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- Ayrton Senna da Silva was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil to a wealthy family. When he was four years old his father Milton bought him a go-kart, and by age eight Ayrton was regularly competing in karting events. His career progressed quickly, and in 1982 he moved to England to pursue his racing. In 1984 he came to the attention of the whole world by racing in Formula One. Over the next ten years he won the World Championship three times and engaged in some controversial racing with France's Alain Prost and England's Nigel Mansell. Ayrton Senna was killed on 1 May 1994 in a race at the San Marino Grand Prix when his car, which had been beset with problems the entire season, inexplicably left the track and crashed into the concrete barrier. His was the last death in Formula One due to the major safety reforms that the tragic weekend at Imola had brought about. He was voted by over two hundred of his fellow Formula One drivers as the best driver of all time in a 2010 poll. Senna was also a humanitarian who discreetly donated millions to help those less fortunate in his native country.
- Maria Antonietta Beluzzi was born on 26 July 1930 in Bologna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Amarcord (1973), La vita provvisoria (1963) and The Last Concert (1976). She died on 6 August 1997 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Yvonne Sanson was born on 29 August 1925 in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Conformist (1970), Chains (1949) and The Mysterious Rider (1948). She died on 23 July 2003 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Adolfo Lastretti was born on 18 November 1937 in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Syndicate Sadists (1975), The Lion of the Desert (1980) and Spasmo (1974). He died on 5 May 2018 in Loiano, Bologna, Italy.
- Actor
- Writer
Giustino Durano was born on 5 May 1923 in Brindisi, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), Fate un bel sorriso (2000) and The Queen of the Pirates (1960). He was married to Graziella Galvani. He died on 18 February 2002 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Francesco Laudadio was born on 2 January 1950 in Mola di Bari, Puglia, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Madame (2004), Grog (1982) and Roma dodici novembre 1994 (1995). He died on 6 April 2005 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Gianni Cavina was born on 9 December 1940 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for The House with Laughing Windows (1976), La via degli angeli (1999) and Festival (1996). He died on 26 March 2022 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Fanfulla was born on 26 February 1913 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Fellini Satyricon (1969), Son of the Red Corsair (1959) and Dark Purpose (1964). He died on 5 January 1971 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Carlo D'Angelo was born on 2 February 1919 in Milan, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Great Silence (1968), Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966) and Romeo e Giulietta (1964). He died on 9 June 1973 in Bologna, Italy.- Olga Solbelli was born on 11 May 1898 in Verghereto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Il prigioniero del re (1954), La figlia del capitano (1947) and Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937). She was married to Pietro Meda. She died on 8 September 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Andrea Bosic was born on 15 July 1919 in Gomilsko, Maribor, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Sandokan the Great (1963), Duel of the Titans (1961) and Danger: Diabolik (1968). He died on 9 January 2012 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Bob Tonelli was born on 9 May 1929 in Bologna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The House with Laughing Windows (1976), Una gita scolastica (1983) and Help Me Dream (1981). He died in 1987 in Bologna, Italy.
- Composer
- Actor
- Writer
Ezio Bosso was born on 13 September 1971 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for I'm Not Scared (2003), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005). He died on 15 May 2020 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Roberto Freak Antoni was born on 16 April 1954 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band (1996), Skiantos Videonovela (1990) and Paz! (2002). He died on 12 February 2014 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Silvio Bagolini was born on 4 August 1914 in Bologna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Bullocks (1953), David Copperfield (1965) and The Prisoner of the Iron Mask (1961). He died on 26 September 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Carlo Aldini was born on 6 May 1894 in Pieve Fosciana, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt (1930), Adventures Inc. (1929) and Hunted People (1926). He died on 21 March 1961 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
His father was the renowned violinist and music teacher Michelangelo Abbado. He is the brother of the composer Marcello Abbado and therefore uncle of the conductor Roberto Abbado. After school, Abbado studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. From 1956 to 1968 he was married to Giovanna Cavazzoni. Together they became parents to the theater manager Alessandra Abbado and the opera director Daniele Abbado. In 1957 he moved to Vienna, where he went to school with conductor teacher Hans Swarowsky. In 1968, Abbado began working for the Milan opera house "Scala", where he worked in various functions until 1986. The conductor was committed to opening up the so-called "high culture" to the common people, who had once been the audience and protagonists of traditional Italian opera.
