
Memo Benassi
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Memo Benassi.
Born: June 19, 1886
Place of Birth: Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Known For

Amleto

Everybody's Woman
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

The Jester's Supper
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

Night of the Storm
Melodrama, about a father and son sharing the love for the same charming girl. A dramatic night storm leads to jealousy and loss of honor.

Le due orfanelle

The Conquest of the Air
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

The Affairs of Messalina
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

Il Tiranno di Padova
Padua, 1540. Angelo is married to Caterina but has an affair with Tisbe, an actress who travels with Rodolfo, presented as her brother but actually her lover and also Caterina's first and true love. Tisbe is also searching for the daughter of the woman who saved her mother from capital punishment and to whom she had given a crucifix. Caterina, victim of a plot hatched by Angelo and Tisbe, is saved by her at the last minute, as she recognizes her as the daughter of the woman who saved her mother from capital punishment.

Lisetta
Filmography
as Michonnet
as Re Claudio
as Claudio
as Cesare, il pittore
as Un pazzo
as Donato Almorò
as Prince Yariskine
as Il Conte di Linières
as Beethoven
as Il Tornaquinci
as Fanfulla
as Ambasciatore russo
as Ambasciatore Leopold Norton
as Leonardo Nanni
as Il maggiordomo
as Joe
as Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)
as Straßenmusikant Giovanni
as Francesco Lama