Galeazzo Benti
Galeazzo Benti | |
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Born |
Galeazzo Bentivoglio 6 August 1923 Florence, Italy |
Died |
21 April 1993 69) Bracciano, Italy | (aged
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
- The Three Pilots (1942)
- Annabella's Adventure (1943)
- The Za-Bum Circus (1944)
- Peddlin' in Society (1946)
- Flesh Will Surrender (1947)
- The Two Orphans (1947)
- Fear and Sand (1948)
- Cab Number 13 (1948)
- The Dance of Death (1948)
- The Emperor of Capri (1949)
- Totò Tarzan (1950)
- La Bisarca (1950)
- Free Escape (1951)
- Paris Is Always Paris (1951)
- Seven Hours of Trouble (1951)
- Altri tempi (1952)
- The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
- Beauties on Motor Scooters (1952)
- Wife For a Night (1952)
- Toto in Color (1952)
- Canzoni di mezzo secolo (1952)
- Sunday Heroes (1953)
- Cavalcade of Song (1953)
- Neapolitan Carousel (1954)
- Papà Pacifico (1954)
- An American in Rome (1954)
- A Free Woman (1954)
- Red and Black (1955)
- Angela (1955)
- Toto in Hell (1955)
- Il dio serpente (1970)
- La terrazza (1980)
- Me and My Sister (1987)
- Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987)
- Massacre Play (1989)
- Mortacci (1989)
- Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
- Count Max (1991)