The actor was 84 years old. He died yesterday in Rome
La Stampa
September 7, 2021
Nino Castelnuovo, a charming and talented actor, famous above all for the historic TV drama ' The Betrothed ' of 1967, passed away at the age of 84 after a long period of illness (and poverty, as repeatedly denounced by his wife). in which he played Renzo Tramaglino. Born in Lecco, Castelunovo began working for television in 1957, the year in which he participated as a mime in Cino Tortorella's program Zurli 'the magician of Thursday. He then made his debut in the cinema in Un cursed imbroglio (1959) by Pietro Germi, and went on to interpret secondary roles as a young actor in numerous films, some of which also prominent such as Il gobbo (1960) by Carlo Lizzani and Rocco and his brothers(1960) by Luchino Visconti. The international occasion comes with Jacques Demy's French musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), a fully sung film, in which he plays the part of the protagonist alongside a young Catherine Deneuve.
The film obtained international acclaim from critics and audiences and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, but went almost unnoticed in Italy due to the idiosyncrasy of the Italian public towards musicals, even more so if subtitled. On the other hand, a few years later Castelnuovo became one of the most popular actors in Italy thanks to the role of Renzo Tramaglino in the television reduction of I promessi sposi , broadcast on the first Rai channel in 1967, directed by Sandro Bolchi.
His subsequent choices favored television, where he took part in numerous screenplays that followed his first great success; to remember Portrait of a Veiled Woman (1974), with Daria Nicolodi. In 1976 he suffered a serious family loss when his brother Pierantonio was beaten to death. He stars in one of the most award-winning films of all time, The English Patient (1996), as the enthusiastic Italian archaeologist D'Agostino. The public still remembers him for his long career as an athletic testimonial in the advertising of Olio Cuore, in which he was filmed in the act of jumping a fence. In 2013 Castelnuovo took on the role of the unscrupulous judge Savio, in the seriesThe three roses of Eva 2 a role she continued to play in the third season of the television series in 2015.
CASTELNUVO, Nino (Francesco Castelnuovo)
Born: 10/28/1936, Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Died: 9/6/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Nino Castelnuovo’s westerns:
The Reward – 1965 (Luis)
The Brute and the Beast – 1966 (Jason Scott Jr./Jonah/Junior)
The 5-Man Army – 1969 (Luis)
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