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
- To Kill in Silence as Nono Devoto
- Fratello ladro as Don Lino
1967
- Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso as John-Emery Rockefeller
- Il latitante as Inspector
1966
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Chief of the Night Guard
- Maigret at the Pigalle as Commissaire Maigret
1965
- Don Camillo in Moscow as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi
- Una vita in gioco as Maigret
1964
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret as Maigret
- Becket as Cardinal Zambelli
- Full Hearts and Empty Pockets as Botta
- Un'ombra su Maigret as Maigret
- Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri as Card.Richelieu
1963
- The Shortest Day as Colonnello Daini
- Good King Dagobert as Saint Éloi
- Adventure at the Motel as commendatore
- Gli onorevoli as Sen. Rossani-Breschi
- The Eye of the Needle as D'Angelo, lawyer
1962
- Roaring Years as Salvatore Acquamano
- The Changing of the Guard as Mario Venicio
- Crime Does Not Pay as L'Inquisiteur
- The Nun of Monza as Cardinale Borromeo
1961
- Don Camillo: Monsignor as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- The Joy of Living as Olinto Fossati
- Ten Italians for One German as Baron Alfonso di San Severino
- Un figlio d'oggi as Andrea
- The Orderly as Maggiore Penna
1960
- Love, the Italian Way as Comm. Lemeni
- Mistress of the World - Part I as Professor Johanson
- Long Night in '43 as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi
- Siege of Syracuse as Gerone
- The Revolt of the Slaves as Fabio
- Mistress of the World - Part II as Professor Johanson
- Le Olimpiadi dei mariti as direttore del giornale
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome
- Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Suonatore ambulante (uncredited)
- Vacations in Majorca as André Breton, industriale
- Gangster Boss as Paolo
- The Black Chapel as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari
1958
- The Naked Maja as King Carlos IV of Spain
- Sans famille as Vitalis
- Love and Chatter as Paseroni
- El pasado te acusa as Comisario
1957
- Desert Warrior as Ibrahim
- Le belle dell'aria as Don Fogazza
- Ambush in Tangier as Bolevasco
- Las aeroguapas as Don Fogazza
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo as Maresciallo
- Moglie e buoi... as Giovanni Cattabriga
- Castle of the Banned Lovers as Francesco Cenci
1955
- Don Camillo's Last Round as Peppone
- Wild Love as Sir Cesare
- Non c'è amore più grande as Andrea
- Il coraggio as Comm. Aristide Paoloni
- Frou-Frou as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
1954
- Il cardinale Lambertini as Cardinale Lambertini
- A Free Woman as Massimo Marchi
- Maddalena as Don Vincenzo
- La grande avventura
1953
- The Three Musketeers as Porthos
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Cagliostro
- Indiscretion of an American Wife as Police Commissioner
- The Return of Don Camillo as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- The Lady Without Camelias as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra
- Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo
- Dappled Mare as Ruggero Pascoli
- La Dame aux camélias as Monsieur Duval
- Nero and the Burning of Rome as Nero
1952
- The Little World of Don Camillo as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
- Wife for a Night as Count D'Origo
- The Queen of Sheba as King Solomon of Jerusalem
- Three Forbidden Stories as Prof. Aragona
1951
- Position Wanted as Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi
- O.K. Nero as Nero
- The Forbidden Christ as Küster
- Il caimano del Piave as Colonel of Torrebruna
1950
- Story of a Love Affair as (uncredited)
- Women Without Names as Pietro Zanini
- Sigillo rosso
1949
- Fabiola as Quadratus
- La sposa non può attendere as Anselmo
- Yvonne of the Night as Baretti
- The Flame that Never Dies as Luigi Manfredi
1948
- Anna Karenina as Enrico
- Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris as Jean Valjean
- William Tell as Guglielmo Tell
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- Romantici a Venezia as Narrator (voice)
- Islands in the Lagoon as Narrator(voice)
1947
- Daniele Cortis as Marito di Elena
- Cronaca nera
- Furia as Oreste
1946
- L'angelo e il diavolo as Giulio Serra
- Umanità as Jack
- Malìa as Don Alfonso
- Aquila Nera as Kirila Petrovic
- Revenge as Sergio Tibaldi
1945
- The Misery of Mr. Travet as Il commandatore Francesco Battilocchio
- Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as signor Guglielmi
- Che distinta famiglia! as Michele Montischi
- Vivere ancora
- Crazy Quartet as Roberto
1943
- Gente dell’aria as Il capitano Pietro Sandri
- I'll Love You Forever as Mario Fabbrini
- Tristi amori as Giulio Scarli
1942
- Four Steps in the Clouds as Paolo Bianchi
- La regina di Navarra
- Don Cesare of Bazan as Don Cesare di Bazan
- Quarta pagina as Ex detenuto
- L'ultimo addio as Dottor Gino Landi
- Acque di primavera as Francesco
1941
- The Iron Crown as Sedemondo
- The Betrothed as Renzo Tramaglino
1940
- Il sogno di tutti as il padre del neonato
- The Sinner as Alberto
- A Romantic Adventure as Luigi Ferrero
- Eternal Melody as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1939
- An Adventure of Salvator Rosa as Salvador Rosa, il "Formica"
- I figli del marchese Lucera as Ermanno
1938
- L'argine as Zvanì
- Ettore Fieramosca as Ettore Fieramosca
- Inventiamo l'amore as Carlo Morelli
1937
- Gli uomini non sono ingrati as Ferencz Korvath
- Voglio vivere con Letizia as Bebe
1936
- Amore as Paolo Venieri
- The Two Sergeants as Commander Federico Martelli / sergent Guglielmo Salvoni
1935
- Aldebaran as Corrado Valeri