Tullio Carminati

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Tullio Carminati dei conti Brambilla (born December 21, 1891 in Zadar , Austria-Hungary , † February 25, 1971 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .

Life

Carminati spent his childhood and youth in Dalmatia and made his acting debut in 1911 in the formation of Alfredo De Sanctis . Already in the following year he was with Ermete Novelli under contract, where the handsome-looking, elegant, matured attractive performer for youthful hero, the role he in the subsequent commitment to the "Compagnia Stabile del Teatro Manzoni" alongside Tina Di Lorenzo and Armando Falconi under under the direction of Marco Praga . In 1921 he played first with Alda Borelli and then with Eleonora Duse in their company. Further performances followed with Teresa Franchini (1923) and Lina Tricerri (1925).

Carminati played his first film role in 1912; he was seen in Il bacio di Margherita da Cortona for the Turin Savoia film directed by Alfredo De Antoni . A two-year contract with Arturo Ambrosio followed, and Carminati appeared in front of the cameras for productions of “Monopol” and “Tiber”. His interpretations in films by Carlo Campogalliani , Giuseppe Pinto and Augusto Genina were cultivated and sentimental .

In 1924 Carminati first went to Germany, in 1926 to the United States, where the perfectly English-speaking actor could be seen on stage (as "Latin Lover") and in films until 1934. After a brief return to Italy, he stayed in England in 1937/38. With the end of the Second World War he lived again and for good in his home country, where he resumed his stage career and regularly appeared in other films, often co-productions with English-speaking countries. Out of his theater work, the thematically related roles under Roberto Rossellini in Giovanna d'Arco al rogo at the “Teatro San Carlo” in Naples in 1953 (one year later also as a film) and George Bernhard Shaw's Die Heiligen Johanna under Franco Enriquez two years later stand out . Some of Hollywood's prestige productions round off his filmmaking work.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti, Article Tullio Carminati , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese 1998, pp. 99/100
personal data
SURNAME Carminati, Tullio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carminati dei conti Brambilla, Tullio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Zadar , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1971
Place of death Rome