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Giulio Donnini

1924 – 2001

Italian actor

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Lived 1924 – 2001 (aged 77). Giulio Donnini was an Italian film actor.

Giulio Donnini (17 February 1923 – 22 May 2001) was an Italian film actor.

Life and career Born in Milan, Donnini made his film debut in 1946, in Giacomo Gentilomo's Teheran. He got his first mayor role two years later, playing the epileptic murderer Smerdjakov in Gentilomo's The Brothers Karamazov. From then Donnini specialized in playing negative and often violent characters, being mainly cast in supporting roles.

Selected filmography The Brothers Karamazov (1947) Love and Poison (1950) The Transporter (1950) O.K. Nerone (1951) Tragic Spell (1951) The Rival of the Empress (1951) The Adventures of Mandrin (1952) Shadows Over Trieste (1952) It's Never Too Late (1953) Beat the Devil (1953) as Administrator Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953) Barrier of the Law (1954) Disowned (1954) Vendicata! (1955) The Dragon's Blood (1957) Slave Women of Corinth (1958) Dubrowsky (1959) Messalina (1960) The Conqueror of the Orient (1960) Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960) Caesar the Conqueror (1962) Venus Against the Son of Hercules (1962) Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (1964) Samson vs. the Giant King (1964) Terror of the Steppes (1964) The Almost Perfect Crime (1966) El Greco (1966) L'Odissea (1968) La morte ha fatto l'uovo (1968) La minorenne (1974) Le comiche 2 (1991)

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Who was Giulio Donnini?

Italian actor

When was Giulio Donnini born?

Giulio Donnini was born on 17 February 1924 in Milan.

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Giulio Donnini died on 22 May 2001 in Rome.

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Giulio Donnini was a film actor.

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Giulio Donnini was Italian.

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· Wikipedia: Giulio Donnini

· Wikidata: Q3769627

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