Ettore Cella
Ettore Cella (born September 12, 1913 in Zurich ; † July 1, 2004 in Brütten , Canton of Zurich ) was a Swiss actor and director with Italian roots.
Life
Ettore Cella was of Italian descent and was naturalized in Zurich in 1930. He initially trained as a set designer at the School of Applied Arts and then attended acting courses in Rome, Munich and Paris. In Italy itself he was on tour with a puppet theater and the acting company Compania Maria Melato .
After returning to Switzerland, Ettore Cella founded and played in the Basler cabaret Resslirytti and in Spiegel from 1941 and worked for Radio Zurich and the Schauspielhaus. From 1953 Ettore Cella also worked for Swiss television , where he worked in the drama department until 1962 and then mainly in the children's and youth section (until 1978). In total, he staged and edited more than 50 plays and Donizetti operas as an assistant director and director . He also translated contemporary dramas and prose from Italian, French and Spanish.
For the first time with a small role Ettore Cella stood in front of the film camera in the film Fräulein Huser in 1939 . In 1942 the first Ticino dialect film, Al canto del cucù (When the cuckoo calls), was released. August Kern directed the music, Jack Trommler wrote the music, Hans Rudolf Meyer was in charge of photography and Ady Lupert was in charge of the camera. Actors were u. a. Ettor Cella, Lilian Herman, Jean Fleury, Willi Roettges, Fred Lucca, Fritz Bantli, Andre Mondini and P. Oberisoli.
This was followed by numerous engagements, of which 1957 with the Zürrer bakery and 1958 with It happened in broad daylight were the most successful film appearances.
From the 1970s he was seen more often in TV productions. In honor of the Italian immigration, a square in Zurich, the Piazza Cella, was named after his mother Erminia Cella on March 9, 2009 .
Works
Ettore Cella wrote several books. The experiences of a Zurich grandmother are recorded in his autobiographical novel “Nonna Adele” (1993). Until recently he wrote a family epic.
Movies
- 1940: Miss Huser
- 1941 Gotthard Express 41, the Sasselli
- 1941 Al canto del cucù (When the cuckoo calls)
- 1942: A woman disappears ( Une femme disparait )
- 1957 Zürrer bakery
- 1958 It happened in broad daylight
- 1958: ... and nothing but the truth
- 1959 SOS - glacier pilot
- 1959 people online
- 1959 Café Odeon
- 1959 Behind the seven tracks
- 1960: The devil has a good laugh
- 1967: Big man what now? (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1968 The Incurables and Their Sorrows (TV)
- 1969 Salto mortale (TV series)
- 1971 Saint Joan La Tremouille, Marshall of France (TV)
- 1976: Konrad Steiner's sudden loneliness
- 1977 Em Lehme si Letscht, the Lehmann (TV)
- 1978 Kneuss , the Marinetti
- 1980 The inventor
- 1999 Bill Diamond - Story of a Moment
- 1999 Lüthi and Blanc, Lukas Wälti-Kern (2000-2001) (TV series)
- 2001 Utopia Blues
- 2004 Sternenberg
Radio plays
- 1955: Shell and leaning tower. A game of memory (porter, salesman) - Director: Heinz Schimmelpfennig
- 1956: On the green beach of the Spree , 5th part: Do you know the country? (Graf Chiaroscuro) - Director: Gert Westphal
- 1960: The Albino (Mareschiallo Tacchi) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
- 1977: Grand Prize of the Baden Economy (chereporter) - Director: Heiner Schmidt
- 1979: The Love of Oranges (Lello) - Director: Arturo Möller
literature
- Hervé Dumont: History of Swiss Film. Schweizer Filmarchiv Verlag, Lausanne 1987, p. 323.
- Thomas Hostettler: Ettore Cella . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 367.
- Domenico Lucchini: Ettore Cella. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 10, 2011 , accessed May 6, 2020 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ettore Cella in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ettore Cella in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- SRF appreciation
- Portrait of Thomas Staedeli
Individual evidence
- ↑ Al canto del cucù (When the cuckoo calls). Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cella, Ettore |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actor and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2004 |
Place of death | Brütten , Canton of Zurich |