Alighiero Noschese (; 25 November 1932 – 3 December 1979) was an

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TV impersonator and

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Life and career

Noschese was born in

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. After an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as imitator and parodist.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . After some theatre appearances with

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and Sandro Giovannini, he became popular with the TV show ''Doppia coppia'' (1969), where, for the first time in the then wholly state-controlled Italian television, an actor was allowed to parody politicians. Noschese had an outstanding capability for imitating not only the voice of his subjects, but also their physical features and attitudes. In an interview just before his death, Noschese listed a total of 1,156 voices he had imitated in his career. On 3 December 1979, at the peak of his career, Noschese shot himself while under care for clinical depression in Rome. However, as firearms and other letal objects are not allowed to depressed patients, it is suspected that someone murdered Noschese or smuggled the gun to him.

Selected filmography

* '' Doctor Antonio'' (1954) * ''I due della legione'' (1962) - Mustafa Abdul Bey * ''

Obiettivo ragazze ''Obiettivo ragazze'' is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. Plot Four ex-soldiers meet and reminisce about the times they were in the military: a parachutist mistaking his sergeant ...

'' (1963) - Giuseppe Quagliarulo * ''Scanzonatissimo'' (1963) * '' James Tont operazione U.N.O.'' (1965) - Noskes * ''Mercanti di vergini'' (1969) * ''Io non scappo... fuggo'' (1970) * '' Io non spezzo... rompo'' (1971) - Riccardo Viganò * ''Il furto è l'anima del commercio?!...'' (1971) - Conte Gaetano Gargiulo * ''Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente'' (1971) - Luigi Gorletti * ''

Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was some ...

'' (1972) - Lambertuccio De Cecina * ''Il terrore con gli occhi storti'' (1972) - Giacinto Puddu * ''

The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire ''The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire'' ( it, Il prode Anselmo e il suo scudiero) is a 1972 comedy film directed by Bruno Corbucci and starring Alighiero Noschese and Enrico Montesano. Plot Cast * Alighiero Noschese as Anselmo da Montebello ...

'' (1972) - Il prode Anselmo da Montebello * ''

The Funny Face of the Godfather ''L'altra faccia del padrino'' (internationally released as ''The Funny Face of the Godfather'') is a 1973 Italian parody film directed by Franco Prosperi. It is a spoof of Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film ''The Godfather''. Plot The film partial ...

'' (1973) - Don Vito Monreale / Nick Bullione * '' Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia'' (1974) - Antonio Lo Mazzo (final film role)

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* 1932 births 1979 suicides Male actors from Naples Italian male comedians Italian impressionists (entertainers) Italian television personalities Suicides by firearm in Italy 20th-century Italian male actors 20th-century Italian comedians 1979 deaths {{Italy-actor-stub