Osvaldo Valenti

Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descent. He and his lover, Luisa Ferida, were executed by partisans in Milan, Italy, due to their links with Fascism. Their story was portrayed in the 2008 film '' Wild Blood''.

Partial filmography

* ''Hungarian Rhapsody'' (1928) – Der Fähnrich
* ''Five to Nil'' (1932) – Barenghi
* ''La signorina dell'autobus'' (1933) – Giacomo
* ''La fortuna di zanze'' (1933)
* '' Ragazzo'' (1934) – Malvivente di borgata
* '' Creatures of the Night'' (1934)
* ''The Dance of Time'' (1936)
* ''The Countess of Parma'' (1936) – Duca di Fadda
* '' Queen of the Scala'' (1937)
* ''Mia moglie si diverte'' (1938) – Tommy Bolden
* ''Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) – Guy de la Motte
* ''La signora di Montecarlo'' (1938)
* ''A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) – Gabriele Corodi
* '' The Widow'' (1939) – Padova, il pittore
* '' The Fornaretto of Venice'' (1939) – Alvise Duodo
* ''Frenzy'' (1939) – Sigfrido
* ''Hurricane in the Tropics'' (1939) – Il tenente Reguero
* ''An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (1939) – Lamberto d'Arco
* ''Una lampada alla finestra'' (1940) – Dick
* ''Fanfulla da Lodi'' (1940) – Franco di Genova
* ''Trappola d'amore'' (1940) – Il conte di Brazeuil
* '' Antonio Meucci'' (1940) – Giuseppe Garibaldi giovane
* '' Beyond Love'' (1940) – Livio Sabelli
* '' Abandonment'' (1940) – Leonard
* '' Boccaccio'' (1940) – Berto
* ''La leggenda azzurra'' (1940) – L'ufficiale straniero
* '' La zia smemorata'' (1940) – Paolo Ravelli
* '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) – Il duca Ruggero di Vallombrosa
* ''I pirati del golfo'' (1940)
* ''Idyll in Budapest'' (1941) – Sandor
* ''Giuliano de' Medici'' (1941) – Franceschino de' Pazzi
* '' The King of England Will Not Pay'' (1941) – Il secondo Antellesi
* '' The Iron Crown'' (1941) – Eriberto
* '' Beatrice Cenci'' (1941) – Giacomo Cenci
* ''Don Buonaparte'' (1941) – Maso
* ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) – Cesare Borgia
* ''The Secret Lover'' (1941) – Valentini
* '' First Love'' (1941) – Giovannino Cafiero
* ''Il vetturale del San Gottardo'' (1941) – Mortens
* ''La sonnambula'' (1941) – Il conte Osvaldo Merola
* ''Sancta Maria'' (1942) – Jack
* '' The Jester's Supper'' (1942) – Giannetto Malespini
* '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) – Pietro
* ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942) – Don Vincenzo Caramandola
* ''Orizzonte di sangue'' (1942) – Alioscia
* ''Fedora'' (1942) – Vladimiro Yariskine
* ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) – Nelson
* ''Piazza San Sepolcro'' (1942) – Napoleone da giovane
* '' Knights of the Desert'' (1942) – Il capitano Serra
* ''Gli ultimi filibustieri'' (1943) – Ramon de la Sierra
* '' La valle del diavolo'' (1943) – Il barone Rider
* ''Harlem'' (1943) – Chris Sherman
* ''Enrico IV'' (1943) – Il conte Enrico Di Nolli / Enrico IV
* '' The Innkeeper'' (1944) – Cavaliere di Ripafratta
* ''Fatto di cronaca'' (1945)

Bibliography

*Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013.

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1906 births
1945 deaths
Male actors from Istanbul
Deaths by firearm in Italy
Italian male film actors
Executed Italian people
Italian people of Greek descent
Italian people of Lebanese descent
Turkish people of Italian descent
20th-century Italian male actors
Italian fascists
People executed by Italy by firing squad