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Alberto Sordi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter. Sordi is considered one of the most important actors in the history of Italian cinema and one of the best in commedia all'italiana.
Jun 15, 2020 · In his time, Sordi was one of the most famous movie stars in Italy and he managed to endear himself to Italian audiences thanks to his humility and simplicity. In fact, Sordi was even dubbed Albertone Nazionale or “ Our National Alberto,” because people considered him to be not just a movie star, but a real representative of the Italian ...
Jun 15, 2020 · In the immediate postwar years, Sordi became a popular presence on Italian radio and presented his own prime-time show Alberto Sordi Speaking, which was on the air from 1948 to 1950. His characters included hapless agony uncle Mario Pio, and Conte Claro, an aristocrat fallen on hard times.
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Lo Sceicco Bianco (1951) (The White Sheikh), I Vitelloni (1953) (Vitelloni), Il seduttore (1954) (The Seductor), Un americano a Roma (1954) (An american in Rome), Mi permette babbo (1956) (I Should Daddy), Il conte Max (1957) (The Count Max), La grande Guerra (1959) (The Great War), Tutti a casa (1960) (All at home), Il vigile (1960) (The Traffic P...
Sordi won five David di Donatello, Italy’s most prestigious film award, and four awards for his works from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. He also received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 1995, and The Golden Globe Award for his performance as an Italian labourer stranded in Sweden in To Bed...
Sordi died shortly before his eighty-third birthday following a heart attack, he was the last survivor of the golden era of Italian cinema. A crowd of 250,000 people gathered to pay their last respects at his funeral. They cheered and clapped as Sordi’s coffin arrived for the funeral at the Basilica of San Giovanni Laterano in Rome. The crowd watch...
Feb 27, 2003 · Alberto Sordi, an actor who depicted Italy’s virtues and vices in more than 160 movies and contributed to making Italian comedy famous worldwide, has died. He was 82.
Alberto Sordi has left an indelible mark not only in cinema, but in the entire Italian culture. What makes him timeless is his extraordinary career, marked by so many successes that it is almost impossible to mention them all.
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One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama.
