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Lamberto Maggiorani is a Actor Italien born on 28 august 1909 at Rome (Italie)

Lamberto Maggiorani

Lamberto Maggiorani
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Nationality Italie
Birth 28 august 1909 at Rome (Italie)
Death 22 april 1983 (at 73 years) at Rome (Italie)

Lamberto Maggiorani (28 August 1909 in Rome – 22 April 1983 in Rome) was an Italian actor notable for his portrayal of Antonio Ricci in Bicycle Thieves.

He was a factory worker (he worked as a turner) and non-professional actor at the time he was cast in this film. He earned 600,000 lire ($1,000 US) for his performance, enabling him to buy new furniture and treat his family to a vacation; but when he returned to the factory he was laid off because business was slackening and management felt it would be fairer to terminate him instead of other impoverished co-workers since he was perceived to have "made millions" as a movie star. He found occasional work as a bricklayer, but continued to try to get roles in movies, with little success; even de Sica was reluctant to employ him as anything other than an extra. Pier Paolo Pasolini gave him a bit part in the film Mamma Roma (1962) due to his iconic status in Italian cinema. Cesare Zavattini, the screenwriter for Bicycle Thieves, aware of Maggiorani's predicament, wrote a screenplay about him titled "Tu, Maggiorani", in an attempt to demonstrate the limits of neorealist film's capacity to change the world.

Maggiorani died in Rome in 1983 at the San Giovanni hospital without ever regaining his first success as a film actor.

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Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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Filmography of Lamberto Maggiorani (18 films)

