Galeazzo Benti
Galeazzo Benti | |
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| Born | Galeazzo Bentivoglio 6 August 1923 Florence, Italy |
| Died | 21 April 1993 (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 more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991.[1]
Life and career[edit]
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.[2] He was the step brother of colleague Fiammetta Baralla. 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.[2] 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.[2] 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.[2]
Selected filmography[edit]
- 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)
- Poppy (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
References[edit]
- ^ "Galeazzo Benti". MyMovies. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131.
