Occupation actor Name Claudio Cassinelli | Role Film actor | |
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Spouse Irene Bignardi (m. ?–1985) Children Giovanni Cassinelli, Filippo Cassinelli, Sebastiano Cassinelli Parents Antonio Cassinelli, Giuseppina Tafani Movies The Mountain of the Ca, Island of the Fishmen, Hands of Steel, The Great Alligator River, Flavia the Heretic Similar People Sergio Martino, Luciano Martino, Luigi Cozzi, Ernesto Gastaldi, Mario Caiano | ||
Claudio Cassinelli (13 September 1938 – 13 July 1985) was an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Bologna to Giuseppina Tafani and Antonio Cassinelli, a well known opera singer, he had two sisters, Paola Cristina and Loretta. Cassinelli began his career in theater, later dedicating himself to film and television work. His film career is divided equally between auteur films (with, among others, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Liliana Cavani, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Damiano Damiani) and genre films, especially poliziotteschi and action films.
Cassinelli died in Page, Arizona during the filming of a scene in Sergio Martino's Vendetta dal futuro. He was on a helicopter that crashed into the Navajo Bridge due to pilot error. He was 46 and left three children: Sebastiano, Filippo and Giovanni.