Giustino Durano
Italian film actor (1923–2002)
Giustino Durano | |
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 Durano on stage in 1955 | |
| Born | (1923-05-05)5 May 1923 Brindisi, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 18 February 2002(2002-02-18) (aged 78) Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1954–2001 |
Giustino Durano (5 May 1923 – 18 February 2002) was an Italian actor best known for his work as Eliseo Orefice in the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful.[1] For his role, he was nominated in part for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.[2]
Life Is Beautiful
The movie is centered on his nephew Guido and his son Giosuè. In the movie, he is the head waiter of a hotel dining room. As racial turmoil begins erupting in Italy against Jews, the waiter, his nephew and the nephew's son are taken to a concentration camp. While at the camp, he was separated from his nephew and later killed in a gas chamber along with several other elderly people.
Death
Durano died in 2002 after a long battle with cancer.
Partial filmography
- Red and Black (1955)
- Lucky to Be a Woman (1956) - Federico Frotta
- Lo svitato (1956)
- Tipi da spiaggia (1959) - Nick Balmora
- Queen of the Pirates (1960) - Battista, the Count's Manservant
- Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! (1961) - Un malvivente
- Cronache del '22 (1961)
- Rage of the Buccaneers (1961) - Juan
- Freddy and the Millionaire (1961) - Polizist
- The Golden Arrow (1962) - Absent-Minded genie
- Imperial Venus (1962) - Bousque
- Tutto è musica (1963) - Kurt
- Follie d'estate (1963) - Pianista
- Vino, whisky e acqua salata (1963)
- Male Companion (1964) - Le boulanger / A Baker (uncredited)
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) - Policeman
- After the Fox (1966) - Critic
- The Bobo (1967) - Druggist (uncredited)
- Come rubare un quintale di diamanti in Russia (1967) - Roland
- Bang Bang Kid (1967) - Hotchkiss
- Le lys de mer (1969)
- The Balloon Vendor (1974) - Receptionist
- Salvo D'Acquisto (1974) - Riccardo
- Life Is Beautiful (1997) - Zio
- Fate un bel sorriso (2000) - Antonio
- Amici ahrarara (2001) - Zio Giannangelo
- Andata e ritorno (2003) - Sig. Sorelli (final film role)
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- Gino Cervi (1946)
- Massimo Serato (1947)
- Nando Bruno (1948)
- Saro Urzì (1949)
- Umberto Spadaro (1951)
- Gabriele Ferzetti (1953)
- Alberto Sordi (1954)
- Paolo Stoppa (1955)
- Memmo Carotenuto (1956)
- Peppino De Filippo (1957)
- Andrea Checchi (1958)
- Nino Vingelli (1959)
- Claudio Gora (1960)
- Enrico Maria Salerno (1961)
- Salvo Randone (1962)
- Romolo Valli (1963)
- Folco Lulli (1964)
- Leopoldo Trieste (1965)
- Ugo Tognazzi (1966)
- Gastone Moschin (1967)
- Gabriele Ferzetti (1968)
- Ettore G. Mattia (1969)
- Fanfulla / Umberto Orsini (1970)
- Romolo Valli (1971)
- Salvo Randone (1972)
- Mario Carotenuto (1973)
- Turi Ferro (1974)
- Aldo Fabrizi (1975)
- Ciccio Ingrassia (1976)
- Romolo Valli (1977)
- Carlo Bagno (1978)
- Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1979)
- Tomas Milian (1980)
- Massimo Girotti (1981)
- Paolo Stoppa (1982)
- Tino Schirinzi (1983)
- Leo Gullotta (1984)
- Leopoldo Trieste (1985)
- Gastone Moschin (1986)
- Diego Abatantuono (1987)
- Enzo Cannavale (1988)
- Fabio Bussotti (1989)
- Alessandro Haber (1990)
- Ennio Fantastichini (1991)
- Paolo Bonacelli (1992)
- Renato Carpentieri (1993)
- Alessandro Haber (1994)
- Marco Messeri (1995)
- Leopoldo Trieste (1996)
- Gianni Cavina (1997)
- Giustino Durano (1998)
- Stefano Antonucci / Andrea Cambi / Antonio Catania / Giorgio Colangeli / Giuseppe Gandini / Riccardo Garrone / Vittorio Gassman / Giancarlo Giannini / Valter Lupo / Adalberto Maria Merli / Paolo Merloni / Carlo Molfese / Sergio Nicolai / Corrado Olmi / Eros Pagni / Mario Patanè / Pierfrancesco Poggi / Francesco Siciliano / Giorgio Tirabassi / Venantino Venantini (1999)
- Felice Andreasi (2000)
- Giancarlo Giannini (2001)
- Leo Gullotta (2002)
- Diego Abatantuono (2003)
- Arnoldo Foà (2004)
- Raffaele Pisu (2005)
- Carlo Verdone (2006)
- Alessandro Haber (2007)
- Alessandro Gassmann (2008)
- Ezio Greggio (2009)
- Ennio Fantastichini / Luca Zingaretti (2010)
- Giuseppe Battiston (2011)
- Marco Giallini (2012)
- Carlo Verdone (2013)
- Carlo Buccirosso / Paolo Sassanelli (2014)
- Claudio Amendola (2015)
- Luca Marinelli (2016)
- Alessandro Borghi (2017)
- Riccardo Scamarcio (2018)
- Luigi Lo Cascio / Fabrizio Ferracane (2019)
- Roberto Benigni (2020)
- Massimo Popolizio (2021)
- Francesco Di Leva / Tommaso Ragno (2022)
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