Carlo Mazzarella
Italian actor and journalist
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| Intro | Italian actor and journalist | |||
| Places | Italy | |||
| was | Actor Journalist Stage actor | |||
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Journalism | |||
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| Birth | 30 July 1919, Genoa, Italy | |||
| Death | 7 March 1993Rome, Italy (aged 73 years) | |||
| Star sign | Leo | |||
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Biography
Carlo Mazzarella (30 July 1919 – 7 March 1993) was an Italian actor and journalist.
Life and career
Born in Genoa, Mazzarella enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1942. Almost immediately he debuted on stage, working with Anna Proclemer and Sergio Tofano, among others.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Mazzarella started a prolific film career as a character actor. In 1955 he started a new career as a television journalist for RAI TV, specializing on news about costume, theater and cinema, and gradually abandoning his acting career. He retired in 1985. Mazzarella died of lung cancer at the age of 73.
Selected filmography
- His Young Wife (1945)
- The Models of Margutta (1946)
- Christmas at Camp 119 (1948)
- Bitter Rice (1948)
- È arrivato il cavaliere! (1950)
- Cops and Robbers (1951)
- Seven Hours of Trouble (1951)
- Toto in Color (1952)
- Toto and the Women (1952)
- The Unfaithfuls (1953)
- I Chose Love (1953)
- Eager to Live (1953)
- Neapolitan Carousel (1954)
- An American in Rome (1954)
- Destination Piovarolo (1955)
- Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1956)