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Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
	Gianfrancesco Guarnieri in 2004
Born	August 6, 1934; Milan, Italy
Died	July 22, 2006 (aged 71); São Paulo, Brazil
Citizenship	Italian-Brazilian
Spouses	Cecilia Thompson (1958–1965); Vanya Sant'Anna (1965–2006)

Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri (August 6, 1934 – July 22, 2006) was an Italian–Brazilian actor, lyricist, poet and playwright. He was a key participant in the Arena Theater of São Paulo, his most important work was "They Don't Wear Black Tie".^[1]

Biography

He was born in Milan, 6 August 1934, to a couple of antifascist musicians.^[1] His parents, the maestro Edoardo Guarnieri and the Harpist Elsa Martineghi, decided to move to Brazil in 1936, finding a new home in Rio de Janeiro. In the beginning of the 1950s, they moved again to São Paulo.

A student leader since his teenage years, Guarnieri began to do amateur theater with Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha) and a group of students from São Paulo. In 1955 they created the "Paulista Theater of the Student" (Teatro Paulista do Estudante), with guidance from Ruggero Jacobbi. In the next year that theater joined up with The Arena Theater, founded and directed by José Renato^[2]

Career

Theater

His first play was "They Don't Wear Black Tie", put on stage for the first time in 1958 in the Arena Theater^[2] Directed by José Renato, the case had great talents that had begun to attract attention, like Guarnieri himself, Leila Abramo, Miriam Melhler, Flavio Migliaccio, Eugênio Kusnet, Francisco de Assis, Henrique César, Celeste Lima, Riva Nimtz, and Milton Gonçalves;

It was set to end the collective project, since they were having financial problems, but it had immense success. The play, author and cast were given awards by the governor of São Paulo State, Janio Quadros, and the arena was saved from its financial troubles. Around the same time Guarnieri also starred in "O Grande Momento" by Director Roberto Santos, the beginning of a new wave in cinema in Brazil called "Cinema Novo".^[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	O Grande Momento
1965	The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga		Writer
1968	A Muralha	Leonel Olinto	TV Series
1973-1974	Mulheres de Areia	Tonho da Lua	TV Series
1977	O Jogo da Vida	Perus
1978	As Três Mortes de Solano
1978	Diário da Província
1978	Curumim
1980	Gaijin: Roads to Freedom	Enrico
1980	Asa Branca: Um Sonho Brasileiro	Toninho
1981	They Don't Wear Black Tie	Otávio	Writer
1983	A Próxima Vítima	Guido Andreolli
1986	Por Incrível Que Pareça
1989	Que Rei Sou Eu?	King Petrus II	TV Series
1980	Beijo 2348/72	Photographer
1990	Rainha da Sucata	Irineu Saldanha	TV Series
1991	Mundo da Lua	Vô Orlando	TV Series
1994	O Quatrilho	Padre Giobbe
1995	A Próxima Vítima	Eliseu Giardini	TV Series
1999	Contos de Lygia
2002-2003	Esperança	Pellegrini	TV Series
2005-2006	Belíssima	Peppe	TV Series, (final appearance)