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
- Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso as John-Emery Rockefeller
- Il latitante as Inspector
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
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret as Maigret
- Becket as Cardinal Zambelli
- Full Hearts and Empty Pockets as Botta
- Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri as Card.Richelieu
- Un'ombra su Maigret as Maigret
1963
- The Shortest Day as Colonnello Daini
- Gli onorevoli as Sen. Rossani-Breschi
- Adventure at the Motel as commendatore
- Good King Dagobert as Saint Éloi
- The Eye of the Needle as D'Angelo, lawyer
1962
- Roaring Years as Salvatore Acquamano
- The Nun of Monza as Cardinale Borromeo
- Crime Does Not Pay as L'Inquisiteur
- The Changing of the Guard as Mario Venicio
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
- The Orderly as Maggiore Penna
- Un figlio d'oggi as Andrea
1960
- Love, the Italian Way as Comm. Lemeni
- Long Night in '43 as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi
- Mistress of the World - Part II as Professor Johanson
- Siege of Syracuse as Gerone
- The Revolt of the Slaves as Fabio
- Mistress of the World - Part I as Professor Johanson
- Le Olimpiadi dei mariti as direttore del giornale
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome
- The Black Chapel as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari
- Gangster Boss as Paolo
- Vacations in Majorca as André Breton, industriale
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
- Le belle dell'aria as Don Fogazza
- Ambush in Tangier as Bolevasco
- Las aeroguapas as Don Fogazza
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Moglie e buoi... as Giovanni Cattabriga
- Castle of the Banned Lovers as Francesco Cenci
- Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo as Maresciallo
1955
- Don Camillo's Last Round as Peppone
- Wild Love as Sir Cesare
- Il coraggio as Comm. Aristide Paoloni
- Frou-Frou as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
- 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
- Indiscretion of an American Wife as Police Commissioner
- The Three Musketeers as Porthos
- The Return of Don Camillo as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Cagliostro
- Dappled Mare as Ruggero Pascoli
- The Lady Without Camelias as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra
- La Dame aux camélias as Monsieur Duval
- Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo
- Nero and the Burning of Rome as Nero
1952
- The Little World of Don Camillo as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
- Three Forbidden Stories as Prof. Aragona
- Wife for a Night as Count D'Origo
- The Queen of Sheba as King Solomon of Jerusalem
1951
- O.K. Nero as Nero
- The Forbidden Christ as Küster
- Il caimano del Piave as Colonel of Torrebruna
- Position Wanted as Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi
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
- William Tell as Guglielmo Tell
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- Romantici a Venezia as Narrator (voice)
- Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris as Jean Valjean
- Islands in the Lagoon as Narrator(voice)
1947
- Cronaca nera
- Furia as Oreste
- Daniele Cortis as Marito di Elena
1946
- Malìa as Don Alfonso
- Umanità as Jack
- L'angelo e il diavolo as Giulio Serra
- Aquila Nera as Kirila Petrovic
- Revenge as Sergio Tibaldi
1945
- Crazy Quartet as Roberto
- 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
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
- L'ultimo addio as Dottor Gino Landi
- Don Cesare of Bazan as Don Cesare di Bazan
- Quarta pagina as Ex detenuto
- La regina di Navarra
- 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