Renzo Ricci
{{short description|Italian actor and theatre director}}
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| name = Renzo Ricci
| image = Renzo Ricci c. 1918-1920.jpg
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| caption = Ricci {{circa}} 1920
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1899|9|27}}
| birth_place = Florence, Tuscany, Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1978|10|20|1899|9|27}}
| death_place = Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1931–1978 (film)
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Margherita Bagni|1923|1960|end=died}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/renzo-ricci_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title = RICCI, Renzo in "Dizionario Biografico"}}
- {{marriage|Eva Magni|1961}}
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| children = Nora Ricci
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Renzo Ricci (27 September 1899 – 20 October 1978) was an Italian stage and film actor. He was also a noted theatre director. Ricci played the title role in Roberto Rossellini's 1961 film Garibaldi.Bondanella, Peter. The Films of Roberto Rossellini. Cambridge University Press, 1993. p.165.
Life and career
Born in Florence, Ricci started acting in a local dramatic society while still being a student of the Istituto tecnico, and made his professional debut in 1915, with the stage company held by Emma Gramatica.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}} Mainly active on stage, he was a member of several companies, notably the Giorgio Strehler's company at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}} In 1957 he won the San Genesio Prize for his performance in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}} He was married with actress Margherita Bagni with whom he had a daughter, Eleonora "Nora", also an actress. After his first wife's death he married his lover, another stage actress, Eva Magni.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}
Selected filmography
- Before the Jury (1931)
- La Wally (1932)
- Nini Falpala (1933)
- Disturbance (1942)
- Nero and the Burning of Rome (1953)
- Casta Diva (1954)
- Garibaldi (1961)
- I am Semiramis (1963)
- Sandra (1965)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0723242}}
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Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Male actors from Florence
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:Italian theatre directors
Category:20th-century Italian male actors
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