Ivo Garrani

Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday.

Biography Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943. Aside from his work on stage, including works with Giorgio Strehler, in the fifties he started a parallel activity in cinema, starring in a great number of films, even if usually in secondary roles.

Garrani died on 25 March 2015, at the age of 91.

Selected filmography

Ragazze da marito (1952) - Tommaso Spadoni Orient Express (1954) Eighteen Year Olds (1955) - Il medico The Rival (1956) - Secondo ufficiale inquirente Roland the Mighty (1956) - Carlo Magno Terrore sulla città (1957) Hercules (1958) - Pelias, King of Iolcus Città di notte (1958) - Un dottore Slave Women of Corinth (1958) - Antigono The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) - Prof. Herbert Weisse Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) - Monsieur Moulinet Le Fric (1959) - Belar General della Rovere (1959) - Partisan chief (uncredited) The Giant of Marathon (1959) - Creuso Vento del sud (1959) - Padrino Carthage in Flames (1960) - Thala La strada dei giganti (1960) - Vincent Micocci L'ultimo zar (1960) Black Sunday (1960) - Prince Vajda Atom Age Vampire (1960) - commissioner Bouchard Adua and Friends (1960) - L'Avvocato - Adua's ex-customer Morgan, the Pirate (1960) - Governor Don José Guzman The Hunchback of Rome (1960) - Moretti Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961) - Re di Megalia Dreams Die at Dawn (1961) - Andrea Ten Italians for One German (1962) - Giovanni Ferroni The Slave (1962) - Julius Caesar - Roman Triunvir The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Colonel Dionne The Captive City (1962) - Mavroti The Shortest Day (1963) - Erede Siciliano (uncredited) The Verona Trial (1963) - Roberto Farinacci The Leopard (1963) - Colonel Pallavicino The Betrothed (1964) - L'Innominato Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964) Senza sole nè luna (1964) Casanova 70 (1965) - Il avvocato I grandi condottieri (1965) - Gedeone / Gideon La jeune morte (1965) - Le père The Rover (1967) - Scevola On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967) - Duca Pandolfo Deadly Inheritance (1968) - Leon The Bandit (1969) Waterloo (1970) - Marshal Soult Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow (1971) - Mussolini Maddalena (1971) Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria (1971) - Attorney General Caliber 9 (1972) - Don Vincenzo (1972) - Nicola Lombardo Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972) - Lucetta's father (1972) - Lubianski Section spéciale (1975) - L'amiral François Darlan, vice-président du Conseil Street People (1976) - Salvatore Francesco Italia: Ultimo atto? (1977) Holocaust 2000 (1977) - Prime Minister The Repenter (1985) Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987) - Colonel The Invisible Wall (1991) - Copo Stato Maggiore della Difesa Nel continente nero (1993) - Monsignor Fantazzini Dio c'è (1998) - Ettore, Riccardo's father Zora the Vampire (2000) - Priest The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (2003) - Cardinal Carcano Marcello Marcello (2008) - Delegate