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
- 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
- Una vita in gioco as Maigret
1964
- Becket as Cardinal Zambelli
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret as Maigret
- 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
- The Changing of the Guard as Mario Venicio
- Roaring Years as Salvatore Acquamano
- The Nun of Monza as Cardinale Borromeo
- Crime Does Not Pay as L'Inquisiteur
1961
- Don Camillo: Monsignor as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- The Joy of Living as Olinto Fossati
- The Orderly as Maggiore Penna
- Ten Italians for One German as Baron Alfonso di San Severino
- Un figlio d'oggi as Andrea
1960
- Siege of Syracuse as Gerone
- Love, the Italian Way as Comm. Lemeni
- Mistress of the World - Part I as Professor Johanson
- Mistress of the World - Part II as Professor Johanson
- Le Olimpiadi dei mariti as direttore del giornale
- Long Night in '43 as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi
- The Revolt of the Slaves as Fabio
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome
- The Black Chapel as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari
- Vacations in Majorca as André Breton, industriale
- Gangster Boss as Paolo
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
- Ambush in Tangier as Bolevasco
- Las aeroguapas as Don Fogazza
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Castle of the Banned Lovers as Francesco Cenci
- Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo as Maresciallo
- Moglie e buoi... as Giovanni Cattabriga
1955
- Don Camillo's Last Round as Peppone
- Wild Love as Sir Cesare
- Frou-Frou as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
- Il coraggio as Comm. Aristide Paoloni
- Non c'è amore più grande as Andrea
1954
- Maddalena as Don Vincenzo
- Il cardinale Lambertini as Cardinale Lambertini
- A Free Woman as Massimo Marchi
- La grande avventura
1953
- The Return of Don Camillo as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Cagliostro
- The Three Musketeers as Porthos
- Indiscretion of an American Wife as Police Commissioner
- Nero and the Burning of Rome as Nero
- The Lady Without Camelias as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra
- La Dame aux camélias as Monsieur Duval
- Dappled Mare as Ruggero Pascoli
- Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo
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
- Yvonne of the Night as Il colonnello Baretti
- La sposa non può attendere as Anselmo
- The Flame that Never Dies as Luigi Manfredi
1948
- Anna Karenina as Enrico
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris as Jean Valjean
- William Tell as Guglielmo Tell
- Romantici a Venezia as Narrator (voice)
- Islands in the Lagoon as Narrator(voice)
1947
- Daniele Cortis as Marito di Elena
- Furia as Oreste
- Cronaca nera
1946
- Revenge as Sergio Tibaldi
- Aquila Nera as Kirila Petrovic
- Umanità as Jack
- Malìa as Don Alfonso
1945
- Che distinta famiglia! as Michele Montischi
- The Misery of Mr. Travet as Il commandatore Francesco Battilocchio
- Vivere ancora
- Crazy Quartet as Roberto
- Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as signor Guglielmi
1943
- Tristi amori as Giulio Scarli
- I'll Love You Forever as Mario Fabbrini
- Gente dell’aria as Il capitano Pietro Sandri
1942
- Four Steps in the Clouds as Paolo Bianchi
- Don Cesare of Bazan as Don Cesare di Bazan
- Acque di primavera as Francesco
- Quarta pagina as Ex detenuto
- La regina di Navarra
- L'ultimo addio as Dottor Gino Landi
1941
- The Iron Crown as Sedemondo
- The Betrothed as Renzo Tramaglino
1940
- 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
- Ettore Fieramosca as Ettore Fieramosca
- Inventiamo l'amore as Carlo Morelli
- L'argine as Zvanì
1937
- Gli uomini non sono ingrati as Ferencz Korvath
- Voglio vivere con Letizia as Bebe
1936
- The Two Sergeants as Commander Federico Martelli / sergent Guglielmo Salvoni
- Amore as Paolo Venieri
1935
- Aldebaran as Corrado Valeri