Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played
supporting and
character roles. He appeared as a
blackshirt in the 1934
Fascist
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propaganda film ''
The Old Guard''.
In popular
magazines
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of the 1930s, Doro was portrayed as the Italian equivalent of the American actor
Clark Gable
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.
[Forgacs & Gundle p. 159]
Selected filmography
* ''
The Last Adventure'' (1932)
* ''
I'll Always Love You'' (1933) - Il conte Diego
* ''
Fanny'' (1933) - Mario
* ''
The Missing Treaty'' (1933) - Carlo - suo figlio
* ''Cento di questi giorni'' (1933) - Guglielmo
* ''
The Old Guard'' (1934) - Roberto
* ''Tenebre'' (1934) - Emerson
* ''
Lady of Paradise'' (1934) - Delfo Delfi
* ''Quella vecchia canaglia'' (1934) - Giovanni
* ''La fanciulla dell'altro mondo'' (1934) - Rigo
* ''
Music in the Square'' (1936)
* ''
The Two Sergeants'' (1936) - Il sergente Roberto Magni
* ''
The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936)
* ''
Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - Prospero
* ''
Marcella'' (1937) - Renato
* ''
Pietro Micca'' (1938) - Il colonello Brunet
* ''
All of Life in One Night'' (1938) - Giorgio
* ''
The Make Believe Pirates'' (1939)
* ''Piccolo hotel'' (1939) - Gregory Bauer
* ''
Hurricane in the Tropics'' (1939) - Nichols
* ''Ho visto brillare le stelle'' (1939) - Topini
* ''Il segreto di Villa Paradiso'' (1940) - L'ispettore Gabriel Lopez
* ''Cuori nella tormenta'' (1940) - Piero Trentin
* ''Il re d'Inghilterra non paga'' (1941) - Il primo Antellesi
* ''Don Buonaparte'' (1941) - Il caporale
* ''Una notte dopo l'opera'' (1942) - Paolo Marini
* ''Il ponte sull'infinito'' (1942) - Sandro
* ''
Redemption'' (1943) - Carlo
* ''
Harlem
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'' (1943) - Bill Black
* ''
Special Correspondents'' (1943) - Il giornalista Prosperi
* ''Non mi muovo!'' (1943) - Enrico Sanni, il padrone di casa
* ''
No Turning Back'' (1945) - Dino Rizzi
* ''Monte Miracolo'' (1945) - Corrado Conti
* ''Si chiude all'alba'' (1945) - Il proprietario del tabarin
* ''
The Bandit'' (1946) - Mirko
* ''Les beaux jours du roi Murat'' (1947) - Maghella - ministre de la police
* ''
My Beautiful Daughter'' (1950) - Guidi
* ''
Margaret of Cortona'' (1950) - Capitano del popolo
* ''
Revenge of a Crazy Girl'' (1951) - Rodolfo
* ''
What Price Innocence?'' (1952) - Massimo Artesi
* ''
Guilt Is Not Mine
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Plot
We are in Maremma. A physician, doctor w ...
'' (1952) - Archeologo
* ''
Il prezzo dell'onore'' (1952) - Don Nicola
* ''
The Man from Cairo'' (1953) - Major C. Blanc
* ''
Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) - Osco
* ''
My Life Is Yours'' (1953) - Il medico
* ''
Angels of Darkness
''Angels of Darkness'' () is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Giuseppe Amato and starring Linda Darnell, Anthony Quinn and Valentina Cortese.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi.
Plot
A brothel is ...
