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Andrea Checchi

{{Short description|Italian actor (1916–1974)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Andrea Checchi

| image = Biraghin (film 1946) Andrea Checchi (2) (cropped).png

| caption = Checchi in 1946

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|10|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Florence, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|1974|3|29|1916|10|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| height = {{convert|1.74|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1934–1974

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Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was a prolific Italian film actor.

Biography

Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974. The son of a painter, he studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.{{cite book|last=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402131}} Moved to Rome, he attended the acting course held by Alessandro Blasetti, who gave him a small role in 1860. After graduating at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, he had his first role of weight in the 1940 historical drama film L'assedio dell'Alcazar by Augusto Genina. He later appeared in Mario Camerini's Due lettere anonime (for which he received a Silver Ribbon as best actor), Giuseppe De Santis's Tragic Hunt (1947), Michelangelo Antonioni's La signora senza camelie (1953), Vittorio De Sica's Two Women (1960), and Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), among many other films. In 1958, he won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award for best supporting actor for his performance in the film Parola di ladro (1957).{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}} In 1971, he starred with Giancarlo Giannini in E le stelle stanno a guardare, an adaptation of a novel named A. J. Cronin, The Stars Look Down.

Selected filmography

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Category:1916 births

Category:1974 deaths

Category:Male actors from Florence

Category:Italian male actors

Category:Place of death missing

Category:Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni

Category:Nastro d'Argento winners

Category:20th-century Italian male actors

Category:Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni