Galeazzo Benti

Galeazzo Benti
Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio
(1923-08-06)6 August 1923
Florence, Italy
Died 21 April 1993(1993-04-21) (aged 69)
Bracciano, Italy
Occupation Actor
Years active 1942-1991

Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 78 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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131.

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