MARCELLO MASTROAINNI
(Born 28 September 1924)
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy on 28 September 1924. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice.
He was discovered by director Luchino Visconti in Rome in 1957 Visconti gave him the starring part in his Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation Noches blancas (1957) but his real breakthrough came in 1960, when Federico Fellini cast him as an attractive, weary-eyed journalist of the Rome jet-set in La dolce vita (1960); that film was the genesis of his "Latin lover" persona,
In 1977 he appeared as a sensitive homosexual in love with a housewife in Ettore Scola's Una jornada particular.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divorcio a la italiana (1961), Una jornada particular (1977), and Ojos negros (1987)
During the last decade of his life he worked with directors, like Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bertrand Blier and Raoul Ruiz, who gave him three excellent parts in Tres vidas y una sola muerte (1996).
He died of pancreatic cancer on December 19, 1996.
MARCELLO TRIBUTE
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