Gino Cervi
Born: 1901-05-03 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died: 1974-01-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gino Cervi (3 May 1901 - 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor of international fame. Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi ("Peppone"), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great complicity and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies. At the end of his career, he played Commissioner Maigret for six years in the Italian version of those murder stories, which ended with a movie Maigret in Pigalle (Mario Landi, 1966), produced by his son Antonio Cervi. He died at Punta Ala in 1974. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gino Cervi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1973
- Racconti romani di una ex-novizia as Pope Leone
1972
- Fratello ladro as Don Lino
- To Kill in Silence as Nono Devoto
1967
- Il latitante as Inspector
- Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso as John-Emery Rockefeller
1966
- Maigret at the Pigalle as Commissaire Maigret
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Chief of the Night Guard
1965
- Don Camillo in Moscow as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi
1964
- Becket as Cardinal Zambelli
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret as Maigret
- Un'ombra su Maigret as Maigret
- Full Hearts and Empty Pockets as Botta
- Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri as Card.Richelieu
1963
- Gli onorevoli as Sen. Rossani-Breschi
- Good King Dagobert as Saint Éloi
- The Shortest Day as Colonnello Daini
- The Eye of the Needle as D'Angelo, lawyer
- Adventure at the Motel as commendatore
1962
- The Changing of the Guard as Mario Venicio
- Crime Does Not Pay as L'Inquisiteur
- The Nun of Monza as Cardinale Borromeo
- Roaring Years as Salvatore Acquamano
1961
- Un figlio d'oggi as Andrea
- The Joy of Living as Olinto Fossati
- The Orderly as Maggiore Penna
- Don Camillo: Monsignor as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- Ten Italians for One German as Baron Alfonso di San Severino
1960
- Le Olimpiadi dei mariti as direttore del giornale
- The Revolt of the Slaves as Fabio
- Mistress of the World - Part II as Professor Johanson
- Love, the Italian Way as Comm. Lemeni
- Siege of Syracuse as Gerone
- Long Night in '43 as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi
- Mistress of the World - Part I as Professor Johanson
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome
- Vacations in Majorca as André Breton, industriale
- The Black Chapel as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari
- Gangster Boss as Paolo
1958
- Sans famille as Vitalis
- The Naked Maja as King Carlos IV of Spain
- Love and Chatter as Paseroni
- El pasado te acusa as Comisario
1957
- Desert Warrior as Ibrahim
- Ambush in Tangier as Bolevasco
- Las aeroguapas as Don Fogazza
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Castle of the Banned Lovers as Francesco Cenci
- Moglie e buoi... as Giovanni Cattabriga
- Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo as Maresciallo
1955
- Frou-Frou as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
- Don Camillo's Last Round as Peppone
- Il coraggio as Comm. Aristide Paoloni
- Wild Love as Sir Cesare
- Non c'è amore più grande as Andrea
1954
- Maddalena as Don Vincenzo
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Cagliostro
- A Free Woman as Massimo Marchi
- Il cardinale Lambertini as Cardinale Lambertini
- La grande avventura
1953
- Indiscretion of an American Wife as Police Commissioner
- Dappled Mare as Ruggero Pascoli
- Nero and the Burning of Rome as Nero
- The Three Musketeers as Porthos
- The Lady Without Camelias as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra
- The Return of Don Camillo as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- La Dame aux camélias as Monsieur Duval
- Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo
1952
- The Queen of Sheba as King Solomon of Jerusalem
- Wife for a Night as Count D'Origo
- Three Forbidden Stories as Prof. Aragona
- The Little World of Don Camillo as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
1951
- O.K. Nero as Nero
- Position Wanted as Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi
- Il caimano del Piave as Colonel of Torrebruna
- The Forbidden Christ as Küster
1950
- Women Without Names as Pietro Zanini
- Story of a Love Affair as (uncredited)
- Sigillo rosso
1949
- Fabiola as Quadratus
- Yvonne of the Night as Il colonnello Baretti
- The Flame that Never Dies as Luigi Manfredi
- La sposa non può attendere as Anselmo
1948
- Anna Karenina as Enrico
- William Tell as Guglielmo Tell
- Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris as Jean Valjean
- Islands in the Lagoon as Narrator(voice)
- Romantici a Venezia as Narrator (voice)
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
1947
- Furia as Oreste
- Cronaca nera
- Daniele Cortis as Marito di Elena
1946
- Aquila Nera as Kirila Petrovic
- Umanità as Jack
- Revenge as Sergio Tibaldi
1945
- Vivere ancora
- Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as signor Guglielmi
- The Misery of Mr. Travet as Il commandatore Francesco Battilocchio
- Quartetto pazzo as Roberto
- Che distinta famiglia! as Michele Montischi
1943
- I'll Love You Forever as Mario Fabbrini
- Gente dell’aria as Il capitano Pietro Sandri
- Tristi amori as Giulio Scarli
1942
- Quarta pagina as Ex detenuto
- La regina di Navarra
- Don Cesare of Bazan as Don Cesare di Bazan
- Four Steps in the Clouds as Paolo Bianchi
- Acque di primavera as Francesco
- L'ultimo addio as Dottor Gino Landi
1941
- The Iron Crown as Sedemondo
- The Betrothed as Renzo Tramaglino
1940
- A Romantic Adventure as Luigi Ferrero
- The Sinner as Alberto
- Eternal Melody as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1939
- I figli del marchese Lucera as Ermanno
- An Adventure of Salvator Rosa as Salvador Rosa, il "Formica"
1938
- Ettore Fieramosca as Ettore Fieramosca
- Inventiamo l'amore as Carlo Morelli
- L'argine as Zvanì
1937
- Voglio vivere con Letizia as Bebe
- Gli uomini non sono ingrati as Ferencz Korvath
1936
- Amore as Paolo Venieri
- The Two Sergeants as Commander Federico Martelli / sergent Guglielmo Salvoni
1935
- Aldebaran as Corrado Valeri