Gianni Solaro

{{Short description|Italian film and television actor (1926–2006)}} {{Infobox person | name = Gianni Solaro | image = Gianni Solaro (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Solaro in ''I criminali della metropoli'' (1965) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|8|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|8|12|1926|8|11|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = Actor | years_active = | spouse = | awards = }}

'''Gianni Solaro''' (born '''Gianni Lorenzon''', 11 August 1926 – 12 August 2006) was an Italian film and television actor.

==Life and career== Born in Rome, Solaro was a character actor in the Italian film industry for about twenty years, between the late 1950s and the late 1970s.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli Attori Vol. 2|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}</ref> During his career he spanned any sort of role, alternating genre films and art films, and notably working with Mario Monicelli, Marco Bellocchio, Luigi Zampa, Mario Camerini, Francesco Maselli and Florestano Vancini.<ref name=bio/> He was sometimes credited '''John Sun'''.<ref name=bio/> His brother was the actor Livio Lorenzon.<ref>Steve Della Casa, Marco Giusti. ''Il grande libro di Ercole''. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Edizioni Sabinae, 2013. {{ISBN|9788898623051}}.</ref> Solaro died on 12 August 2006, one day after his 80th birthday.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gianni Solaro |url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=67784 |website=Aveleyman |access-date=5 November 2022 |archive-date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105131633/https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=67784 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gianni Solaro |url=https://www.cinelounge.org/Perso/31122/Gianni-Solaro |website=CinéLounge, l'Association Fifaliana |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref><ref>Peplum Paradise film historians</ref>

== Partial filmography== * ''Tough Guys'' (1960) * ''Erik the Conqueror'' (1961) * ''Queen of the Seas'' (1961) * ''The Triumph of Robin Hood'' (1962) * ''Redhead'' (1962) * ''Gladiator of Rome'' (1962) * ''The Thief of Damascus'' (1964) * ''The Two Gladiators'' (1964) * ''Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules'' (1964) * ''La vendetta di Spartacus'' (1964) * ''M.M.M. 83'' (1965) * ''I criminali della metropoli'' (1965) * ''Hercules the Avenger'' (1965) * ''Captain from Toledo'' (1965) * ''Arizona Colt'' (1966) * ''One Thousand Dollars on the Black'' (1966) * ''The Oldest Profession'' (1967) * ''All on the Red'' (1968) * ''Bootleggers'' (1969) * ''Scipio the African'' (1971) * ''Slap the Monster on Page One'' (1972) * ''The Assassination of Matteotti'' (1973) * ''We Want the Colonels'' (1973) * ''Rome: The Other Side of Violence'' (1976) - Laurenti * ''My Sister in Law'' (1976) - Magni - lawyer of Amorini * ''La clinica dell'amore'' (1976) - Angelo Bortolotti * ''Last Feelings'' (1978) - Hospital Doctor

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0812741}}

{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Solaro, Gianni}} Category:1926 births Category:2006 deaths Category:Italian male film actors Category:Italian male television actors Category:Male actors from Rome Category:Male Spaghetti Western actors