Ernesto Calindri

{{Short description|Italian actor (1909–1999)}}

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{{Infobox person

| image = Il momento più bello Calindri.png

| name = Ernesto Calindri

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|2|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Certaldo, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|6|9|1909|2|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Milan, Italy

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1938–1989

}}

Ernesto Calindri (5 February 1909 – 9 June 1999) was an Italian theater and film actor.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnjGCwAAQBAJ&q=ernesto+calindri+died&pg=PA40|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|first=Harris M. Lentz|last=III|date=1 July 2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786409198|access-date=1 October 2018|via=Google Books}}{{cite news |title=Addio Calindri: Attore Gentiluomo |url=https://www.repubblica.it/online/fatti/calindri/calindri/calindri.html |access-date=15 August 2023 |publisher=La Repubblica |date=9 June 1999}} He appeared in 40 films between 1938 and 1989. He is often remembered in Italy for a series of TV commercials for a well-known brand of Italian artichoke-based bitter liqueur, Cynar, with the catchphrase "Contro il logorio della vita moderna" ("Assuaging the wear-and-tear of modern life") which showed him sitting at a café table surrounded by traffic drinking and reading the paper in relaxed fashion.{{cite web |title=Cynar Advertisement ca. 1965 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KFZdq6mXyc |website=Youtube| date=11 August 2020 }}