Memo Benassi
Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film Rossini.[1]
Memo Benassi | |
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 Memo Benassi on stage (1942) | |
| Born | Domenico Benassi 21 June 1886 |
| Died | 24 February 1957 (aged 70) Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1916–1955 (film) |
Selected filmography
- The Love Letters of Baroness S (1924)
- The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
- The Old Lady (1932)
- The Lucky Diamond (1933)
- The Haller Case (1933)
- Lady of Paradise (1934)
- Everybody's Woman (1934)
- Conquest of the Air (1936)
- Scipione l'africano (1937)
- Princess Tarakanova (1938)
- Tonight at Eleven (1938)
- The Two Orphans (1942)
- Rossini (1942)
- Fedora (1942)
- Measure for Measure (1943)
- The Son of the Red Corsair (1943)
- The Tyrant of Padua (1946)
- The Affairs of Messalina (1951)
- Red Shirts (1952)
- Adriana Lecouvreur (1955)
References
- Mathew & Walton p.337
External links
- Memo Benassi at IMDb
Bibliography
- Mathew, Nicholas & Walton, Benjamin. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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