Erno Crisa
Erno Crisa (actually Ernesto Crisa ; born March 10, 1914 in Bizerta , Tunisia , † April 4, 1968 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .
Life
Crisa, son of a Sicilian family who worked in Tunisia, went to Paris after finishing school, where he studied dance and made his debut at the age of 16 as a student of Olga Preobrazhenskaya . He had previously won the “Plaisir de France” competition, in which the tall, slim young man portrayed the god Apollo. Crisa also appeared as a dancer in the revue Un Vrai Paradis . This was followed by further courses, now also for acting, etc. a. with Jean Marchat . His theatrical debut ( Dieu est innocent by Lucien Fabre ) was followed by a brief period on the stage until the film world noticed him. From 1944 he was seen in smaller roles.
In 1948 Crisa moved to Italy and joined the ensemble of Wanda Osiris , with whom he appeared as a dancer in the enormous success Al Grand Hotel . Miss Italia followed the following year , before he got a leading role in the Italian film Cuori senza frontiere (director: Luigi Zampa ). The female audience was fascinated by the blond, handsome, attractively smiling, friendly Crisa. Many important directors of the time now offered him interesting roles: Mario Bonnard , Carmine Gallone , Mario Camerini , Leonardo Cortese and Eduardo De Filippo . For Pietro Germi he played the Marquis of Roccaverdina in Gelosia , alongside Silvana Mangano for Vittorio De Sica in Das Gold von Neapel . Marc Allégret offered him the male lead in L'amante di Lady Chatterley . From the mid-1950s, Crisa was seen in international productions and developed into an actor who could take on both hero and villain roles. He was seen in many genre productions, first in many adventure films , later and others. a. in spaghetti westerns . He was also seen in photo novels about the character of sadistic .
Crisa, whose family name was sometimes translated as Grisa , used the pseudonym James Parker a few times .
He died of a brain haemorrhage at the height of his career.
Filmography (selection)
- 1951: Messalina (Messalina)
- 1953: The Heroes of Sunday (Gli eroi della Domenica)
- 1954: The daughter of Mata Hari (La figlia di Mata Hari)
- 1954: The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli)
- 1956: The Great Seducer (Don Juan)
- 1959: The black archer (L'arciere nero)
- 1960: Circassian uprising (I Cosacchi)
- 1960: only the sun was witness (plein soleil)
- 1960: Carthage in flames (Cartagine in fiamme)
- 1962: The mighty seven (Maciste, il gladiatore più forte del mondo)
- 1962: Maciste in battle with the pirate king (Maciste contro lo sceicco)
- 1963: The strongest under the sun (Maciste l'eroe più grande del mondo)
- 1965: The Return of the Feared (Erik il Vichingo)
- 1966: Rocco - the man with two faces (Sugar Colt)
- 1966: Inspector X - Three yellow cats
- 1967: Jonny Madoc accounts (Pecos è qui: prega e muori)
- 1968: Angélique and the Sultan (Angélique et le sultan)
Web links
- Erno Crisa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- detailed biography at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography on ernocrisa.it (Italian)
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, article Erno Crisa , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998. pp. 141/142
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crisa, Erno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crisa, Ernesto; Grisa, Erno; Parker, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bizerta , Tunisia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th April 1968 |
| Place of death | Rome |