Luigi Bonos
Luigi Bonos (born May 6, 1910 in Berlin , † August 8, 2000 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .
Life
Bonos was born in Germany; his family of Hungarian origin consisted of circus performers. Together with his brothers Vittorio and Gianni , he formed a trio of comedians that celebrated success in the 1930s and 1940s at the “Avanspettacolo” and on revue stages. Luigi, who had exchanged his German passport for an Italian one, perfected his role as a sleepy-looking comedian with numerous possibilities of facial expression. In 1943 he made two films with his brothers that took their stage characters. From 1951 Bonos - under his maiden name, as Gigi Bonos and with pseudonyms such as Louis Williams and Duane Bowland - was a sought-after character actor (mostly comic types, of course), who worked intensively between 1968 and 1979 and impersonated odd minor characters until his death. Among the television works, Il circolo Pickwick by Ugo Gregoretti and a Maigret episode stand out.
Filmography (selection)
- 1943: L'ippocampo
- 1952: Il bandolero stanco
- 1959: Sahara file - strictly confidential (Tunisi top secret)
- 1968: In the dust of the sun (Spara, gringo, spara)
- 1969: The man with the golden brush
- 1969: Two idiots as gunslingers (Franco e Ciccio sul sentiero di guerra)
- 1970: Django and Sabata - like bloody vultures (C'è Sartana… vendi la pistola e comprati la bara!)
- 1970: The right and left hand of the devil (Lo chiamavano Trinità)
- 1970: Satan of Vengeance (E Dio disse a Caino)
- 1971: Four fists for a hallelujah (… continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)
- 1972: Lo chiamavano Verità
- 1973: Three nuns on the way to hell (Più forte sorelle)
- 1973: … so divennero i tre supermen del west
- 1973: Le llamaban Calamidad
- 1976: From tomorrow we will be rich and honest
- 1977: The Rabid One (La belva col mitra)
- 1978: They called him mosquito (Lo chiamavano bulldozer)
- 1978: The big one with his extraterrestrial little one (Uno sceriffo extraterrestre - poco extra e molto terrestre)
- 1990: Spatzi, Fratzi & Co. (C'era un castello con 40 cani)
- 1994: Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno
Web links
- Luigi Bonos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi, article Luigi Bono , in: Chiti, Lancia, Orbicciani, Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rom, Gremese 1998, pp. 70/71
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonos, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2000 |
| Place of death | Rome |