Pio Campa

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Pio Campa (* 1881 in Florence ; † 1964 ibid) was an Italian stage and film actor.

Live and act

Campa was a well-known stage actor from the 1920s to the 1950s, who was also hired for many film roles. He was featured in Guido Brignone's Paradiso (1932) as well as in Ferdinando Maria Poggioli's Gelosia (1942). In the film Le due orfanelle (1942) by director Carmine Gallone , Campa played the role of the Marais. In Enrico Guazzoni's La Fornarina , Pio Campa played Pope Julius II in 1944 .

As a theater actor, he worked closely with Alexander Moissi , with whom he was close friends.

Campa had been married to actress Wanda Capodaglio since 1919 . Together they had the daughter Miranda Campa , who also became an actress.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Schaper : Moissi .: Triest - Berlin - New York. An actor legend. Argon Verlag 2000 ( ISBN 9783870245139 ), pp. 219-2222 and p. 246
  2. ^ Susan Bassnett and Jennifer Lorch: Luigi Pirandello in the Theater . Routledge 2014, p. 150