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Eduardo De Santis was born on 7 September, 1929 in Positano, Italy, is an Italian actor and businessman (1929–2019). Discover Eduardo De Santis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation Actor, Businessman, Philanthropist
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 7 September 1929
Birthday 7 September
Birthplace Positano, Italy
Date of death 2019
Died Place N/A
Nationality Italy

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His wife is Maria Cuadra

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1929

Eduardo De Santis (September 7, 1929 - March 25, 2019) was an Italian actor, film producer, writer and philanthropist, best known as the founder and chairman of Gold Mercury International Award a think tank and global governance award organisation founded in 1961.

1940

Following a few initial jobs as a salesman in Italy, Eduardo De Santis, motivated by the glamour of Hollywood productions being shot in Rome in the 1940s and 1950s, decides to start a career as an actor.

1951

During that time he befriended many Hollywood stars that had fallen in love with Rome and were shooting in the 'Citta Eterna' (Eternal City) films like Quo Vadis? (1951), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Roman Holiday (1953), Spartacus (1960), Ben Hur (1959), and Cleopatra (1963).

1953

His first movie breakthrough was in 1953 in the film The Ship of Condemned Women, where he played the role of a sailor.

He then went to act in ten more movies including Giuseppe Verdi (1953), Ho ritrovato mio figlio (1954) and Guai ai Vinti (1955).

Following his acting career he moved into production and scriptwriting working in Italy and the US.

1957

They met in the movie set of 'Le Belle dell'Aria' (Beauties of the Sky) a Spanish Italian co-production of 1957 where both played roles as actors.

They have three children but were divorced.

Eduardo De Santis was a close friend of Ettore Scola, Italian film director and his brother Pietro Scola.

1961

His interest in social issues and international affairs led him to create in 1961 Gold Mercury International Award a think tank to improve international governance and corporate responsibility.

He developed the Gold Mercury Awards to recognise companies, organisations and governments that advanced good governance practices and peaceful co-operation.

The Awards have been presented since 1961 to global corporations and leaders including US President Ronald Reagan, Soviet leader Leonid Breznev and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of Liberia.

De Santis has focused his think tank work on the development of anticipatory governance and foresight development tools which he believes will dramatically improve decision making.

1964

Attracted by social issues, he developed the story and co-produced the El Espontaneo (The Rash One) in 1964.

Directed by Jorge Grau and starring Fernando Rey and Luis Ferrin, the movie is a drama with a strong social message about inequality and poverty in cities.

The movie is about Paco a young bellboy working in a luxury hotel in Madrid during Franco's dictatorship in Spain.

As a side job, Paco re-sells tickets to tourists to go watch bullfights.

After Paco unfairly loses his job, due to a rich client complaint, he is unable to find a new job.

Without a job, his friends and family turn their backs on him.

Desperate, with his working mother becoming ill, his last chance to make it is to jump in the bullfighting arena as a 'spontaneous' bullfighter to demonstrate his skills and win the chance to strike it rich.

The movie is shot in Black and White (the world of Paco).

The movie switches to colour in the last scenes as Paco arrives in the colour rich 'fiesta' bullfighting arena, jumps in with the bull and is tragically killed.

The message of the movie is that we are all 'Espontaneos' like Paco, trying to make it in the difficult going ons of life.

1970

In the 1970s he witnessed the growth of Home Video in the US.

Seeing the potential of the technology coming to Europe, he started buying the rights to movie libraries for Home Video in preparation for home video arriving in Europe.

In the late 1970s Eduardo De Santis met brand and packaging design guru Walter Landor.

Landor convinced De Santis to join his firm based in San Francisco California.

He became a partner of the firm.

De Santis helped internationalise the company and turn it into a global branding firm.

1991

Landor was sold to Young & Rubicam (now part of WPP plc) in 1991.

Famous branding projects De Santis has worked on include the re-branding of Santander Bank, Iberia Airlines, Cepsa petroleum company, Iberdrola energy and savings bank 'la Caixa' in which the famous Catalan painter Joan Miró was engaged.

De Santis was born in Positano, Italy.

Eduardo De Santis was married to Spanish actress Maria Cuadra.

2019

De Santis passed away in Madrid on March 25th 2019 due to complications caused by Acute myeloid leukemia.

Eduardo De Santis is a Commander of the Italian Republic and was recently Awarded by Italy's President Napolitano the Ordine della Stella d'Italia – OSI (Order of the Italian Star) for his services to the nation.

Other recipients of the Order include: Henry Cabot Lodge, American Ambassador to the UN; President John F. Kennedy, former President of the U.S.A; Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and Italo-American legend Frank Sinatra.