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Alfredo Varelli (born Alfredo Ciavarella, 31 August 1914 – 18 August 1996) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned more than six decades. Varelli was born Alfredo Ciavarella and debuted in Alessandro Blasetti's 1934 film Vecchia guardia. He emerged during the Fascist era, but most of his work was post-Second World War. He played a leading role in the 1942 historical drama The Jester's Supper. Varelli is also known for playing "Lucan" in Quo Vadis (1951). His last role was in the film Roseanna's Grave, released posthumously in 1997.
Varelli died in Rome on 18 August 1996, at the age of 81.
Selected filmography
Vecchia guardia (1935)
Giuseppe Verdi (1938) - Un ammiratore di Verdi al caffè
Inventiamo l'amore (1938) - Il secondo giocatore di biliardo (uncredited)
Crispino e la comare (1938)
I, His Father (1939) - Un amico di Radesio
Follie del secolo (1939) - Martin, il cameriere del conte
The Secret Lover (1941) - Un amico di Renata
L'amore canta (1941) - Il giovane Longo
The Jester's Supper (1942) - Gabriello Chiaramantesi
Fedora (1942) - Valeriano (uncredited)
Measure for Measure (1943) - Il duca Vincenzo / il frate
Vivere ancora (1945)
All'ombra della gloria (1945) - Federico
Fear No Evil (1945) - Marco, il pastore
L'angelo e il diavolo (1946) - Giorgio Guarnelli
The Devil's Gondola (1946) - Paolo Venier
The Tyrant of Padua (1946) - Rodolfo degli Ezzelini
L'apocalisse (1947)
The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Josef
Love and Poison (1950) - Egidio d'Averna
Cavalcade of Heroes (1950) - Luciano Manara
The Beggar's Daughter (1950)
The Count of Saint Elmo (1951) - Don Paolo
Quo Vadis (1951) - Lucan, poet in Nero's court [dubbed]
Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (1951) - Lentulo
Stranger on the Prowl (1952) - The Neighborhood Patrolman
I, Hamlet (1952) - Jensen
The Man from Cairo (1953) - Prof. H. M. Crespi
The Pagans (1953) - Pope Clement VII
Buon viaggio pover'uomo (1953) - Padre Antonio
Non vogliamo morire (1954) - Louis
Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954) - Lieutnant
Io, Caterina (1957) - Cardinale Noellet
Orizzonte infuocato (1957)
Sheba and the Gladiator (1959) - Vithos
The Night of the Great Attack (1959) - Nicola Renzi, 'Mezzanotte'
Ben-Hur (1959) - Physician's Assistant (uncredited)
The Siege of Syracuse (1960) - Kriton
Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) - Mercante #1
The Giants of Thessaly (1960) - Argus
Duel of Champions (1961) - Sabinus
Pontius Pilate (1962) - Giuseppe d'Arimatea
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) - Father Ben (uncredited)
The Eye of the Needle (1963) - Maioli
Vino, whisky e acqua salata (1963)
The Cavern (1964)
Last Plane to Baalbek (1964) - Major Fwad
Die Letzten drei der Albatross (1965) - Medizinmann Namu
Seven Dollars on the Red (1966) - 1st Sheriff
Assassination (1967) - Morrison
Commissariato di notturna (1974)
The Assisi Underground (1985) - The Monsignore
The Belly of an Architect (1987) - Julio
Roseanna's Grave (1997) - Shoe Shop Owner (final film role)
References
Bibliography
Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.
External links
Alfredo Varelli at IMDb