Andrea Balestri Movies and Career Information

Andrea Balestri (born 1 September 1963) is an Italian film actor. He is known as the Pinocchio in 1972 serial tv The adventures of Pinocchio, directed by Luigi Comencini, next to actors like Nino Manfredi, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Gina Lollobrigida and the great actor and director Vittorio De Sica as the Judge. He wa selected among thousands of children from all Tuscany: the director Comencini was surprised about his spontaneous temperament, not shy even if he was only seven years old. After the great success on TV, Balestri continued he acting career working on other movies as Torino nera , directed by Carlo Lizzani, with Bud Spencer and Domenico Santoro the Lucignoloin Pinocchio, the children movie Kid il monello del West, that won the Giffoni Film Festival as the best adaptation in 1976, and Furia nera, directed by Demofilo Fidani. Even though the great success he never ever moved to Rome to continue the acting career, that brusquely broke off. Balestri declared: "The important is no forget where you come from. If you are a worker, and you suddenly win something and than you loose it, you could back to work as a worker but the world doesn't fall down. You need to be