Italian comedy great Gigi Proietti dies

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 2 - Much-loved Italian comedian and cinema and theatre actor Gigi Proietti has died, his family said on Monday, his 80th birthday.
    Proietti had been admitted to hospital a few days ago and passed away after suffering a major heart attack, sources said.
    One of his most memorable works is the film Febbre da Cavallo, an Italian cinema classic in which he portrays a luckless gambling addict.
    Although best-known for his comedy work, Proietti was also highly cultured and, among other things, he was the director of the Rome Globe, a reconstruction of Shakespeare's theatre.
    (ANSA).