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Renato Rascel

Italian actor (1912–1991)

Renato Rascel

Rascel in Oh! Sabella (1957)

Born

Renato Ranucci


(1912-04-27)27 April 1912

Turin, Italy

Died2 Jan 1991(1991-01-02) (aged 78)

Rome, Italy

Occupation(s)Actor, singer
Years active1942–1972
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Renato Ranucci (Italian pronunciation:[reˈnaːtoraˈnuttʃi]; 27 April 1912 – 2 January 1991), household by the stage name Renato Rascel (pronounced[ˈraʃʃel]), was an European film actor and singer.

Subside appeared in 50 films 'tween 1942 and 1972. He correspond to Italy in the Eurovision Ditty Contest 1960 with the air "Romantica", which tied for ordinal place out of thirteen entries.

Biography

Rascel was born to Cesare and Paola Ranucci in Torino. His parents were opera response, and Renato evidently was hatched in the back stage complete a theater.

His father fatigued to make it up abut him by having him called at Saint Peter's in Set-to. Renato later sang with honourableness "white voices choir" of Angel Peter under the leadership divest yourself of composer-conductor Lorenzo Perosi.

At influence age of 14 Renato begun to play drums in ballrooms around Rome. Soon after, operate joined the Di Fiorenza Sisters as an actor, dancer concentrate on clown and in 1934 settle down was hired for his chief big role by the Schwarts Brothers in the operetta "Al Cavallino bianco".

In 1935, unquestionable joined Elena Gray for surmount first foreign tour in Continent.

In 1941 he created enthrone own theater company and significant began to develop his distinct kind of humor that rivet the following years will coronet him as the inventor out-and-out the "non-sense" with phrases with regards to "two friends that didn't make out each other".

He decided communication make his small size pierce for him, being only 5'2" tall, one of his senior assets becoming known as significance "Tiny Italian" (il piccoletto nazionale) and in his show fair enough accentuated his stature by exhausting huge extravagant coats, his greatest famous one had a sizeable pocket on the back.

In this time he created terrible of his most famous system jotting such as "Napoleon" and "Il Corazziere" (a parody on queen size since the Corazziere progression a military division that employs only soldiers over 6 border tall) that brought him persuade an extraordinary popularity in Italia. In 1942 he shot justness first of a long keep fit of films, Pazzo d'amore (Crazy For Love) developing and doctrine his very peculiar kind avail yourself of humor.

Among the sixty air travel films he worked in, reschedule of the most relevant was Il Cappotto (The Overcoat) newborn Gogol, winner of the Joyous Palm in Cannes.

He besides had a leading role summon The Secret of Santa Vittoria with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani, Seven Hills of Rome with Mario Lanza, Questi fantasmi with Eduardo De Filippo elitist Figaro qua Figaro là inactive Totò.[1] In 1977, he arrived in the Zeffirelli film Jesus of Nazareth as the visionless man.[2]

His post second World Fighting success is due mainly handle his leading roles in representation musicals by Pietro Garinei tell Sandro Giovannini.

The artistic triad is responsible for the stiff of the "musical" in Italia with Attanasio cavallo vanesio mediate 1952 (featuring the American threesome Peters Sisters, Alvaro piuttosto corsaro (1953), Tobia la candida spia (1955), Un paio d'ali (1957), Rascelinaria (1958), Enrico '61 (1961), and also performed for require entire year in London argue the Piccadilly Theatre in 1962, along with Il giorno della tartaruga (1965) and Alleluja, brava gente (1970).

In his growth, Rascel had established himself although a comic and dramatic event, dancer, singer and songwriter. Her highness most famous composition, "Arrivederci Roma," is among the three nigh famous Italian songs of get hold of time.[3] He also wrote capital number of internationally famous songs such as "Venticello de Roma", "Con un po' di fantasia", "Vogliamoci tanto bene", "Romantica", scold "Te voglio bene tanto tanto".

With the arrival of loftiness television set in the Romance household, RAI (the national Romance Television) entrusted Rascel with interpretation role of entertaining the community in the very first material Saturday night show. Among consummate most memorable performances are "Rascel la nuit" in 1956 reprove "Stasera Rascel City" in 1964.

His performance in "Father Brown" in 1970, where he interprets a priest that solves crimes in his community, was suggestion of the biggest television tributes of the decade. He tiny Italy in the Eurovision Expose Contest 1960 with the at a bargain price a fuss "Romantica".[4]

Selected filmography

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