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Paolo Virzì was born on 4 March 1964 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Tutta la vita davanti (2008), Like Crazy (2016) and The First Beautiful Thing (2010). He has been married to Micaela Ramazzotti since 17 January 2009. They have two children. He was previously married to Paola Tiziana Cruciani.- Actor
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The brawny and imposing actor Bobby Rhodes was born in 1947 in Livorno, Italy. He first began acting in films in the late 1960s. Rhodes has been frequently cast as hard-as-nails, two-fisted macho-guy types in various Italian war, action, and horror features made throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Bobby was excellent as the funky, no-nonsense Tony the Pimp in Lamberto Bava's outrageously gruesome cult fright flick Demons (1985). Rhodes was likewise fine as rugged gym instructor Hank in the equally enjoyable sequel Demons 2 (1986). His other memorable movie parts include rough'n'tumble soldier Carlos in the thrilling The Last Hunter (1980); crafty, fearsome hunter Woody Aldridge in the exciting futuristic sci-fi/action opus Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983); narcoleptic soldier Private Wilbur Davis Jr. in the dreadful war comedy Ciao nemico (1982); a formidable mercenary in Hearts and Armour (1983); King Xenodama in Hercules (1983); and a profane P.O.W. mechanic in War Bus Commando (1989). Rhodes has also worked in films as both a stand-in, and a stuntman.- Actor
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Edoardo Gabbriellini was born on 16 July 1975 in Livorno, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for I Am Love (2009), The Landlords (2012) and Holiday (2023).- Actor
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He is an Italian actor; his feature film debut in the first half of the eighties as an actor. Albeit coming from northern Italy, Adriano Chiaramida is often chosen by many directors to interpret southern characters especially natives of Sicily, also helped by an austere and severe face, typical of a certain type of upright men and resolute Southern Italy. In 2013 Adriano Chiaramida index a series of auditions for his firm intention to also directorial debut in the activity.- Actor
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Victor Romito was born on 11 March 1908 in Livorno, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Gallant Men (1962), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and Passport to Danger (1954). He died on 13 May 1980 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Actor
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Guglielmo Favilla was born on 24 May 1981 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Kiss Me Lorena (2005), Last Blood (2006) and All the Money in the World (2017).- Actor
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Almost a high school drop out in his senior year, Paolino loves cinema, especially the one of the 70s. He also loves the actors and directors of that period: Steven Spielberg, Joe D'Amato, Martin Scorsese, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi, etc... He appeared in several commercials and in the movie "Ovosodo" by Paolo Virzi'. He hosted various local festivals in his hometown Livorno (Tuscany, Italy). He also worked as entertainer on cruise ships and mountain resorts. According to Paolino, the greatest philosophers of all times are Saint Augustine ("Love and do what you want") and Charlie Chaplin ("A day without laughing is a wasted day"). He literally adores Articolo 31 (Italian rap band), anime, spaghetti. He also collects VHS.- Cinematographer
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Alfio Contini was born on 19 September 1927 in Castiglioncello, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for Beyond the Clouds (1995), Uno scandalo perbene (1984) and The Easy Life (1962). He died on 23 March 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Editor
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Born in 1978 in Livorno, Tuscany, Simone Manetti is an Italian film editor and director.
He graduated in film editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (the Italian National Film School). He edited the short film FIB 1477 (2006) directed by Lorenzo Sportiello (Official Selection at the 63rd Venice Film Festival) and began working with director Paolo Virzì, editing the documentary L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa (2009) and the feature film The First Beautiful Thing (2010), which was the Italian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and for which Simone was nominated for Best Editing at the Italian Film Academy's David di Donatello Awards in 2010, and for Best Editing at Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists' Silver Ribbon Awards. He edited Tatanka (2011), a feature film directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi and written by Roberto Saviano. He edited the feature films Mozzarella Stories (2011), by Edoardo De Angelis, and I più grandi di tutti (The Greatest of All) (2012), directed by Carlo Virzì (Official Selection at the Torino Film Festival 2012), and the internationally acclaimed Italian TV series 1992, directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi. He is also a photojournalist for the Italian editions of magazines such Rolling Stone, Look Lateral, Vanity Fair and National Geographic.
