Piero Natoli (22 November 1947 – 8 May 2001) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Born in

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, Natoli entered the cinema industry as an assistant director to

Marco Bellocchio Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schooltea ...

. After an intense career as a documentarist for

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, in 1980 he debuted as director and actor with ''Armonica a bocca''. Between the second half of 1980s and the early 2000s he had an intense career as a

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, working with

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Paolo Virzì Paolo Virzì (; born 4 March 1964) is an Italian film director, writer and producer. Early life and work Virzì was born in Livorno, Italy in 1964, as the son of a Sicily#Demographics, Sicilian police officer in the Carabinieri and a former sin ...

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and

Antonello Grimaldi Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, known as Antonello Grimaldi (born 14 August 1955) is an Italian actor, film and television director, and screenwriter. Biography Grimaldi was born on 14 August 1955 in Sassari on the island of Sardinia in Italy. Aft ...

, among others. He died of an

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. His daughter

Carlotta Natoli Carlotta Natoli (born 29 May 1971) is an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Rome, the daughter of Piero Natoli, she made her film debut in 1980, at the age of eight years, in her father's semi-autobiographical indie film ''Con... fusione ...

is also an actress.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Natoli, Piero 1947 births 2001 deaths Male actors from Rome Italian male stage actors Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters People of Sicilian descent 20th-century Italian male actors 20th-century Italian male writers Neurological disease deaths in Lazio Deaths from intracranial aneurysm