RIP Antonio Di Mitri

Theater, film actor and singer Antonio Di Mitri, aka Tony Di Mitri and George Stevenson died in Rome on December 8, 2019. He was 88.

Antonio Di Mitri was born in Manduria, Italy on June 12, 1931. He moved to Turin while very young and took part in many university shows. At the age of 18 he moved to Rome where he attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts and there began his acting career at the Greek theater in Syracuse with a part in “Euripedes’ Ippolito” directed by Orazion Costa where he played Don Sancio in the “Cid of Corneille”, together with Enrico Maria Salerno he faced various theatrical, fashion and entertainment tours around the world as a young actor with Amadeo Nazzari in the comedy of Dino Verde “They Have Kidnapped the President” and in the television drama “Petrosino” he played the alleged murderer. He played alongside Gigi Proietti, the part of Janez in the television drama “La tigre di Mompracem”, directed by Ugo Gregoretti and in the large production of the “Orlando Furioso” by Luca Ronconi he plays the role of Solidano.

In 1968 he was acting, together with Francesca Bertini, in the show “La fiera dei sogni”, conducted by the presumptuous Mike Bongiorno.

In the cinema he was a actor in the films “Il colpaccio”, “Quintana”, “Dall’inviato a Copenhagen”, “I normanni”, “Simbad and the 7 Saracens” and important parts were assigned to him in the films, “Summer Frenzy”, “La cuccagna”, “A Colt in the Hand of the Devil”, “Il giustiziere”, as well as several minor roles.