Alfredo Varelli

Alfredo Varelli (born Alfredo Ciavarella, 31 August 1914 – 18 August 1996) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He debuted in Alessandro Blasetti's 1934 film Vecchia guardia. Varelli played a leading role in the 1942 historical drama The Jester's Supper, but most of his work was post-Second World War. He is also known for playing Lucan in Quo Vadis. His last role was in the film Roseanna's Grave, released posthumously in 1997.

Varelli died in Rome on 18 August 1996, at the age of 81.

Selected filmography Vecchia guardia (1935) Giuseppe Verdi (1938) – Un ammiratore di Verdi al caffè Inventiamo l'amore (1938) – Il secondo giocatore di biliardo (uncredited) Crispino e la comare (1938) I, His Father (1939) – Un amico di Radesio Follie del secolo (1939) – Martin, il cameriere del conte The Secret Lover (1941) – Un amico di Renata L'amore canta (1941) – Il giovane Longo The Jester's Supper (1942) – Gabriello Chiaramantesi Fedora (1942) – Valeriano (uncredited) Measure for Measure (1943) – Il duca Vincenzo / il frate Vivere ancora (1945) All'ombra della gloria (1945) – Federico Fear No Evil (1945) – Marco, il pastore L'angelo e il diavolo (1946) – Giorgio Guarnelli The Devil's Gondola (1946) – Paolo Venier The Tyrant of Padua (1946) – Rodolfo degli Ezzelini L'apocalisse (1947) The Earth Cries Out (1949) – Josef Love and Poison (1950) – Egidio d'Averna Cavalcade of Heroes (1950) – Luciano Manara The Beggar's Daughter (1950) The Count of Saint Elmo (1951) – Don Paolo Quo Vadis (1951) – Lucan, poet in Nero's court [dubbed] Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (1951) – Lentulo Stranger on the Prowl (1952) – The Neighborhood Patrolman I, Hamlet (1952) – Jensen The Man from Cairo (1953) – Prof. H. M. Crespi The Pagans (1953) – Pope Clement VII Buon viaggio pover'uomo (1953) – Padre Antonio Non vogliamo morire (1954) – Louis Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954) – Lieutenant Io, Caterina (1957) – Cardinale Noellet Orizzonte infuocato (1957) Sheba and the Gladiator (1959) – Vithos The Night of the Great Attack (1959) – Nicola Renzi, 'Mezzanotte' Ben-Hur (1959) – Physician's Assistant (uncredited) The Siege of Syracuse (1960) – Kriton Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) – Mercante #1 The Giants of Thessaly (1960) – Argus Duel of Champions (1961) – Sabinus Pontius Pilate (1962) – Giuseppe d'Arimatea Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) – Father Ben (uncredited) The Eye of the Needle (1963) – Maioli Vino, whisky e acqua salata (1963) The Cavern (1964) Last Plane to Baalbek (1964) – Major Fwad Die Letzten drei der Albatross (1965) – Medizinmann Namu Seven Dollars on the Red (1966) – 1st Sheriff Assassination (1967) – Morrison Commissariato di notturna (1974) The Assisi Underground (1985) – The Monsignore The Belly of an Architect (1987) – Julio Roseanna's Grave (1997) – Shoe Shop Owner (final film role)