Marcello Mastroianni
An international star, Marcello Mastroianni entered the world Sept. 28, 1924, in Fontana Liri, Italy. After World War II, he took a job as a bookkeeper for a film company and performed in local theater during his free time.

Mastroianni landed on the big screen in 1947 with a small part in the Italian version of Les Miserables and achieved national notoriety with White Nights (1957) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He exploded onto the world stage playing a cynical gossip columnist in La Dolce Vita (1960). Paired with cinema siren Sophia Loren in the 1961 black comedy Divorce Italian Style, Mastroianni earned the first of three Best Actor Oscar nods and followed with a superb turn as director Federico Fellini's alter ego in 8 1/2 (1963).

Mastroianni's other notable works include A Special Day (1977) and Dark Eyes (1987). He died in Paris Dec. 19, 1996, from pancreatic cancer.

Featured Movies
  • La Dolce VitaLa Dolce Vita

    Federico Fellini's lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer who seeks the fleeting excesses and decadence of life and sex. He sleeps with the beautiful Maddalena (Anouk Aimee),... Read More

  • 8 1/28 1/2

    Dog-tired movie director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) retreats to thoughts of yesteryear when his producers, his wife (Anouk Aimee) and his mistress (Sandra Milo) all pressure him to start making another movie. Director Federico Fellini's semiautobiographical rumination on the joys and... Read More

  • Divorce, Italian StyleDivorce, Italian Style

    Marcello Mastroianni stars as Ferdinando, a self-centered nobleman who's facing a midlife crisis and has lost all interest in his wife. But there's no divorce in 1960s Italy, so he devises an elaborate scheme for another man to seduce his wife. That would, under Italian law, allow him to kill her... Read More

  • La NotteLa Notte

    Writer Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife, Lydia (Jeanne Moreau), begin the day by visiting a dying friend in this exercise in alienation and indifference from writer and director Michelangelo Antonioni. Later, Giovanni attends a party for his new book, while Lydia visits their old... Read More

  • 10th Victim10th Victim

    In this 1960s satire directed by Elio Petri, it's survival of the fittest in the 21st century, and population control is performed perfunctorily, through legalized murder in a game called "The Big Hunt." The "game" comes down to two assassins, both of whom are targeting each other: Marcello... Read More

All Marcello Mastroianni Movies
Ready to Wear (1994)
Prêt-à-Porter
R
PG-13
Towards Evening (1991)
Verso Sera
NR
Big Deal on Madonna Street: 20 Years Later (1987)
I Soliti Ignoti Ventanni Dopo
NR
Intervista (1987)
NR
Ginger & Fred (1986)
Ginger e Fred
PG-13
Macaroni (1985)
Maccheroni
PG
Henry IV (1984)
Enrico IV
NR
Gabriela (1983)
Gabriela, Cravo e Canela
R
Beyond Obsession (1982)
Oltre la Porta
R
City of Women (1980)
La Città Delle Donne
R
Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
Ciao Maschio
NR
A Special Day (1977)
Una Giornata Particolare
NR
Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
Non Toccare La Donna Bianca
NR
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
The Big Feast
NC-17
PG
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
L'Evenement le Plus Important Depuis que l'Homme a Marche sur la Lune
NR
Sunflower (1970)
I Girasoli
G
R
The Stranger (1967)
Lo Straniero
NR
NR
10th Victim (1965)
La Decima Vittima
UR
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Matrimonio all'italiana
NR
8 1/2 (1963)
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 / Otto e Mezzo
NR
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Ieri, Oggi, Domani
NR
NR
La Notte (1962)
Dare e avere
UR
UR
The Law (1960)
La Loi
NR
Love a la Carte (1960)
Adua e le Compagne
NR
NR
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
I soliti ignoti
NR
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
White Nights
NR
NR

 
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