Alighiero Noschese


Alighiero Noschese was an Italian TV impersonator and actor.

Life and career

Noschese was born in Naples. After an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as imitator and parodist. After some theatre appearances with Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini, he became popular with the TV show Doppia coppia, where, for the first time in the then wholly state-controlled Italian television, an actor was allowed to parody politicians.
Noschese had an outstanding capability for imitating not only the voice of his subjects, but also their physical features and attitudes. In an interview just before his death, Noschese listed a total of 1,156 voices he had imitated in his career.
On 3 December 1979, at the top of his career, Noschese shot himself while under care for clinical depression in Rome.

Selected filmography