Gino Cervi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-05-03 (73 years old)

Deathday

1974-01-03

Place of Birth

Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Gino Cervi

Biography

Gino Cervi (3 May 1901 - 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor of international fame. Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi ("Peppone"), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great complicity and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies. At the end of ...

Acting

1946

Umanità

as Jack

1948

Les Misérables

as Jean Valjean

1960

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti

as direttore del giornale

1961

Don Camillo: Monsignor

as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi

1953

The Return of Don Camillo

as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi

1953

Dappled Mare

as Ruggero Pascoli

1952

The Little World of Don Camillo

as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"

1962

Roaring Years

as Salvatore Acquamano

1965

Don Camillo in Moscow

as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi

1964

Becket

as Cardinal Zambelli

1960

Long Night in '43

as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi

1963

Gli onorevoli

as Sen. Rossani-Breschi

1942

Four Steps in the Clouds

as Paolo Bianchi

1949

Yvonne of the Night

as Il colonnello Baretti

1941

The Iron Crown

as Sedemondo

1958

Sans famille

as Vitalis

1953

1955

Il coraggio

as Comm. Aristide Paoloni

1954

Il cardinale Lambertini

as Cardinale Lambertini

1955

Frou-Frou

as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky

1953

Indiscretion of an American Wife

as Police Commissioner

1959

1952

Wife for a Night

as Count D'Origo

1953

The Lady Without Camelias

as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra

1951

Position Wanted

as Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi

1963

Good King Dagobert

as Saint Éloi

1958

The Naked Maja

as King Carlos IV of Spain

1959

Vacations in Majorca

as André Breton, industriale

1936

The Two Sergeants

as Commander Federico Martelli / sergent Guglielmo Salvoni

1941

The Betrothed

as Renzo Tramaglino

1957

Desert Warrior

as Ibrahim

1961

The Joy of Living

as Olinto Fossati

1963

The Shortest Day

as Colonnello Daini

1942

Don Cesare of Bazan

as Don Cesare di Bazan

1956

Castle of the Banned Lovers

as Francesco Cenci

1964

1945

The Misery of Mr. Travet

as Il commandatore Francesco Battilocchio

1962

1963

The Eye of the Needle

as D'Angelo, lawyer

1954

Maddalena

as Don Vincenzo

1956

Moglie e buoi...

as Giovanni Cattabriga

1961

Ten Italians for One German

as Baron Alfonso di San Severino

1952

The Queen of Sheba

as King Solomon of Jerusalem

1946

Aquila Nera

as Kirila Petrovic

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as L'Inquisiteur

1967

Il latitante

as Inspector

1942

Quarta pagina

as Ex detenuto

1966

Maigret at the Pigalle

as Commissaire Maigret

1960

Mistress of the World - Part I

as Professor Johanson

1961

1935

Aldebaran

as Corrado Valeri

1936

Amore

as Paolo Venieri

1939

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa

as Salvador Rosa, il "Formica"

1940

Una romantica avventura

as Luigi Ferrero

1963

Adventure at the Motel

as commendatore

1962

The Nun of Monza

as Cardinale Borromeo

1943

T'amerò sempre

as Mario Fabbrini

1958

Love and Chatter

as Paseroni

1945

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

as signor Guglielmi

1938

Inventiamo l'amore

as Carlo Morelli

1953

Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!

as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo

1945

Che distinta famiglia!

as Michele Montischi

1961

The Orderly

as Maggiore Penna

1966

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

as Chief of the Night Guard

1959

Sign of the Gladiator

as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome

1958

El pasado te acusa

as Comisario

1972

To Kill in Silence

as Nono Devoto

1948

William Tell

as Guglielmo Tell

1953

La Dame aux camélias

as Monsieur Duval

1960

Love, the Italian Way

as Comm. Lemeni

1940

The Sinner

as Alberto

1947

Furia

as Oreste

1957

Ambush in Tangier

as Bolevasco

1960

Mistress of the World - Part II

as Professor Johanson

1951

1959

The Black Chapel

as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari

1951

O.K. Nero

as Nero

1938

L'argine

as Zvanì

1949

The Flame that Never Dies

as Luigi Manfredi

1948

Islands in the Lagoon

as Narrator(voice)

1950

Women Without Names

as Pietro Zanini

1948

Romantici a Venezia

as Narrator (voice)

1950

Story of a Love Affair

as (uncredited)

1960

1954

A Free Woman

as Massimo Marchi

1951

Il caimano del Piave

as Colonel of Torrebruna

1946

Revenge

as Sergio Tibaldi

1940

Eternal Melody

as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1945

Quartetto pazzo

as Roberto

1955

Wild Love

as Sir Cesare

1947

Daniele Cortis

as Marito di Elena

1943

Tristi amori

as Giulio Scarli

1952

Three Forbidden Stories

as Prof. Aragona

1972

Fratello ladro

as Don Lino

1943

Gente dell’aria

as Il capitano Pietro Sandri

1942

Acque di primavera

as Francesco

1949

Fabiola

as Quadratus

1938

Ettore Fieramosca

as Ettore Fieramosca

1937

Gli uomini non sono ingrati

as Ferencz Korvath

1957

Las aeroguapas

as Don Fogazza

1948

Anna Karenina

as Enrico

1967

Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso

as John-Emery Rockefeller

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