Biographies: Eduardo Ciannelli - Actor

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An Italian actor and baritone singer, born in Ischia, Naples, Italy. He married Alma Wolfe (1918-1968). They had two children, and she remained with him until her death. Among his most important works are Foreign Correspondent (1940), Gunga Din (1939), The Spy in the Green Hat (1967), and Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940). Eduardo Ciannelli had a long career in American films, and he mostly played the roles of gangsters and criminals. His father was a doctor, who owned a health spa. He studied surgery at the University of Naples Federico II and worked briefly as a doctor, then turned to singing and acting and toured Europe. He then headed to America in 1914, appearing on Broadway as a singer and actor. He presented one silent film in 1917, then focused on musical theater until the mid-thirties, after which he left Broadway for film work in Hollywood. He returned once to the theater in the early sixties and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor. His cinematic career lasted from the early thirties until the late sixties, and he divided his time between working in Italian cinema and American television while presenting a few Hollywood films. He died in Rome, Lazio, Italy, on October 8, 1969, of cancer.

• 2 May 2023
• Dalia Saad