Ugo Pagliai | |
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Born |
Pistoia, Italy |
13 November 1937
Occupation | Actor |
Ugo Pagliai (born 13 November 1937) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Born in Pistoia, in 1958 Pagliai enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica, starting his career on stage in the early 1960s. He became first known in 1969, thanks to the Giuseppe Fina's critically acclaimed stage play Ross. In 1971 he got a major success as the lead actor of the Daniele D'Anza's miniseries Il segno del comando, and then appeared in a number of other successful RAI TV-series, often directed by the same D'Anza. He is mainly active on stage, often together with his wife Paola Gassman, the daughter of actors Vittorio Gassman and Nora Ricci. In 1988 Pagliai received a Flaiano Prize for his career.