Remo Remotti (16 November 1924 – 21 June 2015) was an Italian actor, playwright, artist and poet.
Life and career Born in Rome, Remotti lost his father at 12 years old. After graduating in Law, he moved to Peru, where he attended an art school and began painting. Following the bankruptcy of the taxi company he had founded in Peru, seven years later he returned to Italy where he married Maria Luisa Loy, the sister of the director and screenwriter Nanni Loy, and started an activity as a playwright, often also directing and acting his comedy plays. He was later requested by some theatrical companies for character roles, and in the late 1970s he began a proficuous film career as a character actor in films. A painter and a sculptor, some of his works are exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. He was also a composer of poems, usually sonnets in Roman dialect.
Selected filmography
A mosca cieca (1966) La prova generale (1968) Il gabbiano (1977) Morte di un operatore (1979) The Meadow (1979) La terrazza (1980) Henry Angst (1980) A Leap in the Dark (1980) - Thief Masoch (1980) - Grunwald The Lady of the Camellias (1981) Sweet Dreams (1981) - Sigmund Freud La festa perduta (1981) The Logic of Emotion (1982) Giocare d'azzardo (1982) Canto d'amore (1982) The Scarlet and the Black (1983) - Rabbi Leoni Occhei, occhei (1983) Where's Picone? (1984) Bianca (1984) - Siro Siri A Strange Passion (1984) - Peppo Liberté, Égalité, Choucroute (1985) Un foro nel parabrezza (1985) - Simic Juke box (1985) Inganni (1985) Otello (1986) - Brabantio Italian Night (1987) - Italo Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987) - Neapolitan Red Wood Pigeon (1989) - Alter ego of coach Nulla ci può fermare (1989) Lungo il fiume (1989) Affetti speciali (1989) - Venditore di patatine The Godfather Part III (1990) - Cardinal Sistine Stiamo attraversando un brutto periodo (1990) Con i piedi per aria (1990) To Want to Fly (1991) - The 'Child' Hudson Hawk (1991) - Guy on Donkey Ladri di futuro (1991) Derrick - Caprese in der Stadt (1991) - Caprese Miracolo italiano (1994) Il mondo alla rovescia (1995) Bits and Pieces (1996) Cuba Libre - Velocipedi ai tropici (1997) - Poet Simpatici & antipatici (1998) - Augusto Tobia al caffè (2000) - Colonnello Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001) - Stefano Quore (2002) It Can't Be All Our Fault (2003) - Butler Household Accounts (2003) - Magistrato anziano Andata e ritorno (2003) - Capo di Samuele Red Riding Hood (2003) - Francesco Scura Agata and the Storm (2004) - Generoso Rambone Ladri di barzellette (2004) Sara May (2004) - Usciere Cinecittà La bambina dalle mani sporche (2005) - Notaio Nemici per la pelle (2006) - Satana Shooting Silvio (2006) Segretario particolare (2007) - Amico di Mattia Nero bifamiliare (2007) - Colonnello Piacentini La canarina assassinata (2008) - Director Il prossimo tuo (2008) - Bit part (uncredited) La strategia degli affetti (2009) - Goffredo Palestrina - Prince of Music (2009) - Filippo Neri Nine (2009) - Cardinal Letters to Juliet (2010) - Farm House Lorenzo Eat Pray Love (2010) - Older Soccer Fan The Santa Claus Gang (2010) - Barbone Escort in Love (2011) - Poeta Buona giornata (2012) - Vecchio funerale Viva l'Italia (2012) - Annibale Out of the Blue (2013) - Guardone Ganja Fiction (2013) - Himself Professione Remotti (2016) - Himself (final film role)
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