Alfredo Pea (born 17 November 1954) is an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in
Rome
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, Pea studied acting at the "Studio di arti sceniche" drama school by
Alessandro Fersen.
He became first known in the mid-seventies thanks to a series of
commedia sexy all'italiana films, in which he played the typical role of a shy teenager seduced by more experienced women.
In the same period he started appearing, in secondary roles, in more ambitious
art film
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s, working with
Giuliano Montaldo
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,
Mario Monicelli
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,
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Milan, during the 1970s he approached the cinema by collaborating on the screenplay of Roberto Faenza's 1977 documentary ''Forza Itali ...
and
Giuseppe Ferrara
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From the late 1970s he is also active on television, in TV-movies and series of good success such as
Il Capo dei Capi.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Visitor'' (1974)
* ''
Classe mista'' (1975)
* ''
The School Teacher'' (1975)
* ''
And Agnes Chose to Die '' (1976)
* ''
The Two Orphans'' (1976)
* ''
The Lady Medic'' (1976)
* ''
Closed Circuit'' (1978)
* ''
To Love the Damned'' (1980)
* ''
Control'' (1987)
* ''
Weird Tales
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'' (1994)
* ''
Oasi'' (1994)
* ''
State Secret'' (1995)
* ''
The Decameron
''The Decameron'' (; or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human Comedy (drama), comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy, Comedy'' "''D ...
'' (2024)
References
External links
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1954 births
Male actors from Rome
Italian male stage actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
20th-century Italian male actors
Living people