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Cesare Fantoni
Cesare Fantoni (1 January 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937. He made his debut film appearance in '' Doctor Antonio''. He then appeared in more than 70 films between 1939 and 1962. Fantoni made light appearances later in his career as Don Ignazio in the films '' The Overtaxed'' and '' Letto a tre piazze''. Fantoni was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in the Italian market. (in Italian) He dubbed the voices of |
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light In The Darkness
''Light in the Darkness'' (Italian: ''Luce nelle tenebre'') is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli and Clara Calamai.Gundle p.215 The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. Cast * Fosco Giachetti as Alberto Serrani * Alida Valli as Marina Ferri * Clara Calamai as Clara Ferri * Enzo Biliotti as Il professore Ferri * Carlo Campanini as Farelli * Carlo Lombardi as Il maestro Sartori * Guglielmo Sinaz as Un minatore * Ciro Berardi as Un ospite della pensione 'Iride' * Cesare Fantoni as Il direttore della profumeria * Nino Marchetti as L'impresario musicale * Emilio Petacci as Il portiere * Ugo Sasso Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Turin, in the early 1930s Sasso moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia ... as Un i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama On The Tiber
''Drama on the Tiber'' (Italian: ''Dramma sul Tevere'') is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Tanio Boccia and starring Renato Baldini, Aldo Fiorelli and Bianca Doria. The plot centres around a widow named Sora Rosa with two sons, Aldo and Bruno. While Aldo lives an upright life, Bruno is part of the entourage of a dangerous gangster named Barone Toto. Plot Rome, A poor widow Sora Rosa raised Aldo and Bruno alone. The two brothers grew up in different ways, the first Aldo lives a respectable life and the second Bruno has become a criminal in the pay of the Roman underworld boss Totò known as Er Barone. Cast * Renato Baldini as Bruno Rossi * Aldo Fiorelli as Aldo Rossi * Bianca Doria as La sora Rosa, loro madre * Zina Rachevsky as La soubrette Mughetto * Silvana Muzi as Nunziatina * Cesare Fantoni as Toto, detto 'barone' * Alberto Sorrentino Alberto Sorrentino (16 February 1916 – 31 January 1994), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 89 films between 1943 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Shirts (film)
''Red Shirts'' (Italian:''Camicie rosse'') is a 1952 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and Francesco Rosi and starring Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone and Alain Cuny. The title refers to the historical Redshirts. It is also known as ''Anita Garibaldi''. The film portrays the life of Anita Garibaldi (1821–1849), the wife of Italian unification leader Giuseppe Garibaldi.Moliterno p.273 Cast *Anna Magnani as Anita Garibaldi *Raf Vallone as Giuseppe Garibaldi *Alain Cuny as Bueno *Jacques Sernas as Gentile *Carlo Ninchi as Ciceruacchio *Enzo Cerusico as Il figlio di Ciceruacchio *Gino Leurini as Andrea *Mario Monosilio as Giovanni *Marisa Natale as Rosa *Emma Baron as La signora Guiccioli *Carlo Duse as Bonnert *Cesare Fantoni as Il generale Oudinot *Rodolfo Lodi as Il colonello Forbes *Bruno Smith as Gustavo Mioni *Pietro Tordi as Carlo Ferrari *Piero Pastore Pietro Mario Pastore, also known as Piero Pastore (3 April 1908, in Padua – 8 January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Of Padua (film)
''Anthony of Padua'' (Italian: ''Antonio di Padova'') is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Aldo Fiorelli, Silvana Pampanini and Carlo Giustini. The film portrays the life of Anthony of Padua (1195–1231).Moliterno p.136 Cast * Aldo Fiorelli as Fernando - poi Antonio di Padova * Silvana Pampanini as Anita - madre di Fernando * Carlo Giustini as Padre di Fernando * Alberto Pomerani as Il piccolo Fernando * as Conte Vincenzo * Luigi Pavese as Don Luigi * Ugo Sasso as Il contadino * Lola Braccini as Sua madre * Nino Pavese as Achille Sartori * Piero Pastore as Giano * Mario Ferrari as Il giudice Don Alicante * as Isabella * Dianora Veiga as La lussuriosa * Cesare Fantoni as Sultano * Guido Notari as Avvocato difensore * Valerio Tordi as Don Alvaro * Riccardo Mangano as Don Diego * Carlo Duse as Capitano delle guardie di Ezzelina * as Avvocato accusatore * as Il buffone di Ezzelino * as Frate Bernardo * Armando G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatal Symphony
''Fatal Symphony'' (Italian: ''Sinfonia fatale'') is a 1947 Italian war-melodrama film directed by Victor Stoloff and starring Douglass Montgomery, Marina Berti and Sarah Churchill. It was screened and awarded a prize at the Lugano Festival.Lovell p.495 It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Vittorio Valentini. Synopsis Before the Second World War an American composer, separated from his wife, comes to live in Italy and falls in love with a country girl. Cast * Douglass Montgomery as John Savage * Marina Berti as Mirella * Sarah Churchill as Mrs. Savage * Tullio Carminati as Pedro Diaz * Victor Rietti as Beppo * Carlo Romano as Giorgio * John Blythe as pittore Pierre Robert * Cesare Fantoni as sacerdote * Pina Gallini as Nunziata, moglie di Beppo * Claudio Gora as Rodolfo Marini * Sergio Capogna as Rocco * Renzo Merusi as tenore d'Errico * Giuseppe Pierozzi as impiegato galleria d'arte * Pina Piova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Testimony (1946 Film)
