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Mario Scaccia

{{short description|Italian actor and author}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Mario Scaccia

| image = Mario Scaccia 1972.png

| caption = Scaccia in La calandria (1972)

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1919|12|26}}

| birth_place = Rome, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2011|01|26|1919|12|26}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| height = {{convert|1.80|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| occupation = Actor, author

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Mario Scaccia (26 December 1919 – 26 January 2011) was an Italian actor and author. He was a prominent figure in the Italian theatre of '900.

Biography

Born in Rome, the son of a painter, during the Second World War Scaccia was conscripted into the army as an officer in Sicily; made prisoner by the American army, he was taken in Morocco, where he remained three years.{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano|publisher=Gremese Editore}} In 1945 Scaccia returned to Rome, where he abandoned his studies in pedagogy and enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, attending only the first year; in 1946 he started appearing on stage, usually as character actor. In 1961 Scaccia was co-founder, together with Valeria Moriconi, Franco Enriquez and Glauco Mauri, of the Compagnia dei Quattro ("Company of the Four") that gained critical and commercial success.{{cite news|last=Rodolfo Di Giammarco|title=Addio a Mario Scaccia gran signore della scena|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=27 January 2011}} At the same time Scaccia was a prolific character actor in films, TV series and radio-dramas.

Scaccia was also an author and a poet; his works include several autobiographies. He died in Rome at 91, as a result of complications for a surgical intervention.{{cite news|title=Teatro, muore a 91 anni l'attore Mario Scaccia|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/spettacoli/teatro_muore_91_anni_lattore_mario_scaccia/cronaca-cronaca_roma-mario_scaccia-teatro-morto/26-01-2011/articolo-id=501993-page=0-comments=1|accessdate=27 June 2012|newspaper=Il Giornale|date=27 January 2012}}

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Mario Scaccia, Il Diario dell'Anima, 1969
  • Mario Scaccia, Un disperato amore, 1972
  • Mario Scaccia, Zio cardinale, 1974
  • Mario Scaccia, Quattro mesi in platea, 1977
  • Mario Scaccia, Io e il teatro, 1978
  • Giovanni Giràud, Mario Scaccia, Il galantuomo per transazione, 1980
  • Mario Scaccia, L'antologia rifatta, 1981
  • Mario Scaccia, La verità inventata. Del mestiere dell'arte dell'attore, 1989
  • Mario Scaccia, Il mio Molière, 1994
  • Paolo Perrone Burali d'Arezzo, Mario Scaccia, Mario Verdone, Totò e Onorato, 1999
  • Mario Scaccia, Due braccia e una lira, 2004
  • Mario Scaccia, Interpretando la mia vita. Il mio teatro, i miei personaggi, la mia storia, 2009
  • Mario Scaccia, Maschere romane, 2010
  • Mario Scaccia, Per amore di una rima, 2011

References

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External links

  • [http://www.marioscaccia.it Official site]
  • {{IMDb name|0768662}}

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Category:Italian male film actors

Category:1919 births

Category:Male actors from Rome

Category:2011 deaths

Category:Italian male television actors

Category:Italian male stage actors

Category:Italian radio personalities

Category:Royal Italian Army personnel of World War II

Category:Italian male poets

Category:Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni

Category:Writers from Rome

Category:20th-century Italian poets

Category:20th-century Italian male writers

Category:Italian prisoners of war

Category:World War II prisoners of war held by the United States