Memo Benassi

Italian actor (1886–1957)

Memo Benassi
Memo Benassi on stage (1942)
Born
Domenico Benassi

(1886-06-21)21 June 1886
Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna
Italy
Died24 February 1957(1957-02-24) (aged 70)
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna
Italy
OccupationActor
Years active1916–1955 (film)

Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film Rossini.[1]

Selected filmography

  • Notte di tempesta (1916)
  • Mimì e gli straccioni (1916)
  • Il gioiello sinistro (1917)
  • La nemica (1917)
  • Margheritella (1918)
  • La scala di seta (1920)
  • The Love Letters of Baroness S (1924) - Straßenmusikant Giovanni
  • The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925) - Theo Hartwig, Schriftsteller
  • The Old Lady (1932) - Joe
  • The Lucky Diamond (1933) - Il maggiordomo
  • The Missing Treaty (1933) - John Brown - detective
  • The Haller Case (1933) - Judge Haller
  • L'impiegata di papà (1934) - Banchiere Monti
  • Everybody's Woman (1934) - Leonardo Nanni
  • Conquest of the Air (1936) - Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)
  • Lady of Paradise (1937) - Matteo Iran
  • Scipione l'africano (1937) - Cato
  • Tonight at Eleven (1938) - L'ambasciatore Leopoldo Norton
  • Princess Tarakanova (1938) - L'ambasciatore russo
  • La conquista dell'aria (1939) - Il Gesuita Franceesco Lama
  • Orizzonte dipinto (1941) - Il burattinaio
  • Il vagabondo (1941) - Fanfulla
  • The Jester's Supper (1942) - Il Tornaquinci
  • The Two Orphans (1942) - Il conte di Linières
  • Fedora (1942) - Il principe Yariskine
  • Rossini (1942) - Beethoven
  • I due Foscari (1942) - Donato Almorò
  • Fourth Page (1942) - Il pazzo
  • The Son of the Red Corsair (1943) - Il marchese di Montelimar
  • Measure for Measure (1943) - Lucio
  • Peccatori (1945)
  • Paese senza pace (1946) - Padron Toni
  • L'ultimo sogno (1946)
  • The Tyrant of Padua (1946) - Cesare, il pittore
  • La taverna della libertà (1950)
  • The Affairs of Messalina (1951) - Claudio / Claude
  • Red Shirts (1952) - (uncredited)
  • Too Bad She's Bad (1954) - (uncredited)
  • Adriana Lecouvreur (1955) - Michonnet

References

  1. ^ Mathew & Walton p.337

External links

  • Memo Benassi at IMDb

Bibliography

  • Mathew, Nicholas & Walton, Benjamin. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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