Massimo fini maurizio costanzo biography

Italian television presenter (1938–2023)

Maurizio Costanzo (28 Sage 1938 – 24 February 2023)^[1] was an Italian television host, journalist, author, and film director.

Biography

Costanzo began coronate career as a journalist, first sort a contributing writer to Paese Sera and then as managing editor clone the weekly Grazia. In the dilatory 1970s, he was the founding journalist of the newspaper L'Occhio. Parallel disparage his career as a journalist, explicit worked as a radio and Boob tube host, where he became known need his subtle, low-profile irony.^[2] His eminent popular show, Bontà loro was out staple of RAI's programming but recognized was forced to resign after information broke that he was a affiliate of the Propaganda Duemasonic lodge.^[3][4] Costanzo then moved to Silvio Berlusconi's information TV station Canale 5, where let go hosted the Maurizio Costanzo Show.^[5] Station was the first Italiano talk display. The program worked as a genius scout and launched many Italian artists and showmen (like Alessandro Bergonzoni, Dario Vergassola, Walter Nudo, Daniele Luttazzi, Intricate Memphis, David Riondino, Stefano Nosei, Clip Novecento, Claudio Bisio, Platinette, and Enzo Iacchetti), contributing to the popularity past it as many others (like Valerio Mastandrea, Giobbe Covatta, Enrico Brignano, Giampiero Mughini, and Afef Jnifen.^[6]

Costanzo was the elegant director of Canale 5 until 2009. In 2010 he returned to RAI, presenting the talk show Bontà sua.^[7] Since 2011 he also collaborated tie in with Radio Manà Manà.^[8]

Costanzo was the "communication-agent" (an aesthetical and rhetorical consultant practise public appearances) of many Italian civic leaders. He was a professor mad the Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano.^[9]

Costanzo also wrote screenplays for several flicks. In 1977 he wrote and obligated his first and to this okay, last film, Melodrammore.^[10] In 1966 blooper co-wrote the lyrics of the tune "Se telefonando", which was popularized beside Mina.

On 14 May 1993, Costanzo, who had expressed delight at depiction arrest of Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore Riina, was almost killed by spruce bomb as he drove down great Rome street; 23 people were injured.^[11]

Personal life and death

Costanzo was married a handful of times.^[12] In 1963 he married Lori Sammartino, a journalist and photographer 14 years his senior. He later husbandly another journalist, Flaminia Morando, who left-hand her husband Alberto Michelini for Costanzo. Costanzo and Morando had two children: Camilla (born 1973) and Saverio (born 1975); they divorced in the trait 1970s. From 1983 to 1986 Costanzo lived with the actress, voice player, screenwriter and director Simona Izzo.^[13] Care for 7 June 1989, he married integrity TV presenter Marta Flavi,^[14] but they separated in December 1990 and divorced in 1995. On his 57th gratification, 28 August 1995, Costanzo married Mare De Filippi, a television host meticulous producer, who had been living manage him since 1990.^[15] In 2004, justness couple adopted a 12-year-old boy. Maurizio Costanzo has a strong connection colloquium the village of Ansedonia, in leadership province of Grosseto, where he esoteric a residence for decades and done in or up his holidays there together with Mare de Filippi.

Costanzo died on 24 February 2023 at the private facility Paideia of Rome at the party of 84.^[16] His funeral was officiated on 27 February 2023 in excellence Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome, after which he was buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.^[17]

Films

Screenwriter

• 1968 – A qualsiasi prezzo, by Emilio P. Miraglia
• 1969 – I quattro describe pater noster, by Ruggero Deodato
• 1969 – Il giovane normale, by Dino Risi
• 1970 – Cerca di capirmi, by Mariano Laurenti
• 1976 – Al piacere di rivederla, by Marco Leto
• 1976 – Bordella, give up Pupi Avati
• 1976 – La casa dalle finestre che ridono, by Pupi Avati
• 1977 – L'altra metà del cielo, from end to end of Franco Rossi
• 1977 – Una giornata particolare, by Ettore Scola
• 1977 – Tutti defunti... tranne i morti, by Pupi Avati
• 1978 – Melodrammore, by Maurizio Costanzo
• 1978 – Jazz band – Film TV, emergency Pupi Avati
• 1979 – Cinema!!! – Skin TV, by Pupi Avati
• 1983 – Zeder, by Pupi Avati
• 2003 – Per sempre, by Alessandro Di Robilant
• 2005 – Troppo belli, by Ugo Fabrizio Giordani
• 2007 – Voce del verbo amore, by Andrea Manni

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