Vittorio Caprioli

Vittorio Caprioli 15 August 1921 2 October 1989 was an Italian film actor film director and screenwriter He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990 mostly in French productions He was born and died in Naples Italy Caprioli was born in Naples Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio DAmico in Rome he made his stage debut in 1942 in the CarliRacca company From 1945 he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster RAI often together with Luciano Salce creating magazine and variety programs Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeares The Tempest At the beginning of 1950 he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work directed by Ettore Giannini A versatile interpreter in 1950 he founded with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi which proposed a subtly satirical type of show In 1960 he married Valeri with whom he presented plays They divorced in 1974 He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved He followed this with Paris My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television where he began his career in 1959 but he never really loved the small screen I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing directed by Antonello Falqui and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show which he wrote and interpreted Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli In his last years he returned to theater interpreting among others Don Marzio in Carlo Goldonis Bottega del caffè The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandellos Six Characters in Search of an Author During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria he died suddenly at the age of 68 in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples struck down by a heart attack Source Article Vittorio Caprioli from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30