Calisto Bertramo

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Calisto Bertramo (born August 28, 1875 in Turin , † September 30, 1941 in Viareggio ) was an Italian actor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Bertramo became part of the theater group of Pia Marchi Maggi and played character roles there for three years; From 1898 he took part in a tour of Russia and Romania with Italia Vitaliani . He had further engagements in 1900 with Enrico Reinach / Vittorio Pieri , in 1901 with Virgilio Talli / Irma Gramatica / Oreste Calabresi and in 1902 with Terasa Mariani and Vittorio Zampieri , finally with Emma Gramatica and Leo Orlandini and finally with Ruggero Ruggeri . In 1914 he was back at Reinach, no longer tied to one subject, and the following year he was part of the “Fert” company, which was headed by Ermete Novelli . Shortly after the end of the First World War (from 1918 to 1920, to be more precise), Alda Borelli's drama groups and in 1921 the management of the “Compagnia del Teatro del Popolo” were further positions . He played alongside Eleonora Duse on several pieces in London and then headed Tatiana Pavlova 's troupe . With Umberto Casilini and his daughter Letizia Bonini , he founded a group that existed for five years in 1924, to which Sandro Ruffini , Lina Tricerri and Franco Becci also belonged. After an engagement for the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro , when Bertramo received a lot of attention in “La figlia di Jorio” by Alberto Franchetti , he retired to Villareggio. From there he took guest roles and pursued his film career.

In the silent film era he had participated in Enrico Guazzoni's Messalina ; from 1932 he was seen in twenty films until his death, some of which represented more than dozen of commercial products.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1923: Messalina
  • 1939: Animali pazzi
  • 1941: Il pozzo dei miracoli

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti, article Calisto Bertramo in the Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese 1998, pp. 53/54
personal data
SURNAME Bertramo, Calisto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1941
Place of death Viareggio