Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Ferrucio De Ceresa

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Ferruccio De Ceresa was born in Genoa, Italy on May 24,1922. After graduating in Law, he participated in 1943 in the foundation of the experimental theatrical group Luigi Pirandello with Gian Maria Guglielmino, Giannino Galloni and Elsa Albani, which was his art and life company from then on. In 1946 the group, which performed one-act plays by Ugo Betti, Ennio Flaiano, Anton Cecov, Eugene O' Neill, Joyce, Williams and Pirandello at the Duse in Piazza Tommaseo, merged with Aldo Trabucco's line-up. The following year the company became the Art Theater of the city of Genoa and carried out the first experiment of decentralization in Liguria. They were intense years for De Ceresa: during the day he worked in the legal office of the Institute for Public Housing as a legal attorney and in the evening he acted. Finally in 1951 he became a professional actor, engaged in Milan in the Perelli-Solari-Garrani-Tedeschi-Riva-Lionello company.

De Ceresa had also worked a lot for television and cinema. On TV he made his debut with the serial drama ' Tutto da rifare pover' uomo' , which was followed by 'La lapide di via Mazzini' ,

'Fiera della vanità', 'La cittadella' with Alberto Lupo, 'Un certo Harry Brent', 'Psicologia', Durenmatt's detective stories for Swiss TV, 'La scuola delle mogli', the television program

'Sapere' and finally 'La piovra 6'. In 1985 De Ceresa had also held his own recital of poems entitled 'Borges, self-portrait of the world', edited by Carlo Repetti and directed by Sciaccaluga. Always active, reserved and discreet, De Ceresa without fanfare, as always in his style, had also won many awards.

On the big screen he appeared in only fifteen films between 1961 and 1990, always in secondary roles and where he almost never had the opportunity to emerge; although he participated in several cases in auteur films directed among others by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Damiano Damiani and Florestano Vancini, for the rest they are genre films including the judicial and the Italian detective stories. For three decades he also performed radio plays and distinguished himself as a refined reader of several poems recorded on disc; in 1985 he held a recital entitled Borges, self-portrait of the world, curated by Carlo Repetti and conducted by Marco Sciaccaluga.

De Ceresa who had married to actress Elsa Albani in 1946, died in Rome on April 17, 1993, at the age of 71.

Ferruccio appeared in only one Spaghetti western and that was as the professor in 1966’s “Tre ragazzi d’oro” (Death Walks in Laredo).

De CERESA, Ferruccio [5/24/1922, Genoa, Liguria, Italy – 4/17/1993, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – theater, film, radio, TV actor, married to actress Elsa Albani (Elsa Lapini) [1921-2004] (1946-1993).

Death Walks in Laredo – 1966 (professor)