Renato Scarpa, the Robertino of “Ricomincio da tre”, died in his house in Rome.
Born in Milan on 14 September 1939, he is considered one of the best Italian character actors: because he knew how to express his talent and his passions in a thousand different facets, because he knew how to focus the viewer's attention on that big face full of humanity and flexible in expressions.
Small and capable of alternating between the dramatic and the comic register without ever losing its immediate recognition, he has gone through the seasons of Italian cinema from the late 1960s to today, gaining attention and trust from many of our best directors.
To reveal his talent were the Taviani brothers in "Under the sign of the scorpion" of 1969 and "San Michele had a rooster" of 1973.
Dario Argento chose him in "In Venice a shocking red December" and in "Suspiria", while Giuliano Montaldo dressed him as a friar in "Giordano Bruno". He acted with Bellocchio, Comencini, Rossellini, Monicelli, Risi. Also with Nanni Moretti. “The Son's Room” and in “Habemus Papam”.
But for the general public he became popular thanks above all to three films: he was the hypochondriac of "A lot beautiful" with Carlo Verone, the clumsy Robertino of "Ricomincio da tre" with Massimo Troisi, he also starred in "Thus spoke Bellavista ”By Luciano De Crescenzo. In these three cases all his comic verve came out and "pierced" the screen.
The actor has ridden all genres of Italian cinema, having started as a teenager first on the Milanese theater stages and then at the Experimental Cinematography Center in Rome.
A career full of satisfactions, including the nominations for the David di Donatello.
Recently in "Diaz" (2012) Daniele Vicari entrusted him with the role of the humble pensioner involved without any responsibility in the clashes with the police during the G8 in Genoa. In his bewildered gaze, in his blue eyes that contemplate the brutality of violence without being able to oppose force, the director summarizes the very meaning of the film and that minor character becomes the authentic protagonist, the silent witness of a painful page in our history. .
(Unioneonline / L)