Ernesto Colli was born in Biella,
Piedmont, Italy on May 16, 1940. Colli
graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics
and starred in two lost Super 8 films. After one year of university he decided
to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen
Drama School
in Rome.
A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted
alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small
role in the Gassman's film “The Devil
in Love” He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series,
uually in character roles. Colli was mostly active in films during the 1970s.
Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always appeared in
customized roles written specifically for him, from the crazy to the delinquent
and from the possessed to the weird; probably the films where he had a most
significant part was ‘The Pleasure
Shop on 7th Avenue” and in ‘Deadly Inheritance”.
The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie “Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!”,
shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the
face and the physique brought on by disease. Colli died in Rome, Italy
on November 19, 1982/
COLLI, Ernesto
(aka Ernest Arold) [5/16/1940, Biella, Piedmont, Italy
– 11/19/1982, Rome, Lazio, Italy]
– theater, film, TV actor.
Kill the Poker Player – 1972 (Doctor Torres/Norton)
Red Coat – 1975 (photographer)
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