Irène Galter

{{Short description|Italian actress (1931–2018)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

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| birth_name = Irene Patuzzi

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|09|16}}

| birth_place = Merano, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = 7 June 2018 (aged 86)

| death_place = Novara, Italy

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| occupation = Actress

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Irène Galter (16 September 1931 – 7 June 2018) was an Italian actress.

Life and career

Born in Merano as Irene Patuzzi, during the first half of the 1950s Galter was called the "ideal girlfriend" of Italians. She was casually discovered in a shop where she worked as a clerk by Giuseppe De Santis, who launched her career in 1952 with the neorealist film Rome 11:00.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X}} After a number of successful films, she married the South Tyrolean entrepreneur Otto Lughin and retired from showbusiness.

Selected filmography

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