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Lino Ventura (of its complete name Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura ) born the July 14th 1919 with Parma in Italy, and deceased the October 22nd 1987 with Saint-Cloud, was a Acteur Italy N of Cinéma having made the essence of its career in France after a beginning of career of Lutte ur professional weight average (champion of Europe average weights of Lutte gréco-Roman in 1950)

Biography

Lino Ventura is the son of Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini. In 1927, it is seven years old when it leaves the Italy with his mother to join her father left to work like sales agent to Paris a few years before. By fidelity at its origins, it forever agree to take French nationality, as that was often suggested to him. Lino Ventura spoke French without any accent, having passed the essence of its life to France, and was expressed on the contrary in Italian with a point of French accent. It leaves the school quickly and starts to work as of the eight years age. He will apply various trades: groom, mechanic, agent sales and employee. It is the sport which will carry it. It becomes Lutte ur professional weight average under the name of Lino Borrini (which was later, in an erroneous way, regarded by some as its true name). He will be also all-in wrestler.

In 1942, it marries Odette Lecomte her young love of which it has four children: Mylene in 1946, Laurent in 1950, Linda in 1958 and Clelia in 1961. In 1950, he is champion of Europe average weights of Lutte gréco-Roman, then following an accident, a serious wound with the right leg during a combat against Henri Cogan (which will also become actor him), it is obliged to stop. Impassioned by its activity, he reconverts himself as an organizer of engagements. He one is in particular accustomed of the Salle Wagram to Paris.

In 1953, completely by chance, one of his/her friends speaks about him with the Réalisateur Jacques Becker which sought Italian to play vis-a-vis Jean Gabin in his film Touchez not with the grisbi . The meeting is made and Jacques Becker proposes illico to him the role of Angelo that Lino will refuse initially.

At the exit of Do not touch with the grisbi , its presence is such as all the profession notices it.

It is immediately adopted by the medium of the cinema, Jean Gabin with which he becomes large friend and by the public thanks to its breadth, its mouth of actor and his exceptional naturalness of actor which make of him the ideal interpreter of the Black film, gangsters and police officers hard to cook in the large heart. Without to have taken course of comedy, it quickly will climb the levels; he is first of all actor additional, then reaches quickly the first roles, his play of refining himself actor. There becomes one of the heavy trucks of the hexagonal cinema and will remain forever recognized like one of the best actors of the French Cinéma.

Father of an unsuited child, because of a problem to the birth, his Linda daughter born in 1958, it created with his Odette wife in 1966 the association Humanitaire Perce-neige in Saint-Cloud, where it saw, with for goal “assistance with unsuited childhood”.

He dies the October 22nd 1987 with Saint-Cloud, the 68 years age of a Heart attack after 34 years of cinematographic career and 75 films. He rests with the cemetery of the Valley-Saint-Germain in the the Essonne.

Catalog of films

Years 1950

Years 1960

Years 1970

Years 1980

Work Humanitaire

1966: founder of the Humane association “of assistance to unsuited childhood” Snowdrop .

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