Carlo Benetti (1885–1949) was an Italian

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 ...

of 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 ...

.Goble p.125 During the

sound era A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

he worked as

production manager In the cinema of the United States, a unit production manager (UPM) is the Directors Guild of America–approved title for the top below-the-line staff position, responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production. Non- ...

on a number of films.

Selected filmography

* '' Assunta Spina'' (1915) * ''

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'' (1915) * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1916) * '' Odette'' (1916) * '' The Voyage'' (1921) * ''

The Closed Mouth ''The Closed Mouth'' (Italian:''La bocca chiusa'') is a 1925 Italian silent film directed by Guglielmo Zorzi.Dalle Vacche p.262 Cast * Maria Jacobini as Maria * Arnold Kent as Lord Colchester, padre e figlio * Carlo Benetti as Marchese di C ...

'' (1925) * ''

The Golden Vein ''The Golden Vein'' (Italian: ''La vena d'oro'') is a 1928 Italian silent comedy film directed by Guglielmo Zorzi and starring Diana Karenne, Elio Steiner, and Giovanni Cimara.Lancia & Poppi p.216 It was adapted from Zorzi's own play. It is now ...

'' (1928) * ''

Kif Tebbi ''Kif Tebbi'' is a 1928 Italian silent war film directed by Mario Camerini. The film portrays the Italo-Turkish War. A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire when war breaks out in 1911, but eventually ...

'' (1928)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1885 births 1949 deaths Italian male film actors Italian male silent film actors Male actors from Florence 20th-century Italian male actors Film people from Florence {{Italy-film-actor-stub