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Italian actor (1930?2018)
Luigi De Filippo
(10 August 1930 ? 31 March 2018) was an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.
Born in
Naples
, the son of actors
Peppino De Filippo
and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the threshold of graduation to pursue a career in journalism.
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Shorty later De Filippo debuted on stage next to his father, and from then he started a very long acting career, notably running for years a
Neapolitan dialect
company.
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He celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stage activities with the reception of a special Premio Personalita Europea prize in
Capitol Hill
.
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De Filippo appeared in many film roles, even if mainly in
character roles
.
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He was also active on television, mainly in
television
adaptations of his stage works.
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Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the Parioli Theatre in Rome.
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De Filippo died in Rome on 31 March 2018
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citation needed
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at the age of 87.
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