Bruno Zanin

Bruno Zanin (9 April 1951 – 7 July 2024) was an Italian film, theatre, and television actor and writer.

Life and career Child of farmers and the sixth of seven brothers, Zanin studied at a school run by priests up to the age of fourteen, when an event occurred that made him leave (detailed in his novel, Nobody Must Know). After a life on the road, including time in jail, he became an actor by accident when Federico Fellini chose him among thousands of young men for the role of Titta in the film Amarcord. He went on to appear in numerous films, theatre plays and television series with Italian and foreign filmmakers such as Giuseppe Ferrara, Marco Tullio Giordana, Giuliano Montaldo, Franco Brusati, Luigi Faccini, Lucian Pintilie and Lina Wertmüller. In the theatre, he has worked with Giorgio Strehler, Luca Ronconi, Marco Sciaccaluga, Gianfranco De Bosio, Sandro Sequi, and Alfredo Arias, appearing chiefly in Venetian language plays by Goldoni but also in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

In 2007, he published his first novel, an autobiographical work titled Nobody Must Know. The book obtained special mention at the Città di Latisana per il Nord Est, an Italian literary awards event. The novel was published in Spanish by Trotta editorial (Madrid) as Que no se entere nadie.

Zanin had two sons, Francesco and Fiorenzo. He lived in a log cabin in the woods at Vanzone con San Carlo, a mountain village below Monte Rosa, Piedmont.

Zanin died on 7 July 2024, at the age of 73.

Filmography

TV theatre 1979: The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, dir. Gianfranco De Bosio with Sergio Fantoni, Andrea Giordana, Massimo Dapporto, Pino Ferrara, Lina Sastri, Bruno Zanin, Vittorio Stagni, Ilaria Occhini, Massimo Foschi, Gianrico Tedeschi, Antonio Garrani, , (aired on 24 March 1979).

Theatre 1974: Goldoni – La putta onorata and la buona moglie 1975: Goldoni – Il Campiello 1979: Shakespeare – Il Mercante di Venezia 1982: Goldoni – I pettegolezzi delle donne 1989: Goldoni – Il Ventaglio

Writing 2006: Nobody must know (ed. Tullio Pironti)