'' (1954)
* ''
Il seduttore'' (1954)
* ''
A Parisian in Rome'' (1954) - Maestro Manardi
* ''L'eterna femmina'' (1954)
* ''
Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love'' (1954) - L'eccelenza
* ''I cavalieri dell'illusione'' (1954)
* ''
A Hero of Our Times'' (1955) - Prof. Bracci
* ''Accadde al penitenziario'' (1955) - Un automobilista in lite
* ''
La ladra'' (1955) - Maestro Arrighi (uncredited)
* ''Faccia da mascalzone'' (1956)
* ''
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo'' (1956) - The Colonel as an Examiner
* ''
War and Peace'' (1956) - Russian General (uncredited)
* ''
Difendo il mio amore'' (1956)
* ''
Nero's Weekend'' (1956) - Corbulone
* ''
Allow Me, Daddy!'' (1956) - Il maestro Santini
* ''
Count Max'' (1957) - Maj. Guido Amador
* ''C'è un sentiero nel cielo'' (1957) - Figueros, the notary public
* ''
Ladro lui, ladra lei'' (1958) - Gaetano Accursio
* ''
Slave Women of Corinth'' (1958) - Crepilo
* ''
The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1959) - Roman Consul
* ''
Ben-Hur'' (1959) - Valerius Gratus (uncredited)
* ''
Legions of the Nile
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* Spanish Legion, ...
'' (1959) - Domiziano
* ''
Gastone'' (1960) - Cavallini
* ''
La Dolce Vita
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'' (1960) - Amante di Nadia
* ''
Messalina'' (1960) - Suplicio
* ''
Everybody Go Home'' (1960) - Maggiore Nocella
* ''Il corazziere'' (1960) - Il federale
* ''
Rome 1585'' (1961)
* ''
Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' (1961) - Oraclo
* ''
Duel of Champions'' (1961) - Caius
* ''
Hercules in the Haunted World'' (1961) - Keros
* ''
A Difficult Life'' (1961) - Gino Laganà - Silvio's Friend
* ''
The Police Commissioner'' (1962) - Col. Di Pietro
* ''
Two Weeks in Another Town'' (1962) - Tucino
* ''
The Reluctant Saint'' (1962)
* ''
I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra'' (1962) - Marito di Jasmine
* ''
8½
''8½'' ( ) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde arthouse comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi ( Marcello Mastroianni) who suffers from writer ...
'' (1963) - L'agente di Claudia
* ''
Duel at the Rio Grande'' (1963) - Don Luis
* ''Rocambole'' (1963) - L'avocat de Chateau Medy
* ''
Il successo'' (1963)
* ''
Rome Against Rome'' (1964) - Lutetius
* ''Il treno del sabato'' (1964) - Pallante's friend
* ''
Panic Button'' (1964)
* ''
Sandokan to the Rescue'' (1964) - Lumbo
* ''
Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak'' (1964) - Lumbo
* ''La mia signora'' (1964) - The mayor (segment "Eritrea")
* ''
Male Companion'' (1964) - Le professeur Gaetano (uncredited)
* ''
I due pericoli pubblici'' (1964) - Giorgio's Father
* ''
Golia alla conquista di Bagdad'' (1965) - King Selim
* ''
The Adventurer of Tortuga'' (1965) - Tarsarios
* ''
Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965) - Player (uncredited)
* ''
Operation Atlantis'' (1965) - Solis
* ''
Fantômas se déchaîne'' (1965) - Le professeur suisse
* ''
Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (1965) - Il Professore
* ''
The Upper Hand'' (1966)
* ''
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
''The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen'' () is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville.
Plot
In Paris around 1911, a handsome young Italian called Vincent arrives looking for work as a picture framer. He is taken on by Lemercier, whose ...
'' (1966)
* ''
To Skin a Spy'' (1966)
* ''La grande sauterelle'' (1967) - L'homme au bracelet de diamants
* ''
Action Man
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'' (1967) - Luigi Savani
* ''
Golden Chameleon'' (1967) - Guglielmo
* ''
The Rover'' (1967) - Dussard
* ''
Untamable Angelique'' (1967) - Auction director (uncredited)
* ''
Angelique and the Sultan'' (1968) - (uncredited)
* ''
3 Supermen a Tokio'' (1968) - Jacob Ferré
* ''
How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?'' (1970) - Anwalt
* ''
Hornets' Nest'' (1970) - Italian Doctor (final film role)
References
Bibliography
* Forgacs, David & Gundle, Stephen. ''Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War''. Indiana University Press, 2007.
* Landy, Marcia. ''The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930–1943''. SUNY Press, 1998.
External links
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1903 births
1992 deaths
Italian male film actors
Male actors from Venice
20th-century Italian male actors
Italian male stage actors