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Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-05-03 (123 years old)

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.

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Known For

Acting

1973

1972

To Kill in Silence as Nono Devoto
Fratello ladro as Don Lino

1967

Il latitante as Inspector
Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso as John-Emery Rockefeller

1966

Maigret at the Pigalle as Commissaire Maigret
Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Chief of the Night Guard

1965

Don Camillo in Moscow as Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi

1964

Becket as Cardinal Zambelli

1963

Gli onorevoli as Sen. Rossani-Breschi
Good King Dagobert as Saint Éloi
The Shortest Day as Colonnello Daini
The Eye of the Needle as D'Angelo, lawyer
Avventura al motel as commendatore

1962

Roaring Years as Salvatore Acquamano
The Changing of the Guard as Mario Venicio
Crime Does Not Pay as L'Inquisiteur
The Nun of Monza as Cardinale Borromeo

1961

Don Camillo: Monsignor as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
The Joy of Living as Olinto Fossati
Ten Italians for One German as Baron Alfonso di San Severino
The Orderly as Maggiore Penna

1960

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti as direttore del giornale
Long Night in '43 as Carlo 'Sciagura' Aretusi
Mistress of the World - Part I as Professor Johanson
Love, the Italian Way as Comm. Lemeni
Mistress of the World - Part II as Professor Johanson

1959

Gangster Boss as Paolo
Vacations in Majorca as André Breton, industriale
Sign of the Gladiator as Aurelianus, Emperor of Rome
The Black Chapel as Polizeipräfekt Ferrari

1958

Sans famille as Vitalis
The Naked Maja as King Carlos IV of Spain
Love and Chatter as Paseroni
El pasado te acusa as Comisario

1957

Desert Warrior as Ibrahim
Ambush in Tangier as Bolevasco
Las aeroguapas as Don Fogazza

1956

Castle of the Banned Lovers as Francesco Cenci
Moglie e buoi... as Giovanni Cattabriga

1955

Il coraggio as Comm. Aristide Paoloni
Frou-Frou as Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
Wild Love as Sir Cesare

1954

Il cardinale Lambertini as Cardinale Lambertini
Maddalena as Don Vincenzo
A Free Woman as Massimo Marchi

1953

The Return of Don Camillo as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
Dappled Mare as Ruggero Pascoli
Indiscretion of an American Wife as Police Commissioner
The Lady Without Camelias as Ercole 'Ercolino' Borra
Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! as Conte Riccardo Salluzzo
La Dame aux camélias as Monsieur Duval

1952

The Little World of Don Camillo as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
Wife for a Night as Count D'Origo
The Queen of Sheba as King Solomon of Jerusalem
Three Forbidden Stories as Prof. Aragona

1951

Position Wanted as Filiberto 'Berto' Morucchi
O.K. Nero as Nero
Il caimano del Piave as Colonel of Torrebruna

1950

Women Without Names as Pietro Zanini
Story of a Love Affair as (uncredited)

1949

Yvonne of the Night as Il colonnello Baretti
The Flame that Never Dies as Luigi Manfredi
Fabiola as Quadratus

1948

Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
William Tell as Guglielmo Tell
Islands in the Lagoon as Narrator(voice)
Romantici a Venezia as Narrator (voice)
Anna Karenina as Enrico

1947

Furia as Oreste
Daniele Cortis as Marito di Elena

1946

Umanità as Jack
Aquila Nera as Kirila Petrovic
Revenge as Sergio Tibaldi

1945

The Misery of Mr. Travet as Il commandatore Francesco Battilocchio
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as signor Guglielmi
Che distinta famiglia! as Michele Montischi
Quartetto pazzo as Roberto

1943

T'amerò sempre as Mario Fabbrini
Tristi amori as Giulio Scarli
Gente dell’aria as Il capitano Pietro Sandri

1942

Four Steps in the Clouds as Paolo Bianchi
Don Cesare of Bazan as Don Cesare di Bazan
Quarta pagina as Ex detenuto
Acque di primavera as Francesco

1941

The Iron Crown as Sedemondo
The Betrothed as Renzo Tramaglino

1940

Una romantica avventura as Luigi Ferrero
The Sinner as Alberto
Eternal Melody as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1939

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa as Salvador Rosa, il "Formica"

1938

Inventiamo l'amore as Carlo Morelli
L'argine as Zvanì
Ettore Fieramosca as Ettore Fieramosca

1937

Gli uomini non sono ingrati as Ferencz Korvath

1936

The Two Sergeants as Commander Federico Martelli / sergent Guglielmo Salvoni
Amore as Paolo Venieri

1935

Aldebaran as Corrado Valeri

1932