Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019), Italian actor, writer and director. Born in Porto Empedocle (Agrigento, Sicily), he moved to Rome in 1949. After success as a theatre director, he was employed by RAI to direct and produce plays for both television and radio. He taught theatre direction at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia and at the Accademia nazionale d’Arte drammatica Silvio D’Amico. In 1978 he wrote his first novel and eventually started on the series of crime novels, with Inspector Montalbano as the protagonist, that brought him world fame.