From 1979 to 1988, Abbado was also principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Replaced by Riccardo Muti at the helm of La Scala in Milan, Abbado moved to Vienna in 1986 to take over the management of the State Opera until 1991. From 1990 to 2002 he was chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. However, cancer interrupted Abbado's artistic career in the late 1990s. After his recovery, the internationally celebrated conductor only appeared at concerts sporadically. In spring 2004, Abbado's guest appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic was a great success. In the spring of 2005, Abbado conducted Mozart's "Magic Flute" for the first time, with which he celebrated great success in Baden-Baden and Italy. At the end of May 2005, the maestro gave three concerts in Berlin to sold-out houses.
Abbado was considered a supporter of young musicians, for whom he founded the European Union Youth Orchestra in 1978, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1988, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 1997 and finally the Mozart Orchestra in 2004. The youth orchestras support the training of young talent with scholarships. In 2003 he was honored with the Praemium Imperiale. In August 2005, Abbado, after Vienna, was also made an honorary citizen of Lucerne, whose music festival he was closely associated with. For the 250th year of Mozart's birth, Abbado designed numerous Mozart Orchestra initiatives in 2006. In 2008 he received the Wolf Prize. On August 30, 2013, Claudio Abbado was appointed senator for life by President Giorgio Napolitano. In the same year, his book "My World of Music" was named science book of the year in Austria.
Claudio Abbado died on January 20, 2014, at the age of eighty, in Bologna after a long battle with cancer.- Pina Borione was an actress, known for The House with Laughing Windows (1976), Un bacio a fior d'acqua (1936) and Revenge of the Dead (1983). She was married to Giorgio Bianchi. She died in 1988 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Mirella Falco was an actress, known for Villa Arzilla (1990), Tomorrow We Dance (1982) and Luci lontane (1987). She died on 6 November 2013 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Piergiorgio Farina was born on 12 October 1938 in Goro, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for Casa dell'amore... la polizia interviene (1978), $10,000 Blood Money (1967) and Il... Belpaese (1977). He died on 28 July 2008 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Raffaele Pisu was born on 24 May 1925 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Consequences of Love (2004), Se non avessi più te (1965) and So in Love (1964). He died on 31 July 2019 in Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy.- Isabella Marincola was born in 1925 in Somalia. She was an actress, known for Bitter Rice (1949) and Quale razza (2008). She died on 30 March 2010 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Dario Parisini was born on 1 December 1966 in Bentivoglio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for La piovra (1984), Obsession: A Taste for Fear (1987) and Festa di laurea (1985). He died on 9 June 2022 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Armando Marra was born on 10 January 1926 in Naples, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Name of the Rose (1986) and No grazie, il caffè mi rende nervoso (1982). He died on 24 July 2011 in Bologna, Italy.
- Evelina Paoli was born on 30 March 1878 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for We the Living (1942), Addio Kira! (1942) and Hanno rapito un uomo (1938). She died on 28 December 1972 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actor
- Writer
Bonvi was born on 31 March 1941 in Modena, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Sturmtruppen (1976), Sturmtruppen 2 (tutti al fronte) (1982) and Come rubammo la bomba atomica (1967). He died on 9 December 1995 in Bologna, Italy.- Giannina Chiantoni was born on 24 June 1881 in Bernalda, Basilicata, Italy. She was an actress, known for Re Lear (1910), ...e Napoli canta! (1953) and The Duchess of Parma (1937). She was married to Ernesto Sabbatini. She died on 17 May 1972 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Antonella Steni was born on 3 December 1926 in Montefiascone, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nel sole (1967), L'oro del mondo (1968) and Peggio per me... meglio per te (1968). She was married to Luigi Bonos. She died on 18 January 2016 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Enzo Biliotti was born on 28 June 1887 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Don Cesare di Bazan (1942), The Spirit and the Flesh (1941) and Villafranca (1934). He was married to Lia Di Lorenzo. He died on 19 November 1976 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Giuseppe Torelli was born on 22 April 1658 in Verona, Italy. Giuseppe was a composer, known for Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ready to Wear (1994) and Adored: Diary of a Porn Star (2003). Giuseppe died on 28 February 1709 in Bologna, Italy.- Franco Scandurra was born on 27 July 1911 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Spirit and the Flesh (1941), I fratelli Karamazoff (1947) and Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964). He died on 15 April 2003 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Pina Gallini was born on 19 March 1888 in Bondeno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937), Addio Kira! (1942) and Sangue sul sagrato (1950). She died on 31 January 1974 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Carla Astolfi was born on 11 September 1931 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for The House with Laughing Windows (1976), Tutti defunti... tranne i morti (1977) and Jolly Blu (1998). She died on 21 May 2017 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Ernesto Maserati was born on 4 August 1898 in Bologna, Italy. He died on 1 December 1975 in Bologna, Italy.
