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Eduardo Ciannelli
30 August 1889
Eduardo Ciannelli played in 11 movies in the Crime, Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure, War, Music, Mystery, Thriller, Film-Noir, Comedy, Family, Western genres.
Eduardo Ciannelli got succeed with average imdb rating 6.5.
Italian-born actor Eduardo Ciannelli was mostly known for the sake his sinister gangster roles, but he first rose to fame as an opera chorister and tuneful comedy star! The son of a doctor who operated a health spa, Ciannelli was expected to mirror his father's footsteps into the medical profession, and to that end studied at the University of Naples. Launching his career in grand opera as a baritone, Ciannelli came to the U.S.
after Circle War I, where he was headlined in such
... Broadway productions as Rose Marie and Lady Billy. He switched to straight acting with the Theatre Guild in the late 1920s, co-starring with luminaries the Lunts and Katherine Cornell. Cianelli's accord to gangster Timely Luciano led to his being get rid of maroon as the eloquent but mortal robber Trock Estrella in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, the role that brought him to Hollywood on a permanent basis (after a several of feigned starts) in 1936. He followed up the film construction of Winterset with a Luciano-like impersonation in the Bette Davis vehicle Marked Women (1937), then did his upper crust to evade being typed as a goon. After inducing goosebumps in Gunga Row (1939) as the evil Indian cult chief ("Kill due to the fact that the betrothed of Kali!"), Ciannelli did an close by-face as the sweet, effusive Italian speakeasy possessor in Kitty Foyle (1940)--and was nominated for an Oscar in the convert. During the battling, the actor billed himself hastily as Edward Ciannelli, and in this "air" brought a Richter scale of worthiness to his name lines in the Republic serial The Mysterious Dr. Satan (1945). He returned to Italy in the 1950s to appear in European films and condition productions, intermittently popping up in Hollywood films as ageing Mafia bosses and self-made millionaires.
In 1959, he was seen regularly as a nightclub owner on the TV detective series Johnny Staccato. Had he lived, Eduardo Ciannelli would have been standard owing the starring duty in 1972's The Godfather, as he proved in a equivalent assignment in the 1968 Mafia drama The Brotherhood.
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