Luigi Serventi

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Luigi Serventi (born July 31, 1885 in Rome , † August 18, 1976 there ) was an Italian actor and silent film star with sporadic excursions to directing a film.

Life

Serventi spent several semesters studying law , but broke off his studies to become an actor. In the last years before the First World War , at the beginning of the 1910s, he worked at the theater in Rome as a member of the Compagnia Stabile and at the Teatro Argentina. Serventi tried his hand at film for the first time in 1912, making him one of the first theater actors in his country to turn to this new art form.

The tall actor with the dark mustache played early on for soigned gentlemen of the world, gentlemen and lovers in film romances, dramas or melodramas. At the beginning of 1923 Serventi accepted a call from Germany and settled in Berlin. There he was used in a large number of German productions until the end of the silent film era, but kept returning to Italy or playing abroad (Czechoslovakia, France). The end of the silent film era meant a massive kink in Serventi's career. In 1930, after marrying an Austrian, he retired to Tyrol .

He only appeared in front of the camera twice, in works with a Tyrolean location and a World War II background. Serventi received his last leading role in 1931 as partner Luis Trenker in Karl Hartl's drama Mountains in Flames . There the Roman played Trenker's old Italian friend Count Arthur Tranchini, who became his opponent through the war. Serventi stood in front of a film camera for the last time in 1936, with the tiny role of an Italian staff officer in the militaristic film Standschütze Bruggler . Little is known about his later years. He lived in Kitzbühel for many years and only returned to Italy at an advanced age.

Filmography

  • 1912: Dal fango
  • 1913: Il prezzo del perdono
  • 1913: Bianco contro negro
  • 1913: La barca nuziale
  • 1914: Dopo il veglione
  • 1914: I misteri del castello
  • 1914: La fuga dei diamanti
  • 1914: I cosmopoliti
  • 1914: Passa la guerra
  • 1915: La gelosia
  • 1915: Il figlio della guerra
  • 1915: L'idolo bianco
  • 1915: L'ostacolo
  • 1916: Mimi e gli straccioni
  • 1916: Cavalleria rusticana
  • 1916: Il re, le torri, gli Alfieri
  • 1917: Napoleoncina (also co-director)
  • 1917: Le mogli e le arance (also director)
  • 1917: La figlia del mare
  • 1917: La Bohème
  • 1918: Il padrone delle ferriere
  • 1918: Il giardino della voluttà
  • 1919: Noris
  • 1919: La storia di una donna
  • 1920: La bambola e l'amore
  • 1920: Il mercanto di emozioni
  • 1920: Il volto di Medusa
  • 1920: La suprema bellezza (also director)
  • 1921: Il marito, la moglie, e ...
  • 1921: La mirabile visione
  • 1921: La storia di una sigaretta
  • 1922: La ragnatela
  • 1922: La cugina d'Alcantara
  • 1923: Bohème
  • 1923: Bob and Mary
  • 1923: The money devil
  • 1923: The man without a heart
  • 1924: Royal love
  • 1924: La via del peccato
  • 1924: La moglie bella
  • 1924: The Lillian Hawley novel
  • 1925: Voglia tradire mio marito!
  • 1925: Vyznavaci slunce
  • 1925: Finale of love
  • 1925: The husband of his wife
  • 1925: The great circus disaster ( Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni )
  • 1926: Maciste, the hero of the mountains ( Il gigante delle Dolomiti )
  • 1927: The outcasts
  • 1927: The Secret of Geneva
  • 1927: The most sophisticated woman in Berlin
  • 1928: The queen of his heart
  • 1928: The President
  • 1928: Leontine's husbands
  • 1928: A girl with a temper
  • 1928: Pas sur la bouche
  • 1929: eroticism
  • 1929: The white roses from Ravensberg
  • 1929: The street singer of Venice ( Il cantastatore di Venezia )
  • 1931: Mountains on fire
  • 1936: Standschütze Bruggler

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 274.

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personal data
SURNAME Serventi, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1976
Place of death Rome