{{Short description|Italian actor and stage director (1945–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Mario Pupella | image = MarioPupella-nonfree.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth-date|10 April 1945}} | birth_place = Castelvetrano, Trapani, Italy | death_date = {{death-date and age|22 January 2023|10 April 1945}} | death_place = Palermo, Italy | years_active = | activity = }}
'''Mario Pupella''' (10 April 1945 – 22 January 2023) was an Italian actor and stage director.
==Biography== Born in Castelvetrano, Pupella made his professional debut on stage in a rendition of Luigi Pirandello's ''Henry IV''.<ref name="corr">{{cite news |last1=Redazione Spettacoli |title=Addio a Mario Pupella, attore di teatro e caratterista in molti film sulla mafia |url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/23_gennaio_22/morto-mario-pupella-racconto-sicilia-verga-pirandello-teatro-702b3a30-9a48-11ed-9e01-a2e995b3e2a5.shtml?refresh_ce |access-date=23 January 2023 |work=Corriere della Sera |date=22 January 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref> Mainly active on stage, he got his first film major role in 2002, in Roberta Torre's ''Angela''.<ref name="corr" /> He was also a stage director, and served as artistic director of several theaters in Palermo, namely Teatro Europa, Teatro Crystal and Teatro Sant'Eugenio.<ref name="rep">{{cite news |last1=Di Caro |first1=Mario |title=Morto l'attore Mario Pupella, diresse il teatro Crystal e il Sant'Eugenio |url=https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/01/22/news/mario_pupella_attore_morto_palermo-384611524/ |access-date=23 January 2023 |work=La Repubblica |date=22 January 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
He died on 22 January 2023, at the age of 77.<ref name="corr" /><ref name="rep" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Puglisi |first1=Roberto |title=Sigarette, amore e sorrisi: l'ultimo atto di Mario Pupella |url=https://livesicilia.it/sigarette-amore-e-sorrisi-lultimo-atto-di-mario-pupella/ |access-date=23 January 2023 |work=LiveSicilia |date=22 January 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
== Selected filmography == * ''Angela'' (2002) * ''I, the Other'' (2007) * ''I Viceré'' (2007) * ''The Sicilian Girl'' (2008) * ''La matassa'' (2009) * ''Salvo'' (2013) * ''At War with Love'' (2016) * ''Quel bravo ragazzo'' (2016) * ''Scappo a casa'' (2019) * ''Padrenostro'' (2020) *''School of Mafia'' (2021)
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|nm0700650}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pupella, Mario}} Category:1945 births Category:2023 deaths Category:People from Castelvetrano Category:Italian male film actors Category:Italian male stage actors Category:Italian male television actors Category:20th-century Italian male actors Category:Italian theatre directors