Tino Schirinzi

{{short description|Italian actor and stage director}}

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| name = Tino Schirinzi

| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1934|08|12}}

| birth_place = Taranto, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1993|08|18|1934|08|12}}

| death_place = Barberino di Mugello, Italy

| occupation = Actor, stage director

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Tino Schirinzi (12 August 1934 – 18 August 1993), was an Italian actor and stage director.

Born in Taranto, Schirinzi graduated in medicine,{{cite news|last=Gianluca Monastra|title=Tino e Daisy morti d'amore|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1993/08/20/tino-daisy-morti-amore.html?ref=search|access-date=19 May 2013|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=20 August 1993}} then he devoted himself to the theatre, often working at the Teatro Stabile in Turin and at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.{{cite book|author1=F. Cappa |author2=Piero Gelli |author3=Marco Mattarozzi |title=Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900|year=1998 |publisher=Dalai editore, 1998|isbn=8880892959}} He created a successful artistic partnership with Piera Degli Esposti, and took part in Italian theatrical debut of Patrice Chéreau. After 1968, he was author of irreverent reinterpretations of works by Gabriele d'Annunzio, Carlo Goldoni and of the Elizabethan theatre which resulted in a resounding firing from the Vittoriale theatre.

Less active in cinema, in 1983 Schirinzi won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his performance in Sciopèn.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}}

Struck by an incurable cancer, for which he had lost his speech, in 1993 he killed himself with his wife Daisy Lumini, by jumping from the viaduct under construction on the Bilancino dam near Barberino di Mugello.{{cite news|last=Francesco Matteini|title=Giù dal viadotto mano nella mano|newspaper=La Stampa|date=20 August 1993}}