{{short description|Italian film, stage and television actor (born 1952)}} {{Infobox person | name = Sandro Ghiani | image = Sandro Ghiani.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1952|8|12}} | birth_place = Carbonia, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actor }} '''Sandro Ghiani''' ({{IPA|it|ˈɡjaːni}};<ref>{{cite book|first=Luciano|last=Canepari|author-link=Luciano Canepari|chapter-url=http://www.dipionline.it/dizionario/ricerca?lemma=Ghiani|chapter=Ghiani|title=Il DiPI: dizionario di pronuncia italiana|language=it|location=Bologna|publisher=Zanichelli|year=2009|isbn=978-88-08-10511-0}}</ref> born 12 August 1952) is an Italian film, stage and television actor.
== Life and career == Born in Carbonia, Sardinia, the son of a postal clerk, Ghiani studied in a seminary, the Institute of Don Orione in Tortona in Piedmont, where, with the first performances at amateur level, he discovered his passion for acting.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|editor-first=Enrico|editor-last=Lancia|editor-first2=Roberto|editor-last2=Poppi|title=Gli attori: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|series=Dizionario del cinema italiano|language=it|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese|year=2003|isbn=88-8440-269-7}}</ref> He then moved to Rome, to pursue a career as a professional actor.<ref name=bio/> Ghiani was mostly active in comedic character roles, often characterized by a strong Sardinian diction.<ref name=bio/> In 2009 Ghiani debuted as a writer with the novel ''L'angelo della porta accanto'', which he wrote together with Susanna Trossero.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dicono di noi: L'angelo della porta accanto di Sandro Ghiani e Susanna Trossero|url=http://blog.graphe.it/2009/11/20/dicono-di-noi-langelo-della-porta-accanto-di-sandro-ghiani-e-susanna-trossero|access-date=22 February 2015|work=Graphomania|date=20 November 2009}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid'' (1977) * ''Velvet Hands'' (1979) * ''Sugar, Honey and Pepper'' (1980) * ''Fun Is Beautiful'' (1980) * ''Passion of Love'' (1981) * ''Asso'' (1981) * ''Fracchia la belva umana'' (1981) * ''Spaghetti House'' (1982) * ''An Ideal Adventure'' (1982) * ''Don't Play with Tigers'' (1982) * ''A Boy and a Girl'' (1983) * ''Chewingum'' (1984) * ''Madman at War'' (1985) * ''Soldati - 365 all'alba'' (1987) * ''Tre colonne in cronaca'' (1990) * ''Vacanze di Natale '91'' (1991) * ''Cain vs. Cain'' (1993) * ''Le nuove comiche'' (1994) * ''Non lasciamoci più'' (1999) * ''Zora the Vampire'' (2000) * ''Bartali: The Iron Man'' (2006) * Oggi sposi
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghiani, Sandro}} Category:1952 births Category:People from the Province of South Sardinia Category:Italian male stage actors Category:Italian male film actors Category:Italian male television actors Category:Living people