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Vicky Astori

Argentinian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16646205
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Vicky Astori (née Beatriz Accarini; 4 March 1912 – 19 November 1968), known as Bice or Bicky Astori, was an Italian actress who made her career in Argentina.

Biography

Astori was born in Zibello, in the Province of Parma in 1912. She travelled to Argentina in 1936, debuting in the Teatro Maipo. Thereafter, she performed operettas and dramas at various venues.

In Argentinian operettas, she worked with directors such as Juan Travé and Giovanni Quaranta, as well as with actors such as Aída Alba, Olga Castagnetta, Ángela Marini, Nené Piantanelli, Leonor Ferrari, Alba Regina, Ester Ribelli and Lydia Rossi, among others. She associated with actors and actresses of the golden age of the Argentinian cinema such as Luis Arata, Cayetano Biondo, Augusto Codecá, Margarita Tops, Irma Córdoba, Norma Giménez, Ricardo Passano, Tito Lusiardo, Rosa Catá, Eduardo Sandrini, Niní Marshall, Juan Pecci, Aída Luz and Jorge Luz, Héctor Quintanilla, Hugo of the Lane, and María Esther Ranges. In some film credits, her names appears as "Bicky".

Astori died 19 November 1968 in Buenos Aires after a long illness. She was buried in the SADAIC pantheon at the Cemetery of the Chacarita. She was 56 years old.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Vicky Astori” as argentinian actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1912, 1968, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1912-03-04. The account is most persuasive where Vicky, Astori and Argentinian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as argentinian actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16646205. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1968 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from Vicky Astori” 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.