Biography

Enrico Banducci was born on February 17, 1922 in Bakersfield, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Street Music (1981), Hungry i reunion (1981) and American Masters (1985). He was married to Raimonde Verney. He died on October 9, 2007 in San Francisco, California, USA.

He often wore a beret

Owner of the Hungry-I nightclub in San Francisco, which featured such up-and-coming stand-up comics in the 1950s and 1960s as Jonathan Winters, the Smothers Brothers and Lenny Bruce. It was a "must" place to be for stand-up comedians to try their material out on a hip audience.

He was a popular fixture of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. He founded one of the city's first sidewalk cafes, Enrico's on Broadway.

At age 13 he went to San Francisco to study violin with the concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony.

He was born into a farming family. He reportedly changed his first name to Enrico after opera singer Enrico Caruso.

This whole country is coming apart at the seams. Nobody laughs anymore. If they do, it is front of the television set.