Michele Placido tonight on TV, the experience in the Police, the Octopus, the five children and the (unfounded) rumors about the disease

Born in Ascoli Satriano, in the province of Foggia, on May 19, 1946, Michele Placido (whose docufiction on Arnoldo Mondadori is broadcast tonight at 9.25 pm) is the third of eight brothers, including the actors Gerardo Amato and Donato Placido. His father Beniamino originally from Rionero in Vulture (Potenza), while his mother Maria Iazzetti from Ascoli Satriano. The Placido family has a paternal cousin, also named Beniamino, who was a famous journalist and literary critic, but an actor who was also a descendant of the well-known Lucan brigand, Carmine Crocco.