Giulio Brogi, an interpreter in the cinema, on TV and also a great theater actor, passed away today in Negrar (Verona). He was 83 years old, he was born in Verona on May 13, 1935. In his long career he has been directed by great Italian authors, from the Taviani brothers to Paolo Sorrentino, Cavani, Olmi and Bellocchio. The popularity came on television playing Aeneas in Franco Rossi’s historic Aeneid of ’71. On TV the audience saw him just yesterday evening in the episode of Commissioner Montalbano A diary of ’43 taken from the stories of Andrea Camilleri: he appears in the end of the episode in the role of Carlo Colussi, the author of the diary of the title, now aged he became a priest.

He was born in Verona on May 13, 1935. He began attending the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and the Stables of Genoa, Trieste and Turin in the early sixties, interpreting the classics directed by directors such as Strehler, Squarzina, Zeffirelli, Trionfo, Missiroli, Carriglio. In 2009 he won the Salvo Randone award.
The debut on the big screen arrived in 1967 with the subversives of the Taviani brothers who directed him also in San Michele he had a cock (1971). A career, the cinematographic one, which led him to work with the most important directors, from Liliana Cavani (Galileo) to Ermanno Olmi (The secret of the old forest), Bernardo Bertolucci (The spider’s strategy), Carlo Mazzacurati (The language of the saint), Angelopulos (Journey to Kythera), Daniele Luchetti (The bag holder), up to Paolo Sorrentino for whom he acted in the Great Beauty. Among the latest films Make Bellocchio’s beautiful dreams, Emanuele Caruso’s La terra buona. Giulio Brogi had starred in the Sky 1993 series and we will see him again in 1994, not yet aired, in the role of Muratori, friend of Stefano Accorsi’s father.