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Alberto Sordi | |
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![]() Alberto Sordi in Under the Sun of Rome (1948) | |
Born | |
Died | 24 February 2003 Rome, Italy | (aged 82)
Other names | Albertone |
Occupation(s) | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1937–1998 |
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Website | albertosordi |
Alberto Sordi (Italian: [alˈbɛrto ˈsordi]; 15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel and Hardy films.
Early life
Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. In the meantime he studied to be an opera singer, a bass. It was his accent and voice that would later prove to be his trademark.
Career
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In a career that spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and light drama. His movie career began in the late 1930s with bit parts and secondary characters in wartime movies. After the war he began working as a dubber for the Italian versions of Laurel and Hardy shorts, voicing Oliver Hardy. Early roles included Fellini's The White Sheik in 1952, Fellini's I vitelloni (1953), a movie about young slackers, in which he plays a weak, effeminate immature loafer and a starring role in Lo scapolo (The Bachelor) playing a single man trying to find love. In 1959 he appeared in Monicelli's The Great War, considered by many critics and film historians to be one of the best Italian comedies. The Hollywood Foreign Press recognized his abilities when he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Il diavolo (1963). Sordi acted alongside Britain’s David Niven in the World War II comedy The Best of Enemies and in 1965 he was in another highly regarded comedy, I complessi (Complexes).
In 1969 he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.[2]
Sordi also succeeded in dramatic roles, most notably in 1977's Un borghese piccolo piccolo (An Average Little Man) in which he portrays an elderly civil servant whose son is killed in an armed robbery, and sets out to exact revenge.
In 1984, he directed and co-scripted Tutti dentro (Off to jail, everybody), in which he played a judge who has warrants for corruption served on ministers and businessmen. Alberto Sordi was really masterful in two broad roles: one being the one of the underdog, militating against injustices and prevarications, the other that of the prevaricator himself. One has only to watch his performances as the returning emigrant unjustly convicted in Detenuto in attesa di giudizio or the miserly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaire Bette Davis into endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to appreciate his skills in the first role, while the rampant, unscrupulous doctor he plays in Il medico della mutua is the perfect example of his aptness at rendering characters who were both truly despicable and completely believable. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]
Sordi died shortly before his eighty-third birthday following a heart attack. A crowd in excess of a million gathered to pay their last respects at his funeral by the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of Pope John Paul II who died two years later. Sordi was also a big supporter of AS Roma football team.
Filmography
Actor
- Scipione l'africano (1937)
- The Ferocious Saladin (1937)
- Princess Tarakanova (1938)
- La notte delle beffe (1939)
- Cuori nella tormenta (1940)
- Le signorine della villa accanto (1941)
- Giarabub (1942)
- La signorina (1942)
- The Three Pilots (1942)
- After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
- Sant'Elena piccola isola (1943)
- Chi l'ha visto? (1943)
- Tre ragazze cercano marito (1944)
- The Za-Bum Circus (1944, segment "Galop finale al circo")
- L'innocente Casimiro (1945)
- His Young Wife (1945)
- Il Passatore (1946)
- Flesh Will Surrender (1947)
- Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone (1947)
- Che tempi! (1948)
- Under the Sun of Rome (1948)
- Mamma mia, che impressione! (1951)
- Cameriera bella presenza offresi... (1951)
- The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
- Toto and the King of Rome (1952)
- The White Sheik (1952)
- I Vitelloni (1953)
- Cavalcade of Song (1953)
- Ci troviamo in galleria (1953)
- Two Nights with Cleopatra (1953)
- Mid-Century Loves (1953, segment "Dopoguerra 1920")
- Un giorno in pretura (1953)
- A Slice of Life (1954, segment "Scusi, ma...")
