The actor Jerry Come down he had a seizure during the night. He was transported from the Hotel Santa Lucia in Naples, where he was staying, to the Mediterranean Clinic with a red code. According to local sources, he would have fallen ill.
Illness in Naples for Jerry Calà: he was working on the new film
The popular actor is in Naples in this period for the shooting of his latest film, “They kidnapped Jerry Calà: ransom is a problem”.
The film is set between the capital of Campania, Monte di Procida, Ischia and San Giovanni del Sannio in Molise. Sergio Assisi, Antonio Fiorillo, Barbara Foria and Shi Yang Shi are also part of the cast.
The ambulance ride after the alleged heart attack
According to the Neapolitan press and the newspaper Napoli TodayJerry Calà would have been transported with a red code to the Mediterranean Clinic for what should be a heart attack.
The health conditions of the comedian and singer symbol of the 70s and 80s are not known, decades in which he dominated the scenes together with Alley Miracoli cats.
The actor’s press office said he underwent surgery angioplastywith the application of one stent coronary. His condition would be good.
Jerry Calà, from the beginning to the great popularity
Born in 1951 in Catania to father Salvatore and mother Maria Rosa, Calogero Alessandro Augusto Calà he moved with his parents to Milan when he was only two years old and later to Verona.
The name Jerry is given to him already in childhood for his imitation of the actor Jerry Lewis.
It is in Veneto that he begins to fall in love with musicaplaying in various beat groups, and of theater. In the Studio 24 collective he meets those who will become his stage mates for many years.
In 1971, together with Umberto Smiley, What Salerno e Franco Oppini he founded I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli, which initially also included Gianandrea Gazzola and Spray Mallaby.
The group moved first to Rome and then to Milan, where it was launched from Derby and began racking up TV appearances, launching the careers of what would become some of the next decade’s biggest names.
The Cats of Vicolo Miracoli debut at cinema con Carlo Vanzineand Jerry Calà later began acting in various films even without the other members of the comedy group.
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