Lino Toffolo
was born on December 30, 1934 in Murano, Venice, Veneto, Italy. Lino revealed
as a boy an inclination for music and acting. He became a member of the Society
of the Dolphins of Venice Theatrical Troupe, from 1960 to 1965: During this
period he also composed the incidental music and his first songs in the
Venetian dialect and recorded some radio programs produced by the regional
office of Venice of the RAI.
At the Teatro
La Fenice in Venice in 1964 Lino performed the musical accompaniment of the
show Conversations and readings for the International Theatre Festival of
Prose.
In 1963 he
maked his debut at the famous Intra Derby Club restaurant in Milan, along with
other characters who, like him, began right there the climb to fame, such as
Enzo Whittaker, Toby Lightman, Franco Nebbia and later Cochi and Renato, Felice
Andreasi and others. He interprets the distinctive character the drunken
Venetian, also offering some songs of his own composition almost always all
written in a dialect. In this period he made his debut on the music market,
having obtained a contract with the Fonit-Cetra, with the 45 rpm, 'Na brombola
impissada / No the vogio no, published in 1963 and followed shortly afterwards
by The imbriago / Vin black.
His film
debut took place in 1968, in a supporting role in the film “Chimera”, directed
by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti, a "musical" which focuses on the love
story of Gianni Morandi and Laura Efrikian.
The popularity
of Lino Toffolo is owed much to the small screen, where he began to appear
towards the end of the 1960s in entertainment programs. He was, among other
things, seen alongside Alighiero Noschese in ‘Canzonissima’ (1971). Toffolo
also starred in television programs, among which, besides the aforementioned, ‘Johnny
Dachshund’, also ‘Lancelot 008’ in 1980. In 1986 Toffolo was in the cast of ‘Un
fantastico tragico venerdì’, led by actor Paolo Villaggio, and many others, and
broadcast on Italy’s Channel 4.
In early 2006
Lino presented his film “Nuvole di
vetro”, which he wrote, directed and starred, whose dialogue is entirely in
Venetian dialect. His debut in film has received much critcal approval.
Lino appeared
in only one Euro-western “In the Name of the Father” (1969) in the role of
Paul.
Today we
celebrate Lino Toffolo’s 80th birthday.
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