Franco Volpi (11 July 1921 – 1 January 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Volpi formed at the

Accademia dei Filodrammatici The Accademia dei Filodrammatici (literally "Academy of Drama Lovers"), is a drama school located in Milan, Italy and founded in 1796. It is the oldest theatre school in Italy. The theatre was designed by neoclassic architect Luigi Canonica, base ...

and debuted on stage in 1938, aged 17, in the company held by

Renzo Ricci Renzo Ricci (27 September 1899 – 20 October 1978) was an Italian stage and film actor. He was also a noted theatre director. Ricci played the title role in Roberto Rossellini's 1961 film ''Garibaldi''.Bondanella, Peter. ''The Films of Roberto R ...

and

Laura Adani Laura Adani (7 October 1913 – 30 August 1996) was an Italian actress. She appeared in 13 films between 1933 and 1980. She was born in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Moncalieri, Piedmont it, Piemontese , population_note ...

. He often worked with

Ernesto Calindri Ernesto Calindri (5 February 1909 – 9 June 1999) was an Italian theater and film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1938 and 1989. Selected filmography * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * ''It Always Ends That Way'' (1939) * ''The Children A ...

, on stage, on television and in a popular series of commercials. He is regarded as one of the early stars of Italian television miniseries (the so-called "sceneggiati"). Volpi died of a tumour in

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, on 1 January 1977, at the age of 75.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Volpi, Franco 1921 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male film actors Italian male stage actors Italian male television actors Italian male voice actors Male actors from Milan