Amleto Novelli

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Amleto Novelli (born October 18, 1881 in Bologna , † April 16, 1924 in Turin ) was an Italian actor who gained international fame through numerous silent films .

Life

Novelli made his debut as a stage actor at the Teatro Tiberino in 1906. Three years later he was signed by the Italian film production company Cines . After a few roles in short films, Novelli received leading roles in various period films and epics under directors such as Mario Caserini and Enrico Guazzoni . The collaboration with the latter in particular brought Novelli some international successes: in 1913 he played the leading role of "Marcus Vinicius" in the Sienkiewicz film adaptation Quo vadis? , in the same year Marc Anton in the Shakespeare-based Peplum Cleopatra, the mistress of the Nile and in 1914 the title role in the first cinematic Caesar biography Caio Giulio Cesare , which depicts the life of the Roman politician and general from his youth until his assassination in 44 v. Chr. Traces. He also portrayed Pontius Pilate in Giulio Antamoro's Christ film. In sixteen years of artistic creation, Novelli took part in over 100 film productions and played the male lead alongside popular divas of his time such as Lyda Borelli , Francesca Bertini and Pina Menichelli . His portrayal of the dandy writer “Corrado Silla” in Carmine Gallone's Malombra (1918), which he gave alongside Borelli as a character fluctuating between gloom and passion, stands out among these . Novelli died at the age of 42 while filming Mario Camerini's La casa dei pulcini . His last, posthumously finished film, like his film debut, is an adaptation of Tommaso Grossi's historical novel Marco Visconti .

Amleto Novelli was buried on the Campo Verano in Rome.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1909: Marco Visconti
  • 1909: Don Carlos
  • 1909: The new mother (La nuova mammina)
  • 1909: The bell (La campana)
  • 1910: Oratory of a flower (eloquence di un fiore)
  • 1910: The Piacenza Conspiracy (La congiura di Piacenza)
  • 1910: The deserter (Il disertore)
  • 1910: The Battle of Legnano (La battaglia di Legnano)
  • 1910: Giovanni de Medici (Giovanni dalle bande nere)
  • 1911: Romola
  • 1911: Agrippina
  • 1911: Cäcilia (Santa Cecilia)
  • 1911: Antigone
  • 1911: The Maccabeans (I maccabei)
  • 1911: From Diocletian's time (San Sebastiano)
  • 1911: Jerusalem liberated (Gerusalemme liberata)
  • 1912: Brigante e carabiniere
  • 1912: Treason (Tradimento)
  • 1912: Under Robespierre (Sotto Robespierre)
  • 1912: Catiline
  • 1912: In pasto ai leoni
  • 1912: Life for the Fatherland (Pro patria mori)
  • 1913: La Gerusalemme liberata
  • 1913: Fra uomini e belve
  • 1913: Quo vadis?
  • 1913: The black ball (Il gomitolo nero)
  • 1913: Peter (Sulla via dell'oro)
  • 1913: The Mistress of the Nile (Marcantonio e Cleopatra)
  • 1914: Caio Giulio Cesare
  • 1915: The wedding march (La marzia nuziale)
  • 1916: Christ
  • 1917: Malombra
  • 1918: Fabiola
  • 1918: La Gerusalemme liberata
  • 1919: Il padrone delle ferriere
  • 1919: Spiritismo
  • 1919: La piovra
  • 1919: Fantasia bianca
  • 1920: Zingari
  • 1923: La piccola parrochia
  • 1923: Il fornaretto di Venezia
  • 1924: La casa dei pulcini
  • 1925: Marco Visconti

literature

  • Angela Dalle Vacche: Novelli, Amleto . In: Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema . New York 2010, p. 485, ISBN 0415778565

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personal data
SURNAME Novelli, Amleto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1924
Place of death Turin