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Luigi Cervi, alias Gino Cervi
Bologna, 3 December 1901,-Punta Ala, 3 January 1974
Son of the theatre critic Antonio Cervi, was born in the historic bolognese boxing day. Since I was a child, fell in love with the theatre. Tall, robust, endowed with good looks and gentlemanly ways. His artistic career began in 1924 by Alda Borelli in the film the Virgin crowds, by Henri Diamant Berger. In 1925 is named as first actor from Luigi Pirandello in the company of the Teatro d'Arte in Rome, next to the first actors Marta Abba, Lamberto Picasso and Ruggero Ruggeri, playing six characters in search of an author (the son), work with which he tour in Paris, London, Basel, Berlin. In 1928 he knows the young actress Angela Rosa Gordini, whom he married shortly thereafter, since their marriages was born his son Antonio said Tonino, future Director and film producer. Quickly gets a great success, so much so that within ten years he worked with the most famous Italian companies, before becoming first player in company Tofano – Maltagliati. The deep voice and striking and naturalness of acting make it one of the most appreciated interpreters of Goldoni, Sophocles, Dostoevsky, and especially of Shakespeare, which will be a memorable interpreter of Otello, and which will speak for the character of Hamlet in the film version starring Laurence Olivier. In 1938, along with Andreina Pagnani, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, establishes the company's activism, Teatro Eliseo in Rome, which will take over in 1939. Also in 1939 is Thyrsis in Amita (rate) directed by Renato Simoni and Corrado Pavolini with Morelli Pagnani, Micaela Giustiniani, Rossano Brazzi, Danny S, Carlo Ninchi, Aroldo Tieri and Annibale Ninchi to the garden and the Boboli Gardens in Florence. In the 1950s, comes the extraordinary success with the interpretation of the hit series of films dedicated to literary figures of Giovanni Guareschi, in which he plays Mayor emiliano Peppone. The film series will be no less than five (the first, Don Camillo, of 1952, directed by Julien Duvivier) and see Deer next to Don Camillo played superbly from French Fernandel. Guareschi, deer, and Fernandel became very good friends and the two actors were witnesses to the marriage of Carlotta Guareschi, daughter of the writer. The artistic and personal relationship between the two actors was so deep that when Fernandel died during the making of the sixth film in the saga of Don Camillo), Gino Cervi refused to continue the work. In fact, subsequent acts were filmed with other actors.
The successful series of Don Camillo reveals the qualities of deer also as a brilliant actor in the genre of comedy. Will follow as well, until the early 1960s, other films that belong to the genre of commedia all'italiana, as Guard, Guard, Brigadier and Marshal, roaring twenties, The Honourable.
His last appearances are few carousels for a famous brand of Brandy ( Old Romagna ), which had advertised for years with the slogan; "Bandy which creates the atmosphere" slogan designed by Marcello Marchesi, these carousels aired until a few days before his death, he was initiated into Freemasonry in 1946 in the lodge "Paligenesi" in Rome, a member of the obedience of Grand Lodge in Italy the Alam. Gino Cervi dies at the age of seventy-two years due to pulmonary edema.
Filmography
1932/ The blue army directed by Gennaro Righelli
1934/ Frontiers, by Mario Carafoli and Cesare Meano
1935/ Love, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1935/ Aldebraran, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1936/ The two sergeants, directed by Enrico Guazzoni
1937/ Men are not ungrateful, directed by Guido Brignone
1937/ I want to live with Letizia, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1938/ The levee, directed by Corrado D'errico
1938/ Ettore Fieramosca, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1938/ The sons of the Marquis Lucera, directed by Amleto Palermi
1938/ Invent love, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1939/ An Adventure by Salvator Rosa, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1940/ A romantic adventure, directed by Mario Camerini
1940/ The Sinner, by Amleto Palermi
1940/ Eternal melodies, directed by Carmine Gallone
1940/ 's dream, directed by Oreste Biancoli
1941/ The Iron Crown, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1941/ The Promised Newlyweds, directed by Mario Camerini
1942/ The last goodbye, directed by Ferruccio Cerio
1942/ The Queen of Navarre, directed by Carmine Gallone
1942/ Don Cesare di Bazan, directed by Riccardo Freda
1942/ Spring Waters, by Nunzio Malasomma
1942/ Fourth page, directed by Nicola Manzari
1942/ Four steps in the clouds, regia di Alessandro Blasetti
1942/ Air people, directed by Esodo Pratelli
1943/ I will always love you, directed by Mario Camerini
1944/ The Inn, directed by Luigi Chiarini
1945/ Living again, directed by Nino Giannini e Leo Longanesi
1945/ Crazy Quartet, directed by Guido Salvini
1945/ What a distinguished family!, directed by Mario Bonanrd
1945/ The mistake of being alive, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1945/ Mr. Travet's miseries, directed by Mario Soldati
1946/ Sad loves, directed by Carmine Gallone
