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Memo Benassi - Wikipedia

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Memo Benassi
Memo Benassi on stage (1942)
Born	Domenico Benassi (1886-06-21)21 June 1886 Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna Italy
Died	24 February 1957(1957-02-24) (aged 70) Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1955 (film)

Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles.

Life and career

Born in Sorbolo, Benassi initially formed as a musician, studying cello at the Parma Conservatory.^[1] His professional acting career was launched in the late 1910s by Gualtiero Tumiati, who offered him a role in his stage company after noting him during an amateur theatrical performance.^[1] He was later enrolled in several major theater companies of the time, notably working with Eleonora Duse and Emma and Irma Gramatica.^[1] In 1925, he formed his own stage company.^[1] He made his film debut in 1932, and had main roles in films by Alessandro Blasetti and Max Ophüls, among others.^[1] He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film Rossini.^[2] After the war, he mostly focused on his theatrical career, working with Giorgio Strehler and Luchino Visconti.^[1]

Selected filmography

Notte di tempesta (1916)
Mimì e gli straccioni (1916)
Il gioiello sinistro (1917)
La nemica (1917)
Margheritella (1918)
La scala di seta (1920)
The Love Letters of Baroness S (1924) - Straßenmusikant Giovanni
The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925) - Theo Hartwig, Schriftsteller
The Old Lady (1932) - Joe
The Lucky Diamond (1933) - Il maggiordomo
The Missing Treaty (1933) - John Brown - detective
The Haller Case (1933) - Judge Haller
L'impiegata di papà (1934) - Banchiere Monti
Everybody's Woman (1934) - Leonardo Nanni
Conquest of the Air (1936) - Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)
Lady of Paradise (1937) - Matteo Iran
Scipione l'africano (1937) - Cato
Tonight at Eleven (1938) - L'ambasciatore Leopoldo Norton
Princess Tarakanova (1938) - L'ambasciatore russo
La conquista dell'aria (1939) - Il Gesuita Franceesco Lama
Orizzonte dipinto (1941) - Il burattinaio
Il vagabondo (1941) - Fanfulla
The Jester's Supper (1942) - Il Tornaquinci
The Two Orphans (1942) - Il conte di Linières
Fedora (1942) - Il principe Yariskine
Rossini (1942) - Beethoven
I due Foscari (1942) - Donato Almorò
Fourth Page (1942) - Il pazzo
The Son of the Red Corsair (1943) - Il marchese di Montelimar
Measure for Measure (1943) - Lucio
Peccatori (1945)
Paese senza pace (1946) - Padron Toni
L'ultimo sogno (1946)
The Tyrant of Padua (1946) - Cesare, il pittore
La taverna della libertà (1950)
The Affairs of Messalina (1951) - Claudio / Claude
Red Shirts (1952) - (uncredited)
Too Bad She's Bad (1954) - (uncredited)
Adriana Lecouvreur (1955) - Michonnet

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Lancia, Enrico (2003). "Benassi, Memo". Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli artisti : Vol. 3, Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri : T. 1. A - L. Gremese Editore. ISBN 978-88-8440-213-4.
^ Mathew, Nicholas & Walton, Benjamin (2013). The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism. Cambridge University Press. p.337.

External links

Memo Benassi at IMDb

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