Francesco Nuti died in Rome this morning. He was 68 years old and had been ill for some time. This was announced by his daughter Ginevra along with family members who sincerely thank the health workers and everyone who treated the actor over a long period of his illness, especially the staff at Villa Verde in Rome. We read that in a note. The date and place of the funeral will be announced in the next few hours.
The family of the Tuscan actor and director, the statement continues, “ask that you respect the moment of great pain and for this reason they do not intend to make any statements”.
Nuti lived in the Villa Verde nursing home for a few years, where he died today.
“It will be for you”, the tribute of Francesco Nuti’s daughter
Tuscan, born May 17, 1955 in Prato, Nuti performed as an amateur actor as a student until 1978, also wrote the lyrics and immediately revealed his natural comic talent. At the end of the ’70s he was discovered by Alessandro Benvenuti and Athina Cenci, a couple already active in cabaret under the name of Giancattivi, with whom Francesco Nuti joined and who, thanks to television broadcasts such as B. experienced a first phase of success as well as non stop and black out. In 1981 the trio made their cinema debut with AdOvest di Paperino (signed by Benvenuti), in which part of their repertoire is revived. The following year, Nuti decides to part with his companions and plays three happy titles directed by Maurizio Ponzi that become important collections: “Madonna, what is silence tonight” (1982) to “I am happy” (1983 ) halfway through “Io” “Chiara e lo Scuro” (1983), created as a tasty Tuscan parody of “Lo spaccone” starring Paul Newman, will bring him great fame and almost become a cult film that will enshrine him with his role forever as a great actor joins von billiards in love.
From 1985 he decided to direct himself: Casablanca, Casablanca (1985), his directorial debut, is a polite nod to the legendary Bogart-Curtiz film and actually borrows characters from Me, Clare and the Darkness. Nuti then alternated stories steeped in bizarre romance (“Tutta guilt del paradiso” in 1985, “Stregati” the following year) with bizarre fairy tales with bittersweet smacks, from “Caruso Pascoski di padre Polenm” (1988) to “Women with skirts”. (1991) to Willi Signori and I come from afar (1989). He then remains involved in the long, difficult production of OcchioPinocchio (1995), an expensive film with big ambitions but which will have very little success. To recover in 1998, with “Il Signor Quindicipalle” he tries to return to his most beloved characters and manages to win back his audience, at least partially.
In 1999 “I love Andrea”, a tender and funny comedy starring Francesca Neri, and in 2000 “Caruso, zero in behavior”. Since then, depression and alcohol have increasingly won over talent. His first hospitalization dates back to 2003, he calls the fire brigade himself because he feels ill; They take him to the hospital after entering the house. The last years full of depressions, healings and suicide announcements follow. Then, in September 2006, he was hospitalized in the Polyclinic of Rome due to a cranial hematoma following an unexplained domestic accident. However, in November he comes out of his coma and in 2009 we start talking about two screenplays he has written and a book: Collected Poems. In 2010 the Rome Film Festival presented the documentary “Francesco Nuti… And I come from afar” by Mario Canale, presented as a special event at the end of the festival. Nuti, who lost her voice after her accident at home four years ago and was in a wheelchair, was absent from the screening. In November of the same year, the first television appearance followed after a long absence. The actor and director stars in Raidue’s Your Facts. In 2011, Nuti talks about himself in the diary “I’m a good boy” (Rizzoli), with the actor’s autograph on the cover: “Ciao Francesco Nuti”. In 2016, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and another devastating fall from the stairs of his home in Narnali, a hamlet of Prato.
THE MEMORY OF CARLO CONTI
“Francesco was a great man who needs no introduction: he wrote the history of Italian comedy, for us who came later, with Benigni, Poli and the Giancattivi, he was a point of reference.” Carlo Conti recalls in a voice broken by emotion ANSA’s Francesco Nuti, who died at the age of 68 after a long illness. “With Pieraccioni and Panariello,” Conti underlines, “we have always considered him a fixed point for entertainment, cinema, television, for the years of Non Stop, Smorfia, Verdone, Troisi, a generation of phenomena. Not to mention cinema.” Adventure that marked important steps for comedy. Then a great friendship developed, which often saw us together. The very long ordeal she has endured leaves us speechless, my hugs go to Geneva in particular.” the daughter of the actor and director who stood by him to the end. After the domestic accident and skull hematoma in 2006, which left him in a coma for several months,
Then, in 2016, Nuti suffered a brain hemorrhage. On May 11, 2014, Conti, together with Masini, Panariello and Pieraccioni, organized “Happy Birthday Francesco Nuti”, a special show at the Mandela Forum, in the presence of the actor and director himself, who a few days later turned 59: “I think it was his last public appearance,” emphasizes the conductor today, “with incredible strength he stood up in front of seven thousand people while Ginevra sang “It will be for you” (the song Nuti brought with him). Sanremo in 1988, d. Red.) It was a crazy moment, we were all moved.” It is still too early to talk about gifts: “At this moment,” Conti concludes, “we have to shut ourselves up in silence and remember what he left us. A hug to Geneva.”
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