Eduardo De Filippo
- Category : Entertainment-Comedy
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Duality 1
Biography
Italian actor, a noted comedian and producer. The son of a famous Neapolitan actor, he absorbed the atmosphere of stage from early childhood and began appearing at age 13, joining the dialect company of Eduardo Scarpetta. In 1932, he founded a highly successful stage company, along with his brother Peppion and sister, Tina; and enjoyed great popularity as a comic actor, director and dramatist. Several of his more than 50 plays have been performed on the London and N.Y. stages and in theaters throughout the Western world. The family began a series of films in 1933 but separated after WW II. From 1940 he branched into film directing. Several of his films as director-actor-screenwriter were based on his own plays.
He made a third marriage in 1977. His daughter died in January 1960; his second wife died June 1961.
Died 10/31/1984, 10:50 PM, Rome.