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Guido Alberti(1909-1996)

  • Actor
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This is 1962. Filmmaker Guido Anselmi is going through an artistic crisis. He does not think he will be able to make the film he has signed for. All he wants is to retreat into a world of his own, far from the public eye. All he wants is peace and what he gets is ... Pace, his producer, who keeps on pressurizing him into starting the shooting. Everybody will have recognized the plot of Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8½ (1963). Marcello Mastroianni was Guido, Fellini's alter ego, already a star at the time, but nobody knew Pace, wonderfully interpreted by a fifty-three-year-old beginner, then starting a second life as a movie actor, Guido Alberti. Despite a rather ordinary physical appearance, the newcomer immediately made a name for himself thanks to his impressive presence and for thirty years (he made his last film at the age of eighty-three), the more and more massive and portly thespian proved a scene stealer, even in the tiniest roles. He can be seen in a wide range of films, whether Italian, European or American and he is at his best when donning the cassock or the robe (from priest to bishop to cardinal to ... the Pope! in Marco the Magnificent (1965)) or when embodying authority figures (at times menacing) such as prison governor, police superintendent or prime minister. And he is unforgettable as the right-wing party leader in yet another masterpiece Hands Over the City (1963), directed by Francesco Rosi As a character actor, Guido Alberti was the indispensable kind. He worked before the cameras of the greatest, Fellini, Rosi, Luis García Berlanga, Mario Monicelli, Valerio Zurlini, Roman Polanski but he was not averse to more popular cinema, taking part for example in many a 'giallo'. He was also active on television. The son of industrialist Ugo Alberti, co-owner of the 'Strega Alberti Benevento' company, it looked as if Guido Alberti would never break from his preordained destiny. In 1957, He even became the board chairman of the firm. But Guido also had literary and artistic aptitudes. For instance, in 1947, he founded the famous literary prize 'Premio Strega', which is not common among industrialists, before finally opting for the acting career. Guido Alberti died in 1996, a few days before his eighty-seventh birthday, after a long life, in accordance with himself
BornApril 20, 1909
DiedAugust 3, 1996(87)
BornApril 20, 1909
DiedAugust 3, 1996(87)
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Marcello Mastroianni and Guido Alberti in Casanova 70 (1965)
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Known for

8½ (1963)
8½
8.0
  • Pace - il produttore
  • 1963
Anthony Quinn, Orson Welles, Omar Sharif, Horst Buchholz, Grégoire Aslan, Robert Hossein, Noël Howard, Elsa Martinelli, and Akim Tamiroff in Marco the Magnificent (1965)
Marco the Magnificent
5.3
  • Pope Gregory X
  • 1965
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
4.7
  • Pasquale Cimmaruta
  • 1966
Il circolo Pickwick
7.0
TV Series
  • Tupman

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  • Donne in un giorno di festa (1993)
    Donne in un giorno di festa
    • Nonno Anselmo
    • 1993
  • Scoop (1992)
    Scoop
    • Vasini
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1992
  • Donne con le gonne (1991)
    Donne con le gonne
    • Giudice
    • 1991
  • The Yes Man (1991)
    The Yes Man
    • Carlo Sperati
    • 1991
  • Alcune signore per bene (1990)
    Alcune signore per bene
    • Tarlazzi
    • 1990
  • Valentina (1989)
    Valentina
    • Tristan Brancusi
    • TV Series
    • 1989
  • Three Sisters (1988)
    Three Sisters
    • Baretti
    • 1988
  • Saving Grace (1986)
    Saving Grace
    • Cardinal Augusto Morante
    • 1986
  • Juke box (1985)
    Juke box
    • 1985
  • Franca Gonella, Mijou Kovacs, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Jean Sorel in L'herbe rouge (1985)
    L'herbe rouge
    • Le maire
    • TV Movie
    • 1985
  • Un amour interdit (1984)
    Un amour interdit
    • Valerio - l'ami de Piacchi
    • 1984
  • I ragazzi di celluloide (1981)
    I ragazzi di celluloide
    • Marescalchi
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1984
  • The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
    The Moon in the Gutter
    • Le gardien de la cathédrale
    • 1983
  • Ahi giovinezza giovinezza
    • TV Movie
    • 1982
  • La guérilléra (1982)
    La guérilléra
    • Joao Bernardo
    • 1982

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  • Born
    • April 20, 1909
    • Benevento, Campania, Italy
  • Died
    • August 3, 1996
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy(undisclosed)
  • Spouse
    • Lucia Alberti1953 - February 9, 1995 (her death)

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    Founder of the 'Premio Strega', an Italian literature award.

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