Gastone Moschin (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaˈstoːne moˈskin]; 8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Career
Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began his career in the 1950s as a theatre actor, first with the Teatro Stabile in Genoa and then with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Milan. In the same period Moschin also began to appear in feature films and on television.
In his film career Moschin alternated character roles and, more rarely, leading roles, such as in Seven Times Seven and Caliber 9. His most famous role is that of Rambaldo Melandri in the Amici miei film series (1975–1985). He won two Nastro d'Argento Awards for Best Supporting Actor, in 1967 for Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians and in 1986 for Nanni Loy's Amici miei – Atto III. Moschin is also well known for the role of Don Fanucci in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II.
Death
Gastone Moschin was married to Marzia Ubaldi from 1960 until 1967, he had one daughter (Emanuela Moschin). He died in hospital on 4 September 2017 from cardiomyopathy. He was 88.
Television
Racconti garibaldini (1960)
Operazione Vega (1962) as Sim
Il mulino del Po (1963) as Fratognone
I Miserabili (1964) as Jean Valjean
Una coccarda per il re (1970) as Jacques Necker
Le colonne della società (1972) as Karsten Bernick
La morte di Danton (1972) as Danton
Rosso veneziano (1976) as Marco Partibon
Le uova fatali (1977) as Professor Pérsikov
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977, uncredited) as Don Fanucci
I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979) as the Judge
L'Andreana (1982) as Mondo
Melodramma (1984) as Aldo Scotti
Nel gorgo del peccato (1987) as Judge Ottavio Pica (1987)
Les Ritals (1991) as Louvi
L'avvocato delle donne (1996, episode "Laura") as Avv. Salvi
Don Matteo (1999) as Bishop
Sei forte Maestro (2000) as Vittorio Ricci
Sei forte, Maestro 2 (2000) as Vittorio Ricci
Don Matteo (2000) as Bishop
Don Matteo 2 (2001) as Bishop (final appearance)