Cesare Gravina
Appearance
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Born | Naples, Italy | 23 January 1858
Died | 16 September 1954 New York City, New York, United States | (aged 96)
Years active | 1911–1929 |
Cesare Gravina (23 January 1858 – 16 September 1954) was an Italian actor of the silent era who appeared in more than 70 films between 1911 and 1929.
Biography
Born in Naples, Gravina was an orchestra conductor in his native Italy. As the conductor at La Scala, among the noted vocalists he worked with were Mary Garden and Enrico Caruso. At some point he left music to become a character actor, sharing his reasons for the career change with no one. As the owner of many theaters in South America, Gravina was financially secure enough to retire from motion pictures by 1924, but he preferred to remain in acting.[1]
Selected filmography
- Madame Butterfly (1915)
- The White Pearl (1915)
- Hulda from Holland (1916)
- Less Than the Dust (1916)
- Poor Little Peppina (1916)
- The Siren (1917)
- The Fatal Ring (1917)
- Miss Nobody (1917)
- Let's Get a Divorce (1918)
- Marriage For Convenience (1919)
- Scratch My Back (1920)
- A Woman's Faith (1920)
- The Penalty (1920)
- Madame X (1920)
- God's Country and the Law (1921)
- Foolish Wives (1922)
- Daddy (1923)
- Merry-Go-Round (1923)
- Circus Days (1923)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
- The Humming Bird (1924)
- The Family Secret (1924)
- Butterfly (1924)
- Greed (1924)
- Fifth Avenue Models (1925)
- Contraband (1925)
- The Charmer (1925)
- The Man in Blue (1925)
- Flower of Night (1925)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- An Enemy Of Men (1925)
- Monte Carlo (1926)
- The Blonde Saint (1926)
- The Midnight Sun (1926)
- The Road to Romance (1927)
- Cheating Cheaters (1927)
- The Divine Woman (1928)
- The Trail of '98 (1928)
- The Man Who Laughs (1928)
- How to Handle Women (1928)
- The Wedding March (1928)
- Burning the Wind (1929)
References
- ^ A Successful Portrayer of Failures. Picture Play magazine. August 1924. p. 65. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
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