Adolfo Celi | |
Job | Actor |
Years active | 1946-1985 |
Top Roles | Agostini Manetta, Battaglia, Inspector Rizzi, Largo, Giovanni de' Medici |
Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Action, Adventure, Romance |
Top Topics | Period Piece, Spies, Book-Based |
Top Collaborators | Paolo Stoppa, Terry-Thomas, Rex Harrison, Anthony Dawson |
Shares birthday with | Kathleen Howard, Donald Crisp, Ross Alexander see more.. |
Adolfo Celi Overview:
Character actor, Adolfo Celi, was born on Jul 27, 1922 in Messina, Italy. Celi died at the age of 63 on Feb 19, 1986 in Siena, Italy .
MINI BIO:
Heftily-built, grey-haired, black-eyebrowed, Sicilian character actor, popular in international roles after playing Largo (the villain) in the James Bond film Thunderball in 1965. After a promising start in post-war Italian films, he went to South America in 1949, and worked in Argentina and Brazil as a director for the theatre, films, and TV. A French film made in Brazil brought him back to Europe and he worked busily there, mostly as conspirators of one kind or another. He was most occupied on TV from 1977, subsequently gaining a nationwide following in Britain for his performance in The Borgias. Died from a heart attack.
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Adolfo Celi Quotes:
Grande Concho: I swear I'll split the skin off his hide, lay him in the sun to dry, and see his stinking life drip away, very slowly.
Merle McGill: I guess it must be hard for you to understand, Inspector, a man like me and Cecil Fox.
Inspector Rizzi: Not hard at all.
Merle McGill: But how can I say it, Inspector... He was my first... man. Somehow you just never forget your first man.
Inspector Rizzi: I remember mine - vividly.
[Merle throws him a curious glance]
Inspector Rizzi: He also got away.
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