Renato Montalbano
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| Born | 17 May 1931 Catania, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
Renato Montalbano (born 17 May 1931) is an Italian character actor.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Catania, in 1955 Montalbano abandoned his university studies in medicine to attend at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, from which he graduated in 1957.[1] He made his film debut in 1956, and he was among the most active character actors in Italian cinema for about thirty years, alternating genre films and auteur films.[1] Montalbano was also very active on television, where he debuted in 1958 and appeared in dozens of television films and miniseries, often in prominent roles.[1]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Divisione Folgore (1954) - Paratrooper
- La grande savana (1955) - Enrico
- Roland the Mighty (1956) - Gualtiero
- El Alamein (1957) - Parachutist (uncredited)
- The Dragon's Blood (1957) - Gerenot
- La zia d'America va a sciare (1957)
- Slave Women of Corinth (1958) - Osco
- A Man of Straw (1958)
- Some Like It Cold (1960)
- Mamma Roma (1962)
- The Hot Port of Hong Kong (1962)
- The Golden Arrow (1962)
- Revolt of the Praetorians (1964)
- The Two Gladiators (1964)
- The Magnificent Gladiator (1964)
- Lightning Bolt (1965)
- The Mandrake (1965)
- Hard Time for Princes (1965)
- James Tont operazione D.U.E. (1966)
- Assault on the State Treasure (1967)
- Blood and Bullets (1976)
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977, TV Mini-Series) - Jairus
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Roberto Poppi. "Montalbano, Renato". Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 1998. pp. 54–5. ISBN 8884402697.
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