Andrea Habay (1883–1941) was a French

film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...

. Habay appeared in more forty films during the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

, mostly in Italy. He also directed three films during the early 1920s. He played the role of

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'',Scodel & Bettenworth p.227 one of his final films.

Selected filmography

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'' (1914) * '' Blue Blood'' (1914) * ''

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'' (1917) * '' The Princess of Baghdad'' (1918) * ''

Tortured Soul ''Tortured Soul'' (Italian:''Anima tormentata'') is a 1919 Italian silent film directed by Mario Caserini and starring Maria Jacobini, Andrea Habay and Alberto Collo. Alessandro Blasetti, a leading Italian director of the Fascist era, had his ...

'' (1919) * '' The Redemption'' (1924) * ''

Quo Vadis ''Quō vādis?'' (, ) is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you marching?". It is also commonly translated as "Where are you going?" or, poetically, "Whither goest thou?" The phrase originates from the Christian tradition regarding Saint Pete ...

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References

Bibliography

* Dalle Vacche, Angela. ''Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema''. University of Texas Press, 2008. * Scodel, Ruth & Bettenworth, Anja. ''Whither Quo vadis?''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

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* 1883 births 1941 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors French film directors Male actors from Paris French expatriates in Italy Italian people of French descent 20th-century French male actors {{France-actor-stub