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- Luisi Pistilli's most notable stage successes were roles in "The Threepenny Opera", "St. Joan of the Stockyards" and a 1972 production, "Lulu". In 1991 he reprised his role in "Lulu" in the first professional collaboration with actress-singer Milva, his partner in previous plays as well as in a four-year offstage relationship. Pistilli's most memorable roles were in Francesco Rosi's Illustrious Corpses (1976), Lino Del Fra's Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977), Carlo Lizzani's Italo-Bulgarian co-production The Bandit (1969) and Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), in which he played priest Pablo Ramirez, the brother of Eli Wallach's character Tuco. He also worked frequently in TV, including the Mafia series La piovra (1984), directed by Luigi Perelli.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tzvetislav Samardjiev, [email protected]
- ChildrenDaniele PistilliCamilla Pistilli
- Although he played Tuco's older brother in 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', he was fourteen years younger than Eli Wallach.
- Was a prolific stage actor and director, considered one of Italy's finest interpreters of Bertolt Brecht.
- Pistilli committed suicide just before he was to appear in the final performance of Terence Rattigan's Tosca on April 21, 1996. The program was panned by critics and audiences and that might have contributed to Pistilli's state of mind. However, according to his suicide note, he had suffered deep despair after making bitter public comments regarding the recent end of a four-year off-stage relationship with singer and actress Milva. In his note he apologized to her for the spiteful statements released in the published interview. Taking a dosage of barbiturates, he hanged himself in his apartment at Via Mozart, Milan. He was 66 years of age. Following the celebration of a funeral mass at the Chiesetta di San Babila, his body was interred in the Cemetery of Cori Alto, near Latina, next to the remains of his mother and his son, Daniele, who predeceased him in 1989 at the age of 24.
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