Gino Cervi (3 May 1901 - 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor of international fame. Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi ("Peppone"), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great complicity and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies. At the end of his career, he played Commissioner Maigret for six years in the Italian version of those murder stories, which ended with a movie Maigret in Pigalle (Mario Landi, 1966), produced by his son Antonio Cervi. He died at Punta Ala in 1974. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gino Cervi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Erfahre, wann der nächste Film von Gino Cervi startet
Einmal folgen - wir sagen dir Bescheid, sobald er ins Kino kommt.
Gino Cervi war ein herausragender italienischer Charakterdarsteller der Jahrhundertmitte, der international für seine umfangreiche Arbeit in klassischen europäischen Komödien und Dramen bekannt war.
Er ist am besten für seine Rolle als kommunistischer Bürgermeister Peppone neben Fernandel in der Don Camillo-Filmreihe und für seine Darstellung des Inspektor Maigret bekannt.
Er spielte in einer breiten Palette von Projekten mit, darunter beliebte Komödien, historische Epen und Krimianpassungen während des goldenen Zeitalters des italienischen Kinos.
