Amedeo Trilli (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor.

Life and career

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, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and later he started working on stage. He made his film debut in the early days of the

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s, and from the 1940s his presence on the big screen became continuous. One of the most active

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s in Italian genre cinema, Trilli also got some leading roles in a number of low budget films, sometimes credited as Amedeo Novelli.

Selected filmography

* '' Pergolesi'' (1932) * '' La Wally'' (1932) * '' Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * '' Cardinal Messias'' (1939) * '' The Two Tigers'' (1941) * '' Document Z-3'' (1942) * '' The Gorgon'' (1942) * '' A Little Wife'' (1943) * '' The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' Turri il bandito'' (1950) * '' Father's Dilemma'' (1950) * '' Il richiamo nella tempesta'' (1950) * '' The Cliff of Sin'' (1950) * ''

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'' (1951) * '' Tomorrow Is Another Day'' (1951) * ''

The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo ''The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo'' () is a 1952 Italian historical drama film directed by Pietro Germi. Plot In 1863 a company of Italian Bersaglieri commanded by Captain Giordani, as part of the repression of banditry, was charged with freeing ...

'' (1952) * '' Il prezzo dell'onore'' (1952) * ''

Guilt Is Not Mine ''Guilt Is Not Mine'' or ''Unjust Condemnation'' (, ) is a 1952 French-Italian melodrama film co-written and directed by Giuseppe Masini and starring Rossano Brazzi, Gaby André and Elvy Lissiak. Plot We are in Maremma. A physician, doctor w ...

'' (1952) * '' Frontier Wolf'' (1952) * '' Francis the Smuggler'' (1953) * '' Peppino e la vecchia signora'' (1954) * '' Disowned'' (1954) * '' Serenata a Maria'' (1957) * '' Revolt of the Mercenaries'' (1961) * '' Hawk of the Caribbean'' (1962) * '' I diavoli di Spartivento'' (1963) * '' Revolt of the Praetorians'' (1964) * '' Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens'' (1964) * '' Treasure of the Petrified Forest'' (1965) * '' Giant of the Evil Island'' (1965) * '' Serafino'' (1968)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trilli, Amedeo 1906 births 1971 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male film actors Italian male stage actors People from the Province of Viterbo Male actors from Lazio Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni