Aroldo Tieri Explained

Aroldo Tieri
Birth Date:28 August 1917
Birth Place:Corigliano Calabro, province of Cosenza, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Occupation:Actor
Yearsactive:1939–1969

Aroldo Tieri (28 August 1917  - 28 December 2006) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969.

Life and career

Born in Corigliano Calabro, province of Cosenza, son of the journalist and playwright Vincenzo Tieri, Aroldo Tieri moved in Rome at 18 to study law at university, and in the meanwhile approached acting and enrolled the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.[1] Graduated in 1938, he almost immediately made his debut in theater and in film.[1] Soon Tieri became one of the most popular and appreciated young actors, with a predisposition to the comic genre.[1] In cinema Tieri specialized in roles on jealous, irascible, nervous boyfriends, and this characterization limited his career and caused his retirement from films in the late 1960s.[1] His versatility was revealed especially on stage and on television, that at the end of the 1950s gave him notoriety with a successful adaptation of the Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby and then as host of Canzonissima in 1960.[2] Companion for many years on the scene of the actress Giuliana Lojodice, later his wife, Tieri formed a stage company with her in 1965 and the couple was very active in multiple projects at theater, radio and TV.[1]

Selected filmography

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri.. Gremese Editore, 2003. 8884402697.
  2. News: Lutto nel mondo del teatro è morto l'attore Aroldo Tieri. 2 May 2013. La Repubblica. 29 December 2006.

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