A New Family, his first short documentary film as a director, shot in Cambodia, premiered at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for a Silver Ribbon Award. It won an Amnesty International Special Mention and was nominated for a Golden Frog for Best Cinematography at Camerimage in Poland.
Goodbye Darling, I'm Off to Fight is his first feature documentary.- Actor
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Dino Di Luca was born on 5 May 1903 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for The Spirit and the Flesh (1941), La riva dei bruti (1931) and Manon Lescaut (1940). He died on 11 May 1991 in the USA.- Federica Panicucci was born on 27 October 1967 in Cecina, Livorno, Italy. She is an actress, known for Laura non c'è (1998), Mattino Cinque (2008) and Unomania (1992). She was previously married to Mario Fargetta.
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Carlo Romano was born on 8 May 1908 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for David Copperfield (1965), Carnal Circuit (1969) and L'elisir d'amore (1941). He was married to Jone Romano. He died on 16 October 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Maurizio Micheli was born on 3 February 1947 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986), Allegro non troppo (1976) and Nel mondo di Alice (1974).
- Laura Bernardeschi known as lauraartist68 is a multidisciplinary artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne ,Uk . She started to work as a supporting actress while living in London and from than moment she has never stopped achieving more than 31 credits for her acting roles. Laura is also a life model and a painter appreciated in the art world and for this is often part of worldwide art exhibitions.
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Alfredo Bini was born on 12 December 1926 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was a producer and actor, known for Accattone (1961), The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) and Oedipus Rex (1967). He was married to Rosanna Schiaffino. He died on 16 October 2010 in Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy.- Music Department
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Pietro Mascagni was born on 7 December 1863 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was a composer and writer, known for Raging Bull (1980), Funny Games (2007) and Death to Smoochy (2002). He was married to Lina Carbognani. He died on 2 August 1945 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
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Doris Duranti was born on 25 April 1917 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Resurrezione (1944), Calafuria (1943) and Capitan Tempesta (1942). She died on 10 March 1995 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.- Actor
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Arduíno Colassanti was born in 1936 in Livorno, Italy. He was an actor, known for How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971), Amor, Carnaval e Sonhos (1973) and A Doce Mulher Amada (1968). He was married to Sonia Braga and Ana Miranda. He died on 22 February 2014 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actor
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Luca Guastini was born on 9 March 1982 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and composer, known for Exit: Una storia personale (2010), Steel (2012) and Verso un altrove (2018).- Jacopo Garfagnoli was born in 1994 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor, known for Black Spot (2018), The Traitor (2019) and Senza Età (2023).
- Stefano Davanzati was born on 5 March 1957 in Livorno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Il cielo non cade mai (1992), Fantaghirò: Cave of the Golden Rose (1991) and The Final Executioner (1984).
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Stefano Sibaldi was born on 11 June 1905 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971), Ottocento (1959) and David Copperfield (1965). He died on 2 July 1996 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Corrado Tedeschi was born on 20 July 1952 in Livorno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Il maresciallo Rocca (1996), Don Matteo (2000) and InvaXon - Alieni in Liguria (2004).
- Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943. He was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1903. He was the son of Costanzo Ciano and his wife Carolina Pini; his father was an Admiral and World War I hero in the Royal Italian Navy (for which service he was given the aristocratic title of Count by Victor Emmanuel III). His son Galeazzo was accustomed to living a high-profile and glamorous life, which he maintained almost until the end of his life. Father and son both took part in Mussolini's 1922 March on Rome. After studying Philosophy of Law at the University of Rome, Galeazzo Ciano worked briefly as a journalist before choosing a diplomatic career; soon, he served as an attaché in Rio de Janeiro. On 24 April 1930, when he was 27 years old, he married Benito Mussolini's daughter Edda Mussolini, and they had three children (Fabrizio, Raimonda and Marzio), though he was known to have had several affairs while married. Soon after their marriage, Ciano left for Shanghai to serve as Italian consul. On his return to Italy in 1935, he became the minister of press and propaganda in the government of his father-in-law. Ciano volunteered