Fedele Gentile
Fedele Gentile (born January 28, 1908 in Montenero di Bisaccia , † December 16, 1993 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .
Life
After graduating from school, Gentile attended the “Centro Sperimentale di danza e canto”, where he graduated in the baritone range . He made his first cinema appearance in one of the earliest Italian sound films, L'uomo dall'artiglio , but began his steady career in 1938 as a supporting and character actor in third or fourth male position on the cast list with rare excursions into larger roles such as wounded and from A prostitute rescued soldiers in Benghazi by Augusto Genina (1942). In the same year he was one of the actors who appeared in the war documentary Ninna nanna, papà sta in guerra by Amedeo Castellazzi . He was in front of the camera for two short films by Nando Tamberlani in 1947 as well as for numerous genre films from the post-war period until well into the heyday of Italian commercial cinema in the 1960s. For some of the adventure and action productions aimed at the international market, he adopted the pseudonym Fidel Green .
Occasionally Gentile was also active as a voice actor, less often for radio, the stage or television.
Filmography (selection)
- 1931: L'uomo dall'artiglio
- 1942: Benghazi
- 1959: Judith - The Sword of Vengeance (Giuditta e Oloferne)
- 1960: Arms for San Salvador (Gli avventurieri dei tropici)
- 1960: The revenge of the red knight (Il cavaliere dai cento volti)
- 1961: Constantine the Great (Costantino il grande)
- 1963: The Iron Capitano (Il capitano di ferro)
- 1967: Chamaco (Killer Kid)
- 1967: Pilluks takes measurements (Giurò… e li uccise ad uno ad uno (Piluk il timido))
- 1968: Giorni di sangue
- 1968: Il pistolero segnato da Dio
- 1969: Django - God forgive his Colt (Dio perdona la mia pistola)
- 1971: Un uomo chiamato Dakota
- 1971: Holy Water Joe (Acquasanta Joe)
- 1973: Quando i califfi avvevano le corna
Web links
- Fedele Gentile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roberto Chiti, article Fedele Gentile , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome 1998, pp. 229/230
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gentile, Fedele |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, Fidel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Montenero di Bisaccia |
DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1993 |
Place of death | Rome |