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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Nino Manfredi |
 | | The Italian actor Nino Manfredi, who has died aged 83, was best known internationally for his performance in Franco Brusati's Bread And Chocolate (1973), although he appeared in more than 80 films and directed several himself, as well as writing plays. |
 | | Manfredi went on to star in their Rugantino, the biggest Italian musical comedy hit of the early 1960s, playing the rascally, 19th-century prankster, who runs foul of snooty society dandies in a Rome still ruled with severity by the papal gendarmes. |
 | | Manfredi is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Erminia, with whom he owned a hotel with a splendid view in her home town, Taormina, and their three children. |
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