Carlo Cecchi

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Carlo Cecchi
Born
Carlo Cecchi

(1939-01-25) 25 January 1939 (age 85)
OccupationActor
Years active1966-present

Carlo Cecchi (born 25 January 1939 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy) is an Italian actor. [1]

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Born in Florence, Cecchi studied under the Living Theatre and with the Workshop of Eduardo De Filippo. In 1968, he made his debut for cinema in La sua giornata di gloria . [2] In 1971, he directed in Florence a theatre cooperative playing works by Shakespeare, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Chekhov, and Molière. [3]

In 1992, he returned to cinema in The Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician by Mario Martone, and later worked for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Pupi Avati, Ferzan Özpetek.

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References

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