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February 17, 2021
Sandro Dori, actor playing supporting roles in about a hundred films, who achieved popularity with two films alongside Alberto Sordi, has died at the age of 82. The funeral took place today in the parish of San Giuseppe di Santa Marinella in Rome. Born in Ostiglia (Mantua) on 21 December 1938, Dori began his career in cinema in the first half of the 1960s, alternating his activity as a film actor with theater and dubbing. He made himself known to the general public in the role of Doctor Zucconi in Luigi Zampa's "Il medico della mutua" (1968), in which he plays one of the perfidious colleagues of Guido Tersilli (Sordi); the role was reprized in the sequel "Il prof. dott. Guido Tersilli primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue" (1969) by Luciano Salce.
Over the course of his career, Dori had the opportunity to work with numerous directors, including Dario Argento, Mario Monicelli, Steno, Carlo Vanzina, Pupi Avati, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica. Among the many films he starred in, Giuseppe Orlandini's "La virtù sdraiata" (1969) di Sidney Lumet (1969), "Fellini Satyricon" (1969) by Federico Fellini (1969), "Il trapianto" (1970) by Steno, "Brancaleone alle crociate" (1970) by Monicelli, "Lo chiameremo Andrea" (1972) by De Sica, "Il deserto dei Tartari" (1976) by Valerio Zurlini, "Sotto il sole della Toscana" (2003) by Audrey Wells, "La seconda notte di nozze" (2005) e "Il papà di Giovanna" (2008) e "Un ragazzo d'oro" (2014), the latter three by Pupi Avati. Dori had also acted in numerous black and white Rai dramas.
DORI, Sandro (Alberto Schiappadori)
Born: 12/21/1938, Ostiglia, Lombardy, Italy
Died: 2/15/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Sandro Dori's westerns - actor:
The Hills Run Red - 1966 (saloon barker)
And for a Roof a Sky Full of Stars – 1968 (the sideshow owner)
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