Ivo Garrani

Ivo Garrani
Born	6 February 1924 Introdacqua, L'Aquila Italy
Died	25 March 2015 (aged 91)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952-2010
Spouse(s)	Lidia Gheducci (1950-2015) (his death) (1 child)
Children	Toni Garrani (b. 1951)

Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960).

Background

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.^[1] 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.^[2] He died in 2015.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Ragazze da marito (1952)
• Orient Express (1954)
• Eighteen Year Olds (1955)
• The Rival (1955)
• Roland the Mighty (1956)
• Città di notte (1956)
• Terrore sulla città (1956)
• Hercules (1958)
• Slave Women of Corinth (1958)
• The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
• Vento del sud (1959)
• Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)
• General della Rovere (1959)
• The Giant of Marathon (1959)
• La strada dei giganti 1960)
• L'ultimo zar (1960)
• The Hunchback of Rome (1960)
• Carthage in Flames' (1960)
• Black Sunday (1960)
• Atom Age Vampire (1960)
• Adua and Friends (1960)
• Morgan, the Pirate (1960)
• I sogni muoiono all'alba (1961)
• Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961)
• The Captive City (1962)
• Ten Italians for One German (1962)
• The Slave (1962)
• Marcia o Crepa (1962)
• Il giorno più corto (1963)
• The Verona Trial (1963)
• The Leopard (1963)
• Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964)
• The Betrothed (1964)
• La jeune morte (1965)
• Casanova 70 (1965)
• I grandi condottieri (1965)
• The Rover (1967)
• On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1968)
• Deadly Inheritance (1968)
• L'amante di Gramigna (1969)
• Waterloo (1970)
• Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1971)
• Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria (1971)
• Caliber 9 (1972)
• Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato (1972)
• Section spéciale (1975)
• Street People (1976)
• Italia: Ultimo atto? (1977)
• Holocaust 2000 (1977)
• The Repenter (1985)
• Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)
• Il muro di gomma (1991)
• Nel continente nero (1993)
• Zora the Vampire (2000)
• The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (2003)

References

1. Silvio D'Amico. Enciclopedia dello spettacolo, Volume 5. Unedi-Unione editoriale, 1975.
2. Gianni Canova. Enciclopedia del cinema. Garzanti, 2005.
3. "Addio a Ivo Garrani dal "Gattopardo" a "Un posto al sole"". La Repubblica. 26 March 2015.

External links

• Ivo Garrani at the Internet Movie Database