- Ermelinda Giusti was born on 6 July 1956 in Eboli (Salerno), Campania, Italy. Ermelinda was married to Riccardo Bruno. Ermelinda died on 23 September 2008 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Fanny Marchiò was born on 1 June 1904 in Corfu, Greece. She was an actress, known for The White Sheik (1952), Variety Lights (1950) and Ma chi te lo fa fare? (1948). She was married to Renato Navarrini. She died on 6 September 1980 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Raoul Grassilli was born on 25 October 1924 in Bologna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Le cinque giornate di Milano (1970), Bel Ami (1979) and Catherine of Russia (1963). He died on 24 July 2010 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Memo Benassi was born on 21 June 1886 in Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Affairs of Messalina (1951), Il trattato scomparso (1933) and Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1943). He died on 24 February 1957 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Gaetano Verna was born on 28 July 1900 in Faenza, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Young Caruso (1951), Atto di accusa (1950) and Il fornaretto di Venezia (1939). He died on 16 August 1958 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Roberto Roversi was born on 28 January 1923 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988), Non si scrive sui muri a Milano (1975) and Disamistade (1988). He died on 14 September 2012 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Patrizia Vicinelli was born on 23 August 1943 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress and director, known for Errore di gruppo (1973), In viaggio con Patrizia (1995) and Transfert per camera verso Virulentia (1967). She died on 9 January 1991 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Ernesto Almirante (24 September 1877 - 13 December 1964) was an Italian film and stage actor. Born in Mistretta into a family of actors, Almirante worked several years on stage along his father Nunzio. He was also active as agent and organizer of several stage companies. After an occasional film role in the 1919 mute film "Federica d'Illirio", starting from mid-1930s Almirante became one of the most active character actors of his time. In 1955 he retired from acting and moved into a retirement home for actors in Bologna. He was the uncle of politician Giorgio Almirante.
- Actress
Marisa Colomber was born on 5 October 1928 in Galliera, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for 8½ (1963), Scaramouche (1965) and Con rispetto parlando (1965). She died on 14 July 2013 in San Venanzio di Galliera, Bologna, Italy.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Lara Saint Paul, born Silvana Savorelli in 1946, is an Italian singer, actress, impresario and record producer. She was born in Asmara to an Italian father and Eritrean mother, and moved to Italy as a young girl. Lara studied singing under the guidance of a teacher who had performed at the Scala di Milano, Prof. Tina Brini. Lara made Italy her new home. It was the magic land of the Condoteieri of the Renaissance and Fellini, a land rich in temperament and lyricism.
She longed for music from the beginning. As a girl, curious about music, Lara was spending enchanted hours listening to the magnificence of gopels and spirituals. At sixteen, Lara went to the Sanremo Festival, the mecca of the Italian song. She was immediately recognized as an emerging talent. Success came in 1967 when she changed her record company and started singing under the flag of manager-industrialist Pier Quinto Cariaggi, soon to become her Pygmalion and her husband. They had two daughters, Manuela and Guendalina.
Lara Saint Paul's first public performance was in 1962 at the Festival della canzone italiana, also known as the Sanremo Music Festival, in Italy. She went by the name of Tanya and performed the ballad I Colori Della Felicitá.
Her big success arrived when she returned to Sanremo in 1968 as one of the two performers of the song, titled Mi va di cantare. The other performer was Louis Armstrong, and they performed alongside Lionel Hampton. Louis Armstrong is quoted by Lara Saint Paul as saying that she was "one of the most talented singers I ever met in all my life." She also participated in Sanremo in 1972 with Se non fosse tra queste mie braccia lo inventerei and in 1973 with Una Casa Grande. She was a finalist three times in the Sanremo Music Festival.
