Eduardo Notari (1903–1986) was an Italian

film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

of the

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. Notari came from

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

, and most of the films he starred in were set in or around the city. His parent Elvira Notari and Nicola Notari ran the Dora Film studio. He began his career in 1912 as one of the first professional

child actors The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage, television, or in movies. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated te ...

in Italy.Holmstrom p.20

Selected filmography

* '' Soldier's Fantasy'' (1927) * '' Italy Has Awakened'' (1927)

References

Bibliography

* Bruno, Giuliana. ''Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari''. Princeton University Press, 1993. * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 20–21.

External links

* 1903 births 1986 deaths Male actors from Naples Italian male film actors Italian male child actors 20th-century Italian male actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub