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Also Known As Gianfranco Corsi
Born February 12, 1923 • Florence • Italy
Died June 15, 2019 (aged 96) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “Callas Forever” • “Hamlet” • “Jane Eyre” • “Romeo and Juliet” • “Tea with Mussolini” • “The Taming of the Shrew”

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Hamlet (1990)
Glenn Close as Gertrude and Alan Bates as Claudius, dressed in ornate medieval costumes, embrace in a scene from the 1990 film Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
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Bob Rafelson
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Mike White
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