Gino Cervi
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
Born: May 3, 1901
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Known For
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
Position Wanted
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Cinépanorama
The Little World of Don Camillo
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
The Black Chapel
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Four Steps in the Clouds
Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
Don Camillo's Last Round
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
The Return of Don Camillo
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
The Eye of the Needle
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Filmography
as Pope Leone
as Nono Devoto
as Don Lino
as Inspector
as Commissaire Maigret
as Chief of the Night Guard
as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi
as Maigret
as Maigret
as Cardinal Zambelli
as Botta
as Saint Éloi
as Sen. Rossani-Breschi
as D'Angelo, lawyer
as Colonnello Daini
as commendatore
as Mario Venicio
as L'Inquisiteur
as Cardinale Borromeo
as Salvatore Acquamano
as Baron Alfonso di San Severino
as Maggiore Penna
as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
as Olinto Fossati
as Andrea
as Fabio
as Comm. Lemeni
as direttore del giornale
as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi
as Professor Johanson
as Professor Johanson
as Gerone
as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari
as André Breton, industriale
as Paolo
as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome
as King Carlos IV of Spain
as Comisario
as Paseroni
as Vitalis
as Don Fogazza
as Ibrahim
as Bolevasco
as Giovanni Cattabriga
as Francesco Cenci
as Maresciallo
as Self
as Comm. Aristide Paoloni
as Peppone
as Andrea
as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
as Sir Cesare
as Massimo Marchi
as Cardinale Lambertini
as Don Vincenzo
as Cagliostro
as Monsieur Duval
as Ruggero Pascoli
as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo
as Porthos
as Nero
as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
as Police Commissioner
as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra
as King Solomon of Jerusalem
as Prof. Aragona
as Count D'Origo
as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
as Nero
as Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi
as Küster
as Colonel of Torrebruna
as (uncredited)
as Pietro Zanini
as Il colonnello Baretti
as Anselmo
as Luigi Manfredi
as Quadratus
as Narrator(voice)
as Guglielmo Tell
as Enrico
as Jean Valjean
as Jean Valjean
as Narrator (voice)
as Marito di Elena
as Oreste
as Kirila Petrovic
as Sergio Tibaldi
as Jack
as Il commandatore Francesco Battilocchio
as signor Guglielmi
as Roberto
as Mario Fabbrini
as Giulio Scarli
as Il capitano Pietro Sandri
as Paolo Bianchi
as Ex detenuto
as Francesco
as Don Cesare di Bazan
as Dottor Gino Landi
as Renzo Tramaglino
as Sedemondo
as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
as Luigi Ferrero
as Alberto
as Salvador Rosa, il "Formica"
as Ermanno
as Carlo Morelli
as Ettore Fieramosca
as Zvanì
as Bebe
as Ferencz Korvath
as Commander Federico Martelli / sergent Guglielmo Salvoni
as Paolo Venieri
as Corrado Valeri