20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights

The list 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights includes Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nino Manfredi, Dario Fo, Eduardo De Filippo and Zef Skirò Di Maxho. The list consists of 87 members.

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1.

Totò

Italian comedian

Overview: Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and ...

Date of birth: 15 February 1898

Date of death: 15 April 1967

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Writers from Naples 50T

20th-century Italian male musicians 477T

20th-century comedians 466T
2.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

Overview: Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, screenwriter, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1922

Date of death: 2 November 1975

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Italian LGBT film directors 11T

Italian gay artists 14T

Italian LGBT painters 14T
3.

Nino Manfredi

Actor

Overview: Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.

Date of birth: 22 March 1921

Date of death: 4 June 2004

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Stroke-related deaths in Lazio 18T

20th-century Italian comedians 43T

20th-century Italian male singers 143T
4.

Eduardo De Filippo

Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)

Overview: Eduardo De Filippo (24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as Eduardo, was an Italian actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1900

Date of death: 31 October 1984

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Writers from Naples 50T

20th-century Italian screenwriters 263T

20th-century Italian male writers 587T
5.

Dario Fo

Italian playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, director, and politician

Overview: Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter, political campaigner for the Italian left ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1926

Date of death: 13 October 2016

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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21st-century Italian songwriters 3T

20th-century Italian songwriters 11T

Italian male songwriters 104T
6.

Eduardo Scarpetta

italian actor and playwright

Overview: Eduardo Scarpetta (1853–1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples, Italy.

Date of birth: 13 March 1853

Date of death: 23 November 1925

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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19th-century Neapolitan people 177T

19th-century Italian male actors 14T

Italian male stage actors 477T
7.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)

Overview: Gian Carlo Menotti (, July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He ...

Date of birth: 7 July 1911

Date of death: 1 February 2007

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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LGBT classical composers 103T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

Italian ballet composers 27T
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Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Brazilian actor

Overview: Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri (August 6, 1934 – July 22, 2006) was an Italian–Brazilian actor, lyricist, poet and playwright.

Date of birth: 6 August 1934

Date of death: 22 July 2006

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Brazilian male dramatists and playwrights 52T

20th-century Brazilian male writers 166T

20th-century Italian male writers 587T
9.

Daniele Formica

Italian actor

Overview: Daniele Formica (10 June 1949 – 1 February 2011) was an Irish-born Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and television personality.

Date of birth: 10 June 1949

Date of death: 1 February 2011

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Deaths from cancer in Veneto 6T

Irish emigrants to Italy 6T

Italian male stage actors 477T
10.

Zef Skirò Di Maxho

Italian writer

Overview: Giuseppe Schirò Di Maggio (Arbërisht Zef Skiro Di Maxho), born in 1944, is an Arbëreshë poet and dramatist of Piana degli Albanesi in Sicily.

Date of birth: 14 May 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: Albanian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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21st-century Italian male writers 108T

20th-century Italian male writers 587T

21st-century male writers 1,614T
11.

Sergio Fantoni

Italian actor (1930–2020)

Overview: Sergio Fantoni (August 7, 1930 – April 17, 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and director.

Date of birth: 7 August 1930

Date of death: 17 April 2020

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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2020 deaths 11,737T

Italian male radio actors 40T

Male actors from Rome 293T
12.

Dino Buzzati

Italian writer

Overview: Dino Buzzati-Traverso (14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1906

Date of death: 28 January 1972

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Deaths from cancer in Lombardy 48T

20th-century Italian male writers 587T

Italian male journalists 458T
13.

Carlo Buccirosso

Italian actor, theatre director, and playwright

Overview: Carlo Buccirosso (born 7 July 1954) is an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright.

Date of birth: 1 May 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Theatre people from Naples 9T

Male actors from Naples 71T

Italian male dramatists and playwrights 154T
14.

Dario Bellezza

Italian poet

Overview: Dario Bellezza (5 September 1944 – 31 March 1996) was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes.

Date of birth: 5 September 1944

Date of death: 31 March 1996

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Infectious disease deaths in Lazio 23T

20th-century Italian male writers 587T

LGBT writers from Italy 31T
15.

Sergio Tofano

Italian actor

Overview: Sergio Tòfano (20 August 1886 – 28 October 1973) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator.

Date of birth: 20 August 1883

Date of death: 28 October 1973

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Italian children's book illustrators 9T

Italian male stage actors 477T

Italian male film actors 1,066T
16.

Vitaliano Brancati

Italian writer

Overview: Vitaliano Brancati (24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.

Date of birth: 24 July 1907

Date of death: 25 September 1954

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Italian screenwriters 263T

20th-century Italian male writers 587T

Italian male screenwriters 500T
17.

Curzio Malaparte

Italian writer

Overview: Curzio Malaparte (9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957), born Curt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, film-maker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt ...

Date of birth: 9 June 1898

Date of death: 19 July 1957

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Italian male non-fiction writers 267T

Italian male journalists 458T

Italian people of Lombard descent 7T
18.

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Italian film director

Overview: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (26 February 1921 – 15 December 2005) was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.

Date of birth: 27 February 1921

Date of death: 15 December 2005

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Theatre people from Naples 9T

Film people from Naples 47T

Writers from Naples 50T
19.

Stefano Satta Flores

Italian actor

Overview: Stefano Satta Flores (January 14, 1937 – October 22, 1985) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Date of birth: 14 January 1937

Date of death: 22 October 1985

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Deaths from cancer in Lazio 85T

Male actors from Naples 71T

Italian male voice actors 236T
20.

Vincenzo Salemme

Italian actor

Overview: Vincenzo Salemme (born 24 July 1957) is an Italian actor, playwright, director and screenwriter.

Date of birth: 24 July 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Italian male screenwriters 500T

Italian male dramatists and playwrights 154T

Male screenwriters 2,358T