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Sancta Maria (1942)
Character: Father Lorenzo
Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
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La nascita di Salomè (1940)
Character: Aristobulo
Comedy freely inspired by the Gospel story of Salome's dance before King Herod, here it is the king of Prati who offers 4 provinces of his kingdom to another monarch, in exchange for the seductive dancer.
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Il re burlone (1935)
Character: Ferdinando II
A young girl learns that she is the daughter of an executed politician and conspires to avenge her father's memory.
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Don Pasquale (1940)
Character: Don Pasquale
In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
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Rubacuori (1931)
Character: Giovanni Marchi
A banker gets involved in the theft of a precious jewel.
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Joe il Rosso (1936)
Character: Joe il rosso
A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
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L'ultima avventura (1932)
Character: N/A
A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.
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Felicita Colombo (1937)
Character: Conte Scotti
In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
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I promessi sposi (1941)
Character: Don Abbondio
Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
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Una famiglia impossibile (1940)
Character: Giovanni Bartolla
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
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Giorno di nozze (1942)
Character: Mariano Bonotti
A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were.
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Il birichino di papà (1943)
Character: Leopoldo Giovannini
Nicoletta is a young rebel, cherished by his forgiving father, until an old relative joins the family after the wedding of her sister, and insists that the impetuous girl is sent to college. Nicoletta becomes a true tornado for educators trying in vain to bring her under control.
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Rossini (1942)
Character: Re Ferdinando I
The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
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Follie del secolo (1939)
Character: Il conte Raimondo Molinot de la Tour
An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.
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