

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