Mario Ferrari

Mario Ferrari
Born	(1894-09-03)3 September 1894 Rome, Lazio Italy
Died	28 June 1974(1974-06-28) (aged 79) Rome, Lazio Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1920 - 1974

Mario Ferrari (1894–1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the villainous Graiano d'Asti in the historical film Ettore Fieramosca (1938). Ferrari continued to work regularly in the post-Second World War years.

Selected filmography

• Palio (1932)
• The Table of the Poor (1932)
• Your Money or Your Life (1932)
• 1860 (1934)
• Everybody's Woman (1934)
• Red Passport (1935)
• Cavalry (1936)
• A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
• Condottieri (1937)
• Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938)
• Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
• Cardinal Messias (1939)
• The Knight of San Marco (1939)
• The Thrill of the Skies (1940)
• Giarabub (1942)
• Vanity (1947)
• Rondini in volo (1949)
• Anthony of Padua (1949)
• Women Without Names (1950)
• Torment (1950)
• Cavalcade of Heroes (1950)
• Falsehood (1952)
• The Queen of Sheba (1952)
• Lulu (1953)
• Goliath and the Dragon (1960, screenplay)
• The Avenger (1962)

Bibliography

• Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 1998.

External links

• Mario Ferrari at IMDb