Alighiero Noschese (; 25 November 1932 – 3 December 1979) was an

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and actor.

Life and career

Noschese was born in Naples. After an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as imitator and parodist.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . After some theatre appearances with

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and Sandro Giovannini, he became popular with the TV show ''Doppia coppia'' (1969), where, for the first time in the then wholly state-controlled Italian television, an actor was allowed to parody politicians. Noschese had an outstanding capability for imitating not only the voice of his subjects, but also their physical features and attitudes. In an interview just before his death, Noschese listed a total of 1,156 voices he had imitated in his career. On 3 December 1979, at the peak of his career, Noschese shot himself while under care for clinical depression in Rome. However, as firearms and other letal objects are not allowed to depressed patients, it is suspected that someone murdered Noschese or smuggled the gun to him.

Selected filmography

* '' Doctor Antonio'' (1954) * ''I due della legione'' (1962) – Mustafa Abdul Bey * ''

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'' (1963) – Giuseppe Quagliarulo * ''Scanzonatissimo'' (1963) * '' James Tont operazione U.N.O.'' (1965) – Noskes * ''Mercanti di vergini'' (1969) * ''Io non scappo... fuggo'' (1970) * '' Io non spezzo... rompo'' (1971) – Riccardo Viganò * ''Il furto è l'anima del commercio?!...'' (1971) – Conte Gaetano Gargiulo * ''Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente'' (1971) – Luigi Gorletti * ''

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'' (1972) – Lambertuccio De Cecina * ''Il terrore con gli occhi storti'' (1972) – Giacinto Puddu * '' The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire'' (1972) – Il prode Anselmo da Montebello * '' The Funny Face of the Godfather'' (1973) – Don Vito Monreale / Nick Bullione * '' Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia'' (1974) – Antonio Lo Mazzo (final film role)

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* 1932 births 1979 suicides Male actors from Naples Italian male comedians Italian impressionists (entertainers) Italian television personalities Suicides by firearm in Italy 20th-century Italian male actors 20th-century Italian comedians 1979 deaths Comedians from Naples {{Italy-entertainer-stub