Giancarlo Sbragia (14 March 1926 – 28 June 1994) was an Italian actor, voice actor, stage director and playwright.

Life and career

Born in

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, Sbragia graduated at the

Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the ac ...

in 1947, and debuted on stage at the Piccolo Teatro in

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, with the theatrical company of

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. He debuted as a playwright in 1953 with the play ''Le veglie inutili'', and in 1956 he debuted as a stage director with the drama ''Ricorda con rabbia''. Between 1958 and 1959 he worked with the theatrical company of

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and

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, and in 1960 he was co-founder, together with

Enrico Maria Salerno Enrico Maria Salerno (September 18, 1926 – February 28, 1994) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He was also the voice of Clint Eastwood in the Italian version of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films, and the voice of Ch ...

and

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, of the stage company "Attori Associati". Between the 1960s and the 1970s Sbragia was also very active on television series, notably playing

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in the successful drama series ''I grandi camaleonti''.

Personal life

Sbragia was the father of actor

Mattia Sbragia Mattia Sbragia (born 17 April 1952) is an Italian character actor. Biography The son of the actor and stage director Giancarlo, Sbragia has been performing in films, on television, and in the theater for almost thirty years. He made his motion p ...

. From 1992 until his death, he was married to the actress

Alessandra Panaro Alessandra Panaro (14 December 1939 – 1 May 2019) was an Italian film actress of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Panaro is best known for her films in the early 1960s, notably Luchino Visconti's crime drama '' Rocco e i suoi fratelli'' in 196 ...

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sbragia, Giancarlo 1926 births 1994 deaths Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male stage actors Male actors from Rome 20th-century Italian male actors Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni Italian dramatists and playwrights Italian theatre directors Writers from Rome People of Lazian descent