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Jun 30, 1927 Parma, Emilia Romagna, Italy 97 years old
film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer and actor
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About Mario Lanfranchi
- Mario Lanfranchi (born 30 June 1927) is an Italian film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector and actor.Lanfranchi was born in Parma.
- After receiving a degree at the Drama Academy (Accademia dei Filodrammatici) of Milan in the early 1950s, he was hired by Sergio Pugliese at RAI, at the onset of Italian television.
- He was the first to bring opera to the small screen, in 1956, with Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini, which introduced to a wide public Anna Moffo, at that time an unknown American soprano, who became his wife for 17 years.
- In 1967 he began his career as a film director with the western movie Sentenza di morte (Sentence of Death).
- He currently lives in a 16th-century villa in Santa Maria del Piano outside Parma.
