Silvio Noto

{{Short description|Italian TV and radio presenter, actor and voice actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Silvio Noto | image = Silvio Noto 60.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|06|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Bari, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|10|24|1925|06|13|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Actor | spouse = }} '''Silvio Noto''' (25 December 1926 – 24 October 2000) was an Italian TV and radio presenter, actor and voice actor.

Born in Bari, graduated in law, Noto became first known as radio-host after the first World War.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri.|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}</ref><ref name=Noto>{{cite news|last=Aldo Grasso|title=Addio a Silvio Noto|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2000/ottobre/25/Addio_Silvio_Noto_pioniere_dei_co_0_001025472.shtml|accessdate=5 October 2013|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=25 October 2000}}</ref> He became popular as the host of several successful RAI television programs, starting from ''Casa serena'' (1950).<ref name="bio"/><ref name="Noto"/> He touched the peak of his fame in the second half of the 1950s, when he hosted together with Enzo Tortora the shows ''Primo applauso'', ''Telematch'' and ''Voci e volti della fortuna''.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="Noto"/>

Noto also appeared in a dozen films, mostly in supporting roles.<ref name="bio"/> On the small screen he was among the interpreters of the series ''E le stelle stanno a guardare''.<ref name="bio"/>

==Biography== He was born in Bari on June 12, 1925.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mymovies.it/persone/silvio-noto/21276/|title=Silvio Noto|website=MYmovies.it}}</ref> He lived for several years in Castrofilippo (AG), where his father worked as a pharmacist until 1938, when the whole family returned to Bari. A law student and pupil of Aldo Moro at the University of Bari, he began working as a radio actor after the war. He died in Rome on October 23, 2000, at the age of 75.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Noto, Silvio}} Category:1926 births Category:Italian male film actors Category:Italian male television actors Category:Italian television presenters Category:2000 deaths Category:Italian radio presenters Category:Male actors from Bari Category:Italian male voice actors Category:20th-century Italian male actors