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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-05-03

Place of Birth

Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Gino Cervi

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​

Known for

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama

Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

Italian TV series based on the Maigret detective novels.

Wild Love

Wild Love

The film tells the love stories of several young people: Nando, owner of a mechanical shop, supplements his income by posing for photo novels, sparking jealousy in his girlfriend Marisa. Otello, who works as a barber, sincerely loves Adriana, Nando's sister, who has been promised to Franco, who is tempted by the charms of Ines, owner of the neighbourhood trattoria.

Amore

Amore

It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Suzette to the farm of an Italian working class family. She really doesn't like the country or her in laws.

Il coraggio

Il coraggio

A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.

Sans famille

Sans famille

The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...

Aldebaran

Aldebaran

Malìa

Malìa

In regional Sicily, Jana tries to repair her sister's marriage by going to a sorceress who makes up a love potion that will bring about the couple's happiness. But the spell only works on Jana herself...

William Tell

William Tell

The Naked Maja

The Naked Maja

A historical fiction based on the lives of the artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba.

Becket

Becket

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.

Love, the Italian Way

Love, the Italian Way

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.

Three Forbidden Stories

Three Forbidden Stories

While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.

Le belle dell'aria

Le belle dell'aria

Una vita in gioco

Una vita in gioco

Maigret decides to believe in Heurtin Joseph, a young man sentenced to death for the murder of two elderly women in Saint-Cloud, which has always stubbornly maintained his innocence. The inspector is not sure of the choice he made to convince his superiors to organize an escape for the young man, to lead him to the real culprits.