Galeazzo Benti

Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991.

Life and career

Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy, a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which ruled Bologna from 1401 until 1506 and from 1511 until 1512, he started his career as a cartoonist and a set designer. After his first roles in 1942, he had his breakout in 1943, in Sergio Tofano's ''Gian Burrasca'', in which he played a frivolous and falsely modest snob, a role he specialized during his career. After successfully alternating between cinema and revue, in the late 1950s he moved to Venezuela, where he worked in a television channel dedicated to Italian immigrants. He came back to Italy in the early 1980s, and here he reprised his acting career equally splitting between films and TV-series until his death from a heart attack in 1993.

Selected filmography

* ''Souls in Turmoil'' (1942) - Un amico di Elena
* ''The Three Pilots'' (1942) - Andrea Torelli
* '' The Lady Is Fickle'' (1942) - Un giovanetto al teatro
* ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943)
* ''Gian Burrasca'' (1943) - Tinti, il giornalista
* ''Gente dell'aria'' (1943) - Il tenente Prollo
* ''The Za-Bum Circus'' (1944) - (segment "Galop finale al circo")
* ''La freccia nel fianco'' (1945) - Duccio Massenti
* ''Life Begins Anew'' (1945) - Un cliente del ristorante (uncredited)
* ''Che distinta famiglia!'' (1945) - The real Michele di Montuja
* ''Departure at Seven'' (1946)
* ''Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) - Rorò di Torretia
* ''Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone'' (1947)
* ''Flesh Will Surrender'' (1947) - L'ufficiale di cavalleria
* '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) - Giorgio
* ''Dove sta Zaza?'' (1947)
* '' Cab Number 13'' (1948) - Le commissaire Portier
* ''Fear and Sand'' (1948) - George
* ''The Dance of Death'' (1948)
* ''Accidenti alla guerra!...'' (1948) - F.23
* ''Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) - Il 'contino'
* ''Una voce nel tuo cuore'' (1949)
* ''The Emperor of Capri'' (1949) - Dodo della Baggina
* ''Se fossi deputato'' (1949)
* ''Margaret of Cortona'' (1950) - Arsenio del Monte
* ''Totò Tarzan'' (1950) - L'esercitatore dei superparacadutisti
* ''The Transporter'' (1950) - Un cliente galante
* ''The Knight Has Arrived!'' (1950) - Marchese Bevilacqua
* '' Milano miliardaria'' (1951) - Walter
* ''La paura fa 90'' (1951) - Carlo Champignon
* ''Seven Hours of Trouble'' (1951) - Ernesto
* ''Paris Is Always Paris'' (1951) - Gianni Forlivesi
* ''Amor non ho! Però, però..'' (1951)
* '' Free Escape'' (1951)
* ''Three Girls from Rome'' (1952) - Marisa's friend
* ''Toto in Color'' (1952) - Poldo
* ''Wife For a Night'' (1952) - Maurizio
* ''Altri tempi'' (1952) - Amante della signora (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")
* ''I figli non si vendono'' (1952)
* '' Sunday Heroes'' (1952) - Benti - Lucy's wooer
* ''Primo premio: Mariarosa'' (1952)
* ''Lo sai che i papaveri'' (1952) - Viveur del night
* ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) - Un giornalista
* '' Canzoni di mezzo secolo'' (1952)
* ''Beauties on Motor Scooters'' (1952) - Gastone
* ''Fermi tutti... arrivo io!'' (1953) - Giornalista
* ''Cavalcade of Song'' (1953) - Il soldatino
* ''Viva la rivista!'' (1953)
* ''Scampolo 53'' (1953)
* ''Canto per te'' (1953)
* '' Matrimonial Agency'' (1953) - Lodolini
* '' It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' (1954)
* ''Tears of Love'' (1954)
* ''Neapolitan Carousel'' (1954) - French tourist
* ''Papà Pacifico'' (1954) - Alberto di Pontenero - the baron
* '' Angela'' (1954) - Gustavo Venturi
* ''An American in Rome'' (1954) - Fred Buonanotte
* ''A Free Woman'' (1954) - Sergio Rollini
* ''Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!'' (1954) - Snob
* ''Toto in Hell'' (1955) - Il cantante esistenzialista
* ''Carovana di canzoni'' (1955) - Mickey Spillone
* '' Red and Black'' (1955)
* ''Yo y las mujeres'' (1959)
* ''Il dio serpente'' (1970) - Bernard Lucas
* ''Lola'' (1974) - Doctor
* ''El enterrador de cuentos'' (1978)
* '' La terrazza'' (1980) - Galeazzo
* ''Morituri'' (1984)
* ''Il commissario Lo Gatto'' (1987) - Barone Fricò
* ''Me and My Sister'' (1987) - Avv. Sironi
* ''Animali metropolitani'' (1987) - Dott. Cohen
* ''Mortacci'' (1989) - Tommaso Grillo
* ''Rouge Venise'' (1989) - Silvio Conio
* '' Massacre Play'' (1989) - Cornelius Plank
* ''Nel giardino delle rose'' (1990) - Troncucci
* ''Vacanze di Natale '90'' (1990) - Principe Galiberti
* ''Rossini! Rossini!'' (1991) - La Rochefoucault
* '' Count Max'' (1991) - Conte Max

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Benti, Galeazzo
1923 births
1993 deaths
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male television actors
20th-century Italian male actors