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Ernesto Almirante

Italian actor (1877–1964)

Ernesto Almirante
Almirante in the movie The White Sheik (1952)
Born	24 September 1877 (1877-09-24) Mistretta, Kingdom of Italy
Died	13 December 1964 (1964-12-14) (aged 87) Bologna, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)

Ernesto Almirante (24 September 1877 – 13 December 1964) was an Italian film and stage actor.

Life and career

Born in Mistretta into a family of actors, Almirante worked several years on stage along his father Nunzio.^[1] He was also active as agent and organizer of several stage companies.^[1]

After an occasional film role in the 1919 mute film Federica d'Illirio, starting from mid-1930s Almirante became one of the most active character actors of his time.^[1] In 1955, he retired from acting and moved into a retirement home for actors in Bologna.^[1] He was the uncle of politician Giorgio Almirante.

Partial filmography

Federica d'Illiria (1919)
Red Passport (1935) - L'addetto di passaporto clandestini
At Your Orders, Madame (1939) - Lorot, l'impiegato del notaio
We Were Seven Widows (1939) - L'anziano capitano della nave
Defendant, Stand Up! (1939) - André Copersche, il presidente del tribunal
La mia canzone al vento (1939)
The Document (1939)
The Night of Tricks (1939) - Francesco Acquaviva
One Hundred Thousand Dollars (1940) - Michele Zilay
La granduchessa si diverte (1940)
A Romantic Adventure (1940) - Berni, il socio di Luigi
Piccolo alpino (1940) - Il professore
The Daughter of the Green Pirate (1940) - Il precettore delle educante
Manovre d'amore (1940) - Enchelly
Marco Visconti (1941) - Tremacoldo
Brivido (1941) - Isidoro Janosky
The Adventuress from the Floor Above (1941) - Il padre de Biancamaria
Honeymoon (1941) - Ernesto Gelardi
Finalmente soli (1942) - Il professore Ippolito Mariani
Margherita fra i tre (1942) - Giovanni
Wedding Day (1942) - La zio dello sposo
Mater dolorosa (1943) - Il nobiluoimo anziano al concerto
Il nostro prossimo (1943)
In cerca di felicità (1944) - Brocca
O sole mio (1946)
The Testimony (1946) - Giuseppe Marchi
L'angelo e il diavolo (1946)
Tempesta d'anime (1946)
To Live in Peace (1947) - Il Nonno
L'onorevole Angelina (1947) - Luigi
The Captain's Daughter (1947) - Savelich
The Brothers Karamazov (1947) - Maximoff
Difficult Years (1948) - Il nonno
Eleven Men and a Ball (1948) - Il professore
Ti ritroverò (1949) - The Old Fisherman
The Firemen of Viggiù (1949) - Uno spettatore
Alarm Bells (1949) - Il possidente
The Bride Can't Wait (1949)
I'm in the Revue (1950) - Le colonel
Father's Dilemma (1950) - L'invitato anziano
The White Line (1950) - The Grandfather
That Ghost of My Husband (1950)
Cops and Robbers (1951) - Esposito's Father
Ergastolo (1952) - Prof. Arlotta
The White Sheik (1952) - Dottore Fortuna - il regista del fotoromanzo
Toto and the King of Rome (1952) - Nedo
Matrimonial Agency (1953) - Zio di Lodolini
100 Years of Love (1954) - Antonio Bianchi (segment "Nozze d'Oro")
Via Padova 46 (1954) - Cesare
Ore 10: lezione di canto (1955) - Il Prof. Tapparelli
Destination Piovarolo (1955) - Ernesto
Il coraggio (1955) - Salvatore Esposito (final film role)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884402131.