for action in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935-36) as a bomber squadron commander. He received two silver medals of valor and reached the rank of captain. His future opponent Alessandro Pavolini served in the same squadron as a lieutenant. Upon his highly trumpeted return from the war as a "hero" in 1936, he was appointed by Mussolini as replacement Foreign Minister. Ciano began to keep a diary a short time after his appointment and kept it active up to his 1943 dismissal as foreign minister. In 1937, he was allegedly involved in planning the murder of the brothers Carlo and Nello Rosselli, two exiled anti-fascist activists killed in the French spa town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne on 9 June. Also in 1937, prior to the Italian annexation in 1939, Gian Galeazzo Ciano was named an Honorary Citizen of Tirana, Albania. Before World War II, Mussolini may have been preparing Ciano to succeed him as Duce. At the start of the war in 1939, Ciano did not agree with Mussolini's plans and knew that Italy's armed forces were ill-prepared for a major war. When Mussolini formally declared war on France in 1940, he wrote in his diary, "I am sad, very sad. The adventure begins. May God help Italy!" Ciano became increasingly disenchanted with Nazi Germany and the course of World War II, although when the Italian regime embarked on an ill-advised "parallel war" alongside Germany, he went along, despite the terribly-executed Italian invasion of Greece and its subsequent setbacks. Throughout 1941 and thereafter, Ciano made derogatory and sarcastic comments about Mussolini behind his back and was surprised that these comments were reported to the Duce, who did not take them lightly; for his part, Ciano ignored well meaning friends who advised moderation. On top of that, friends and acquaintances sought his protection and aid on various matters not having to do with his official position, which in turn resulted in further caustic remarks. In addition, two relatively minor incidents wounded his overblown self-importance and vanity. One was his being excluded from a projected meeting between Mussolini and Franco. The other involved in being reprimanded for a rowdy celebration of an aviator in Bari; he wrote a letter to Mussolini stating that the Duce had "opened a wound in him which can never be closed." His own self-worth seemed to cloud his judgment, forgetting that he had acquired his position by marrying the boss' daughter. In late 1942 and early 1943, following the Axis defeat in North Africa, other major setbacks on the Eastern Front, and with an Anglo-American assault on Sicily looming, Ciano turned against the doomed war and actively pushed for Italy's exit from the conflict. He was silenced by being removed from his post as foreign minister. The rest of the cabinet was removed as well on 5 February 1943. He was offered the post of ambassador to the Holy See, and presented his credentials to Pope Pius XII on 1 March. In this role he remained in Rome, watched closely by Mussolini. The regime's position had become even more unstable by the coming summer, however, and court circles were already probing the Allied commands for some sort of agreement. On the afternoon of 24 July 1943, Mussolini summoned the Fascist Grand Council to its first meeting since 1939, prompted by the Allied invasion of Sicily. At that meeting, Mussolini announced that the Germans were thinking of evacuating the south. This led Dino Grandi to launch a blistering attack on his longtime comrade. Grandi put on the table a resolution asking King Victor Emmanuel III to resume his full constitutional powers - in effect, a vote leading to Mussolini's ousting from leadership. The motion won by an unexpectedly large margin, with Ciano voting in favor. Mussolini's replacement was Pietro Badoglio, an Italian general in both World Wars. Mussolini did not think that the vote had any real value, and showed up at work the next morning like any other day. That afternoon, the king summoned him to Villa Savoia and dismissed him from office. Upon leaving the villa, Mussolini was arrested. For the next two months he was moved from place to place to hide him and prevent his rescue by the Germans. Ultimately, Mussolini was sent to Gran Sasso, a mountain resort in Abruzzo. He was kept in complete isolation in a hotel in Campo Imperatore until rescued by German paratroopers on 12 September 1943. Mussolini then set up a puppet government in the area of northern Italy still under German occupation called the Italian Social Republic. Ciano was dismissed from his post by the new government of Italy put in place after his father-in-law was overthrown. Ciano, Edda and their three children fled to Germany on 28 August 1943 in fear of being arrested by the new Italian government. The Germans turned him over to Mussolini's administration. He was then formally arrested on charges of treason. Under German and Fascist pressure, Mussolini had Ciano imprisoned before he was tried and found guilty. After the Verona trial and sentence, on 11 January 1944, Ciano was executed by a firing squad along with four others (Emilio De Bono, Luciano Gottardi, Giovanni Marinelli and Carlo Pareschi) who had voted for Mussolini's ousting.
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Simone Fulciniti was born on 20 February 1971 in Livorno, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Settecento (2002), Non c'è più niente da fare (2007) and Dietro le quinte (2010).