Remo Remotti

Born in Rome, Remotti lost his father at 12 years old. After graduating in Law, he moved to Peru, where he attended an art school and began painting.^[1][2] Following the bankruptcy of the taxi company he had founded in Peru, seven years later he returned to Italy where he married Maria Luisa Loy, the sister of the director and screenwriter Nanni Loy, and started an activity as a playwright, often also directing and acting his comedy plays.^[1][2] He was later requested by some theatrical companies for character roles, and in the late 1970s he began a proficuous film career as a character actor in films.^[1] A painter and a sculptor, some of his works are exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna.^[2] He was also a composer of poems, usually sonnets in Roman dialect.^[3]