Luigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards. Born in Grosseto, Pistilli studied acting at Milan's Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1955. He never completely severed his ties with the theater and often returned to appear in plays directed by Giorgio Strehler.

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  • Luigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards. Born in Grosseto, Pistilli studied acting at Milan's Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1955. He never completely severed his ties with the theater and often returned to appear in plays directed by Giorgio Strehler. Pistilli made his feature film debut with an uncredited role in Dark Passage (1947). He appeared in many spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (as the priest brother of Eli Wallach's character Tuco) and in For a Few Dollars More (1965) as the cunning second-in-command Groggy (his first credited film role). He played the murderous Alberto in the Mario Bava giallo Twitch of the Death Nerve in 1971. He had a regular role on the popular Italian television Mafia drama The Octopus. In 1972 he appeared in the giallo film Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key playing an alcoholic. Pistilli committed suicide in his Milan home just before he was to appear in the final performance of Terrence Rattigan's Tosca on April 21, 1996. The show had been harshly panned by critics and audiences and this apparently threw Pistilli into a deep depression. According to his suicide note, Pistilli had suffered even deeper despair after making some bitter public comments regarding the recent termination of a four-year off-stage relationship with singer/actress Milva.
  • Luigi Pistilli war ein italienischer Schauspieler.
  • Luigi Pistilli était un acteur italien qui a joué dans les westerns spaghetti de Sergio Leone. Il a également participé à des séries télévisées et des pièces de théâtre.
  • Nato a Grosseto, Pistilli studiò recitazione al Piccolo Teatro di Milano, diplomandosi nel 1955. Non romperà mai i legami con il teatro, e spesso tornerà ad apparire in opere dirette da Giorgio Strehler. Pistilli fece il suo debutto nel cinema con un ruolo non accreditatogli nel film La fuga. Successivamente apparì in diversi spaghetti-western come Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (dove interpreta il frate francescano fratello di Tuco) e Per qualche dollaro in più impersonando il braccio destro dell'Indio, Groggy. Ha interpretato inoltre l'assassino Alberto nel film di Mario Bava Reazione a catena ed ebbe un ruolo importante nella popolare serie televisiva italiana La Piovra 5. Interpretò inoltre un alcolizzato nel film di Sergio Martino Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave. È stato anche un doppiatore, prestando la voce ad attori come Michael Gough in Batman, Noble Willingham (Gen. Taylor) in Good Morning, Vietnam, Richard Libertini (Barbaspina) in Popeye - Braccio di ferro e a Tsutomu Yamazaki (Nobukado Takeda) in Kagemusha - L'ombra del guerriero. Pistilli morì suicida impiccandosi nella sua casa di Milano appena prima di apparire nell'ultima rappresentazione in programma dell'opera di Terence Rattigan Tosca ovvero prima dell' alba il 21 aprile del 1996. Lo spettacolo era stato duramente stroncato dai critici ed aveva avuto uno scarso successo, causando probabilmente a Pistilli una grave forma di depressione. Secondo i suoi appunti, Pistilli soffrì sempre di più disperandosi per aver fatto alcuni tristi commenti riguardo la sua relazione finita con la cantante e attrice Milva.
  • Luigi Pistilli was een Italiaans acteur zowel op toneel als in films speelde. Hij begon zijn carrière karakteracteur maar in de jaren '60 ging hij steeds vaker in B-films spelen. Zo speelde hij de rol van slechterik in ruim 40 spaghettiwesterns. Hij was o. a te zien in For a Few Dollars More en The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hij pleegde in 1996 zelfmoord.
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  • Luigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards. Born in Grosseto, Pistilli studied acting at Milan's Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1955. He never completely severed his ties with the theater and often returned to appear in plays directed by Giorgio Strehler.
  • Luigi Pistilli war ein italienischer Schauspieler.
  • Luigi Pistilli était un acteur italien qui a joué dans les westerns spaghetti de Sergio Leone. Il a également participé à des séries télévisées et des pièces de théâtre.
  • Nato a Grosseto, Pistilli studiò recitazione al Piccolo Teatro di Milano, diplomandosi nel 1955. Non romperà mai i legami con il teatro, e spesso tornerà ad apparire in opere dirette da Giorgio Strehler. Pistilli fece il suo debutto nel cinema con un ruolo non accreditatogli nel film La fuga.
  • Luigi Pistilli was een Italiaans acteur zowel op toneel als in films speelde. Hij begon zijn carrière karakteracteur maar in de jaren '60 ging hij steeds vaker in B-films spelen. Zo speelde hij de rol van slechterik in ruim 40 spaghettiwesterns. Hij was o. a te zien in For a Few Dollars More en The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hij pleegde in 1996 zelfmoord.
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