Osvaldo Valenti

Osvaldo Valenti
Born	(1906-02-17)17 February 1906 Istanbul, Turkey
Died	30 April 1945(1945-04-30) (aged 39) Milan, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1928-1945

Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descent. He and his lover, Luisa Ferida, were executed by partisans in Milan, Italy, due to their links with Fascism. Their story was portrayed in the 2008 film Wild Blood.

Selected filmography

• Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
• Five to Nil (1932)
• Creatures of the Night (1934)
• The Countess of Parma (1936)
• The Dance of Time (1936)
• Queen of the Scala (1937)
• Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
• The Widow (1939)
• The Fornaretto of Venice (1939)
• A Thousand Lire a Month (1939)
• Hurricane in the Tropics (1939)
• Frenzy (1939)
• Abandonment (1940)
• Beyond Love (1940)
• Captain Fracasse (1940)
• Antonio Meucci (1940)
• Boccaccio (1940)
• La zia smemorata (1940)
• The Secret Lover (1941)
• The Mask of Cesare Borgia (1941)
• The King of England Will Not Pay (1941)
• First Love (1941)
• The Iron Crown (1941)
• Idyll in Budapest (1941)
• Fedora (1942)
• The Two Orphans (1942)
• Sleeping Beauty (1942)
• Luisa Sanfelice (1942)
• Knights of the Desert (1942)
• The Jester's Supper (1942)
• Harlem (1943)
• La valle del diavolo (1943)
• The Innkeeper (1944)

Bibliography

• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Osvaldo Valenti at IMDb
• Osvaldo Valenti at Find a Grave
• Osvaldo Valenti at AllMovie