Mario Scaccia
Mario Scaccia (26 December 1919 – 26 January 2011) was an Italian actor and author. He was one of the most important figures in the Italian theatre of '900.
Biography
Born in Rome, the son of a painter, during the Second World War Scaccia was conscripted into the army as an officer in Sicily; made prisoner by the American army, he was taken in Morocco, where he remained three years.[1] In 1945 Scaccia returned to Rome, where he abandoned his studies in pedagogy and enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, attending only the first year;[1] in 1946 he started appearing on stage, usually as character actor. In 1961 Scaccia was co-founder, together with Valeria Moriconi, Franco Enriquez and Glauco Mauri, of the Compagnia dei Quattro ("Company of the Four") that gained critical and commercial success.[1][2] At the same time Scaccia was a prolific character actor in films, TV series and radio-dramas.[1]
Scaccia was also an author and a poet; his works include several autobiographies.[2] He died in Rome at 91, as a result of complications for a surgical intervention.[3]
Selected Filmography
- Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
- A Slice of Life (1954)
- Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
- Revenge of the Barbarians (1960)
- Femmine di lusso (1960)
- Ursus (1961)
- Shivers in Summer (1963)
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1965)
- Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
- Between Miracles (1971)
- Meo Patacca (1972)
- Il generale dorme in piedi (1972)
- Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
- Le farò da padre (1974)
- L'anticristo (1974)
- Il profumo della signora in nero (1974)
- Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
- Il soldato di ventura (1976)
- Attenti al buffone (1976)
- Double Murder (1977)
- Gran bollito (1977)
- Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1987)
- Ferdinando e Carolina (1999)
Bibliography
- Mario Scaccia, Il Diario dell'Anima, 1969
- Mario Scaccia, Un disperato amore, 1972
- Mario Scaccia, Zio cardinale, 1974
- Mario Scaccia, Quattro mesi in platea, 1977
- Mario Scaccia, Io e il teatro, 1978
- Giovanni Giràud, Mario Scaccia, Il galantuomo per transazione, 1980
- Mario Scaccia, L'antologia rifatta, 1981
- Mario Scaccia, La verità inventata. Del mestiere dell'arte dell'attore, 1989
- Mario Scaccia, Il mio Molière, 1994
- Paolo Perrone Burali d'Arezzo, Mario Scaccia, Mario Verdone, Totò e Onorato, 1999
- Mario Scaccia, Due braccia e una lira, 2004
- Mario Scaccia, Interpretando la mia vita. Il mio teatro, i miei personaggi, la mia storia, 2009
- Mario Scaccia, Maschere romane, 2010
- Mario Scaccia, Per amore di una rima, 2011
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rodolfo Di Giammarco (27 January 2011). "Addio a Mario Scaccia gran signore della scena". La Repubblica.
- ↑ "Teatro, muore a 91 anni l'attore Mario Scaccia". Il Giornale. 27 January 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.