In 1988, Lara Saint Paul was a producer and conductor for the Sanremo Music Festival at the Casino di Sanremo.
Lara Saint Paul has worked with many notable talents in the music industry. Her songs Non preoccuparti and Adesso ricomincerei were produced and arranged by American producer Quincy Jones in 1973. In the same year she released an Italian cover version of Killing Me Softly with His Song, originally composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, titled Mi fa morir cantando. Lara Saint Paul has worked and performed with notables such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Roberta Flack, Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder. Her popular 1977 album Saffo Music, recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Ware, featured The Pointer Sisters on backing vocals, guitar by Ray Parker Jr., bass by Chuck Rainey and was mixed by Bill Conti. The largest markets for her music outside of Italy and Europe are Argentina, Brazil and Japan. One of her 1970s tracks, So, is featured on several current popular lounge music compilations. The majority of her work was released in Italy on the record label Company Discografica Italiana (CDI) and later Lasapa, both of which she owned with her husband, Italian producer and showman Pier Quinto Cariaggi.
In 1982 she brought the aerobics craze to Italy, working closely with actress and fitness guru Jane Fonda. The video, book and music album, titled Aerobic Aerobica, Aerobic Dance, and a single titled AAA Aerobica, were parts of an exercise program with songs performed by Lara Saint Paul. The program was a huge hit and went on to achieve cult status in Italy. Aerobic Dance won a Gold Record in Italy for sales. A clothing line and The Aerobic Center fitness clubs licensed with the name Lara Saint Paul were also created that featured the aerobics program.
Lara has been featured in many television specials in Italy and around Europe, starting with the variety show Quelli Della Domenica in 1968, for RAI. A 1970-1971 edition of the RAI network TV show Canzonissima featured Lara Saint Paul, bringing Italian film and music personalities together on TV. The 1992 Lara Superspecial show spectacular for Eurovisione and RAI 2 was broadcast all over Europe and in 19 countries, featuring Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Harry Belafonte and Luciano Pavarotti. This highly successful television special received a special prize from the Italian critica televisa. The Lara Superspecial orchestra was arranged by Gian Marco Gualandi, who also participated in Lara Saint Paul's 1992 European Tour.
More recently, in 2005 and 2007 she was on Italian television for retrospectives featuring the life of Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and his wife Barbara were personal friends of Lara Saint Paul, and Sinatra's return to Italy in 1986 after 24 years abroad had been orchestrated by Lara Saint Paul's husband, Pier Quinto Cariaggi, who had also organized Sinatra's 1987 Italian tour.
Using the name Lara Cariaggi, she co-produced and wrote the 1995 television documentary The Best is Yet to Come with her husband Cariaggi. It was an extensive biography about the life of their friend, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, and Lara was the interviewer for the documentary.
The Italian awards show Viva Hollywood for RAI, a production of Lara Saint Paul's husband Pier Quinto Cariaggi and his company Galenter Entertainment, was co-presented and co-produced by Lara Saint Paul. It started in 1988 and every year brought Hollywood stars to Italy to present them with a Merit of Achievement Award for their work. It was a success for the Italian RAI network and had very high annual ratings. Bette Davis received the first award in 1988. The nominees stayed at the five star Villa d'Este hotel in Cernobbio and were awarded a bronze statuette for lifetime achievement at the televised awards show. Some of the guests, such as Kirk Douglas, had a personal meeting with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican arranged for them by Lara Saint Paul and Cariaggi.- Quinto Parmeggiani was born on 3 March 1926 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (1966), The Weekend Murders (1970) and The Sex Machine (1975). He died on 3 January 2018 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Alfred Deller was born on 31 May 1912 in Margate, Kent, England, UK. He was married to Margaret Lowe. He died on 16 July 1979 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Franco Patanè was born in 1908 in Acireale, Sicily, Italy. Franco is known for Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) and Tosca (1961). Franco died in 1968 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Script and Continuity Department
- Actress
Norma Giacchero was an actress, known for Amarcord (1973), Roma (1972) and Arrivederci Firenze (1958). She died on 3 June 2010 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Viktor Staudt was born on 7 March 1969. He died on 8 September 2019 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Gregorio Scalise was born on 25 January 1939 in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. He died on 11 May 2020 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.