''The Testimony'' (Italian: ''Il testimone'') is 1946 Italian crime film directed by Pietro Germi and starring Roldano Lupi, Marina Berti and Ernesto Almirante. It is one of several films regarded as an antecedent of the later giallo thrillers.Moliterno p.150 The film was made at the Cines Studios in Rome. The sets were designed by the art director Salvo D'Angelo. Cast * Roldano Lupi as Pietro Scotti * Marina Berti as Linda * Ernesto Almirante as Giuseppe Marchi, il testimone * Sandro Ruffini as L'avvocato difensore * Cesare Fantoni as Il padrone dell' osteria * Arnoldo Foà as L'impiegato dell' anagrafe * Dino Maronetto as Andrea, il condanato * Marcella Melnati as La padrone di casa * Alfredo Salvatori * Petr Sharov as Il pubblico ministero * Pietro Fumelli * Angelo Calabrese * Vittorio Cottafavi * Giovanni Petrucci Giovanni Petrucci (said Gianni; born 19 July 1945, in Rome) is an Italian sports director. He is the current President of CONI for the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fornarina (film)
''La Fornarina'' (i.e. "The baker's daughter") is a 1944 Italian historical drama film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Lída Baarová. It is loosely based on real life events of Raphael's model Margarita Luti. Plot Renaissance Rome: the young painter Raffaello Sanzio meets Margherita, a girl of the people, makes her his model for the painting "La fornarina", becomes her lover and will live with her. The girl will also inspire some Madonnas, but this relationship arouses the jealousies of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raphael falls into a state of prostration and does everything to track down Margherita; but when he finds it again it is too late because, undermined in physical and moral, he undergoes a collapse that leads to his death, on the very day of the Good Friday procession. Cast *Lída Baarová as Margherita * Walter Lazzaro as Raphael *Anneliese Uhlig as Eleonora d'Este *Loredana as Maria Dovizi *Luigi Pavese as S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lively Teresa
''Lively Teresa'' (Italian: ''La vispa Teresa'') is a 1943 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Lilia Silvi, Roberto Villa and Carlo Ninchi. It was produced in the style of the White Telephone comedies popular during the Fascist era. The film was only fully released following the Liberation of Rome, alongside other equally innocuous films such as ''The Innocent Casimiro''. This provoked criticism from supporters of the emerging neorealist movement who wanted to promote what they regarded as more innovative films, while the major film companies such as Lux Film and Minverva preferred more populist offerings.Gundle p.268 It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. Plot A wealthy engineer is disturbed when he discovers that his son Alberto has fallen in love with an ambitious manicurist Luisa. He arranges for him to go on holiday to Venice while he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl Of The Golden West (film)
''Girl of the Golden West'' (Italian: ''Una signora dell'ovest'') is a 1942 Italian western film directed by Carl Koch and starring Michel Simon, Isa Pola and Rossano Brazzi. It is based on the novel, ''La Dame de l'Ouest'', by Pierre Benoit. It was made at the Scalera Studios in Rome, and on location in Lazio countryside. The film's title alludes to the opera '' The Girl of the Golden West'' by Giacomo Puccini, but is not an adaptation of it. It was one of only a handful of Westerns to be made during the silent and Fascist eras, in a genre in which Italy later became famous. Synopsis Arianna, an Italian actress, joins a caravan heading into the American West with her companion Diego. Diego is eventually killed by a local villain. Arianna falls in love with the villain without realising that he is the murderer. Cast * Michel Simon as Butler * Isa Pola as Arianna * Rossano Brazzi as William * Valentina Cortese as Madge * as Diego * Carlo Duse as un dipendente di Butler * V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gorgon (1942 Film)
''The Gorgon'' (Italian: ''La Gorgona'') is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Mariella Lotti, Rossano Brazzi and Camillo Pilotto.Goble p.783 It was adapted from the play by Sem Benelli and is set in the Republic of Pisa during the eleventh century. It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. Cast * Mariella Lotti as Spina di Pietro, la Gorgona * Rossano Brazzi as Lamberto Finquinaldo * Camillo Pilotto as Marcello Finquinaldo, padre di Lamberto * Piero Carnabuci as Arrigo del Coscetto * Annibale Betrone as Il conte Ranieri * Tina Lattanzi as La contessa Matilde di Toscana * Lauro Gazzolo as Il fedele servo di Spina * Enza Delbi as Bianca * Gorella Gori as Berta * Emilio Cigoli as Miniato - lo scudiero * Giulia Martinelli as Celeste * Amelia Beretta as Berta * Achille Majeroni as Il console Marignano * Cesare Fantoni as Pietro Moricone - vescovo * Giorgio Capecchi as Capitano Borso * Giovanni Onorato as Nicastro * Tatia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invisible Chains (film)
''Invisible Chains'' (Italian: ''Catene invisibili'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Giuditta Rissone.Gundle p.236 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Mario Rappini. Plot Following the death of her industrialist father, a young socialite inherits his business empire. Discovering that she has an illegitimate half-brother, she tries to assist him by finding him employment in the factory, but his criminal behaviour lets her down. Finally, she finds love and companionship in the engineer who runs the factory on her behalf. Cast * Alida Valli as Elena Silvagni * Carlo Ninchi as Carlo Danieli * Giuditta Rissone as La signora Matilde Silvagni * Andrea Checchi as Enrico Leni, il fratellastro * Jone Morino as La madre di Enrico * Carlo Campanini as Cesare Tani * Luigi Almirante as Un amico dei Silvagni * Ada Dondini as La fioraia * Arma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
