Corrado Mantoni
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Corrado Mantoni | |
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Born | Corrado Mantoni 2 August 1924 Rome, Italy |
Died | 8 June 1999 Rome, Italy | (aged 74)
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Years active | 1944–1999 |
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Corrado Mantoni (2 August 1924 – 8 June 1999), known simply as Corrado, was an Italian television and radio presenter, producer, and television writer.
Biography
He was born in
In 1949, he was chosen by RAI as their first TV host for the Italian first experimental TV broadcasting. In the 1950s he was the foremost radio host in the country, and also took part in numerous movies as himself.
Corrado began to work for TV in the 1960s as the host of popular shows such as
In 1982 Corrado moved to the private-owner Silvio Berlusconi's network. His shows included Il pranzo è servito and, perhaps his most popular, La corrida, in which he presented amateurs.
He was also a singer, mainly of children songs. His 1981 song "Carletto" topped the Italian hit parade for 11 weeks.[2]
Corrado was author nearly of all his shows with the pseudonym of Corima, often in collaboration with his brother Riccardo. He died of lung cancer in Rome in 1999.
References
- ^ (8 June 1999). La morte di Corrado, la voce della tv, La Repubblica
- ISBN 8876054391.