Adriano Rimoldi (1912–1965) was an Italian
film actor
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.
Career
He appeared in more than sixty films during his career, which stretched from the late 1930s to his death in the mid 1960s. In 1940 he played the male lead in the melodrama ''
Goodbye Youth'', alongside
Maria Denis and
Clara Calamai
Clara Calamai (7 September 1909 – 21 September 1998) was an Italian actress.
She was one of the most famous and popular Italian actresses in the 1930s and 1940s, sharing the limelight with actresses such as Alida Valli, Valentina Cortese, an ...
, two of the leading actresses of the
Fascist era.
[Goble p.356] He appeared alongside the world-famous comedy duo
Laurel and Hardy
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in their final film ''
Atoll K''.
Selected filmography
* ''
A Thousand Lire a Month
''A Thousand Lire a Month'' (Italian: ''Mille lire al mese'') is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.Nowell-Smith p.119 It is a remake of the 1936 ...
'' (1939) - Un impiegato della radio
* ''
Bridge of Glass'' (1940)
* ''Il signore della taverna'' (1940) - Il suo fidanzato
* ''
Kean'' (1940) - Orazio nell' Amleto
* ''Miseria e nobiltà'' (1940) - Il marchesino Eugenio
* ''
Goodbye Youth'' (1940) - Mario
* ''
The Story of Tosca'' (1941) - Angelotti
* ''La compagnia della teppa'' (1941) - Giorgio Appiani
* ''
Tosca
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'' (1941)
* ''
Captain Tempest
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'' (1942) - Marcello Corner
* ''
Tragic Night'' (1942) - Il conte Paolo Martorelli
* ''
The Lion of Damascus
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'' (1942) - Marcello Corner
* ''Perdizione'' (1942) - Francesco
* ''Le vie del cuore'' (1942) - Giorgio Castellani, cugino di Anna
* ''
Loves of Don Juan'' (1942) - Don Giovanni Tenorio
* ''Sempre più difficile'' (1943) - Stefano Turrisi
* ''Il viaggio del signor Perrichon'' (1943) - Daniele
* ''Turbante blanco'' (1943) - Alejandro Marcos
* ''La carica degli eroi'' (1943)
* ''
Carmen
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'' (1944) - Marquez, le lieutenant des Dragons / Marquez, il tenente dei Dragoni
* ''
The Children Are Watching Us
''The Children Are Watching Us'' ( it, I bambini ci guardano) is a 1943 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Plot
Pricò is a young Italian boy who lives with his parents in a middle-class household. His mother, Nina, takes him to a ...
'' (1944) - Roberto - l'amante di Nina
* ''Cabeza de hierro'' (1944) - Mosca
* ''Ni pobre, ni rico, sino todo lo contrario'' (1944) - Abelardo
* ''Hombres sin honor'' (1944) - Carlos Aguilar
* ''
A Shadow at the Window
''A Shadow at the Window'' (Spanish: ''Una sombra en la ventana'') is a 1944 Spanish crime film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring Manuel Luna, Ana Mariscal and María Martín.Bentley p.95 It was based on a novel by Cecilio Benítez de ...
'' (1945) - Luis Carvajal
* ''¡Culpable!'' (1945) - Doctor Fernando Castillo
* ''El obstáculo'' (1945) - Enrique Díaz
* ''Aquel viejo molino'' (1946)
* ''Borrasca de celos'' (1946)
* ''Sinfonía del hogar'' (1947)
* ''Noche sin cielo'' (1947) - Padre Lorenzo
* ''
Nada
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'' (1947) - Jaime
* ''El ángel gris'' (1947) - Pedro Pérez
* ''
Anguish'' (1947) - Marcos
* ''Alhucemas'' (1948) - Capitán Suárez
* ''Las aguas bajan negras'' (1948) - Nolo
* ''La vida encadenada'' (1948)
* ''Pacto de silencio'' (1949) - John Brand
* ''Doce horas de vida'' (1949) - Miguel
* ''
In a Corner of Spain
''In a Corner of Spain'' (Spanish: ''En un rincón de España'') is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Jerónimo Mihura and starring Carlos Agostí, Juan de Landa and Blanca de Silos. It was the first Spanish film in colour, using the cinef ...
'' (1949) - Vladimir
* ''
Hand of Death'' (1949) - conte Orazio Altieri
* ''
Mistress of the Mountains
''Mistress of the Mountains'' (Italian: ''Gente così'') is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Vivi Gioi, Adriano Rimoldi and Camillo Pilotto.
Plot
In a small town in upper Lombardy near the Swiss border, smugg ...
'' (1950) - Giàn, il contrabbandiere
* ''
Captain Demonio
''Captain Demonio'' ( it, Capitan Demonio) is a 1950 Italian historical film, historical adventure film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Adriano Rimoldi, María Martín (actress), María Martín and Luisella Beghi.
Plot
In 1700 in Floren ...
'' (1950) - Capitan Demonio
* ''Dora la espía'' (1950) - Andres
* ''Si te hubieses casado conmigo'' (1950) - Alfonso / Carlos
* ''
Atoll K'' (1950) - Giovanni Copini
* ''
Red Seal'' (1950)
* ''
The Reluctant Magician'' (1951) - Industriale
* ''
The Two Sergeants'' (1951)
* ''Ultimo perdono'' (1952) - Renato Rocchi
* ''
I, Hamlet
''I, Hamlet'' (Italian: ''Io, Amleto'') is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Erminio Macario, Franca Marzi and Rossana Podestà. A parody of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Hamlet'', its lack of commercial suc ...
'' (1952) - Marcello
* ''Voto di marinaio'' (1953)
* ''
I Always Loved You'' (1953) - Giorgio
* ''La figlia del forzato'' (1953) - pittore Corrado
* ''Cuore di mamma'' (1954) - Denny Alescu
* ''Malagueña'' (1956) - Don Claudio
* ''Sendas marcadas'' (1957) - Inspector Ortega
* ''
Cuatro en la frontera
''Cuatro en la frontera'' is a 1958 Spanish film directed by Antonio Santillán. Written
by Joaquín Algars and Nené Cascallar, it stars Claudine Dupuis, Danielle Godet, and Estanis González.
Plot
A French National Treasury van is assaulted ...
'' (1958) - don Rafael
* ''Azafatas con permiso'' (1959) - Alberto
* ''Los chicos'' (1959) - Novio de la vedette
* ''El precio de la sangre'' (1960)
* ''Juventud a la intemperie'' (1961) - Comisario Torres
* ''
King of Kings
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'' (1961) - Melchior
* ''Han matado a un cadáver'' (1962) - Juan Planas
* ''
L'amore difficile'' (1962) - Il marito (segment "L'avaro")
* ''Napoleone a Firenze'' (1964)
* ''
Balearic Caper
''Balearic Caper'' ( es, Zarabanda bing bing, it, Baleari Operazione Oro, french: Barbouze chérie, also known as ''Operation Gold'') is a 1966 Spanish-Italian-French heist-Eurospy comedy film written and directed by José María Forqué and st ...
'' (1966) - (final film role)
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
*
1912 births
1965 deaths
People from La Spezia
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors
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