Amedeo Trilli
{{Short description|Italian film and television actor}}
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| birth_place = Ronciglione, Italy
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Amedeo Trilli (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and later he started working on stage.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}} He made his film debut in the early days of the sound films, and from the 1940s his presence on the big screen became continuous.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}} One of the most active character actors in Italian genre cinema, Trilli also got some leading roles in a number of low budget films, sometimes credited as Amedeo Novelli.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}
Selected filmography
- Pergolesi (1932)
- La Wally (1932)
- Princess Tarakanova (1938)
- Cardinal Messias (1939)
- The Two Tigers (1941)
- Document Z-3 (1942)
- The Gorgon (1942)
- A Little Wife (1943)
- The Ten Commandments (1945)
- Turri il bandito (1950)
- Father's Dilemma (1950)
- Il richiamo nella tempesta (1950)
- The Cliff of Sin (1950)
- Destiny (1951)
- Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
- The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952)
- Il prezzo dell'onore (1952)
- Guilt Is Not Mine (1952)
- Frontier Wolf (1952)
- Francis the Smuggler (1953)
- Peppino e la vecchia signora (1954)
- Disowned (1954)
- Serenata a Maria (1957)
- Revolt of the Mercenaries (1961)
- Hawk of the Caribbean (1962)
- I diavoli di Spartivento (1963)
- Revolt of the Praetorians (1964)
- Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (1964)
- Treasure of the Petrified Forest (1965)
- Giant of the Evil Island (1965)
- Serafino (1968)
References
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== External links ==
- {{IMDb name|id =0872820}}
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Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:People from the Province of Viterbo