Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September
28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an
Italian film actor. He had 3
nominations as
Academy
Award for Best Actor (an important score for an actor working
in non-
English-language films) and
won a
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in
1962.
He is considered one of his country's finest actors and one of the
best in motion picture history. He was regarded as an international
sex symbol, indeed he played the
Latin Lover character in some movies, whose
acting style projected a mood of casual affability.
Personal life
Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri
, a small village in the Apennines
, the son of Ida (née Irolle) and Ottone
Mastroianni, who ran a carpentry shop. Mastroianni grew up in
Turin
and Rome. During World War
II, he was interned in a German prison,
but he escaped and hid in Venice
.
Mastroianni was married to Italian actress
Flora Carabella (1926 - 1999) from 1948
until his death. They had one child together, Barbara. His brother
Ruggero Mastroianni (1929 -
1996) was a highly regarded film editor who not only edited a
number of his brother's films, but appeared alongside Marcello in
Scipione detto anche
l'Africano, a comedic take on the once popular
peplum/sword and sandal film genre released in
1971.
Mastroianni had a daughter,
Chiara
Mastroianni, with the actress
Catherine Deneuve, his longtime lover
during the seventies. Both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside
when he died of
pancreatic cancer
at the age of 72, as was his partner at the time, author and
filmmaker
Anna Maria Tatò.
According
to Christopher Wiegand and Paul Duncan in their book Federico
Fellini, when Mastroianni died in 1996, the Trevi Fountain
, which is so famously associated with him due to
his role in Fellini's La dolce vita, was symbolically
turned off and draped in black as a tribute.
Career
In 1945, Mastroianni started working for a
film
company and began taking acting lessons. His first acting credit
was in
I
Miserabili (1948). He soon became a major international
star, starring in
Big
Deal on Madonna Street; and in
Federico Fellini's
La dolce vita with
Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a
disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his
days and nights exploring Rome's high society. Mastroianni followed
La dolce vita with another signature role, that of a film
director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds
himself in a creative block while making a movie in Fellini's
8½.
Mastroianni, Dean
Stockwell and Jack Lemmon are the
only actors to have twice won Best Actor at the
Cannes Film
Festival
. Mastroianni won in 1970 for
Dramma
della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca and in 1987
for
Dark Eyes.
Academy Award nominations
Filmography
- Marionette by
Carmine Gallone (1939)
- Una storia
d'amore by Mario Camerini
(1942)
- I bambini ci
guardano by Vittorio De
Sica (1944)
- I
miserabili by Riccardo Freda
(1948)
- Vent'anni by Giorgio Bianchi (1949)
- Vertigine d'amore by
Luigi Capuano (1949)
- Domenica d'agosto by
Luciano Emmer (1950)
- Contro la legge
by Flavio Calzavara (1950)
- Vita da cani
by Steno and Mario Monicelli (1950)
- Cuori sul mare by
Giorgio Bianchi (1950)
- Atto d'accusa by
Giacomo Gentilomo (1951)
- Passaporto per
l'oriente by Montgomery
Tully, Romolo Marcellini
(1951)
- Parigi è sempre
Parigi by Luciano Emmer
(1951)
- La muta di Portici
by Giorgio Ansoldi (1952)
- Sensualità by Clemente Fracassi (1952)
- Tragico ritorno by
Pier Luigi Faraldo (1952)
- L'eterna catena by
Anton Giulio Majano (1952)
- Le ragazze di Piazza di
Spagna by Luciano Emmer
(1952)
- Penne nere by Oreste Biancoli (1952)
- Lulù by Fernando Cerchio (1953)
- Febbre di vivere by
Claudio Gora (1953)
- Non è mai troppo
tardi by Filippo Walter
Ratti (1953)
- Gli eroi della domenica
by Mario Camerini (1953)
- Il viale della
speranza by Dino Risi (1953)
- Schiava del peccato
by Raffaello Matarazzo
(1954)
- La principessa delle
Canarie by Paolo Moffa
(1954)
- Cronache di poveri
amanti by Carlo Lizzani
(1954)
- Tempi
nostri by Alessandro
Blasetti [episoeo: Il pupo] (1954)
- Giorni d'amore by Giuseppe De Santis (1954)
- Casa Ricordi by
Carmine Gallone (1954)
- Peccato che sia una
canaglia by Alessandro
Blasetti (1954)
- Tam tam mayumbe by
Gian Gaspare Napolitano
(1955)
- La bella
mugnaia by Mario Camerini
(1955)
- La fortuna di essere
donna by Alessandro
Blasetti (1956)
- Il bigamo by
Luciano Emmer (1956)
- Il medico e lo
steegone by Mario Monicelli
(1957)
- Padri e
figli by Mario Monicelli
(1957)
- La ragazza della
salina by František Čáp (1957)
- Il momento più
bello by Luciano Emmer
(1957)
- Le notti
bianche by Luchino
Visconti (1957)
- Racconti d'estate
by Gianni Franciolini (1958)
- Amore e guai by
Angelo Dorigo (1958)
- I soliti
ignoti by Mario Monicelli
(1958)
- Il nemico di mia moglie
by Gianni Puccini (1959)
- Un ettaro di cielo by
Aglauco Casadio (1959)
- La Legge by
Jules Dassin (1959)
- Tutti innamorati by
Giuseppe Orlandini (1959)
- Ferdinando I, re di
Napoli by Gianni
Franciolini (1959)
- La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini (1960)
- Il bell'Antonio by
Mauro Bolognini (1960)
- Adua e le compagne by
Antonio Pietrangeli (1960)
- Fantasmi a Roma by
Antonio Pietrangeli (1961)
- La notte by Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
- L'assassino by
Elio Petri (1961)
- Divorzio
all'italiana by Pietro Germi
(1961)
- Vita privata by
Louis Malle (1962)
- Cronaca familiare by
Valerio Zurlini (1962)
- 8½ by Federico Fellini (1962)
- I compagni by Mario Monicelli (1963)
- Ieri, oggi,
domani by Vittorio De Sica
(1963)
- Matrimonio
all'italiana by Vittorio De
Sica (1964)
- L'uomo dei cinque
palloni by Marco Ferreri
(1965)
- Oggi, domani e
dopodomani by Luciano Salce,
Marco Ferreri, Eduardo De Filippo [episodie L'uomo dei cinque palloni]
(1965)
- Casanova 70 by Mario Monicelli (1965)
- La decima vittima by
Elio Petri (1965)
- Io, io, io... e gli
altri by Alessandro
Blasetti (1966)
- Poppies Are Also
Flowers by Terence
Young (1966)
- Spara
forte, più forte... non capisco! by Eduardo De Filippo (1966)
- Lo straniero
by Luchino Visconti (1967)
- Questi fantasmi
by Renato Castellani (1968)
- Amanti by Vittorio De Sica (1968)
- Diamonds for
Breakfast by Christopher
Morahan (1968)
- Dramma della gelosia - tutti
i particolari in cronaca by Ettore
Scola (1970)
- I girasoli by
Vittorio De Sica (1970)
- Leo the Last by John Boorman (1970)
- Giochi particolari by
Franco Indovina (1970)
- Scipione detto anche
l'africano by Luigi Magni
(1971)
- Correva l'anno di grazia
1870 by Alfredo Giannetti
(1971)
- Permette?
