Amerigo Tot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Amerigo Tot

Hungarian sculptor and actor

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1909

Place of Birth: Hungary

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1984

Profession: actor, sculptor

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Amerigo Tot

  • Amerigo Tot (born Imre TĂłth; 27 September 1909 – 13 December 1984) was a Hungarian sculptor and occasional actor.
  • He was born in FehĂ©rvárcsurgĂł, Austria-Hungary and moved to Rome, where he lived for the rest of his life.
  • He studied in Budapest under Ferenc Helbing and György Leszkovszky from 1926 until 1928, and at the Bauhaus in Germany.
  • As the Nazis came to power he moved to Rome and worked sculpting memorials on a stipend from the Roman Hungarian Academy, where he eventually became an adviser.
  • He fought in the Italian resistance movement starting in 1943. He first received international recognition for his work on the frieze in Roma Termini station.
  • He began doing abstract works in the 1950s.
  • He returned home to Hungary several times, including 1937, 1939 and in 1969 which was a long prepared step from the side of the Hungarian communist culture-buro.
  • At home he was a highly celebrated "world famous" artist.
  • He had big exhibitions.
  • He did traditional works, including a Madonna sculpture in his hometown, and very famous abstract sculptures, public monuments too, like Microcosm in Macrocosm (a tribute to BĂ©la BartĂłk), His Majesty, the Kilowatt in KecskemĂ©t.
  • The Amerigo Tot Museum in Budapest is named after him. In the 1960s and 1970s he made occasional appearances in films.
  • He is perhaps best known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Bussetta, Michael Corleone's bodyguard and executioner of Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II.
  • According to George S.
  • Larke-Walsh, Tot's character in the film had to be brutal so that Michael's authority was retained.
  • He also appeared in The Most Beautiful Wife and Pulp (1972).
  • The latter was directed by Mike Hodges for United Artists and featured Tot as Sotgio.Tot died in Rome in 1984 and was buried in FarkasrĂ©ti Cemetery in Budapest.

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