Blue-eyed and well-built Italian actor in international cinema, Franco Nero, was a painting photographer when he was discovered as an actor by director John Huston.
Terence Hill delighted many moviegoers with his. boyish charm and piercing blue eyes. He became. known for hard-hitting roles in spaghetti westerns like.
Franco Nero (born Francesco Sparanero, 23 November 1941) is an Italian movie director, movie, television, stage, and voice actor who is known for his roles in Django, Die Hard 2, Letters to Juliet, Camelot, Keoma, The Mercenary, and Cars 2.
Franco is a common surname in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sephardic Jewish communities deriving from the word "Frank", in reference to the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who invaded Gaul during the Migration Period. It is also commonly used as a given name in Italian.
Al Pacino, born Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940, in The Bronx, New York) American film actor. Pacino is the son of Salvatore Pacino (who was born in Sicily) and Rose Gerardi (the daughter of a Sicilian born father and a New York-born mother of Sicilian descent).
1/7. Richard Roxburgh. It was on the set of Van Helsing that Richard Roxburgh, in the role of Dracula, met his now wife Silvia Colloca, who played one of Dracula's brides. ...
Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non–English language performance. Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci.
Over six hundred European Westerns were made between 1960 and 1978. These movies were originally released in Italian or with Italian dubbing, but as most of the films featured multilingual casts and sound was post-synched, most "western all'italiana" do not have an official dominant language.
Sergio Leone (Italian: [ˈsɛrdʒo leˈoːne]; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter, credited as the pioneer of the Spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema.
Spaghetti westerns, however, possess no “original” language. They weren't shot with any sound at all: Italian filmmakers, from directors of cheesy gladiator epics to Federico Fellini, often shot silently, synchronizing sound and dialogue in postproduction.
But here, in Tribeca, he's in casual mode, his blond hair mussed, his blue eyes peering out from behind yellow lenses. The tinted glasses have become a trademark look for Mr Bettany, a family man who ventures rarely but memorably into the spotlight.
The Newark, New Jersey, native was born in 1954 and adopted at age six months out of an orphanage by a township clerk and an auto parts owner. Liotta always assumed he was mostly Italian — the movies did too. But later in life while searching for his birth parents, he discovered he's actually Scottish.
Robert De Niro has alweys been proud of his Italian roots, as a matter of fact his great-grandparents were from Molise. His ability in speaking the Sicilian dialect in The Godfather II led him to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
3. HE'S A DUAL CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITALY. De Niro is American, Italian-American, and, as of 2004, Italian. The country bestowed honorary citizenship upon De Niro as an honor in recognition of his career, but it wasn't all smooth sailing to the passport office.
One 2011 study from the Université de Lyon looked at 7 languages, which reported the order as Japanese (7.84 syllables per second), Spanish (7.82), French (7.18), Italian (6.99), English (6.19), German (5.97) and Mandarin (5.18).
Lauper was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Catholic family. Her father, Fred, was of Swiss-German descent, and a direct descendant of Christen Lauper, a leader of the Swiss peasant war of 1653. Her mother, Catrine (née Gallo) (1930–2022), was of Italian descent (from Sicily).
Sicilian is indeed an official language separate from Italian. It is recognised by various international bodies, including UNESCO and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Most Sicilians, however, speak a variant dialect that is distinct to their own town, village, quarter or area.
It is placed in the Italiano meridionale-estremo group of languages along with the Greek influenced Calabrian dialects of southern Italy, and actually has at least eleven regional dialects of its own. The Sicilian language has been shaped by many years of foreign influence, occupation, and conquest.
The national flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, pronounced [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore ( pronounced [il trikoˈloːre]; English: "the Tricolour"), is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, national colours of Italy, with the ...
