Annibale Betrone

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Annibale Betrone (born December 9, 1883 in Turin , † December 11, 1950 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .

Life

Betrone, the son of a tailor, took acting lessons from Domenico Bassi and made his debut on stage with the Marchetti brothers at the age of almost seventeen. From 1901 to 1908 he played with Ermete Novelli , where he rose from supporting actor to youthful hero to leading actor. This was followed by around twelve years in the company of Virgilio Talli , where he formed a highly regarded trio with Alberto Giovannini and Maria Melato . After an interlude with Giannina Chiantoni , he went back to Melato; between 1933 and 1935 there were one year each with Emma Gramatica , Tatiana Pavlova and Kiki Palmer . From 1936 onwards, Betrone headed his own group with Melato and Luigi Carini for four years and then joined Paola Borboni for a year . The year 1940 saw him at the side of Maria Laetitia Celli and Angelo Calabrese . During the war he concentrated on the up to then (1941) only very sporadic work in film, in which he was engaged in numerous character roles until his death. Even in the silent film era, the drone, known for his sober and unobtrusive style, played in a few films; his best-known role is probably that of the generous uncle Pietro in Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico .

Betrone had been married to his colleague Elvira since 1912 ; their son Cino , who was born in the same year, died in 1941 at the front in Albania .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1916: Tigrana
  • 1941: Little Old World (Piccolo mondo antico)
  • 1950: A mother's sacrifice (Tormento)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti, article Annibale Betrone , in: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese 1998, p. 56
personal data
SURNAME Betrone, Annibale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1950
Place of death Rome