Mario Scaccia (26 December 1919 – 26 January 2011) was an Italian actor and author. He was a prominent figure in the Italian theatre of '900.
Biography
Born in
Rome
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, the son of a painter, during the
Second World War
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Scaccia was conscripted into the army as an officer in
Sicily
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; made prisoner by the American army, he was taken in
Morocco
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, where he remained three years.
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;
[ in 1946 he started appearing on stage, usually as character actor. In 1961 Scaccia was co-founder, together with ]Valeria Moriconi
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, Franco Enriquez
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and Glauco Mauri, of the ''Compagnia dei Quattro'' ("Company of the Four") that gained critical and commercial success.[
Scaccia was also an author and a poet; his works include several autobiographies.][ He died in Rome at 91, as a result of complications for a surgical intervention.]
Selected filmography
* '' The Flame'' (1952) - Mauret
* '' A Slice of Life'' (1954) - (segment "Scena all'aperto")
* '' Too Bad She's Bad'' (1955) - Carletto, l'uomo derubato della borsa
* '' Lucky to Be a Woman'' (1956) - Un cameriere
* '' Il Mattatore'' (1960) - Il gioielliere
* '' The Traffic Policeman'' (1960) - Mayor's lawyer (uncredited)
* '' Femmine di lusso'' (1960) - Edmondo, the butler
* '' Revenge of the Barbarians'' (1960) - Onorius, Emperor of the West
* '' Robin Hood and the Pirates'' (1960) - Jonathan Brooks
* '' Ursus'' (1961) - Kymos
* '' Behind Closed Doors'' (1961) - Manning, l'albergatore
* '' Day by Day, Desperately'' (1961) - Orderly
* '' The Seventh Sword'' (1962) - Il Cardinale / The Cardinal
* '' Musketeers of the Sea'' (1962) - Re di Francia
* ''Avventura al motel'' (1963) - Manfredi
* '' The Swindlers'' (1963) - Lawyer (segment "Medico e fidanzata")
* ''Shivers in Summer
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Cast
* Vittorio Gassman - Captain Nardoni
* Sandra Milo - Yvonne
* Michèle Mercier - Gigi
* P ...
'' (1964) - The Manager of 'Carrousel' Show
* ''Amore facile'' (1964) - Cante Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
* ''Oltraggio al pudore'' (1964)
* '' Me, Me, Me... and the Others'' (1966) - Guidarino, Journalist
* ''A Maiden for the Prince
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'' (1966) - Cardinal Gonzaga
* ''We Still Kill the Old Way
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'' (1967) - Prete
* '' Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence'' (1969) - Doctor Zambelli
* '' Between Miracles'' (1971) - Priore
* '' Meo Patacca'' (1972) - Cardinale
* ''Il generale dorme in piedi
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'' (1972) - Gen. Arturo Pigna
* ''The Adventures of Pinocchio
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'' (1972) - 1° Dottore
* '' La calandria'' (1972) - Ruffo
* ''Property Is No Longer a Theft
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Plot
Total, a young bank cashier, sees his life, with its ...
'' (1973) - Alessandro Marzo 'Albertone'
* '' The Perfume of the Lady in Black'' (1974) - Signor Rossetti
* ''Le farò da padre
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Cast
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'' (1974) - Don Amilcare De Loyola
* '' The Antichrist'' (1974) - Faith Healer
* '' The Sex Machine'' (1975) - Mons. Alberoni
* ''Eye of the Cat
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'' (1975) - Salomone Fioravanti
* '' Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga'' (1976) - Leopoldo
* '' Soldier of Fortune'' (1976) - Don Pedro Gonzalo de Guadarrama
* '' Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen'' (1976) - Cardinal Piazza-Colonna
* ''Un amore targato Forlì'' (1976)
* '' Black Journal'' (1977) - Rosario
* '' Double Murder'' (1977) - Marino Cianciarelli
* ''Break Up
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'' (1978) - Il dottore
* '' The Word'' (1978, TV Mini-Series) - Agusto Monti
* '' Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio'' (1983) - Corinto Marchialla
* ''Il mistero del morca'' (1984)
* ''Juke box'' (1985)
* ''L'ultima mazurka'' (1986) - Reiger
* '' Secondo Ponzio Pilato'' (1987) - Tiberio
* ''In camera mia'' (1992)
* '' Ferdinando and Carolina'' (1999) - Ferdinando I Borbone (old)
* ''Voglio stare sotto al letto'' (1999) - Giò Giordani
* ''Gabriel'' (2001)
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
External links
Official site
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Italian male film actors
1919 births
Male actors from Rome
2011 deaths
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian radio personalities
Italian military personnel of World War II
Italian male poets
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni
Writers from Rome
20th-century Italian poets
20th-century Italian male writers
Italian prisoners of war
World War II prisoners of war held by the United States