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Born in La Spezia, Adriano Rimoldi moved to Florence in the 1930s to study medicine. Developing a passion for theatre, he took part in student performances organized by the GUF-Teatro sperimentale and won a radio contest as an announcer and newsreader. His first role was a radio announcer in the white telephone comedy Mille lire al mese (Max Neufeld, 1939), starring Alida Valli, which explored the then-new medium of television. Rimoldi rose to fame as the lead in Ferdinando Maria Poggioli's Addio giovinezza! (1940), where his character is torn between a simple seamstress (Maria Denis) and a femme fatale (Clara Calamai). In Tosca (1940/41), begun by Jean Renoir and completed by Carl Koch, Rimoldi portrayed the rebel Angelotti, who escapes from Scarpia’s prison but is later betrayed by Tosca. He frequently collaborated with director Corrado D'Errico in films such as Miseria e nobiltà (1940), La compagnia della Teppa (1941), Capitan Tempesta (1942), and Il leone di Damasco (1942), and also worked with Mario Soldati (Tragica notte, 1942), Dino Falconi (Don Giovanni, 1942), and Christian Jacque (Carmen, 1942; released 1945). His significant breakthrough in a modern realist drama came with Vittorio De Sica's I bambini ci guardano (Children Are Watching Us, 1943), where he played the lover of Isa Pola, disrupting her marriage and family life.
During the German Occupation, Rimoldi worked in Spain and became a star in Spanish cinema. He starred in films like Dora la espía (Raffaele Matarazzo, 1943), alongside silent era diva Francesca Bertini, and appeared in about a dozen films by Ignacio F. Iquino, often paired with Spanish actress María Martín. Returning to Italy in the late 1940s, he featured in La mano della morta (Carlo Campogalliani, 1949) with Martín, Sigillo rosso (Flavio Calzavara, 1950) with Gino Cervi and Carla del Poggio, Capitan Demonio (Carlo Borghesio, 1950), Gente così (Fernando Cerchio, 1950), an adaptation of Giovanni Guareschi’s work also starring Martín, Vivi Gioi, and Camillo Pillotto, and Ultimo perdono (Renato Polselli, 1952) with Franca Marzi. In 1952, Rimoldi returned to theatrical comedy with Gran baldoria by Garinei and Giovannini, and in 1955 appeared with Isa Miranda in Valentino Bompiani's Albertina, directed by Italo Alfaro. He ventured into television in 1954, performing in three TV plays and gaining recognition in the operetta Wunderbar, directed by Daniele D'Anza. From the late 1950s to early 1960s, Rimoldi acted in several Spanish films and had a recurring role as a cook in the Spanish TV series Cocina (1957-1958). On the big screen, he played Melchior in King of Kings (Nicholas Ray, 1961), and in 1963 performed in the TV drama Nocturne in New York by Clifford Odets. His final film role was in the Spanish comedy Zarabanda Bing Bing (José María Forqué, 1966), starring Jacques Sernas. Rimoldi passed away in Rome the same year. He is the maternal grandfather of film director Matteo Garrone.
