Otello Toso (22 February 1914 – 15 March 1966) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Born in
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
, Toso graduated from the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental Film Centre or Italian National film school) was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film.
The centre is the oldest film school in ...
in 1939 and immediately later he started his film career. He was particularly prolific in the 1940s, in films in which he usually starred negative characters.
After
World War II
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Toso mostly starred in
melodramas and genre films, except for
Juan Antonio Bardem's ''
Death of a Cyclist''.
[ He died at 52 in a car accident in Pieve di Curtarolo, near Padua.]
Selected filmography
* ''1860'' (1933) - Piemontese soldier
* '' The Canal of the Angels'' (1934)
* '' Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) - Un ammiratore di Verdi al caffè
* ''Jeanne Doré'' (1938) - Extra in ball scene
* '' Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) - Un compagno d'arme Gentilino
* ''Inventiamo l'amore'' (1938) - Il primo giocatore di biliardo (uncredited)
* ''Crispino e la comare'' (1938)
* ''Io, suo padre'' (1939)
* ''Le père Lebonnard'' (1939) - Gaetano (uncredited)
* ''Ultima giovinezza'' (1939)
* ''Follie del secolo'' (1939) - Jean Kennedy, il violonista
* '' The Last Enemy'' (1940) - Enzo
* ''Il ponte dei sospiri'' (1940) - Rolando Candiano
* ''La granduchessa si diverte'' (1940) - Maurizio
* ''Ridi pagliaccio'' (1941) - Giorgio Veri
* ''Brivido'' (1941)
* '' Pirates of Malaya'' (1941) - Il tenente Schmidt
* ''Tentazione'' (1941) - Lorenzo Wendich, l'ingegnere
* ''Le signorine della villa accanto'' (1942) - Suo nipote
* ''Soltanto un bacio'' (1942) - Gianni Astolfi
* '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) - Giacomo
* ''Yellow Hell
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'' (1942) - Giorgio
* '' The Woman of Sin'' (1942) - Suo marito
* ''Special Correspondents
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'' (1943) - Renato Marini
* ''Vietato ai minorenni'' (1944) - Barra
* ''Mist on the Sea
''Mist on the Sea'' (Italian: ''Nebbie sul mare'') is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Hans Hinrich and starring Viveca Lindfors, Gustav Diessl and Umberto Spadaro.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 The film's sets were designed by ...
'' (1944) - Il dottore Leonardo Monti
* ''The Ten Commandments
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'' (1945) - (segment "Non rubare")
* ''Two Anonymous Letters
''Due lettere anonime'', internationally released as ''Two Anonymous Letters'', is a 1945 Italian war- melodrama film directed by Mario Camerini.
For this film Andrea Checchi won a Silver Ribbon for Best Actor.
Cast
* Clara Calamai: Gina
* An ...
'' (1945) - Tullio
* ''Fuga nella tempesta'' (1945) - Assassino
* ''La sua strada'' (1946) - Il giovanetto
* ''For the Love of Mariastella
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'' (1946) - Turi della Tonnara, detto 'Malacarne'
* ''Vanity
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'' (1947)
* ''Il corriere di ferro'' (1947) - L'aviatore italo-americano
* ''Il principe ribelle'' (1947)
* ''I cavalieri dalle maschere nere
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'' (1948) - Blasco di Castiglione
* '' Faddija – La legge della vendetta'' (1950) - Michele
* '' Captain Demonio'' (1950)
* ''Santo disonore'' (1950) - Alfredo
* '' Cavalcade of Heroes'' (1950) - Angelo Masina
* ''Alina
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'' (1950) - Marco
* '' Verginità'' (1951) - Giancarlo
* ''Revenge of a Crazy Girl
''Revenge of a Crazy Girl'' ( it, La vendetta di una pazza) is a 1951 Italian historical melodrama film written and directed by Pino Mercanti. It is loosely based on the novel ''La vendetta di una pazza'' written by Carolina Invernizio.
Cast
...
'' (1951) - Carlo
* '' Black Fire'' (1951) - Stefano
* '' The Cliff of Sin'' (1951)
* '' Gli innocenti pagano'' (1952) - Stefano Rella
* ''La voce del sangue
''La voce del sangue'' is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Pino Mercanti.
Cast
* Paul Muller as Count Franco Sampieri
* Franca Marzi as Elsa Di Lauro
* Otello Toso as Carlo Mattei
* Evi Maltagliati as Giulia Scala
* Lyla Rocco as Lu ...
'' (1952) - Carlo Mattei
* ''Rimorso
''Rimorso'' is a 1952 Italian melodrama film.
Cast
*Maria Grazia Francia as Maria
* Otello Toso as Corrado Anselmi
*Linda Sini as Tamara
*Mirko Ellis as Luciano
* Agostino Salvietti as Raffaele
*Tina Pica as Assunta
*Enzo Maggio as Gennaro
*Ign ...
'' (1952)
* '' La colpa di una madre'' (1952) - Mr. Herbert
* '' Er fattaccio'' (1952) - Bruno
* '' Carcerato'' (1953) - Marco
* ''Una donna prega'' (1953) - Giulio Aureli
* ''Desiderio 'e sole'' (1954) - Count Sergio Sirovich
* ''Letter from Naples
''Letter from Naples'' (Italian: ''Lettera napoletana'') is a 1954 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Giacomo Rondinella, Virna Lisi and Otello Toso.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfr ...
'' (1954) - Álvaro Ramírez
* ''Tears of Love
''Tears of Love'' (Italian: ''Lacrime d'amore'') is a 1954 Italian Musical film, musical melodrama film directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Achille Togliani, Katina Ranieri and Otello Toso.Chiti & Poppi p.201
Cast
* Achille Togliani as Mario B ...
'' (1954) - Davide Montalto
* ''Piscatore 'e Pusilleco'' (1954) - Walter
* ''Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno'' (1954) - Lord Wilmore
* '' La trovatella di Milano'' (1955) - Miguel Castro
* ''The Knight of the Black Sword
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Stephen Paul Barclay (born 3 May 1972) is a Br ...
'' (1956) - Marchese Altamura
* ''Tormento d'amore'' (1956) - Luigi
* ''Amaramente'' (1956) - Andrea
* '' La trovatella di Milano'' (1956) - Count Giorgio Patti
* ''Onore e sangue'' (1957) - Arturo Ferretti
* '' Il Conte di Matera'' (1958) - Count Rambaldo Tramontana di Casamaiora
* ''Desert Desperadoes'' (1959) - Verrus
* '' Il peccato degli anni verdi'' (1960) - Elena Giordani's Father
* ''Pulcinella, cetrulo di Acerra'' (1961)
* '' Planets Against Us (I pianeti contro di noi)'' (1962) - Maj. Michelotti
References
External links
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Italian male film actors
1914 births
Actors from Padua
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
1966 deaths
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
Road incident deaths in Italy
20th-century Italian male actors
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