Hospitalized for days in a Roman clinic for tests, he was struck on Sunday by a serious heart failure.
The actor Gigi Proietti died. Hospitalized for days in a Roman clinic for tests, he was struck yesterday by a serious heart failure. His condition had immediately appeared very serious. Just today Proietti would have turned 80. In a career spanning over 50 years he has ranged from cinema to theater. «In the early hours of the morning – the family announces – Gigi Proietti passed away from the affection of her family. Sagitta, Susanna and Carlotta announce it. In the next few hours we will announce the funeral ».
Born in Rome on November 2, 1940, a passionate musician and singer since his youth, he approaches experimental theater during university. In 1970 he triumphs in the musical Alleluja good people Since then, his career has been a series of successes in theater, cinema and television. He is also a voice actor, among others of Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman but also of the first Rocky and the acrobatic genius of Aladdin (“very funny but tiring”) up to Enzo, the wise golden retriever protagonist of Through my eyes . Then director and theatrical poet. In about 50 years of activity he has thus collected 33 fiction, 42 films, 51 theatrical performances of which 37 as a director, as well as having recorded 10 albums as a soloist and directed 8 operas. A theatrical career, from To me eyes please, passing through Shakespeare, which he had summarized in a show Horses of battle chosen to celebrate his 50 years on stage in 2016, crowned by the fifteen-year direction of the Elizabethan Globe Theater in Rome.
Although long before his school, and his vocation as a teacher, had been expressed at Brancaccio, of which he was director since 1978, together with Sandro Merli, to give life to a forge of talents including Flavio Insinna, Chiara Noschese, Giorgio Tirabassi, Enrico Brignano, Massimo Wertmüller, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Rodolfo Laganà, Francesca Reggiani, Gabriele Cirilli and Sveva Altieri. Actors like him who know how to cross genres and who have conquered the hearts of the television audience as Proietti did, first as a conductor (his a Fantastico 4 in 1983) then as the protagonist of very successful fiction such as Il Maresciallo Rocca, which even won 16 million of viewers, then The lawyer Porta always out of the pen of Marotta and Toscan, A bullet in the heart and much more.
“Telling one’s life is not something for everyone – he wrote in his autobiography – Of course, anyone can remember the episodes, try to historicize, reflect on how time passes and how things change. But the smell of poverty mixed with that of Sunday sauce, the calls of mothers to their naughty children who do not come back for dinner, the irrecoverable joy of the market, the chatter on the sidewalks, how do you explain them to those who weren’t there? I “take a drop of water” on the still fresh lime walls, the game of tressette, life on the street, women on the windowsills, the chatter of the unemployed … How can you make the reader relive all this? ” to conclude that “perhaps it was not even as you remember it, because in the memory you emphasized something, and something else you removed.” Now in the beautiful cameo of the Fire Eater in Garrone’s Pinocchio, he will return once again to the cinema, yes he himself who always complained of having basically made a few films, with Marco Giallini and the direction of Edoardo Falcone in “I am Santa Claus” announced, as long as the cinemas manage to reopen, for December 3. And he’ll say hello as he liked it, in comedy.
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