Paolo Graziosi, film actor, theater teacher and familiar face of Rai in screenplays and fiction, died at the age of 82: he died at the San Bortolo hospital in Vicenza, he had caught Covid-19.
Graziosi was born in Rimini on January 25, 1940: in 1962 the film debut in the film by the former assistant director of Germi and Rosi, Enzo Battaglia, in "The Archangels". Five years later Marco Bellocchio wanted him in the cast of "China is near" for the role of the Mephistophelic Carlo. In the years of the great rebellion, between '68 and the '70s, he worked with the best exponents of the new Italian cinema, from Liliana Cavani ("Galileo") to Salvatore Samperi ("Mother's heart"). Then Francesco Rosi, Emidio Greco and Marco Tullio Giordana.
In the theater he rode the great classics (Euripides, Shakespeare, Goldoni), the modern ones (Pirandello, Ibsen) and the very modern ones (Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter) starting with that Mercutio of "Romeo and Juliet" for which Franco Zeffirelli chose him in 1964 .
In the 1970s he worked for the small screen in "Portrait of a Lady" and "Elective Affinities" with directors such as Vittorio Cottafavi, Sandro Sequi, Gianfranco De Bosio. In recent years, despite a very hard battle against cancer, won in the end, he had never given up working: it is enough to mention his memorable "Lesson" by Ionesco and the Oscar of theater in 2005 for "Six characters in search of author"; the roles in successful fiction such as "Il commissario Montalbano" and "Chiara Lubich" last year. Only a few months ago on the big screen he was Renato in Nanni Moretti's “Three floors”.
"For him, acting and theater were a vocation, never a profession - says his daughter Viola who has taken over the baton -. I thank him because in recent months he has given us the time, to me, my brother, my mother, to be with him. close in a vigil full of tenderness even when, as in the last phone call, he was already short of breath. With him we were truly family, right up to the end, as in this beautiful sunny day in which, from a distance, we still greet him ".
(Unioneonline / D)
