The premier Italian actor of the postwar era, Marcello Mastroianni was among the most popular international... (Learn more)
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Marcello Mastroianni’s Milestones
| Joined Centro Universitario Teatrale with Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina | |
| Left school and held down various jobs, including that of carpenter | |
| Worked as accountant after WWII in Rome branch of Eagle-Lion films | |
| Worked as draftsman in Rome | |
| 1929 | Family moved to Turin |
| 1933 | Family moved to Rome |
| 1938 - 1942 | Appeared as extra in four films, the first of which was "Marionette" (1938) |
| 1943 | Moved to Florence; then fled to Venice to avoid deportation to Germany |
| 1944 | Returned to Rome after liberation |
| 1947 | Returned to films with bit part as a rioter in "I Miserabili" (made up of two separate features) |
| 1948 | Made stage debut in "Angelica"; was seen by Emilio Amendola, an associate of film, theater and opera director Luchino Visconti, and was subsequently invited to join Visconti's Quirino theater company |
| 1955 | First film in which he and Sophia Loren played leading roles opposite each other, "Peccato che sia una canaglia/Too Bad She's Bad", directed by Alessandro Blasetti |
| 1959 | First collaboration with filmmaker and screenwriter Federico Fellini, "La Dolce Vita" |
| 1963 | Made first of four films with director Vittorio DeSica (with whom he had acted in a number of films in the 1950s), "Ieri, Oggi, Domani/Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", co-starring Sophia Loren |
| 1964 | Made first major appearance on US TV on the special, "Sophia Loren in Rome" |
| 1966 | Formed independent film production company, Master Films |
| 1966 | Made a one-time venture into the realm of the US TV-movie, "The Poppy Is Also a Flower", an all-star telefilm about the evils of drug trafficking and abuse; film was also released theatrically that year |
| 1969 | Appeared as himself in the US TV documentary special, "Fellini: A Director's Notebook" |
| 1974 | Last collaboration with Vittorio De Sica came when both appeared in the Ettore Scola film, "We All Loved Each Other So Much" |
| 1978 | Acted on Italian TV in "Le mani sporchi", directed by Elio Petri |
| 1984 | First appeared in a US film: a brief cameo as himself in footage shot at the Cannes Film Festival and used in the low-budget film, "The Last Horror Film" |
| 1987 | Last film in which he was directed by Federico Fellini, "Intervista" |
| 1992 | First US Film, "Used People" |
| 1996 | Last performance was touring Italy in the production of "The Last Moons" |
| 1997 | Last feature, Manoel de Oliveira's "Journey to the Beginning of the World" |
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