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Biography
Remo Remotti (16 November 1924 – 21 June 2015) was an Italian actor, playwright, artist and poet.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Remotti lost his father at 12 years old, then after graduating in Law he moved to Perù, where he attended an art school and began painting. Following the bankruptcy of the taxi company he had founded in Perù, seven years later he returned to Italy where he married Maria Luisa Loy, the sister of the director and screenwriter Nanni Loy, and started an activity as a playwright, often also directing and acting his comedy plays. He was later requested by some theatrical companies for character roles, and in the late 1970s he began a proficuous film career as a character actor. A painter and a sculptor, some of his works are exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. He was also a composer of poems, usually sonnets in Roman dialect.
Selected filmography
- Sweet Dreams (1981)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1981)
- The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
- Where's Picone? (1983)
- Bianca (1984)
- A Strange Passion (1984)
- Otello (1986)
- Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987)
- Italian Night (1987)
- Red Wood Pigeon (1989)
- The Godfather Part III (1990) - Cardinal Sistine
- Hudson Hawk (1991)
- To Want to Fly (1991)
- Miracolo italiano (1994)
- Bits and Pieces (1996)
- Red Riding Hood (2003)
- Agata and the Storm (2004)
- La bambina dalle mani sporche (2005)
- Nine (2009)
- Letters to Juliet (2010)
- Eat Pray Love (2010)