Rocco Papaleo by
Ettore Scola (1971)
- La moglie del prete
by Dino Risi (1971)
- Ça n'arrive qu'aux
autres by Nadine
Trintignant (1972)
- La cagna by Marco Ferreri (1972)
- What? by Roman Polanski (1972)
- Mordi e fuggi
by Dino Risi (1973)
- La Grande Bouffe by
Marco Ferreri (1973)
- Niente di grave: suo
marito è incinto by Jacques
Demy (1973)
- Rappresaglia by
George Pan Cosmatos (1973)
- L'idolo della città by
Yves Robert (1973)
- Touche pas à la
femme blanche by Marco
Ferreri (1974)
- Allonsanfàn by
Paolo and Vittorio
Taviani (1974)
- La pupa del gangster by
Giorgio Capitani (1975)
- Divina creatura by
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
(1975)
- Per le antiche
scale by Mauro Bolognini
(1975)
- La donna della
domenica by Luigi Comencini
(1975)
- Culastrisce nobile
veneziano by Flavio
Mogherini (1976)
- Todo modo by Elio Petri (1976)
- Signore e
signori, buonanotte by Luigi
Comencini, Mario Monicelli,
Nanni Loy, Ettore
Scola, Luigi Magni (1976)
- Mogliamante by Marco Vicario (1977)
- Una giornata particolare
by Ettore Scola (1977)
- Doppio delitto by
Steno (1977)
- Giallo napoletano by
Sergio Corbucci (1978)
- Ciao maschio by Marco Ferreri (1978)
- Così come sei by
Alberto Lattuada (1978)
- Fatto di sangue fra due uomini
per causa di una vedova, si sospettano moventi politici by
Lina Wertmüller (1978)
- L'ingorgo - Una storia
impossibile by Luigi
Comencini (1979)
- La terrazza by Ettore Scola (1980)
- La città delle donne by
Federico Fellini (1980)
- Fantasma d'amore by
Dino Risi (1981)
- La pelle by Liliana Cavani (1981)
- La Nuit de
Varennes by Ettore Scola
(1982)
- Oltre la
porta by Liliana Cavani
(1982)
- Gabriela, Cravo
e Canela by Bruno Barreto
(1983)
- Storia di Piera by
Marco Ferreri (1983)
- Il generale
del armata morta by Luciano
Tovoli (1983)
- Enrico IV by Marco Bellocchio (1984)
- Le due vite di
Mattia Pascal by Mario
Monicelli (1985)
- Maccheroni by Ettore Scola (1985)
- Il volo by
Theodoros Angelopoulos
(1986)
- Ginger e Fred by
Federico Fellini (1986)
- Intervista by Federico Fellini (1987)
- Miss Arizona by
Pál Sándor
(1987)
- I soliti ignoti
vent'anni dopo by Amanzio
Todini (1987)
- Oci ciornie by
Nikita Mikhalkov (1987)
- Splendor by Ettore Scola (1989)
- Che ora è?
by Ettore Scola (1989)
- Stanno tutti
bene by Giuseppe
Tornatore (1990)
- Cin cin by
Gene Saks (1990)
- Verso sera by Francesca Archibugi (1990)
- To meteoro vima
tou pelargou by Theodoros Angelopoulos (1991)
- Le voleur d'enfants
by Christian De Chalonge
(1991)
- Used People by Beeban Kidron (1992)
- Di questo
non si parla by María
Luisa Bemberg (1993)
- Un, deux, trois, soleil by
Bertrand Blier (1993)
- Prêt-à-Porter by
Robert Altman (1994)
- Les cent et une nuits
de Simon Cinéma by Agnès
Varda (1995)
- Al di là delle
nuvole by Michelangelo
Antonioni (1995)
- Sostiene Pereira by
Roberto Faenza (1995)
- Trois vies et une
seule mort by Raúl Ruiz
(1996)
- Viagem ao
Princípio do Mundo by Manoel
de Oliveira (1997)
References
- "Marcello Mastroianni's Record" from
Filmreference.com by Elaine Mancini
- [1]
- "Marcello Mastroianni" from Encyclopædia Britannica
- [2]
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