Giovanni Onorato
Acting
Biography
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Known For
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 Return of Don Camillo
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
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.
Ettore Fieramosca
ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
Girl of the Golden West
Tombolo, paradiso nero
Lieutenant Giorgio
A lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. After a few years he discovers that the woman was married to an invalid and that the meeting had been organized to ensure an heir for the family
La cieca di Sorrento
A small girl goes blind when her mother is murdered.
Montevergine
A blacksmith from Montevergine, accused of murder, flees to Argentina. Years later, a mute witness testifies to his innocence, leading to his acquittal. Just before returning home, an Argentine woman plants opium in his luggage, resulting in a ten-year prison sentence. After his release, he finds his daughter engaged to a wealthy landowner who had falsely accused him. Enraged, he plans to kill the man but is moved by grace at the Marian Shrine, lays down his weapon, and makes peace with his enemy.
La forza del destino
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
Filmography
as il Lungo
as Un paesano (uncredited)
as Griso
as The Conspirator with big moustaches
as Un contadino (uncredited)
as Scartazzini
as Muller
as Giocatore di Carte
as un contadino sul biroccio
as Il secondo soldato
as Nicastro
as Sambigliong
as Gypsy #2
as Addetto alla stamperia
as Un ufficiale
as doganiere
as Brancaleone