All All. Sign In. Brilliant actors. List activity. Marcello Mastroianni. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice.
He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette , then started working for the Italian department of "Eagle Lion Films" in Rome and joined a drama club, where he was discovered by director Luchino Visconti. In Visconti gave him the starring part in his Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation White Nights and in he was fine as a little thief in Mario Monicelli 's comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street But his real breakthrough came in , when Federico Fellini cast him as an attractive, weary-eyed journalist of the Rome jet-set in La Dolce Vita ; that film was the genesis of his "Latin lover" persona, which Mastroianni himself often denied by accepting parts of passive and sensitive men.
He also appeared as a tired novelist with marital problems in Michelangelo Antonioni 's La Notte , as an impotent young man in Mauro Bolognini 's Bell' Antonio , as an exiled prince in John Boorman 's Leo the Last , as a traitor in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 's Allonsanfan and as a sensitive homosexual in love with a housewife in Ettore Scola 's A Special Day He died of pancreatic cancer in Jack Nicholson. Actor Producer Writer Chinatown Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee.
Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through the '00s. Nicholson was born on April 22, , in Neptune, New Jersey. He was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother, and that his mother, June Frances Nicholson, a showgirl, was his older sister.
He discovered the truth in from a Time magazine journalist who was researching a profile on him. His real father is believed to have been either Donald Furcillo, an Italian American showman, or Eddie King Edgar Kirschfeld , born in Latvia and also in show business.
