Michele Placido
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| Michele Placido | |
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 Michele Placido and Federica Vincenti |
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| Born | May 19, 1946 Ascoli Satriano, Foggia, Italy  |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Michele Placido (born May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano) is an internationally known Italian actor and director. He is best known for the role of Corrado Cattani in the TV series La Piovra.
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[edit] Biography
Growing up in a poor family, Placido had a number of jobs since his youth. He studied acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and with Silvio D'Amico at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his debut as an actor in the play "Midsummer's Night Dream" in 1969. Two years later he started film work under directors such as Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Salvatore Samperi, Damiano Damiani, Francesco Rosi, Walerian Borowczyk, Marco Bellocchio and Carlo Lizzani. His first big success came with the role of soldier Paolo Passeri in Marcia trionfale (1976, d. Marco Bellocchio) for which he won a David di Donatello. Two years later he won the Golden Bear award for the best actor in Berlin for his role of the homosexual worker in ironical melodrama Ernesto (1978, d. Salvatore Samperi).
He appeared in several TV movies in 1970s, but 1983 marked the beginning of his big television career when he played the lead as a police inspector investigating the Mafia in Damiano Damiani's TV series "La Piovra". That brought him widespread fame, and he went on to play the same part in the subsequent three series, until his character's assassination. Afterwards he would appear as a law enforcement official in a number of other films and TV productions dealing with organized crime, including a semi-biographical movie about Giovanni Falcone, where he acted as the titular judge. In 2008, in a reversal of roles, he portrayed longtime Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano in the TV movie "L'ultimo padrino".
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Actor
- Estrenando sueños (2005)
- Liolà (2005)
- Il Grande Torino (2004)
- L'Odore del sangue (2004)
- L'Amore ritorna (2004)
- Soraya (2003)
- Un Papà quasi perfetto (2003)
- Il Posto dell'anima (2003)
- Searching for Paradise (2002)
- Il Sequestro Soffiantini (2002)
- Tra due mondi (2001)
- Padre Pio - Tra cielo e terra (2000) (TV)
- Liberate i pesci! (2000)
- Terra bruciata (1999)
- Un Uomo perbene (1999)
- La Balia (1999)
- Panni sporchi (1999)
- Del perduto amore (1998)
- La Missione (1998)
- Le Plaisir (et ses petits tracas) (1998)
- Racket (1997)
- La Lupa (1996)
- Un Eroe borghese (1995)
- Padre e figlio (1994)
- Poliziotti (1994)
- Lamerica (1994)
- Quattro bravi ragazzi (1993)
- Le Amiche del cuore (1992)
- Uomo di rispetto (1992)
- Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel (1992)
- Scoop (1991)
- Afganskiy izlom (1990)
- La Piovra 4 (1989)
- Mery per sempre (1989)
- Via Paradiso (1988)
- Big Business (1988)
- Come sono buoni i bianchi (1988)
- La Piovra 3 (1987)
- Ti presento un'amica (1987)
- Grandi magazzini (1986)
- Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico (1986)
- La Piovra 2 (1985)
- Pizza Connection (1985)
- Les Amants terribles (1984)
- La Piovra (1984)
- Ars amandi (1983)
- Sciopèn (1982)
- Cargo (film) (1981)
- Tre fratelli (1981)
- Les Ailes de la colombe (1981)
- Lulu (1980)
- Salto nel vuoto (1980)
- Letti selvaggi (1979)
- Il Prato (1979)
- Sabato, domenica e venerdì (1979)
- Ernesto (1979)
- Un Uomo in ginocchio (1978)
- Io sono mia (1978)
- Corleone (1977)
- Fontamara (1977)
- Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
- La Ragazza dal pigiama giallo (1977)
- Casotto (1977)
- L'Agnese va a morire (1976)
- La Orca (1976)
- Divina creatura (1976)
- Marcia trionfale (1976)
- Peccati in famiglia (1975)
- Moses the Lawgiver (1975)
- Orlando Furioso (movie) (1975)
- Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! (1974)
- Processo per direttissima (1974)
- Romanzo popolare (1974)
- Il Picciotto (1973)
- La Mano nera - prima della mafia, più della mafia (1973)
- Mia moglie, un corpo per l'amore (1973)
- Teresa la ladra (1972)
- Il Caso Pisciotta (1972)
[edit] Director
- Romanzo criminale (2005)
- Ovunque sei (2004)
- Un Viaggio chiamato amore (2002)
- Un Altro mondo è possibile (2001)
- Del perduto amore (1998)
- Un Eroe borghese (1995)
- Le Amiche del cuore (1992)
- Pummarò (1990)
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