Overview
- Cartagena mayor Dumek Turbay publicly announced Basile’s death on January 26, 2026.
- His son said doctors identified a pancreatic tumor on December 1, 2025, after years of stomach pain, and that the illness advanced quickly to his death about six weeks later.
- Born in Naples on May 18, 1940, Basile arrived in Cartagena in 1968 for Gillo Pontecorvo’s Queimada and made the city his permanent home.
- He worked across film and television with credits including El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Ilona llega con la lluvia, La estrategia del caracol, Café con aroma de mujer and Señora Isabel.
- He served for two decades on the Cartagena International Film Festival board, where the mayor called him “the most Cartagenero Italian of all.”