- Marriage (1954)
- Via Padova 46 (Lo scocciatore) (1954)
- Tripoli, bel suol d'amore (1954)
- Gran Varietà (1954, segment "Fregoli")
- The Cheerful Squadron (1954)
- Il seduttore (1954)
- It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
- Una parigina a Roma (1954)
- Un americano a Roma (1954)
- The Art of Getting Along (1955)
- The Sign of Venus (1955)
- Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955)
- A Hero of Our Times (1955)
- The Belle of Rome (1955)
- Accadde al penitenziario (1955)
- Bravissimo (1955)
- The Letters Page (1955)
- The Bachelor (1955)
- I pappagalli (1955)
- Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)
- Nero's Weekend (1956)
- Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
- The Virtuous Bigamist (1956)
- Arrivano i dollari! (1956)
- Souvenir d'Italie (1957)
- Count Max (1957)
- A Farewell to Arms (1957)
- Doctor and the Healer (1957)
- Ladro lui, ladra lei (1957)
- Il marito (1958)
- Fortunella (1958)
- Domenica è sempre domenica (1958)
- Le septième ciel (1958)
- Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
- Girls for the Summer (1958)
- Nella città l'inferno (1958)
- Oh, que Mambo! (1959)
- Policarpo (1959, cameo)
- The Moralist (1959)
- The Magliari (1959)
- Winter Holidays (1959)
- Wild Cats on the Beach (1959)
- The Great War (1959)
- Il vedovo (1959)
- Vacations in Majorca (1959)
- Gastone (1959)
- Everybody Go Home (1960)
- The Traffic Policeman (1960)
- Crimen (1960)
- The Best of Enemies (1961)
- The Last Judgment (1961)
- A Difficult Life (1961)
- The Police Commissioner (1962)
- Mafioso (1962)
- Il diavolo (1963)
- Il Boom (1963)
- The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
- Tentazioni proibite (1963, cameo)
- My Wife (1964)
- Il disco volante (1964)
- The Three Faces (1964, segment "Latin lover")
- Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965)
- I complessi (1965, segment "Guglielmo il dentone")
- Thrilling (1965, segment "L'autostrada del sole")
- Made in Italy (1965, segment 2 of Chapter 2, "La famiglia")
- Fumo di Londra (1966)
- I nostri mariti (1966, segment "Il marito di Roberta")
- Sex Quartet (1966, segment "Fata Marta")
- Pardon, Are You For or Against? (1966)
- The Witches (1967, segment "Senso civico")
- Un italiano in America (1967)
- Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
- Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968)
- Help Me, My Love (1969)
- Nell'anno del Signore (1969)
- Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste, convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
- Let's Have a Riot (1970, segment "Il prete")
- Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970)
- Le coppie (1970, segments "La camera" and "Il leone")
- In Prison Awaiting Trial (1971)
- A Girl in Australia (1971)
- The Scientific Cardplayer (1972)
- The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
- Roma (1972)
- My Brother Anastasia (1973)
- Polvere di stelle (1973)
- Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza (1974)
- Di che segno sei? (1975, segment "Il fuoco")
- Il comune senso del pudore (1976, first segment)
- Strange Occasion (1976, segment "L'ascensore")
- An Average Little Man (1977)
- I nuovi mostri (1977, segments "First Aid", "Come una regina" and "L'elogio funebre")
- Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978, segment "Le vacanze intelligenti")
- Traffic Jam (1978)
- The Witness (1978)
- Hypochondriac (1979)
- Catherine and I (1980)
- Il Marchese del Grillo (1981)
- I Know That You Know That I Know (1982)
- In viaggio con papà (1982)
- Il tassinaro (1983)
- Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984)
- Everybody in Jail (1984)
- I Am an ESP (1985)
- Troppo forte (1985)
- Un tassinaro a New York (1987)
- Una botta di vita (1988)
- I promessi sposi (TV, 1989)
- L'avaro (1989)
- In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990)
- Vacanze di Natale '91 (1991)
- Assolto per aver commesso il fatto (1992)
- Nestore, l'ultima corsa (1994)
- Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995)
- Incontri proibiti (1998)
Director
- Fumo di Londra (1966)
- Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? (1966)
- Un italiano in America (1967)
- Amore mio, aiutami (1969)
- Le coppie (1970, segment "La camera")
- Polvere di stelle (1973)
- Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza (1974)
- Il comune senso del pudore (1976)
- Dove vai in vacanza? (1978, segment "Le vacanze intelligenti")
- Io e Caterina (1980)
- Io so che tu sai che io so (1982)
- In viaggio con papà (1982)
- Il tassinaro (1983)
- Tutti dentro (1984)
- Un tassinaro a New York (1987)
- Assolto per aver commesso il fatto (1992)
- Nestore, l'ultima corsa (1994)
- Incontri proibiti (1998)
Voice actor
Sordi provided the voice of Oliver Hardy ('Ollio') in the Italian dubs of more than forty Laurel and Hardy films from 1939 to 1951. He also appeared as a voice actor in other Italian-language versions and Italian films.
