Rome - Luca De Filippo, son of the great Neapolitan playwright Eduardo De Filippo, has died. He was 67 years old. The funeral will be held in Teatro Argentina in Rome Monday.

  The Italian actor had been hospitalised on November 10 for a disc disease, which interrupted the tour of a play written by Eduardo "Non ti pago".

  "It's a sad day for Italian theatre and Naples. Farewell to Luca De Filippo, the great artist and worthy heir of Eduardo," the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi tweeted.

  Luca was born in Rome in 1948 where he started work as an actor when he was a child. Affections and the memory of his father Eduardo never abandoned Luca. “A part of me remains in me. The years of teaching, living together only the two of us after my mother and sister died. When I was 12 years old, Eduardo was already an old man but our coexistence was also pleasing. He was a great humorist, when he wanted to be. Sure, there were long silences between us. And then there was the theatre,” Luca said in one of his interviews.

  The true debut of Luca in theatre was in the play “Il Figlio di Pulcinella”, when he was 20. He performed under the name Luca della Porta. Since then, he started intense work under the direction of his father. In May 2003 he made his debut at the Teatro San Carlo, directed by Francesco Rosi, the new staging of di "Napoli Milionaria!"

  In 2015 Luca became the director of the School of Acting Teatro Stabile of Naples. In 2013 he married Carolina Rosi, daughter of the great film director Francesco Rosi, with whom he had three children. 

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