Ernesto Colli

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Ernesto Colli
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Colli in Deadly Inheritance (1968)
Born(1940-05-16)16 May 1940
Died19 November 1982(1982-11-19) (aged 42)

Ernesto Colli (16 May 1940 – 19 November 1982) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

Life and career

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Born in Biella, Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films.[1][2] After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen drama school in Rome.[2]

A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film The Devil in Love.[1] He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, even if usually in character roles.[1] He was a character actor who acted actively especially during the seventies.

Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always recited customized roles for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird man; probably the films where he had a most significant part were The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue[3] and Deadly Inheritance.

The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!, shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the face and the physique excavated by disease.

Selected filmography

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1960s

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1970s

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1980s

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  • Porca vacca (1982) - (final film role)

References

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