Marcello Mastroianni
(born Sept. 28, 1924, Fontana Liri, Italy — died Dec. 19, 1996, Paris, France) Italian film actor. He made his film debut in 1947 and was a well-known actor in Italy by the mid-1950s. Darkly handsome, with a screen persona alternately winning and morose, he won international fame in films such as
Luchino Visconti's
White Nights (1957) and
Federico Fellini's
La dolce vita (1960). He acted in more than 100 movies, including
8 1/2 (1963),
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963),
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1975),
Dark Eyes (1987), and
Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997).
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