Mino Bellei

Mino Bellei (June 26, 1936 – March 13, 2022) was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.

Career

Born in Savona in 1936, he graduated from the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in 1959, and began as a stage actor in pièce by Pirandello, Molière and Shakespeare; critics counted him among the most promising and outstanding talents of these years. In the 1960s he also devoted himself to theater directing. His comedy "Life is not a film of Doris Day" was a great success.

Only occasionally he took roles in film and television. In 1979 he directed the film Bionda fragola (Strawberry blonde) from his own screenplay. Despite good reviews and financial success, it was his only film as director.

Filmography (selection) 1965: The Mandrake, dir. Alberto Lattuada 1966: Francesco di Assisi, dir. Liliana Cavani 1978: Melodrammore, dir. Maurizio Costanzo 1980: Bionda fragola, dir. Mino Bellei 1988: Topo Galileo, dir. Francesco Laudadio 1989: Un uomo di razza, dir. Bruno Rosia 1999: Tea with Mussolini, dir. Franco Zeffirelli 2002: Pinocchio, dir. Roberto Benigni

Theatre (selection) In the Jungle of Cities, of Bertolt Brecht, dir. Antonio Calenda, Rome, 1968. La vita non è un film di Doris Day, dir Mino Bellei, Rome, 1989.