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Isabella Rossellini age 65 Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for ...more

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Pier Paolo Pasolini Died at 53 (1922-1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and ...more

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Asia Argento age 42 Aria Asia Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director.

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Dan Castellaneta age 60 Daniel Louis "Dan" Castellaneta is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The ...more

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Frank Capra Died at 94 (1897-1991) Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. His ...more

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Bam Margera age 38 Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, actor, musician, and stunt performer. He came to prominence after appearing in MTV's Jackass crew. He has since ...more

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Ida Lupino Died at 77 (1918-1995) Ida Lupino was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight-year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films and directed seven others, ...more

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Federico Fellini Died at 73 (1920-1993) Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is considered one of the greatest and most ...more

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Greg Berlanti age 45 Greg Berlanti is an American film and television writer, producer and director. He is well known for his work on the television series Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Political Animals, Arrow and The

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Michelangelo Antonioni Died at 95 (1912-2007) Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its ...more

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Ilona Staller age 66 Ilona Staller, widely known by her stage name, Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-born Italian porn star, politician, and singer.

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Sergio Leone Died at 60 (1929-1989) Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up ...more

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Franco Zeffirelli age 95 Franco Zeffirelli, KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia ...more

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Donald Bellisario age 82 Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS. He has ...more

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Bud Spencer age 88 Bud Spencer is an Italian actor, filmmaker and a former professional swimmer. He is known for past roles in action-comedy films together with his long-time film partner Terence Hill. Growing ...more

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Gipi age 54 Gianni Pacinotti is a comic artist, film director, TV director, screenwriter and TV producer.

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Roberto Rossellini Died at 71 (1906-1977) Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma ...more

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Paolo Villaggio age 85 Paolo Villaggio is an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ...more

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Alberto Moravia Died at 83 (1907-1990) Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. Moravia is best known for ...more

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Dario Argento age 77 Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence ...more

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Moana Pozzi Died at 33 (1961-1994) Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi, best known as Moana Pozzi and Moana, was an Italian pornographic actress, actress, television personality, model, politician and writer.

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Martina Amati age 48 Martina Amati is an Italian BAFTA winning filmmaker. Her work often features scenes underwater.

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Axel Braun age 51 Axel Braun is an Italian adult film producer and director known for his productions of porn parodies. Braun is also an AVN Hall of Fame and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee. Braun is the son of Lasse ...more

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Aldo age 59 Aldo is a comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter.

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Carmelo Bene Died at 65 (1937-2002) Carmelo Bene was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema.

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Roberto Benigni age 65 Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He co-wrote, directed and acted in the 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful, which ...more

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Ettore Petrolini Died at 52 (1884-1936) Ettore Petrolini is a screenwriter and actor.

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Nick Mancuso age 69 Nicodemo Antonio Massimo "Nick" Mancuso is a Canadian cinema and stage actor.

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Giovanna Gagliardo age 74 Giovanna Gagliardo is an actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Rocco Siffredi age 53 Rocco Siffredi is the stage name of an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer of pornographic movies who is known for his rough sex scenes. As of October 2011, he has starred in more ...more

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Eleonora Giorgi age 64 Eleonora Giorgi is an Italian actress, screenwriter and film director.

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Ennio Flaiano Died at 62 (1910-1972) Ennio Flaiano, was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian ...more

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Marcello Fois age 58 Marcello Fois is a screenwriter and an author.

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Alberto Sordi Died at 83 (1920-2003) Alberto Sordi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films.

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Joe D'Amato Died at 63 (1936-1999) Joe D'Amato was an Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato ...more

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Filippo Timi age 44 Filippo Timi is an Italian actor and writer. He dubbed Tom Hardy's voice in the Italian release of The Dark Knight Rises.

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Alberto Lattuada Died at 91 (1914-2005) Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.

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Mario Monicelli Died at 95 (1915-2010) Mario Monicelli was a six times-Oscar nominated Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana.

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Cesare Zavattini Died at 87 (1902-1989) Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.

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Gianfranco Baldanello age 89 Gianfranco Baldanello is an Italian film director, screenwriter and second unit director. He sometimes used the alias Frank G. Carroll. Baldanello is the son of actors Emilio Baldanello and ...more

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Ermanno Olmi age 86 Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.

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Augusto Genina Died at 65 (1892-1957) Augusto Genina was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de ...more

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Flavio Mogherini Died at 72 (1922-1994) Flavio Mogherini was an Italian production designer, art director and film director. His career spanned from 1947 to 1994. His daughter is the Italian politician Federica Mogherini.

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Gabriele Muccino age 50 Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films.

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Aldo Fabrizi Died at 85 (1905-1990) Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director.

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Vittorio Gassman Died at 78 (1922-2000) Vittorio Gassman, Knight Grand Cross, OMRI, popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor, as well as director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and ...more

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Vittorio De Sica Died at 73 (1901-1974) Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves were ...more

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Michael Chiarello age 56 Michael Chiarello is an American celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosts the cooking show, Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello, on the Food Network ...more

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Frank De Felitta age 96 Frank De Felitta is a film director, screenwriter and television producer.

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Deb Lacusta age 60 Deborah "Deb" Lacusta is an American television writer.