Fiorenzo Fiorentini
{{short description|Italian composer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Fiorenzo Fiorentini
| image = Fiorenzo Fiorentini.png
| caption = Fiorentini in Teresa the Thief (1973)
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1920|4|10}}
| birth_place = Rome
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2003|3|27|1920|4|10}}
| death_place = Rome
| occupation = Actor
| children = Roberta Fiorentini
}}
Fiorenzo Fiorentini (10 April 1920 – 27 March 2003) was an Italian actor, author, composer, screenwriter and radio personality.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Fiorentini began his career as an author and radio actor, creating many successful macchiette (i.e. comic monologues caricaturing stock characters).{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402131}}{{cite book|author1=Felice Cappa |author2=Piero Gelli |author3=Marco Mattarozzi |title=Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900|year=1998 |publisher=Baldini & Castoldi, 1998|isbn=8880892959}} He made his stage debut in 1954, in the revue Tutto fa Broadway. He later focused his stage activity on plays and shows related to Roman culture, often collaborating with Mario Scaccia. In 1980 he founded the Ettore Petrolini Study Centre in Rome.
Fiorentini appeared in numerous films, mostly comedies, sometimes even collaborating on the screenplays. He was also a television author and actor, a singer and a successful composer. He died from the after-effects of an intracerebral hemorrhage.{{cite news|title=Addio a Fiorenzo Fiorentini il trasformista del teatro|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2003/03/28/addio-fiorenzo-fiorentini-il-trasformista-del-teatro.html|accessdate=25 January 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=2 March 2003}}
Partial filmography
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- Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba! (1949) - sor du fodere', l'intrattenitore
- Anthony of Padua (1949, writer)
- Viva il cinema! (1952) - Tonino
- A Mother Returns (1952, writer)
- Giovinezza (1952, writer)
- Good Folk's Sunday (1953) - Vincenzo
- Ci troviamo in galleria (1953) - Pippo
- Café chantant (1953) - Se stesso / Himself
- Cento serenate (1954) - Don Alfonso detto Fofò
- Le vacanze del sor Clemente (1955) - Mr. Cheri
- I pinguini ci guardano (1956)
- The Traffic Policeman (1960) - Padre di Otello (voice, uncredited)
- Parigi o cara (1962) - Claudio Nesti
- Carmen di Trastevere (1962) - Carmen's Guitar Player
- Canzoni a tempo di twist (1962)
- The Monk of Monza (1963) - Smilzo, un bravo
- Gli onorevoli (1963) - Professore
- I ragazzi dell'hully-gully (1964)
- Lo scippo (1965)
- How We Robbed the Bank of Italy (1966) - Romoletto, detto 'Il Genio del Male'
- Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore (1966)
- The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967) - Tazio
- Soldati e capelloni (1967) - Direttore del locale notturno
- Play-Boy (1967) - Tailor
- Il profeta (1968) - Luigi
- Donne... botte e bersaglieri (1968) - Porter
- The Black Sheep (1968) - Bertieri
- The Two Crusaders (1968) - Ciccio counselor
- Il ragazzo che sorride (1969) - House-painter
- Zenabel (1969) - Cecco
- Gli infermieri della mutua (1969) - Marchese Renostowski
- Oh dolci baci e languide carezze (1970)
- La ragazza del prete (1970)
- I due maggiolini più matti del mondo (1970) - Il Giglio
- Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Ignazio, il 'frascataro'
- Storia di fifa e di coltello - Er seguito d'er più (1972) - Er Frascataro
- Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? (1972) - Pasquina's Uncle
- La Tosca (1973) - Spoletta
- Teresa the Thief (1973) - Alvaro - Ciancastorta
- La notte dell'ultimo giorno (1973)
- Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
- Farfallon (1974) - Leonardo
- Tutto in comune (1974)
- Che notte quella notte! (1977) - Bernardino
- The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977) - Warrant Officer at the depot
- Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977) - Cardinal (segment "Prete per forza")
- Last Feelings (1978) - Anselmo
- Tanto va la gatta al lardo... (1978) - Friend of Dino / Oreste
- Ridendo e scherzando (1978) - Peppino
- Ciao cialtroni! (1979)
- L'assistente sociale tutto pepe (1981) - 'Monsignore'
- La Storia (1986, TV Movie) - Cucchiarelli
- Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990) - Pietro
- Only You (1994) - Old Man
- Un bugiardo in paradiso (1998)
- The Missing (1999) - Cardinal Valetti
- Gente di Roma (2003)
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References
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External links
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Category:Male actors from Rome
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male television actors
Category:Italian male composers
Category:Italian male screenwriters
Category:Italian radio personalities
Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:20th-century Italian male musicians
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
Category:20th-century Italian screenwriters
Category:20th-century Italian composers
Category:20th-century male composers
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