Umberto
D’Orsi was born on July 30, 1929 in Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. He
graduated the university with a degree in law in 1953, but was already active
in show business after at least three years of training as part of an amateur
drama group and as well as an organizer of the university theater center.
Vittorio Gassman offered him a part in his “Richard III” and from that moment
his acting career took off.
He
devoted time almost casually to the cinema and in 1962 saw his big chance by
being discovered by Luciano Salce who directs him in “La cuccagna”; In the same year he also
participates in “Il processo di Verona”
by Carlo Lizzani in which he plays his role with a great dramatic look of the
hierarch fascist Luciano Gottardi.
D’Orsi
was also a spokesman commercials where he gave birth to a famous caricature of
Carousel, as the confusing the Belisario.
He
was often seen, without a mustache, in many comedies with Franco and Ciccio, as
well as an antagonist of Pippo Franco in the film, mostly famous for its
curious title, “Quel gran pezzo
dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda” (1972).
Umberto
appeared in eight Euro-westerns from “Death Walks in Laredo (1966) as Bronson
to “The Crazy Bunch” (1974) as the insane asylum director.
Umberto
died on August 31, 1976 at the age of
just 47 years at the San Camillo Hospital in Rome, after a four-month
hospitalization as a result of kidney disease. He was Married to actress Milly
Ristori the great-granddaughter of the more famous Adelaide Ristori [1822-1906]
and had recently returned to the theater in Goldoni Sior Todero Brontolon.
Today
we remember Umberto D’Orsi on what would have been his 85th
birthday.
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