Filippo Scelzo (19 April 1900 – 9 October 1980) 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 (), li ...
. He appeared in more than forty films including ''
Red Passport'' in which he played the male lead.
[Landy, Marcia. ''The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943''. SUNY Press, 1998. p.155.]
Selected filmography
* ''
Loyalty of Love
''Loyalty of Love'' (Italian: ''Teresa Confalonieri'') is a 1934 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Marta Abba, Nerio Bernardi and Luigi Cimara. It is based on the story of Teresa Confalonieri, a celebrated f ...
'' (1934) - Il barone Salvotti
* ''
Red Passport'' (1935) - Lorenzo Casati
* ''Tredici uomini e un cannone'' (1936) - Uomo #2
* ''Jeanne Doré'' (1938) - Perodot
* ''L'amor mio non muore!'' (1938)
* ''
The Sons of the Marquis Lucera'' (1939) - Salvatore
* ''Le sorprese del divorzio'' (1939) - Enrico Duval
* ''
Trial and Death of Socrates'' (1939) - Cebete
* ''
Bridge of Glass'' (1940) - A Ponte de Vidro
* ''
Kean'' (1940) - Il principe di Galles
* ''Piccolo alpino'' (1940) - Michele Rasi, suo padre
* ''
Malombra'' (1942) - Un medico (uncredited)
* ''Piazza San Sepolcro'' (1942)
* ''
Odessa in Flames
''Odessa in Flames'' (Italian: ''Odessa in fiamme'', Romanian: ''Odessa în flăcări'') is a 1942 Italian-Romanian propaganda war film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Maria Cebotari, Carlo Ninchi and Filippo Scelzo. The film is about th ...
'' (1942) - Michele Smirnoff
* ''Il nostro prossimo'' (1943) - Il padre di Paola
* ''
The White Angel'' (1943) - Giovanni
* ''Tempesta sul golfo'' (1943) - Wolikof - il pittore
* ''La signora in nero'' (1943) - Raimondo
* ''Il fiore sotto gli occhi'' (1944) - Il proffesore Falcini
* ''Nessuno torna indietro'' (1945) - Guido Belluzzi
* ''The White Devil'' (1947) - Der Intelektuelle
* ''
Man with the Grey Glove'' (1948) - Tambroni
* ''
The Earth Cries Out
''The Earth Cries Out'' ( it, Il grido della terra, also known as ''Exodus'') is a 1948 Italian action-drama film directed by Duilio Coletti.
In 2008 it was restored and shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" ...
'' (1949) - Professore Taumen
* ''
Romanticismo'' (1949) - General Rienz
* ''Duel Without Honor'' (1950)
* ''
Il Brigante Musolino'' (1950) - Public prosecutor
* ''
The Count of Saint Elmo'' (1951) - Mancini
* ''
The Ungrateful Heart
''The Ungrateful Heart'' ( nap, Core 'ngrato) is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Carla Del Poggio, Frank Latimore and Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 ...
'' (1951) - Avvocato difensore
* ''
Frontier Wolf'' (1951)
* ''
Un Ladro in paradiso'' (1952) - Chirurgo
* ''
La voce del sangue'' (1952) - Donato Scala
* ''
Gli uomini non guardano il cielo'' (1952) - Cardinal Ferrari
* ''
The Secret of Three Points'' (1952) - Avvocato Mottola
* ''
La Nemica'' (1952) - Notaio Ragaldi
* ''
L'ingiusta condanna'' (1952)
* ''
The Shadow
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'' (1954) - Il dottor Magre
* ''
The Boatman of Amalfi'' (1954) - Padre Felice
* ''Io, Caterina'' (1957)
* ''
Gold of Rome'' (1961) - Ludovico, President of the Jewish community
* ''
The Verona Trial
''Il processo di Verona'' (internationally released as ''The Verona Trial'') is a 1963 Italian historical drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film tells of the final phases of the Italian fascist regime, in particular the affair of the 1944 ...
'' (1963) - Giovanni Marinelli
* ''
Il Successo
''Il Successo'' (also known as ''The Success'') is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Mauro Morassi. It is considered an unofficial sequel of Dino Risi's ''Il Sorpasso'', with Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant reprising their roles w ...
'' (1963) - Berto
* ''
La corruzione
''Corruption'' ( it, La corruzione) is a 1963 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini.
Plot
A young man upon finishing college announces to his publisher father that he wants to become a priest. The father who wants his son to take over ...
'' (1963) - Professore
* ''Le piacevoli notti'' (1966) - Messer Bindo
* ''
La bambolona'' (1968) - Giulio's father
* ''Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato'' (1972) - Padre Palermo (final film role)
References
External links
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1900 births
1980 deaths
People from Ivrea
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors
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