Lamberto Picasso (21 October 1880 – 17 September 1962) was an Italian film actor.[1] He appeared in 70 films between 1914 and 1953.
Lamberto Picasso | |
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_Lamberto_Picasso_(cropped).png) Picasso in Ettore Fieramosca (1938) | |
| Born | 21 October 1880 |
| Died | 17 September 1962 (aged 81) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1914–1953 |
Life and career
Born in La Spezia, Picasso studied at the Istituto Tecnico in Genoa, and made his acting debut on stage alongside Ermete Novelli.[2] After working among others with the companies led by Teresa Franchini, Irma Gramatica and Antonio Gandusio, he served in the World War I as a lieutenant.[2] After the war, he started also working as a stage director, getting a personal success in 1930 with his rendition of R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End.[2] In 1933, after working with Tatyana Pavlova he stepped away from the theater, resuming an intense stage activity in 1939 before his final retirement from acting in 1957; his last work was a successful rendition of Sophocles’Oedipus Rex directed by Vittorio Gassman.[2] He was also active in films, being mainly cast in supporting roles, with a career which spanned from silent cinema until early 1950s.[2] He was married to actress Ginevra Cavaciocchi.[2]
Selected filmography
- The Naked Truth (1914)
- The Doctor's Secret (1931)
- Paradise (1932)
- Your Money or Your Life (1932)
- Fanny (1933)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- The Missing Treaty (1933)
- Everybody's Woman (1934)
- The Wedding March (1934)
- Those Two (1935)
- The Two Sergeants (1936)
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
- Doctor Antonio (1937)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
- The Cuckoo Clock (1938)
- Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
- Wealth Without a Future (1939)
- Diamonds (1939)
- No Man's Land (1939)
- Beyond Love (1940)
- Caravaggio (1941)
- A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)
- The Countess of Castiglione (1942)
- Rita of Cascia (1943)
- Calafuria (1943)
- Measure for Measure (1943)
- I'll Sing No More (1945)
- No Turning Back (1945)
- The Lovers (1946)
- Mad About Opera (1948)
- Heart (1948)
- The Monastery of Santa Chiara (1949)
- Pact with the Devil (1950)
- The Young Caruso (1951)
- Messalina (1951)
- Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953)