{"id":2829,"date":"2012-01-13T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:52:33","slug":"r-i-p-mario-maranzana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/r-i-p-mario-maranzana\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Mario Maranzana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2830\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mario-maranzano.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2830\" title=\"mario-maranzano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mario-maranzano.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Maranzana\" width=\"375\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mario-maranzano.jpg 375w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mario-maranzano-152x88.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Maranzana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mario Maranzana, who was born in Trieste on the 14th July 1930, has died at the age of 81 in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Maranzana was an esteemed stage actor who began his theatre career opposite Vittorio Gassman in Sophocles&#8217; Oedipus Rex and went on to work with some of the greatest Italian directors.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a familiar performer on the small screen, appearing regularly in the hugely popular Italian Maigret TV series, French mini series D&#8217;Artagnan (69) and many others.<\/p>\n<p>He also turned up in numerous films from the mid 1960s onwards.\u00a0 He appeared in just about every genre going: spaghetti westerns (<strong>Dollar of Fire<\/strong> (66), <strong>The Two Sides of the Dollar<\/strong> (67), <strong>Long Live Your Death<\/strong> (68)), crime films (<strong>The Last Chance<\/strong> (68), <strong>Day of the Cobra<\/strong> (80)), comedies (<strong>Ciccio perdona&#8230; Io no<\/strong> (68), <strong>La pupa del gangster<\/strong> (75)), giallos (<strong>The Etruscan Kills Again<\/strong> (72)) and decameroticons (<strong>Forbidden Decameroin<\/strong> (72)).\u00a0 He never had huge roles, but was another of the character actors who made Italian cinema of the time so enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Maranzana, who was born in Trieste on the 14th July 1930, has died at the age of 81 in Rome.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}