Giancarlo Badessi (1928 – 2011) was an Italian actor.Born in Lecco, at the age of almost 40 Badessi gave up his daily job as an accountant to embrace the theatre, making his debut in a stage play directed by Giancarlo Cobelli. He was also active in cinema and on television, often playing character roles.Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on 6 December 2011.Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Badessi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.