Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri (August 6, 1934 – July 22, 2006) was an Italian–Brazilian actor, lyricist, poet and playwright. He was a key participant in the Arena Theater of São Paulo, his most important work was "They Don't Wear Black Tie".
Biography He was born in Milan, 6 August 1934, to antifascist musicians. His parents, the maestro Edoardo Guarnieri and the Harpist Elsa Martineghi, decided to move to Brazil in 1936, finding a new home in Rio de Janeiro. In the early 1950s they moved to São Paulo.
A student leader since his teenage years, Guarnieri began to do amateur theater with Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha) and a group of students from São Paulo. In 1955 they created the "Paulista Student Theater" (Teatro Paulista do Estudante), with guidance from Ruggero Jacobbi. In the following year that theater group joined with The Arena Theater, founded and directed by José RenatoMorre o ator e dramaturgo Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (July, 2006).(In Portuguese)
Career Theater His first play was "They Don't Wear Black Tie" (Eles não usam black tie), first performed in 1958 in the Arena Theater Directed by José Renato, the cast had several young talents who had begun to attract attention, such as Guarnieri himself, Leila Abramo, Miriam Melhler, Flavio Migliaccio, Eugênio Kusnet, Francisco de Assis, Henrique César, Celeste Lima, Riva Nimtz, and Milton Gonçalves;
It was supposed to end the group project, since they were having financial problems, but it had immense success. The play, author and cast were given awards by the governor of São Paulo State, Jânio Quadros, and the Arena was saved from its financial trouble. Around the same time Guarnieri also starred in "O Grande Momento" by Director Roberto Santos, the beginning of the style of film in Brazil called the New Cinema "Cinema Novo".
The director Sandro Polloni asked for a play to be performed by his wife, Maria Della Costa, and her theater company. Guarnieri left Arena for a while to work on that project.
In 1959 Gimba debuted, his first work in italian theater, directed by Flávio Rangel. It was a pioneer in showcasing the reality of the Rio de Janeiro shantytowns (favelas), in the form of a musical, inspired by real life. The play toured through Europe, and performed in the Festival of Nations, in France.
In 1961 the play A Semente (The Seed) premiered, directed also by Flávio Rangel. The openly political play, outside the usual repertoire of the Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia (English: Brazilian Comedy Theater - TBC), showed communist militancy, criticizing both right-wing and left-wing politics. The play had trouble with censors, which dampened the spirits of the then "Burguois Temple of Paulista Theater", which made the play quickly leave circulation. In the same year Guarnieri also participated of two other Flávio Rangel plays: Almas Mortas (Dead Souls) of Gogol, and the first showing of A Escada (The ladder) by Jorge Andrade.
Television and Cinema
Around 1950 he began to participate also in television and cinema. He became one of Brazil's best and most popular actors.
Politics
He was Culture Secretary for the municipal government of São Paulo between 1984 and 1986, during the mayorship of Mario Covas.
He was a Communist and open about it.O mútiplo Gianfrancesco Guarnieri Estadão. (Agosto, 2014).
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1958 O Grande Momento 1965 The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga Writer1968 A Muralha Leonel Olinto TV Series1973-1974 Mulheres de Areia Tonho da Lua TV Series1977 O Jogo da Vida Perus 1978 As Três Mortes de Solano 1978 Diário da Província 1978 Curumim 1980 Gaijin: Roads to Freedom Enrico 1980 Asa Branca: Um Sonho Brasileiro Toninho 1981 They Don't Wear Black Tie Otávio Writer1983 A Próxima Vítima Guido Andreolli 1986 Por Incrível Que Pareça 1989 Que Rei Sou Eu? King Petrus II TV Series1980 Beijo 2348/72 Photographer 1990 Rainha da Sucata Irineu Saldanha TV Series1991 Mundo da Lua Vô Orlando TV Series1994 O Quatrilho Padre Giobbe 1995 A Próxima Vítima Eliseu Giardini TV Series1999 Contos de Lygia 2002-2003 Esperança Pellegrini TV Series2005-2006 Belíssima Peppe TV Series, (final appearance)
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