Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in
Mario Bava
Mario Bava (; 31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter. His low-budget genre films, known for their distinctive visual flair and stylish ...
's ''
Black Sunday'' (1960).
Biography
Born in
Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of
Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.
Aside from his work on stage, including works with
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an Italian stage director, theatre practitioner, actor, and politician. Strehler was one of the most significant figures in Italian theatre during his lifetime, described by Mel Gu ...
, in the fifties he started a parallel activity in cinema, starring in a great number of films, even if usually in secondary roles.
Garrani died on 25 March 2015, at the age of 91.
Selected filmography
*''
Ragazze da marito'' (1952) - Tommaso Spadoni
*''
Orient Express
The ''Orient Express'' was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company ''Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'' (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, w ...
'' (1954)
*''
Eighteen Year Olds'' (1955) - Il medico
*''
The Rival'' (1956) - Secondo ufficiale inquirente
*''
Roland the Mighty'' (1956) - Carlo Magno
*''
Terrore sulla città'' (1957)
*''
Hercules
Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Romans adapted the Gr ...
'' (1958) - Pelias, King of Iolcus
*''
Città di notte'' (1958) - Un dottore
*''
Slave Women of Corinth'' (1958) - Antigono
*''
The Day the Sky Exploded'' (1958) - Prof. Herbert Weisse
*''
Il padrone delle ferriere'' (1959) - Monsieur Moulinet
*''Le Fric'' (1959) - Belar
*''
General della Rovere'' (1959) - Partisan chief (uncredited)
*''
The Giant of Marathon'' (1959) - Creuso
*''
Vento del sud'' (1959) - Padrino
*''
Carthage in Flames'' (1960) - Thala
*''
La strada dei giganti'' (1960) - Vincent Micocci
*''
L'ultimo zar'' (1960)
*''
Black Sunday'' (1960) - Prince Vajda
*''
Atom Age Vampire'' (1960) - Prince Vajda
*''
Adua and Friends'' (1960) - L'Avvocato - Adua's ex-customer
*''
Morgan, the Pirate'' (1960) - Governor Don José Guzman
*''
The Hunchback of Rome'' (1960) - Moretti
*''
Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' (1961) - Re di Megalia
* ''
Dreams Die at Dawn'' (1961) - Andrea
*''
Ten Italians for One German'' (1962) - Giovanni Ferroni
*''
The Slave'' (1962) - Julius Caesar - Roman Triunvir
*''
The Legion's Last Patrol'' (1962) - Colonel Dionne
*''
The Captive City'' (1962) - Mavroti
*''
The Shortest Day'' (1963) - Erede Siciliano (uncredited)
*''
The Verona Trial'' (1963) - Roberto Farinacci
*''
The Leopard'' (1963) - Colonel Pallavicino
*''
The Betrothed'' (1964) - L'Innominato
*''
Cyrano et d'Artagnan'' (1964)
*''Senza sole nè luna'' (1964)
*''
Casanova 70'' (1965) - Il avvocato
*''
I grandi condottieri'' (1965) - Gedeone / Gideon
*''
La jeune morte'' (1965) - Le père
*''
The Rover'' (1967) - Scevola
*''
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...'' (1967) - Duca Pandolfo
*''
Deadly Inheritance'' (1968) - Leon
*''
The Bandit'' (1969)
*''
Waterloo'' (1970) - Marshal Soult
*''
Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow'' (1971) - Mussolini
*''
Maddalena '' (1971)
*''
Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria'' (1971) - Attorney General
*''
Caliber 9'' (1972) - Don Vincenzo
*' (1972) - Nicola Lombardo
*''
Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire'' (1972) - Lucetta's father
*' (1972) - Lubianski
*''
Section spéciale'' (1975) - L'amiral François Darlan, vice-président du Conseil
*''
Street People
Street people are people who live a public life on the streets of a city. Street people are frequently homeless, sometimes mentally ill, and often have a transient lifestyle. The delineation of street people is primarily determined by residential ...
'' (1976) - Salvatore Francesco
*''
Italia: Ultimo atto?'' (1977)
*''
Holocaust 2000'' (1977) - Prime Minister
*''
The Repenter
''Il pentito'' (internationally released as ''The Repenter'' and ''The Squealer'') is a 1985 Italian crime-drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. The film is loosely based on actual events involving, among others, pentito Tommaso Buscetta, ju ...
'' (1985)
*''
Soldati - 365 all'alba'' (1987) - Colonel
*''
The Invisible Wall'' (1991) - Copo Stato Maggiore della Difesa
*''
Nel continente nero'' (1993) - Monsignor Fantazzini
*''
Dio c'è'' (1998) - Ettore, Riccardo's father
*''
Zora the Vampire'' (2000) - Priest
*''
The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII'' (2003) - Cardinal Carcano
*''Marcello Marcello'' (2008) - Delegate
References
External links
*
1924 births
2015 deaths
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male voice actors
People from the Province of L'Aquila
Male actors from Abruzzo
{{Italy-film-actor-stub