Born in the province of Frosinone and raised in Turin and Rome, Mastroianni made his film debut in 1939 at the age of 14, but did not seriously pursue acting until the 1950s, when he made his critical and commercial breakthrough in the caper comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (1959).

Marcello Mastroianni. Actor: La Dolce Vita. Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice.

Dec 15, 2024 · Marcello Mastroianni (1924–96) became the preeminent leading man in Italian cinema during the 1960s. An attractive man whose acting style projected a mood of casual affability, he achieved international fame as the screen symbol of the modern European.

Marcello Mastroianni. Actor: La Dolce Vita. Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice.

Marcello Mastroianni was an Italian film icon, who became one of the greatest international screen symbols of his time. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, life, acting career, achievements and timeline.

May 18, 2024 · The iconic Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) recalled that, when he was offered the chance to star in La Dolce Vita (1960), he asked the director — Federico Fellini — to see the...

Dec 30, 1996 · Husband and lover, actor and movie star, deft comedian and suavest delineator of atomic-age anomie–there was a Marcello for every sexual taste, every moral mood.

Dec 20, 1996 · Marcello Mastroianni, the witty, affable and darkly handsome Italian actor who sprang to international consciousness in Federico Fellini's 1960 classic "La Dolce Vita," died...

Dec 19, 1996 · One of the biggest international film stars to emerge from Italy in the 1960s, Marcello Mastroianni rose to worldwide prominence in films directed by the modern masters of European cinema and opposite its most radiant actresses.

Born one hundred years ago, Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni appeared in over 170 films, from comedies to Modernist masterpieces. Just how much he meant to the cinema is attested to in these films, where Mastroianni defines the screen actor’s art and our joy in it.