- 1938: Avventura a Vallechiara, directed by John G. Blystone (voice of Oliver Hardy) - Swiss Miss
- 1939: I diavoli volanti, directed by Edward Sutherland (voice of Oliver Hardy) - The Flying Deuces
- 1940: Noi siamo le colonne, directed by Alfred Goulding (voice of Oliver Hardy) - A Chump at Oxford
- 1942: Casablanca, by Michael Curtiz (voice of Curt Bois, the thief)
- 1945: The Valley of Decision, by Tay Garnett (voice of Preston Foster)
- 1946: Abbasso la ricchezza!, directed by Gennaro Righelli (voice of Vittorio Mottini)
- 1946: It's a Wonderful Life, by Frank Capra (voice of l'autista di taxi)
- 1947: New Orleans, by Arthur Lubin (voice of Woody Herman)
- 1947: Humoresque, by Jean Negulesco (voice of Craig Stevens)
- 1948: Ladri di biciclette, directed by Vittorio De Sica (voice of the bicycle vendor at Porta Portese, unidentified actor)
- 1949: Domenica d'agosto, directed by Luciano Emmer (voice of Marcello Mastroianni)
- 1950: Cronaca di un amore, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (voice of Franco Fabrizi)
- 1950: Prima comunione, directed by Alessandro Blasetti (voice of narrator)
- 1956: I pinguini ci guardano, directed by Guido Leoni (off-camera voice of an animal)
Theatre
Actor
- 1936-1937: San Giovanni with Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Fougez
- 1938-1939: Ma in campagna è un'altra... rosa (In the country it's another... rose), with Guido Riccioli and Nanda Primavera
- 1941-1942: Tutto l'oro del mondo (All the gold in the world), with Guido Fineschi and Maria Donati
- 1942-1943: Teatro della caricatura (Theatre of the caricature), with Fanfulla
- 1943-1944: Ritorna Za-Bum, by Marcello Marchesi, directed by Mario Mattòli
- Sai che ti dico? (You know what I am saying to you?), by Marcello Marchesi, directed by Mario Mattòli
- 1944-1945: Un mondo di armonie (A world of harmonies), musical revue by Alberto Semprini
- Imputati... alziamoci! (Suspects... arise!), by Michele Galdieri
- 1945-1946: Soffia so'..., by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini
- Soffia so'... n. 2, by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini
- 1947-1948: E lui dice... (And he says...), by Benecoste, directed by Oreste Biancoli and Adolfo Celi
- 1952-1953: Gran baraonda (Total chaos), by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini, with Wanda Osiris
Composer and singer
- 1966: You never told me (Sordi - Piccioni) sung by Lydia MacDonald in the movie Fumo di Londra and in Italian by Mina with title Breve amore
- 1966: Richmond bridge (Sordi - Piccioni) sung by Lydia MacDonald in the movie Fumo di Londra
- 1973: Ma 'ndo... Hawaii? (Sordi - Piccioni) sung by Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti in the movie Polvere di stelle
Awards
Sordi won seven David di Donatello, Italy's most prestigious film award, holding the record of David di Donatello as best actor, 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 or Not to Bed. In 1999, the city of Rome made him honorary mayor for a day to celebrate his eightieth birthday.
At the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award for Detenuto in attesa di giudizio.[4] At the 13th Moscow International Film Festival he won a Special Prize for I Know That You Know That I Know.[5]
He received honorary citizenship from Kansas City, Missouri, for his references to the city in the 1954 film "Un americano a Roma".[6][7]
References
- ^ informatici, Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica - Servizio sistemi. "Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica". Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ "6th Moscow International Film Festival (1969)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
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- ^ "Berlinale 1972: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
- ^ "13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
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External links
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- Alberto Sordi at IMDb
- Geographical coordinates and pictures of his grave
- "Alberto Sordi". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
- 1920 births
- 2003 deaths
- People of Lazian descent
- Male actors from Rome
- Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winners
- Italian male actors
- Italian film directors
- Italian male voice actors
- Italian Roman Catholics
- David di Donatello winners
- Nastro d'Argento winners
- David di Donatello Career Award winners
- Silver Bear for Best Actor winners
- 20th-century Italian male actors