Carlo Verdone
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Carlo Verdone | |
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 Verdone in 2007 | |
| Born | 17 November 1950 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, screenwriter, director |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Parent(s) | Mario Verdone (father) Rossana Schiavina (mother) |
| Relatives | Luca Verdone (brother) Silvia Verdone (sister) Christian De Sica (brother-in-law) |
Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Early life
Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic and academic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, the same University where his father taught, and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During the 1970s he started a television career highlighting his varied comic style, acting as well in some ads in the Carosello show and he started to introduce his characters on television in 1978 in the popular commedy series “Non Stop”[1].
Movie career
Verdone made his debut as director in 1980 with the movie Un sacco bello, in which he played three different characters. He used the same formula of the first work in 1981, when he directed Bianco, rosso e Verdone, a funny movie about three different men during election day in Italy. The movie, produced by his mentor Sergio Leone, was a great success in Italy, thanks to his brilliant comic energy and to his odd characters and had the soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone[2].
Another great mentor for Verdone was Alberto Sordi, since according to many Verdone[3] is considered his natural heir. Sordi wrote two Verdone films together: Journey with Papa, directed by Sordi, and Troppo forte, directed by Verdone and co-written as well by Sergio Leone.
Carlo Verdone, in a long directing career[4][5], has refined very well his style, using very much the typical standard of the commedia all'italiana and paying attention to social themes and to pondering stories. Since the 1990s, he accompanied the comic tones of his work with a less comic register, writing and directing stories more attentive to the issues of modernity, cynicism and the excesses of society. Verdone still maintains a privileged relationship with the canons of the Italian comedy, mixing those canons with a more committed type of movie making. In 1999 he wrote the book "Fatti Coatti"[6]. In 2005 he took part in the Italian blockbuster romantic comedy named Manuale d'amore, and in the sequels named Manuale d'amore 2 - Capitoli successivi (2007) and Manuale d'amore 3 (2011), both directed by Giovanni Veronesi, while in 2013 he starred in Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty[7][8]. Benedetta Follia (lit. “Blessed Madness”)[9] is the title of the new comedy helmed by Carlo Verdone, the film is directed by and stars Verdone, and has for the first time been written by the director together with Nicola Guaglianone plus cartoonist and screenwriter Menotti.
Personal life
He has two siblings: Luca, a film director, and Silvia, a film producer and wife of actor Christian De Sica who starred in many of Verdone's early movies.
References
- ^ "The A to Z of Italian Cinema". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Ennio Morricone composed soundtracks for Carlo Verdone". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Carlo Verdone on VOGUE Italy". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Rome Festival to Honor Italian Comic Actor Carlo Verdone". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Carlo Verdone special guest of Italian Film Festival Berlin 2015". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "The book "Fatti Coatti" by Carlo Verdone". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Carlo Verdone inside the cast of The Great Beauty". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "The Great Beauty, review". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ ""Blessed Madness" the new comedy helmed by Carlo Verdone". Retrieved 3 April 2018.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Actor | Director | Writer | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Fun Is Beautiful | Yes | Yes | Yes | Enzo/ Ruggero / Leo / Don Alfio / Anselmo / professor |
| 1981 | Bianco, rosso e Verdone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Furio / Mimmo / Pasquale |
| 1982 | Journey with Papa | Yes | Yes | Cristiano D'Ambrosi | |
| 1982 | Grand Hotel Excelsior | Yes | Pericle Coccia | ||
| 1982 | Talcum Powder | Yes | Yes | Yes | Sergio Benvenuti |
| 1983 | Acqua e sapone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Rolando Ferrazza |
| 1984 | I due carabinieri | Yes | Yes | Yes | Marino Spada |
| 1984 | Cuori nella tormenta | Yes | Yes | Walter Migliorini | |
| 1986 | 7 chili in 7 giorni | Yes | Alfio Tamburini | ||
| 1986 | Troppo forte | Yes | Yes | Yes | Oscar Pettinari |
| 1986 | Io e mia sorella | Yes | Yes | Yes | Carlo Piergentili |
| 1988 | Compagni di scuola | Yes | Yes | Yes | Piero Ruffolo |
| 1989 | Il bambino e il poliziotto | Yes | Yes | Yes | Carlo Vinciguerra |
| 1990 | Stasera a casa di Alice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Saverio |
| 1991 | Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bernardo Arbusti |
| 1992 | Al lupo al lupo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gregorio Sagonà |
| 1994 | Let's Not Keep in Touch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gepy Fuxas |
| 1995 | Viaggi di nozze | Yes | Yes | Yes | Raniero / Giovannino / Ivano |
| 1996 | Sono pazzo di Iris Blond | Yes | Yes | Yes | Romeo Spera |
| 1998 | Gallo cedrone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Armando Feroci |
| 1998 | Lucky and Zorba | Yes | Zorba (voice) | ||
| 2000 | Zora the vampire | Yes | Commissioner Lombardi | ||
| 2000 | A Chinese in a Coma | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ercole Preziosi |
| 2003 | It Can't Be All Our Fault | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gegè Tinacci |
| 2004 | Love Is Eternal While It Lasts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gilberto Mercuri |
| 2005 | Manual of Love | Yes | Goffredo | ||
| 2006 | My Best Enemy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Achille De Bellis |
| 2007 | Manual of Love 2 | Yes | Ernesto | ||
| 2008 | Grande, grosso e... Verdone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Leo Nuvolone / Callisto Cagnato / Moreno Vecchiarutti / L'onorevole |
| 2009 | Italians | Yes | Giulio Cesare Carminati | ||
| 2010 | Io, loro e Lara | Yes | Yes | Yes | Carlo Mascolo |
| 2011 | The Ages of Love | Yes | Fabio | ||
| 2012 | A Flat for Three | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ulisse Diamanti |
| 2013 | The Great Beauty | Yes | Romano | ||
| 2014 | Sotto una buona stella | Yes | Yes | Yes | Federico Picchioni |
| 2016 | L'abbiamo fatta grossa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Arturo Merlino |
| 2018 | Benedetta follia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Guglielmo |
External links
- www.carloverdone.it — Official Site
- Carlo Verdone at IMDb
- Carlo Verdone at AllMovie
Media related to Carlo Verdone at Wikimedia Commons
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Male actors from Rome
- Italian male actors
- Italian film directors
- Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- Italian male writers
- Italian television personalities
- Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
- David di Donatello winners
- Nastro d'Argento winners
- David di Donatello Career Award winners
- People named in the Panama Papers
- Sapienza University of Rome alumni