Umberto Eco
Actor
- Born
- January 5, 1932 · Alessandria, Piemonte, Italia
- Died
- February 19, 2016 (age 84)
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Umberto Eco OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko]; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.
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Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays. He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
Known for
La Notte
January 24, 1961
La Maison de la Radio
April 3, 2013
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
March 2, 2023
Why Are We Creative?
September 7, 2018
Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
February 10, 2014
La rosa dei nomi
January 1, 1987
Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
October 10, 2012
A Beautiful Vacation
December 23, 2006
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
July 25, 2022
Andate a lavorare - D.A.M.S. la nascita di un mito
April 11, 2022
All Men Become Brothers
September 21, 2023
Quiproquo
September 3, 2011
Acting17
- 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023All Men Become Brothers
- 2023Umberto Eco: A Library of the World as Self - Writer (archive footage)
- 2022An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Andate a lavorare - D.A.M.S. la nascita di un mito as Se stesso
- 2018Why Are We Creative? as Self
- 2014Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
- 2013We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism as Self
- 2013La Maison de la Radio as Self
- 2012