Galeazzo Benti

Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991.

Life and career Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy, a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which ruled Bologna from 1401 until 1506 and from 1511 until 1512, he started his career as a cartoonist and a set designer. He was the step brother of colleague Fiammetta Baralla. After his first roles in 1942, he had his breakout in 1943, in Sergio Tofano's Gian Burrasca, in which he played a frivolous and falsely modest snob, a role he specialized during his career. After successfully alternating between cinema and revue, in the late 1950s he moved to Venezuela, where he worked in a television channel dedicated to Italian immigrants. He came back to Italy in the early 1980s, and here he reprised his acting career equally splitting between films and TV-series until his death from a heart attack in 1993.

Selected filmography

Souls in Turmoil (1942) - Un amico di Elena The Three Pilots (1942) - Andrea Torelli The Lady Is Fickle (1942) - Un giovanetto al teatro Annabella's Adventure (1943) Gian Burrasca (1943) - Tinti, il giornalista Gente dell'aria (1943) - Il tenente Prollo The Za-Bum Circus (1944) - (segment "Galop finale al circo") La freccia nel fianco (1945) - Duccio Massenti Life Begins Anew (1945) - Un cliente del ristorante (uncredited) Che distinta famiglia! (1945) - The real Michele di Montuja Departure at Seven (1946) Peddlin' in Society (1946) - Rorò di Torretia Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone (1947) Flesh Will Surrender (1947) - L'ufficiale di cavalleria The Two Orphans (1947) - Giorgio Dove sta Zaza? (1947) Cab Number 13 (1948) - Le commissaire Portier Fear and Sand (1948) - George The Dance of Death (1948) Accidenti alla guerra!... (1948) - F.23 Be Seeing You, Father (1948) - Il 'contino' Una voce nel tuo cuore (1949) The Emperor of Capri (1949) - Dodo della Baggina Se fossi deputato (1949) Margaret of Cortona (1950) - Arsenio del Monte Totò Tarzan (1950) - L'esercitatore dei superparacadutisti The Transporter (1950) - Un cliente galante The Knight Has Arrived! (1950) - Marchese Bevilacqua Milano miliardaria (1951) - Walter La paura fa 90 (1951) - Carlo Champignon Seven Hours of Trouble (1951) - Ernesto Paris Is Always Paris (1951) - Gianni Forlivesi Amor non ho! Però, però.. (1951) Free Escape (1951) Three Girls from Rome (1952) - Marisa's friend Toto in Color (1952) - Poldo Wife For a Night (1952) - Maurizio Altri tempi (1952) - Amante della signora (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi") I figli non si vendono (1952) Sunday Heroes (1952) - Benti - Lucy's wooer Primo premio: Mariarosa (1952) Poppy (1952) - Viveur del night The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952) - Un giornalista Canzoni di mezzo secolo (1952) Beauties on Motor Scooters (1952) - Gastone Fermi tutti... arrivo io! (1953) - Giornalista Cavalcade of Song (1953) - Il soldatino Viva la rivista! (1953) Scampolo 53 (1953) Canto per te (1953) Matrimonial Agency (1953) - Lodolini It Takes Two to Sin in Love (1954) Tears of Love (1954) Neapolitan Carousel (1954) - French tourist Papà Pacifico (1954) - Alberto di Pontenero - the baron Angela (1954) - Gustavo Venturi An American in Rome (1954) - Fred Buonanotte A Free Woman (1954) - Sergio Rollini Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! (1954) - Snob Toto in Hell (1955) - Il cantante esistenzialista Carovana di canzoni (1955) - Mickey Spillone Red and Black (1955) Yo y las mujeres (1959) Il dio serpente (1970) - Bernard Lucas Lola (1974) - Doctor El enterrador de cuentos (1978) La terrazza (1980) - Galeazzo Morituri (1984) Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987) - Barone Fricò Me and My Sister (1987) - Avv. Sironi Animali metropolitani (1987) - Dott. Cohen Mortacci (1989) - Tommaso Grillo Rouge Venise (1989) - Silvio Conio Massacre Play (1989) - Cornelius Plank Nel giardino delle rose (1990) - Troncucci Vacanze di Natale '90 (1990) - Principe Galiberti Rossini! Rossini! (1991) - La Rochefoucault Count Max (1991) - Conte Max