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Aldo Bufi Landi

Italian actor (1923-2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3609147 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aldo Bufi Landi (7 April 1923 – 2 February 2016) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 2013.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Aldo Bufi Landi” is italian actor (1923-2016). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Aldo, Bufi and Landi, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2016, 1947, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-04-07. For this dossier, Aldo, Bufi and Landi is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “italian actor (1923-2016)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3609147. VIAF identifies the subject as 232925060. The Library of Congress control number is no2019057119. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923, 2016, 1947 and 2013.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Aldo Bufi Landi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Aldo Bufi Landi primary sources, Aldo Bufi Landi archive and Aldo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Aldo Bufi Landi”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Aldo Bufi Landi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.