Giulio Marchetti

{{Short description|Italian actor (1911–1993)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth-date|9 June 1911}}

| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain

| death_date = {{death-date and age|1 December 1993|9 June 1911}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| occupation = Actor

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}}Giulio Marchetti (9 June 1911 – 1 December 1993){{Cite web|url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/16936805/giulio_marchetti/|title=Giulio Marchetti (1911-1993)|website=data.bnf.fr|access-date=2020-04-07}} was an Italian stage, film and television actor and presenter.{{Cite web|url=http://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/MDO-AA376978|title=Giulio Marchetti at a petrol station. Italian actor and TV host Giulio Marchetti (Giulio...|website=agefotostock|language=en|access-date=2020-04-07}}

Life and career

Born in Barcelona, Marchetti was the grandson of the operetta actor and comedian Giulio and the son of the theatrical artistic director Adriano.{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|year=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}

After completing high school in Bologna, he began his stage career as a vaudeville actor and singer in the style of the American minstrel show performers.{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|year=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}} He got a large popularity between early 1940s and mid-1950s, thanks to a series of successful revues.{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|year=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}} He was also active, as a character actor, in a number of films and television series, often working alongside Totò.{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|year=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}

Marchetti is also well known in Italy as the presenter for many years of the show Giochi senza frontiere.{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|year=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. {{ISBN|881150466X}}. In the early 1970s he decided to abandon the showbusiness and became the owner of a service station.{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|year=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}

Partial filmography

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