Domenico Serra (1899–1965) was an Italian
stage
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and
film actor
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. He made more than sixty films, many of them during the
silent era
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including
Mario Bonnard
Mario Bonnard (24 December 1889 – 22 March 1965) was an Italian actor and film director.
Career
Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made befo ...
's historical film ''
The Betrothed'' (1923).
[Goble p.305] In the
sound era
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed befo ...
, he largely played supporting or minor roles.
Partial filmography
* ''Il tesoro della cattedrale'' (1915)
* ''Il diamante azzurro'' (1916)
* ''Il germoglio della morte'' (1916)
* ''La trovata del brasiliano'' (1916)
* ''L'apostolo'' (1916)
* ''
The Cavalcade of Dreams'' (1917)
* ''
Wanda Warenine'' (1917)
* ''Sorrisi e spasimi della menzogna'' (1917)
* ''Maternità'' (1917)
* ''Le due orfanelle di Torino'' (1917)
* ''I raggi 'Z (1917)
* ''Il rifugio dell'alba'' (1918)
* ''Il marito dell'amica'' (1919)
* ''Le labbra e il cuore'' (1919)
* ''
The Little Schoolmistress'' (1919)
* ''Il buon Samaritano'' (1919)
* ''Il mistero della casa di fronte'' (1919)
* ''Federica d'Illiria'' (1919)
* ''Il ventriloquo'' (1920)
* ''Il marito in campagna'' (1920)
* ''
The Shadow
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'' (1920)
* ''Il tredicesimo commensale'' (1921)
* ''
The Painting of Osvaldo Mars
''The Painting of Osvaldo Mars'' () is a 1921 Italian silent drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Mercedes Brignone, Domenico Serra and Giovanni Cimara.Pethő p.123-25
Synopsis
A countess, discovering that a painting of her prov ...
'' (1921) - Osvald Mars, il pittore
* ''Il tango dei trapassatti'' (1921)
* ''L'inafferrabile'' (1922)
* ''
The Betrothed'' (1922) - Renzo Tramaglino
* ''El martirio de vivir'' (1922)
* ''Il forzato dell'amore'' (1923)
* ''Il capolavoro di Saetta'' (1923)
* ''Contro corrente'' (1923)
* ''La taverna verde'' (1924) - Il viveur
* ''
Pleasure Train'' (1924)
* ''
Chief Saetta'' (1924)
* ''
Maciste all'inferno'' (1925) - Giorgio
* ''
Steel
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'' (1933)
* ''
La voce senza volto'' (1939) - L'altro aiutante del regista
* ''La notte delle beffe'' (1939)
* ''Cuori nella tormenta'' (1940) - Renato
* ''Piccolo alpino'' (1940)
* ''
Lucky Night'' (1941)
* ''
The Betrothed'' (1941) - Tonio (uncredited)
* ''Se io fossi onesto'' (1942) - Il maggiordomo del barone Vareghi
* ''La fabbrica dell'imprevisto'' (1942)
* ''Quelli della montagna'' (1943) - (uncredited)
* ''Lo sbaglio di essere vivo'' (1945)
* ''
O sole mio'' (1946)
* ''
The Opium Den
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'' (1947) - (uncredited)
* ''I fratelli Karamazoff'' (1947)
* ''
Lost in the Dark'' (1947)
* ''L'ebreo errante'' (1948)
* ''Il corriere di ferro'' (1948)
* ''
Margaret of Cortona'' (1950)
* ''
The Beggar's Daughter
''The Beggar's Daughter'' () is a 1950 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Paola Barbara, Franca Maj and Steve Barclay (actor), Steve Barclay. It is based on a novel of the same name by Carolina Invernizio ...
'' (1950)
* ''Bellezze in bicicletta'' (1951)
* ''
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair'' (1953) - Ramon
* ''
The Steel Rope
''The Steel Rope'' () is a 1954 melodrama film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Brigitte Fossey and Virna Lisi.
Plot
Cast
* Brigitte Fossey as Marcella
* Fausto Tozzi as Filippo
* Xenia Valderi as Elsa
* Virna Lisi as Stella
* Nan ...
'' (1954)
* ''
Orphan of the Ghetto'' (1954)
* ''
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* ''The Song of th ...
'' (1955)
* ''Canzone proibita'' (1956) - (final film role)
References
External links
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Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
1899 births
1965 deaths
Italian male stage actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male silent film actors
People from Crescentino
20th-century Italian male actors
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