RIP Antonio Salines

 

Italian theater, film actor Antonio Salines died in Rome on June 22, 2021. He was a week short of turning 85. Born in La Spezia on July 1, 1936 he graduated from the Silvio D’Amico Academy of Dramatic Art in 1959 and co-founded the theatre company ‘Il ribelle’. In his long career he worked with Vittorio Gasmann, brought prose to TV with Pirandello and Rozov, has trod the stages of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, of the Arena of Verona of the Stabili of Bolzano and of the Veneto. He was the artistic director of the Teatro Belli in Rome, with the homonymous company he founded in 1970 with Magda Mercatali; as well as from 2015 the Theater Season of the Teatro Gentile di Cittanova. Salines appeared in only one Euro-western 1970s “Matalo!” as (Ted/Theo).