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Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter.
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entertainment · Italian actor (1920–2003) · film director · stage actor · screenwriter · film actor · singer · dub actor · television actor · comedian · composer · actor · also Alberto Sordi, Sordi
Born 15 June 1920 · Died 24 February 2003 · Q50003
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2026· 2 entries
Sky: Alberto Sordi, 106 anni dalla nascita: alla Casa Museo il cinema che racconta l'Italia
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2025· 1 entry
Il Sussidiario: Alberto Sordi, chi è e come è morto?/ Mattatore della commedia all’italiana, scomparso dopo la lunga malattia
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2024· 1 entry
Il Tempo: Alberto Sordi secret, la vita fuori dal set nel docufilm di Igor Righetti
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2023· 4 entries
Il Messaggero: Alberto Sordi, la villa trasformata in un museo: più di 5.500 pellicole, l'archivio personale dell'attore
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Il Sussidiario: Alberto Sordi, dall’eredità alle fidanzate/ Disputa legale, nessun matrimonio e quel flirt con Soraya…
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RomaToday: Alberto Sordi, 20 anni fa moriva il grande Albertone
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Repubblica: Alberto Sordi, un gigante senza eredi: nessuno può raccontare la storia di un italiano
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2022· 1 entry
Leggo: Alberto Sordi, Roma festeggia il suo compleanno: concerto e serata di gala a scopo benefico
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2017· 1 entry
His family established the Alberto Sordi Family Award that honour Italian and international filmmakers and actors
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2014· 1 entry
At 97, bequeathed the entire fortune to three foundations named after her brother, but only two of them were really supported by Sordi: Fondazione Alberto Sordi, established in 1992, and Fondazione Alberto Sordi per i gi
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2011· 2 entries
Fondazione Museo Alberto Sordi inherited the fortune of more than 30 mln euro and a Roman villa in via Druso, 45, where she and her brother had been living since 1958
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When Aurelia had already displayed symptoms of dementia
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2003· 2 entries
Died 2003-02-24.
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Released album “Le più belle canzoni”.
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2002· 1 entry
Were opened two Healthcare and Rehabilitation centres for the senior Italians
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2001· 1 entry
Sordi was diagnosed with lung cancer
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2000· 1 entry
The City of Rome made him honorary mayor for a day to celebrate his eightieth birthday
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Le canzoni di Alberto Sordi”.
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1995· 1 entry
And The Golden Globe Award for his performance as an Italian labourer stranded in Sweden in To Bed or Not to Bed
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
Sordi established Fondazione Alberto Sordi, a nonprofit institution aimed to help and support the elderly people
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1985· 2 entries
Sordi was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
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Was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
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1984· 1 entry
Directed and co-scripted Tutti dentro (Off to jail, everybody), in which he played a judge who has warrants for corruption served on ministers and businessmen
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1980· 1 entry
Released Catherine and I, a comedy–science fiction film that he also directed and co-wrote with Rodolfo Sonego, starring Sordi alongside Edwige Fenech and Catherine Spaak; the film follows a middle-aged businessman wh
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1969· 2 entries
Was a juror at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival
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Released Help Me, My Love starring Monica Vitti
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1967· 1 entry
Together with Vittorio De Sica, he went to the USA where they co-created An Italian in America
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1966· 1 entry
Sordi made his directorial debut with the comedy Fumo di Londra, acting as both writer and performer in the lead role
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1965· 1 entry
Was in another highly regarded comedy, I complessi (Complexes)
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1963· 1 entry
Was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Il diavolo
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1959· 1 entry
Sordi appeared in Monicelli's Great War, considered by many critics and film historians to be one of the best Italian comedies
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1958· 1 entry
Purchased and moved to a luxurious villa in via Druso, 45, next to the Baths of Caracalla
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1955· 1 entry
During a trip to Kansas city, he was greatly welcomed as the city was a homeland of his character Nando Mericoni
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1954· 1 entry
Played in as many as in 13 films, including An American in Rome, Il seduttore, etc
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1953· 1 entry
Sordi went to New York with Goffredo Lombardo who intended to shoot there Un romano a New York
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1951· 1 entry
First started collaborating with Federico Fellini: they made The White Sheik in 1952 and I vitelloni in 1953, a movie about young slackers, in which he plays a weak immature loafer
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1950· 2 entries
Debuted as a protagonist in Mamma Mia, What an Impression
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With Vittorio De Sica he co-founded the P
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1943· 1 entry
Played a part in Mattoli's Ritorna Za-Bum at Teatro Quirino
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1939· 1 entry
Followed by the feature film The Flying Deuces in the same year
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1937· 1 entry
Returned to Rome and found himself several roles as a background actor at Cinecittà
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1936· 1 entry
Recorded a disc of children's fairy tales for the Fonit record company and left for Milan with the proceeds There Sordi enrolled to Accademia dei Filodrammatici, for which he abandoned his studies at the Istituto di A
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-06-15.
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