Eduardo De Santis Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Eduardo De Santis Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Eduardo De Santis (September 7, 1929 - March 25 2019) was a former

actor, film producer, writer and philanthropist best known as the

founder and Chairman of Gold Mercury International Award a think tank

and global governance award organisation founded in 1961.Following a

few initial jobs as a salesman in Italy, Eduardo De Santis, motivated

by the glamour of Hollywood productions being shot in Rome in the 40s

and 50s, decides to start a career as an actor. During that time he

befriended many Hollywood stars that had fallen in love with Rome and

were shooting in the 'Citta Eterna' (Eternal City) films like Quo

Vadis? (1951), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Roman Holiday

(1953), Spartacus (1960), Ben Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963). His first

movie breakthrough was in 1953 in the film The Ship of Condemned

Women, where he played the role of a sailor. He then went to act in

ten more movies including Giuseppe Verdi (1953) and Guai ai Vinti

(1955).Following his acting career he moved into production and

scriptwriting working in Italy and the US. In the 1970s he witnessed

the growth of Home Video in the US. Seeing the potential of the

technology coming to Europe, he started buying the rights to movie

libraries for Home Video in preparation for home video arriving in

Europe.Attracted by social issues, he developed the story and

co-produced the El Espontaneo (The Rash One) in 1964. Directed by

Jorge Grau and starring Fernando Rey and Luis Ferrin, the movie is a

drama with a strong social message about inequality and poverty in

cities. The movie is about Paco a young bellboy working in a luxury

hotel in Madrid during Franco's dictatorship in Spain. As a side job,

Paco re-sells tickets to tourists to go watch bullfights. After Paco

unfairly loses his job, due to a rich client complaint, he is unable

to find a new job. Without a job, his friends and family turn their

backs on him. Desperate, with his working mother becoming ill, his

last chance to make it is to jump in the bullfighting arena as a

'spontaneous' bullfighter to demonstrate his skills and win the chance

to strike it rich. The movie is shot in Black and White (the world of

Paco). The movie switches to colour in the last scenes as Paco arrives

in the colour rich 'fiesta' bullfighting arena, jumps in with the bull

and is tragically killed. The message of the movie is that we are all

'Espontaneos' like Paco, trying to make it in the difficult going ons

of life.
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