Giampiero Albertini

Giampiero Albertini
File:Giampiero Albertini.jpg
Born	(1927-12-20)20 December 1927 Muggiò, Italy
Died	Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor

Giampiero Albertini (20 December 1927 – 14 May 1991) was an Italian actor, voice actor and TV personality.

Born in Muggiò, Albertini started his career as stage actor at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, under the guidance of Giorgio Strehler. In 1962, he made his film debut with Dino Risi's La marcia su Roma, and later worked with, among others, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Rosi, Gillo Pontecorvo, Nanni Loy. Albertini also was active in poliziotteschi and giallo films, in which he was sometimes credited as Al Albert.

As voice actor, he was best known as the official Italian dubbing voice of Peter Falk in Columbo.

He died at 64 in Monte Mario, in Rome, of a heart attack.

Selected filmography

• March on Rome (1962)
• La vita agra (1964)
• Thrilling (1965)
• Seven Golden Men (1965)
• Made in Italy (1965)
• Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1966)
• Tiffany Memorandum (1967)
• The Million Dollar Countdown (1968)
• Italian Secret Service (1968)
• A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1968)
• The Black Sheep (1968)
• Commandos (1968)
• Days of Fire (1968)
• Burn! (1969)
• Many Wars Ago (1970)
• Return of Sabata (1971)
• The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971)
• The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
• Seven Hours of Violence (1973)
• Mark of the Cop (1975)
• Zorro (1975)
• A Matter of Time (1976)
• Mark Strikes Again (1976)
• The Last Round (1976)
• Rome Armed to the Teeth (1976)
• Le Gang (1977)
• Dove volano i corvi d'argento (1977)
• Return of the 38 Gang (1977)
• Suggestionata (1978)
• The Life of Verdi (1982)
• The Betrothed (1989)

External links

• Giampiero Albertini at the Internet Movie Database