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We All Loved Each Other So Much, 2h4
Directed by Ettore Scola
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Stefania Sandrelli, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefano Satta Flores, Aldo Fabrizi, Giovanna Ralli
Rating80% 4.0066254.0066254.0066254.0066254.006625
In the first part (shot in black-and-white) the friends Gianni (Gassman), Antonio (Manfredi) and Nicola (Satta Flores) are partisans who fight for the liberation of Italy from the yoke of Nazi occupation and the fascist collaborationists aiding in it. After the end of World War II, the three go for different lives: Nicola in Nocera Inferiore (southern Italy), Antonio in Rome and Gianni in Pavia.
Ostia
Ostia (1970)
, 1h43
Directed by Sergio Citti
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Laurent Terzieff, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Anita Sanders, Lamberto Maggiorani
Roles Padre di Monica
Rating66% 3.317893.317893.317893.317893.31789
In the poor and infamous suburb of Ostia two friends're living in a small apartment. One day a girl, ran away from home at the causes of harassment of her father, comes from the two, and so begins a friendship with them in solidarity. However, when the boys fall in love with her, all vying to be the enemies and reach of each other, until one day one of the two will die in a battle rival.
Crazy Sea
Crazy Sea (1963)
, 2h
Directed by Renato Castellani, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gina Lollobrigida, Tomás Milián, Noël Roquevert, Michele Abruzzo, Odoardo Spadaro
Roles Marinaio
Rating59% 2.9926452.9926452.9926452.9926452.992645
A Gênes, les fils Parenti vivotent de combines , Benedetto subvient aux besoins de la famille, il trouve un emploi grâce à Marguerite, maitresse du Livournais. Malgré de mauvaises conditions, ils doivent embarquer et prendre la mer , le père Parenti est le capitaine du bateau qui doit livrer une cargaison de vin.
Ro.Go.Pa.G., 1h51
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Ugo Gregoretti
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rosanna Schiaffino, Gianrico Tedeschi, Orson Welles, Alexandra Stewart, Laura Betti, Jean-Marc Bory
Roles Man in the Tableau-Vivant (segment "La ricotta") (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4537753.4537753.4537753.4537753.453775
Illibatezza ("Chastity") by Roberto Rossellini is a story of a beautiful stewardess which attracts unwanted attention from one of the air travelers - a middle aged American. The two overnight by chance in the same hotel. She has a fiancé back home, to whom she sends 8mm films made with her camera. These show how, in order to shoo away the unwanted flirtatious attentions of the traveler, all she had to do was to act in an aggressively provocative way; his sexual attraction being fueled by the shyness with which she initially tried to endure his advances.
Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma (1962)
, 1h50
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Lamberto Maggiorani, Renato Montalbano
Roles Sick Man
Rating78% 3.900233.900233.900233.900233.90023
An ex-prostitute, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani), tries to start a new life selling vegetables with her 16-year-old son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo). When he later finds out that she was a prostitute, he succumbs to the dark side with the petty theft of a radio in a hospital and goes to prison.
The Last Judgment, 1h41
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine, Paolo Stoppa
Roles Poor man
Rating64% 3.2437253.2437253.2437253.2437253.243725
At the morning of a normal day of a Naples that begins to hear complex and not always positive effects of the economic boom, a stentorian voice (Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) which seems to come down from heaven announces that "At 18 begins the Last Judgement!".
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge, 1h38
Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Dorian Gray, Franco Interlenghi, Maria-Pia Casilio
Roles Bandito
Rating73% 3.6541453.6541453.6541453.6541453.654145
Province of Rome, the early postwar years. Antonio, an unemployed middle-aged, married a rich woman, Teresa, who bullies: he lives in the countryside with his wife and daughter Valeria with the earnest and always without a penny in his pocket. Valeria makes the acquaintance of Albert, a young journalist, came to the country with the purpose of approaching and interviewing the bandit Ignatius said, "The Press", feared throughout the region for its daring enterprises. With the complicity of Peppino, the barber of the country, Toto pretends to his wife that he had been kidnapped by Ignatius and thus induces Teresa stingy to pay five million for his ransom. The money is squandered in carousing by Toto and Peppino, who went to Rome, where they are joined by Valeria and Alberto, who discovered the deception, even Teresa discovers the ruse of her husband, when the television is transmitted to a shooting in a nightclub, where the two buddies damage to the mad joy. Gone are the money, Toto returns to town and tells his wife to have escaped the bandits, Valeria did not have time to warn him so that man is exposed. The day after Toto is really captured by the men of Ignatius, who also knew of the fake kidnapping done in his name, he calls for a high ransom, Teresa, however, think that this is another fake kidnapping and does not give a money. Valeria and Alberto, now engaged, hatched a plan to rescue Toto, going by Ignatius in his den and calling for freedom of Toto in exchange for an interview that will make the famous bandit. Ignatius accepts and Toto back home. After the wedding of Valeria and Alberto, Teresa's husband out of the house, warning him not to come back until you have made a stand. Toto, who has never worked, is reduced to make the "boy" in the workshop of Peppino.
Don Camillo's Last Round, 1h37
Directed by Carmine Gallone
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Umberto Spadaro, Memmo Carotenuto, Guido Celano
Roles un cittadino democristiano
Rating71% 3.5501753.5501753.5501753.5501753.550175
In the small village of Brescello are continuing skirmishes between the parish priest Don Camillo and the communist mayor Peppone Bottazzi. The latter, after a theft of chickens against Don Camillo, finally decides to get around in big politics, going to stand as honorable in Rome. In fact Peppone is convinced by a female "friend" of his party, but the mayor's wife goes to complain to Don Camillo, who decides to replace the embarrassing situation.
L'Assassin de la rue Paradis, 1h18
Directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peppino De Filippo, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Arlette Poirier, Ernesto Almirante, Leopoldo Trieste
Roles Via Padova portiere
Rating61% 3.091223.091223.091223.091223.09122
À Rome, dans les premières années de l'après-guerre. L'employé Arduino Buongiorno mène une vie monotone et répétitive entre une femme hypocondriaque, une belle-sœur autoritaire, un beau-frère aspirant inventeur. Au travail, cela ne va guère mieux : il est prix entre un directeur soupçonneux et un collègue vaniteux.
Umberto D.
Umberto D. (1952)
, 1h20
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Vieillesse, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Maria-Pia Casilio, Memmo Carotenuto, Lina Gennari, Lamberto Maggiorani
Roles (uncredited)
Rating81% 4.0959254.0959254.0959254.0959254.095925
Police disperse an organized street demonstration of elderly men demanding a raise in their meager pensions. One of the marchers is Umberto D. Ferrari, a retired government worker.
Vacation with a Gangster
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Marc Lawrence, Terence Hill, Lamberto Maggiorani, Bianca Doria, Bud Spencer, Silvio Bagolini
Roles galeotto
Rating67% 3.3614653.3614653.3614653.3614653.361465
Des enfants trouvent le message d'un prisonnier enfermé injustement. Il prenne alors la décision de le faire évader...
Anna
Anna (1951)
, 1h47
Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Jacques Dumesnil, Vittorio Gassman, Bianca Doria
Roles malato ferito allo stomaco
Rating65% 3.2974453.2974453.2974453.2974453.297445
A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer.
Attention! Bandits!, 1h38
Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Lamberto Maggiorani, Maria Laura Rocca, Pietro Tordi, Giuliano Montaldo
Roles Marco
Rating63% 3.182163.182163.182163.182163.18216
Le scénario s'inspire de faits authentiques qui se sont déroulées pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale en Italie. Ici, ce sont les aventures d'un groupe de résistants italiens originaires de Gênes et dirigé par le commandant Vento qui sont évoquées. Ceux-ci doivent s'emparer d'une cargaison d'armes destinées à l'occupant allemand. Aidés par un comité d'ouvriers en grève menés par Marco, ceux-ci parviennent à leurs fins, après plusieurs péripéties pleines de tension. Les chasseurs alpins italiens, un moment hésitant, et placés devant un dilemme crucial, choisissent eux aussi d'entrer en résistance.