He had always ironed about his date of birth: “What should we do? The date is what it is, November 2”. Gigi Proietti he died of severe heart problems after being admitted to intensive care in a Roman clinic. The family has maintained the utmost reserve that today says: “He will be remembered as he deserves in the times and ways to be defined”.
Gigi Proietti, 80 years of an actor. “I got free when I stopped dyeing my hair”
Silvia Fumarola
11 October 2020-
A rich, very long career, more than half a century on stage and on set. Unique talent, self-irony, Roman cynicism tempered in the joke, he discovers the theater at the university. “My parents wanted to graduate” he says, “I was studying, so to speak, Law but in the evening I performed. Then my friend Lello, who played in our band, comes to see me one evening and says: ‘You have to do this’. I realized that I liked acting a lot, it became my life. But for my dad it wasn’t the right choice, he was worried and kept repeating: ‘Get a piece of paper, if it rains or if it’s windy it’s a certainty’ “.
Italia’s Got Talent, from Achille Lauro to Thegiornalisti: Gigi Proietti declaims the songs of ‘today’s songs’
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A true performer, who passes by the music (he mocks Louis Armstrong, has fun with Well me rompe he ca ‘ inspired by the chansonnier) to the famous Petrolini’s sketches, to get to Shakespeare. The first successes of the Roman actor arrive in a cellar in Prati where he plays Brecht and then with the Stabile dell’Aquila directed by Antonio Calenda, who guides him in texts by Gombrowicz and Moravia.
Gigi Proietti, actor always on stage between theater, cinema and TV
A brilliant, histrionic, multifaceted artist, Gigi Poietti has spent most of his life on the stages all over Italy. Superfine actor, director and singer, he has gone through decades of theater, film and TV, and has lent his voice to stars such as De Niro, Hoffman and Stallone. He began to tread the scenes from the 60s, then worked in several films, from ‘Fever da Cavallo’ to ‘Tosca’. The success in theater and cinema had been confirmed on TV with the series ‘Il maresciallo Rocca’. In 2002 he returned to the big screen with the sequel ‘Fever from horse – La mandrakata’, directed by Carlo Vanzina and recently he was Mangiafuoco in Matteo Garrone’s ‘Pinocchio’
The big break came in 1970 when he replaced Domenico Modugno, alongside Renato Rascel in the musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei and Giovannini. Since then he has been an interpreter and author of great theatrical successes, among which Dear Petrolini, Cyrano, The seven kings of Rome. After starring in 1974 in Sem Benelli’s play The dinner of pranks, alongside Carmelo Bene, in 1976 he formed a partnership with the writer Roberto Lerici, together with whom he wrote and directed his shows that have remained in history, My eyes, please it is a triumph. He brings it back to the stage in 1993, 1996 and 2000, “We thank God, we actors have the privilege of being able to continue our childhood games until death, which are repeated every night in the theater”, confesses Proietti. “I have no regrets, I would do everything again, even what didn’t go well”.
Keep shooting movies, TV series. In 1996 he starred in the series of listening records Marshal Rocca in the role of a carabiniere father of four children that all Italians would like to meet, but they had been there before A half child, Italian restaurant. On TV he does the variety from Facts and deeds a Fantastic but the theater is his life and his passion, he revives Shakespeare at the Globe Theater, encourages young actors as he did in his famous school (where he had pupils Flavio Insinna, Giorgio Tirabassi and many others). A true talent, from Horse fever dubbing: he voices Gatto Silvestro, paired with Loretta Goggi (who plays the canary Titti), and the stars: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman. Double Sylvester Stallone shouting “Adrianaaaaa!”, In the first Rocky. He had recently participated in the new season of Ulisse with Alberto Angela.
He didn’t wait for birthdays to take stock. “I’m used to doing them every day, when important appointments arrive I run out of them. Do you know what Anna Proclemer replied to those who asked her: ‘What do you need to be an actor?’. ‘Health’. It is fundamental, and it must work. the head”. Three weeks ago, in a long interview, he explained that he was leftist. “Those on the left remain on the left, even if they never agree with what they say.” He was in love with Rome, his city, and Rome was in love with him.
Coronavirus, Gigi Proietti sends a message to the elderly: “We obey the rules so then we can go ‘ndo we think”
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