Lorenzo Giovanni Arbore (born June 24, 1937 in Foggia

Foggia

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) is an Italian

Italy

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 TV host, showman

Showman

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, singer, musician

Musician

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, film actor and film director

Film director

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Career

Arbore became nationally recognized as radio anchor man, together with Gianni Boncompagni, in the late 1960s, with shows such as Bandiera gialla (1965), Per voi giovani (1967), Alto Gradimento (1970), increasingly marked by their ironical approach which later became one of their brands. He debuted in Italian television with Speciale per voi (1969–1970), which included debates about singers of that age. His first great TV success was the surreal L'altra domenica ("The Other Sunday", 1976–1979), in which he launched numerous comedians including Mario Marenco, Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.-Background and early life:Rossellini is a...

 and Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

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. Also very successful were Quelli della notte (1985), with Nino Frassica

Nino Frassica

Antonio "Nino" Frassica is an Italian actor.Born in Messina, he debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's Quelli della notte , in which he played a semi-illiterate friar...

, Riccardo Pazzaglia

Riccardo Pazzaglia

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, Maurizio Ferrini, and Roberto D'Agostino, and Indietro tutta!(1988), again with Frassica, which established Arbore as one of the most intelligent and cult figures of Italian televisions.

In the meantime Arbore wrote and directed the movies Il pap'occhio (1980) and "FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" (1983), both surreal stories featuring numerous actors launched by him and others friends (including Luciano De Crescenzo

Luciano De Crescenzo

Luciano De Crescenzo is an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer.Born in Naples, he graduated in engineering and worked for IBM Italy until 1976, when he published the bestseller Così parlò Bellavista , a collection of facts and anecdotes about his city which sold 600,000 copies in...

, Benigni, Rossellini and many others), set in his adoptive city of Naples

Naples

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. Arbore also played and sung in numerous of his shows, notably in Quelli della Notte and Indietro tutta!, whose music albums sold hundreds of thousand copies in Italy.

An apt amateur clarinet

Clarinet

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 player, in 1991 Arbore founded the Orchestra Italiana, a group of 15 artists with the aim to popularize Neapolitan music worldwide. The orchestra has toured in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He was also director of the Umbria Jazz festival. His last TV show is Speciale per me - Meno siamo, meglio stiamo! on Rai Uno

Rai Uno

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Recently, he received the 2010 America Award from the Italy-USA Foundation

Italy-USA Foundation

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