1946/ Malia, directed by Giuseppe Amato
1946/ A Man Returns, directed by Max Neufeld
1946/ The Inn, directed by Luigi Chiarini
1946/ Humanity, directed by Jack Salvatori
1946/ Black Eagle, directed by Riccardo Fredda
1946/ The Angel and the Devil, directed by Mario Camerini
1947/ Black Chronicle, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1947/ Furia, directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
1947/ Daniele Cortis, directed by Mario Soldati
1948/ Anna Karenina, directed by Julien Duvivier
1949/ Fabiola, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1949/ Guglielmo Tell, directed by Giorgio Pastina
1949/ The flame that does not extinguish, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
1949/ The bride can't wait, direct by regia di Gianni Franciolini
1949/ Yvonne la nuit, direct by Giuseppe Amato
1950/ Unnamed women, direct by Gèza Von Radvànyi
1950/ The Cliff of Sin, direct by Roberto Bianchi Montero
1950/ Red seal, direct by Flavio Calzavarra
1951/ The Caiman of the Piave, direct by Giorgi Bianchi
1951/ The Forbidden Christ, direct by Curzio Malaparte
1951/ Waitress beautiful presence offers you... , direct by Giorgio Pastina
1951/ O.K. Nerone, direct by Mario Soldati
1952/ Good morning, elephant! direct by Gianni Franciolini
1952/ Don Camillo, direct by Julien Duvivier
1952/ Wife for one night, direct by Mario Camerini
1952/ Three Forbidden Stories, direct by Augusto Genina
1952/ The Queen of Shesaba, direct by Pietro Francisci
1953/ The Lady Without Camellias, direct by Michelangelo Antonioni
1953/ Station Terms, direct by Vittorio De Sica
1953/ The Return of Don Camillo, direct by Julien Duvivier
1953/ Nero and Messalina, direct by Primo Zeglio
1953/ Goodbye, my beautiful lady!, direct by Fernando Cerchio
1953/ The horse's back, direct by Giulio Morelli
1953/ Make way for musketeers!, direct by Andrè Hunebelle
1953/ The Lady from the Camellias, direct by Raymond Bernard
1954/ Maddalena, direct by Augusto Genina
1954/ Cardinal Lambertini, direct by Giorgio Pastina
1954/ A free woman, direct by Vittorio Cottafavi
1954/ The Great Adventure, direct by Mario Pisu
1955/ There is no greater love, direct by Giorgio Bianchi
1955/ Don Camillo and Mr Peppone, direct by Carmine Gallone
1955/ Frou – Frou, direct by Augusto Genina
1955/ Lovers, direct by Mauro Bolognini
1955/ Courage, direct by Domenico Paolella
1956/ Guard, Guard, Choice, Brigadier and Marshal, direct by Mauro Bolognini
1956/ Wife and oxen, direct by Leonardo De Mitri
1957/ Love and chatter, direct by Alessandro Blasetti
1957/ Ambush in Tangier, direct by Riccardo Fred
1958/ No family, direct by Andrè Michel
1958/ La maja desnuda, directed by Henry Koster and Mario Russo
1958/ Desert lovers, directed by Fernando Cerchio e Gianni Vernuccio
1959/ In the sign of Rome, directed by Guido Brignone
1959/ Us gangsters, directed by Henri Verneuil
1959/ The Goons of Hitler, directed by Ralph Habib
1959/ Short loves in Palma Majorca, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1960/ The siege of Syracuse, directed by Pietro Francisci
1960/ The mystery of three continents, directed by William Dieterle
1960/ The Long Night of ' 43, directed by Florestano Vancini
1960/ The Olympics of husbands, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1960/ Luxury females, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1960/ The slave rebellion, by Nunzio Malasomma
1961/ That Joie de vivre, directed by Rene Clèment
1961/ A son today, directed by Brian Gardner and Marino Girolami
1961/ Don Camillo: Monsignor! not too, directed by Carmine Gallone
1961/ Yeomen, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1962/ Ten Italians for a German, (Via Rasella), directed by Filippo Walter Ratti
1962/ Roaring years, directed by Luigi Zampa
1962/ The Nun of Monza, directed by Carmine Gallone
1962/ Crime does not pay, directed by Gèrard Oury
1962/ The changing of the guard, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1963/ The shortest day, directed by Sergio Corbucci
1963/ Adventure at the motel, directed by Renato Polselli
1962/ The craving on you, directed by Marcello Andrei
1963/ The accusation of the past, directed by Lionello De Felice
1963/ King and Monseigneur, directed by Pierre Chevalier
1964/ Becket, directed by Peter Glenville
1964/ And woman created man, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1965/ The comrade Don Camillo, directed by Luigi Comencini
1966/ The others, and us, by Maurizio Arena
1966/ Maigret a Pigalle, directed by Mario Landi
1967/ The fugitive, directed by Daniele D'anza
1967/ Of the wind among the branches of the Sassafras, directed by Sandro Bolchi
1970/ Don Camillo and today's youth
1972/ Brother Thief, directed by Pino Tosini
1972/ Silent killing, directed by Giuseppe Rolando
1973/ Roman tales of a former novice, directed by Pino Tosini
He voiced
Clark Gable in Happens one night, Frank Capra
William Powell in talking my man Godfrey
Luis Trenker in Leaders
Michael Redgrave in Mourning becomes Electra
Orson Welles in Macbeth, Othello and David and Goliath
James Stewart in Harvey by Henry Koster
Laurence Olivier in Henry V, Hamlet, eyes that never smiled, Richard III
Alec Guinness in Brother Sun, sister moon by Franco Zeffirelli
Antonio Centa in Zazà
Charles Boyer, in The luck of being a woman