Angelo Musco (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian actor
Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1872
Place of Birth: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Date of Death: 06-Oct-1937
Profession: actor, stage actor
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Angelo Musco (actor)
- Angelo Musco (October 18, 1872 in Catania – October 6, 1937 in Milan) was an Italian actor in theater and film.
- He was known for his comic abilities as well as for his carefully drawn psychological portraits. Born in Catania, Sicily to a Maltese father and a Sicilian mother, Musco worked at a number of menial, odd jobs in his youth, spending time as a barber, a shoemaker, and a mason.
- He broke into theatrical work by finding employment with the Opera dei Pupi, the local marionette theater.
- In 1899 he joined the theatrical company of Giovanni Grasso, whose actors performed only in the Sicilian language. In 1902 Musco began a collaboration with Nino Martoglio, who had seen him in Rome in Malia of Luigi Capuana and I Mafiusi of Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaetano Mosca.
- Martoglio became director of Musco's company in 1907, and wrote for him the plays San Giovanni decollatu and L'aria del continente.
- Musco also collaborated with Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, author of the play Madre, and he worked with Marinella Bragaglia and Rosina Anselmi.
- He also founded his own theater company, supported by the critic Renato Simoni and by Luigi Pirandello.
- The latter wrote a number of comedies for him to play, including Il berretto a sonagli (which he played in Rome), Liolà , and Pensaci, Giacomino!.
- This last was filmed with Musco in the lead role; his cinematic career had begun in 1932 and was a great success. Musco died suddenly in Milan in 1936, immediately after a performance.
- He was the subject of a documentary directed by Giorgio Walter Chili in 1953, C'era una volta Angelo Musco.
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