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Happy 85th Birthday Giancarlo Badessi
Giancarlo
Badessi was born on September 21. 1928 in Rome, Italy as Giancarlo Badese. A
multifaceted artist who was well appreciated since the early 1970s, a period
during which he participated in many successful films. After an initial career as
an accountant, had appeared in the theater around the age of forty, working
with Giancarlo Cobelli in the play “La caserma delle fate”, which was later
made into the film “Stop the World ... I Want to Get Off” directed by
Cobelli. Since 1967 he starred in numerous films as a character actor, becoming
a familiar face on television in commercials.
Some of his
best remembered roles were as Mr. Erickson in “What Have You Done to Solange?”
(1972). In 1977, he played Cerullo, in “A Man Called Magnum”. The same year he
was cast in Squadra antitruffa ("Fraud Squad") which starred David
Hemmings. Badessi appeared in seven Euro-westerns from “Ace High” (1967) as the
boxing promoter, to “Hallelujah to Vera Cruz” (1973).
Giancarlo
died in Rome on December 6, 2011 at the age of 82. Today we remember Giancarlo
Badessi on what would have been his 85th birthday.
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