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Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first three successes, '' Un sacco bello'' (1980), '' Bianco, rosso e Verdone'' (1981) and '' Borotalco'' (1982). Since the 1990s, he has been introducing more serious subjects in his work, linked to the excesses of society and the individual's hardships in confronting it; some examples are '' Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrata'' (1992), '' Il mio miglior nemico'' (2006) and '' Io, loro e Lara'' (2010).


Early life

Carlo Verdone was born in
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to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic and academic, and studied at the Italian
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in Rome, having the future actor
Christian De Sica Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director. Life De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón ...
as his deskmate. Subsequently, Verdone earned a degree in Modern Literature at
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, the same university where his father taught, and a degree in Film Direction at the
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. During the 1970s he started a
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career highlighting his varied comic style, acting as well in some
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in the ''
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'' show and he started to introduce his characters on television in 1978 in the popular comedy series "Non Stop".


Movie career

Verdone made his debut as a director in 1980 with the movie '' Un sacco bello'', in which he played three different characters. He used the same formula of the first work in 1981, when he directed '' Bianco, rosso e Verdone'', a funny movie about three different men during election day in Italy. The movie, produced by his mentor
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, was a great success in Italy, thanks to his brilliant comic energy and to his odd characters and had the soundtrack composed by
Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classic ...
. Another great mentor for Verdone was
Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, director and screenwriter. Early life Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in hon ...
, since according to many Verdone is considered his natural heir. Sordi wrote two Verdone films together: '' Journey with Papà'', directed by Sordi, and '' Troppo forte'', directed by Verdone and co-written as well by
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. Carlo Verdone, in a long directing career, has refined very well his style, using very much the typical standard of the
commedia all'italiana Commedia all'italiana (, pl. Commedie all'italiana, "Comedy in the Italian way") or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mar ...
and paying attention to social themes and to pondering stories. Since the 1990s, he accompanied the comic tones of his work with a less comic register, writing and directing stories more attentive to the issues of modernity, cynicism and the excesses of society. Verdone still maintains a privileged relationship with the canons of the Italian comedy, mixing those canons with a more committed type of movie making. In 1999 he wrote the book "Fatti Coatti". In 2005 he took part in the Italian blockbuster romantic comedy named '' Manuale d'amore'', and in the sequels named '' Manuale d'amore 2 - Capitoli successivi'' (2007) and '' Manuale d'amore 3'' (2011), both directed by
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, while in 2013 he starred in
Paolo Sorrentino Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the Bafta Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Italy he was honoure ...
's ''
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''. In 2018 he directed '' Blessed Madness'', that has been written for the first time by the director together with Nicola Guaglianone and the cartoonist and screenwriter Menotti.


Personal life

He has two siblings: Luca, a film director, and Silvia, a film producer and wife of the actor
Christian De Sica Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director. Life De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón ...
. He is a remarkable supporter of football team
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. He was a sympathizer until 1991, the year of its dissolution, of the
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; he supports the
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, while maintaining ideological independence.


Filmography


References


External links


www.carloverdone.it
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