Alberto Sordi
Acting
Biography
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 25 February 2003) 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.
Born: June 15, 1920
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Una parigina a Roma
Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
Position Wanted
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
The Great War
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
A Difficult Life
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
An Average Little Man
A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.
The Marquis of Grillo
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
I Vitelloni
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Everybody Go Home!
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Ospite
as Armando Andreoli
as Bartoloni
as Gaetano
as Emilio Garrone
as Sabino
as Marchese Arquati
as Arpagone
as Don Abbondio
as Elvio Battistini
as Pietro Marchetti
as Count Giangiacomo Pigna Corelli in Selci
as Roberto Razzi
as Friar Cipolla
as Annibale Salvemini
as Pietro Marchetti
as Armando Ferretti
as Fabio
as Onofrio Del Grillo
as Enrico Menotti
as Don Argante
as Dr. De Benedetti
as Remo Proietti (episodio "Le vacanze intelligenti")
as Antonio Berti
as il principe/il figlio/l'attore
as Giovanni Vivaldi
as Mons. Ascanio La Costa (episodio L'Ascensore)
as Giacinto Colonna
as Nando Moriconi
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Pietro Chiocca
as Mimmo Adami
as Father Salvatore Anastasia
as Alfredo Rossi
as Peppino
as Self - Interviewé (uncredited)
as Amedeo
as Giuseppe Di Noi
as Giacinto / Antonio
as Benito Fornaciari / Libero Fornaciari
as Don Giuseppe Montanari
as Prof. Guido Tersilli
as The Friar
as Giovanni Macchiavelli
as Guido Tersilli
as Giuseppe Marossi
as Elio Ferocci (segment "Senso civico")
as Tullio Conforti
as Giovanni Lo Verso
as Giovanni ("Fata Marta")
as Dante
as Silvio, Errant Husband (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 2")
as Fernando Boccetta (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
as Guglielmo Bertone
as Count Emilio Ponticelli
as Armando Tucci (segment "Latin Lover")
as Vincenzo Berruti / Marsicano / Don Giuseppe / Conte Momi Crosara
as The husband (segments "L'uccellino", "L'automobile") / Sartoletti (segment "Eritrea") / Marco (segments "I miei cari", "Luciana")
as Maestro Mombelli
as Giovanni Alberti
as Amedeo Ferretti
as Antonio Badalamenti
as Dante Lombardozzi
as Silvio Magnozzi
as Capt. Blasi
as Merchant of children
as Alberto Franzetti
as Otello Celletti
as Lt. Alberto Innocenzi
as Gastone
as Alberto Nardi
as Oreste Jacovacci
as Totonno
as Anselmo Pandolfini
as Agostino
as Alberto Moretti
as Nando
as Alberto
as L'ambulante che vende ombrelli (uncredited)
as Antonio Zampi
as Aristarco Battistini
as Bepi
as Alberto Carboni
as Peppino
as Cencio
as Xavier Laurentis
as Alberto
as Père Galli
as Corrado
as Alberto Boccetti
as Sergio Battistini
as Alfonso Pasti
as Mario, bus driver
as Rodolfo Nardi
as Nero
as Guardia Alberto Randolfi
as Paolo Anselmi
as Dr. Alberto Tanzi
as Rodolfo Vanzino
as Ubaldo Impallato
as Giulio Parmitoni
as Gracco
as Alberto Menichetti
as Alberto Santi
as Romolo Proietti
as Rosario 'Sasà' Scimoni
as Alberto Ranieri
as Nando Moriconi
as Vergisson
as Alberto Lucetti
as Alberto Tadini
as Alberto Ruotolo
as Antonio
as Premoli
as Ivan Vassilievich Lomov
as Alberto
as Cesarino
as Nando Mericoni
as Gianrico
as Mario Pio al telefono
as Alberto
as Alberto
as Maestro elementare
as Avvocato Adolfo
as Fernando Rivoli, the White Sheik
as Alberto
as Donato
as Alberto
as Narrator (voice)
as Fernando
as Manuel Aguirre
as Il brigante Innamorato
as Doberti
as Renato
as Camillo Barbarotti
as Giulio
as Il capitano Popleton (uncredited)
as Un giocatore di biliardo
as Filippo Nardini
as il tenente Sordi
as Un giovane invitato al ballo
as Uno studente
as l'uomo nascosto sotto il costume del leone (uncredited)
as Comparsa soldato romano (uncredited)