The Italian actor Nino Castelnuovo succumbed Monday in Rome to a long illness according to his wife, the actress Maria Cristina Di Nicola, and their two children, quoted by the Italian press.
He was 84 years old.
Born Francesco Castelnuovo on October 28, 1936, Nino Castelnuovo had started by playing supporting roles in relatively modest films at the end of the 1950s, before appearing in "Rocco and his brothers" (1960) by Luchino Visconti, with Alain Delon , Annie Girardot and Claudia Cardinale.
Become a popular actor thanks to the television adaptation of the masterpiece of Italian literature "I promessi sposi" ("The fiancés") by Alessandro Mazoni, he was known in France for having played the young Guy, in love with Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve) in "The umbrellas of Cherbourg", cult film by Jacques Demy, Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1964. He also played the archaeologist D'Agostino in "The English patient" by Anthony Minghella in 1996 .