Adolfo Celi
| Sign | Leo |
| Born | Jul 27, 1922 Messina, Italy |
| Died | Feb 19, 1986 Siena, Italy |
| Age | Died at 63 |
Adolfo Celi | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1946-1985 |
| Top Roles | Agostini Manetta, Battaglia, Inspector Rizzi, Largo, Giovanni de' Medici |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Action, Adventure, Romance |
| Top Topics | Period Piece, Spies, Book-Based |
| Top Collaborators | Paolo Stoppa, Terry-Thomas, Rex Harrison, Anthony Dawson |
| Shares birthday with | Kathleen Howard, Donald Crisp, Ross Alexander see more.. |
Adolfo Celi Overview:
Character actor, Adolfo Celi, was born on Jul 27, 1922 in Messina, Italy. Celi died at the age of 63 on Feb 19, 1986 in Siena, Italy .
MINI BIO:
Heftily-built, grey-haired, black-eyebrowed, Sicilian character actor, popular in international roles after playing Largo (the villain) in the James Bond film Thunderball in 1965. After a promising start in post-war Italian films, he went to South America in 1949, and worked in Argentina and Brazil as a director for the theatre, films, and TV. A French film made in Brazil brought him back to Europe and he worked busily there, mostly as conspirators of one kind or another. He was most occupied on TV from 1977, subsequently gaining a nationwide following in Britain for his performance in The Borgias. Died from a heart attack.
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Adolfo Celi Quotes:
[Addressing Pete Aron at the Ferrari factory]
Agostini Manetta: What means far more to me than anything else is: our good name! Our reputation represents desire for perfection of the highest quality. I gamble that reputation gladly, because I have *absolute* faith in every car that leaves this factory. But I will not risk it on a driver in whom I cannot have an equal faith. There are fewer than thirty men in the world qualified to drive Formula One; a mere half-dozen, perhaps, to win. At this moment, I am inclined to think you are not one of them.
Diabolik: [as he and the bad guy freefall from a plane that has suddenly exploded] I almost forgot. When I stumbled, I attached a magnetic capsule to your plane.
Ralph Valmont: Who cares? Pull the cord!
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