Gastone Moschin

Gastone Moschin (8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Career
Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began his career in the 1950s as a theatre actor, first with the Teatro Stabile in Genoa and then with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Milan. In the same period Moschin also began to appear in feature films and on television.
In his film career Moschin alternated character roles and, more rarely, leading roles, such as in Seven Times Seven and Caliber 9. His most famous role is that of Rambaldo Melandri in the Amici miei film series (1975–1985). He won two Nastro d'Argento Awards for Best Supporting Actor, in 1967 for Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians and in 1986 for Nanni Loy's Amici miei – Atto III. Moschin is also well known for the role of Don Fanucci in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II.
Death
Gastone Moschin was married to Marzia Ubaldi since 1970, he had one daughter (Emanuela Moschin). He died in hospital on 4 September 2017 from cardiomyopathy. He was 88.
Filmography
Cinema
The Rival (1956) as Marco Riccitelli
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1960) as Alfredo - Bookseller
The Joy of Living (1961) as Priest
Tiro al piccione (1962) as Pasquini
Roaring Years (1962) as Carmine Passante
L'amore difficile (1962) as Marshal (segment "Il serpente")
The Reunion (1963) as Toro
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (1963) as Counselor Garzone
Il Successo (1963) as the brother in law of Giulio
La visita (1963) as Renato Gusso
Amore in quattro dimensioni (1964) as the husband (segment "Amore e vita")
Extraconiugale (1964) as Luigi (episode "La doccia")
100 Horsemen (1964) as Frate Carmelo
Gentlemen of the Night (1964) as Doge Pietro Gradenigo
Berlin, Appointment for the Spies (1965) as Boris
Seven Golden Men (1965) as Adolf (the German)
Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1965) as Adolf
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) as Osvaldo Bisigato
Due killers in fuga (1966)
Seasons of Our Love (1966) as Carlo Di Giusti aka Tancredi
Sex Quartet (1966) as Dr. Aldini (segment "Fata Armenia")
Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend (1966)
Top Crack (1966) as Karl
The Oldest Profession (1967) as Flavius (segment "Nuits romaines, Les")
L'amore attraverso i secoli (1967) as Jo Laguerre
Her Harem (1967) as Gianni
Face to Face (1967) as Man at Puerto del Fuego (uncredited)
Seven Times Seven (1968) as Benjamin Burton
Italian Secret Service (1968) as lawyer Ramirez
La notte è fatta per... rubare (1968)
Sissignore (1968) as the lawyer
La moglie giapponese (1968)
Where Are You Going All Naked?' (1969) as President
The Specialist (1969) as Sheriff
The Conformist (1970) as Manganiello
Mr. Superinvisible (1970) as Kokofrecovitch
The Weekend Murders (1970) as Sgt. Aloisius Thorpe
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970) as Mariotti the Chief of Policea
Mio padre Monsignore (1971) as Don Alvaro
Roma Bene (1971) as the monsignor
Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971) as Metello Bottazzi
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) as Giambattista Ranteghin
The Sicilian Checkmate (1972) as Colonnesi, defense attorney
Caliber 9 (1972) as Ugo Piazza
Causa di divozio (1972) as Lawyer
Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (1972) as Don Camillo
Incensurato provata disonestà carriera assicurata cercasi (1972) as Giuseppe Zaccherin
Fiorina la vacca (1972) as Ruzante
The Assassination of Matteotti (1973) as Filippo Turati
The Sensual Man (1973) as Uncle Edmondo
Emergency Squad (1974) as Marsigliese
Commissariato di notturna (1974) as Commissario Emiliano Borghini
L'erotomane (1974) as Rodolfo Persichetti
The Godfather Part II (1974) as Don Fanucci
E cominciò il viaggio nella vertigine (1974) as Beilin
Amici miei (1975) as Rambaldo Melandri
A Woman at Her Window (1976) as Primoukis
Wifemistress (1977) as Vincenzo
Fearless (1978) as Karl Koper
Lion of the Desert (1980) as Major Tomelli
Si salvi chi vuole (1980)
La compagna di viaggio (1980) as the baron
Carlotta (1981) as Charlie
Amici miei atto II (1982) as Rambaldo Melandri
A Joke of Destiny (1983)
Senza un attimo di respiro (1983) as Minister of the Interiors
Amici miei – Atto III (1985) as Rambaldo Melandri
A Thorn in the Heart (1986) as Dottor Trigona
Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo (1987) as Oreste Raccà
Com'è dura l'avventura (1988) as Formigoni ("Vuò cumprà")
Donne con le gonne (1991)
Non chiamarmi Omar (1992) as Dr. Omar Tavoni
We Free Kings (1996) as Don Gregorio
La grande quercia (1997)
Porzûs (1997) as old Geko
Television
Racconti garibaldini (1960)
Operazione Vega (1962) as Sim
Il mulino del Po (1963) as Fratognone
I Miserabili (1964) as Jean Valjean
Una coccarda per il re (1970) as Jacques Necker
Le colonne della società (1972) as Karsten Bernick
La morte di Danton (1972) as Danton
Rosso veneziano (1976) as Marco Partibon
Le uova fatali (1977) as Professor Pérsikov
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977, uncredited) as Don Fanucci
I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979) as the Judge
L'Andreana (1982) as Mondo
Melodramma (1984) as Aldo Scotti
Nel gorgo del peccato (1987) as Judge Ottavio Pica (1987)
Les Ritals (1991) as Louvi
L'avvocato delle donne (1996, episode "Laura") as Avv. Salvi
Don Matteo (1999) as Bishop
Sei forte Maestro (2000) as Vittorio Ricci
Sei forte, Maestro 2 (2000) as Vittorio Ricci
Don Matteo (2000) as Bishop
Don Matteo 2'' (2001) as Bishop (final appearance)
References
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1929 births
2017 deaths
People from the Province of Verona
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni
Nastro d'Argento winners
20th-century Italian male actors
Deaths from cardiomyopathy