Alberto Sordi

Gender: Male
Born: 15th June 1920
Died: 25th February 2003
Nationality: Italy
Movies: I Vitelloni, The White Sheik, A Difficult Life, The Marquis of Grillo, I complessi, Il Boom, The Last Judgement, Il diavolo, I nuovi mostri, Mafioso, Everybody Go Home, The Great War, The Sign of Venus, Un borghese piccolo piccolo, Il Vedovo, Il Vigile, A Girl in Australia, Ladro lui, ladra lei, The Art of Getting Along, I nostri mariti, Be Sick... It's Free, Cameriera bella presenza offresi..., Lo scapolo, Polvere di stelle, Fortunella, Two Nights with Cleopatra, In Prison Awaiting Trial, The Scientific Cardplayer, Smoke Over London, A Farewell to Arms, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Un giorno in pretura, A Hero of Our Times, Carnival of Song, The Police Commissioner, Gastone, Bravissimo, Nell'anno del Signore, Crimen

Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (June 15, 1920 – February 25, 2003) was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films.

Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. In the meantime he studied to be an opera singer, a bass. It was his accent and voice that would later prove to be his trademark.

In a career that spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and light drama. His movie career began in the late 1930s with bit parts and secondary characters in wartime movies. After the war he began working as a dubber for the Italian versions of Laurel and Hardy shorts, voicing Oliver Hardy. Early roles included Fellini's The White Sheik in 1952, Fellini's I vitelloni (1953), a movie about young slackers, in which he plays a weak, effeminate immature loafer and a starring role in Lo scapolo (The Bachelor) playing a single man trying to find love. In 1959 he appeared in Monicelli's The

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