Giovanni Cimara

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Giovanni Cimara (born February 1, 1889 in Rome , † December 14, 1970 there ) was an Italian actor .

Life

The son of the noble Giuseppe Cimara and Giovanna Putti and brother of Luigi , who was also an actor , initially had only minor theater success until he signed a contract with the Ermete Zacconi ensemble and then played with Dina Galli . From the 1930s he was a frequent guest at the radio company EIAR and its stations in Turin , Milan , Rome and Florence . Among many others, a production by Max Reinhardt with Cimara as "Lisandro" in A Midsummer Night's Dream was recorded in 1933 . Even after the Second World War, Cimara played under Riccardo Mantoni at the “Teatro Comico Musicale” on Radio Rome.

As a cinema actor, Cimara's beginnings go back to 1913, when he signed a contract with the production company “Latium” and was an esteemed actor in numerous silent films in “Pasquali”, “Edison”, “Ambrosio” (until 1918), “Silentium” and “Rodolfi” “(Until 1921). Among his most important works of this period are Le primule insaguinate by Giuseppe Giusti (1914), Ettore Fieramosca by Umberto Paradiso and Domenico Gaido (1915) and the two melodramas Passione tsigana and La contessa Arsenia by Ernesto Maria Pasquali from 1916. Also the The two-part L'amante della luna ( Achille Consalvi , 1919) and the three-part Canaglia dorata ( Guglielmo Zorzi - author of the previous one -, 1921) are mentioned here. His appearances from the mid-1920s and especially during the sound film era are rarer and limited to little noteworthy supporting roles. He interpreted his role as a radio star in Ecco la radio! in which he played himself. The slim, brown-haired actor was twice a guest in early television series.

In 1946 Cimara taught acting at the Libera Accademia d'Arte in Turin. He was married twice: after becoming an actress on Radio Lina Franceschi, he married Paola Fiorentini.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1913: Capricci di gran signore
  • 1914: Le primule insanguinate
  • 1915: Ettore Fieramosca
  • 1916: Passione tsigana
  • 1916: La contessa Arsenia
  • 1919: L'amante della luna
  • 1921: Canaglia dorata
  • 1928: La vena d'oro
  • 1958: Camping

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioswissclassic.ch
  2. ^ Roberto Chiti, Article Giovanni Cimara , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998. p. 130
personal data
SURNAME Cimara, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1970
Place of death Rome