PARIS - It 'died today after a long illness, the great French actor Philippe Noiret. This was announced by his agent. He was 76 years. Among the many roles of his long career (130 film in fifty years), focusing on high quality, are particularly dear to the Italian public as the projectionist of Nuovo Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore, Pablo Neruda and the postman Massimo Troisi.
Born in Lille, France October 1, 1930, Noiret ecitazione studied with Roger Blin, then enter the Théatre National Populaire (TNP) by Jean Vilar, where worked for ten years, growing alongside the cabaret with Jean-Pierre Darras.
His film debut - in 1956, in La Pointe courte Agnes Varda - has an occasional taste of everything, but after another five years, his figure began to appear with gradually increasing frequency on the screens of French cinema, even if even in secondary roles. In 1960, uncle in Zazie Zazie in the metro of L. Malle, in 1961 states that all the gold in the world of René Clair, in 1965 in Paris Burning?
of Clément (to quote the most famous names).
In 1969 alongside Michel Piccoli in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz. But the real popularity came in the 1970's, when interpreting one of four friends who want to commit suicide by dint of food and sex in La Grande Bouffe Marco Ferreri (1973), with which he tours the following year not touch the white woman. Also in 1974, successfully supports the dramatic role offered to him by Bertrand Tavernier in The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, reconfirming her acting talents in the following year Judge and the murderess and Let the party begin, even Tavernier.
Since 1975, when he says My friends in Mario Monicelli, his career is divided between France and Italy. In our Pese, in fact, over three decades interprets several films, from the Desert of the Tartars Valerio Zurlini (1976) to get to Palermo Connection Francesco Rosi (1990), through the three brothers Rosi (1981), We hope that both female Mario Monicelli (1986), The family of Ettore Scola (1987) and Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore (1988).
At home he continued to work with a clean slate in Tavernier (1981) and life and nothing else (1989). And even the nineties onwards, his career continues non-stop, both at home and abroad. On the small and the big screen.
But enough already this long list of films to understand the scope of his contribution to cinema. Now, with his death, is in mourning. Among the most touching comments that the novantunenne Mario Monicelli: "It was a breed of actor in endangered, which, unfortunately, is disappearing all over the world - says the director - high quality, which came from the old school and the theater. He is also a great friend of Italy. In many Italian films, our characters played with aplomb and truth. "
Monicelli recalls having had with Noiret" relationships do not just work: we were friends. I still remember when my friends call for him to play a chief editor of the 'nation', a toscanaccio he managed to make it credible. "
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