| Cesco Baseggio | |
| Birth Name: | Francesco Baseggio |
| Birth Date: | 1897 4, df=yes |
| Death Place: | Catania, Sicily Italy |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Yearsactive: | 1935 - 1968 (film) |
Francesco "Cesco" Baseggio (1897–1971) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He was born in Venice, and was identified with Venetian roles during his film career.[1] He appeared in a mixture of serious, dramatic films, as well as comedies such as The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday (1941). On the stage he frequently appeared in plays by Carlo Goldoni.
Baseggio started his career at 16 years old in an amateur theater society.[2] He took part in the WWI, where he served in the military engineering corps and later as director of Teatri del Soldato ('Soldier Theaters') in Albania. After the war he worked in the Ars Veneta and Carlo Micheluzzi's companies, before forming his own company in 1926.
In 1935 Baseggio started his film career, mostly consisting of supporting and character roles. In 1936 he entered the Carlo Goldoni-specialized Compagnia del Teatro di Venezia, with which he achieved his major personal critical accomplishments. After the World War II, he started a critically acclaimed collaboration with Giorgio Strehler. He also worked as a stage director, a playwright of comedies in Venetian language, and a voice actor.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Le scarpe al sole | Durigan | ||
| 1937 | Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno | Bertoldo | ||
| 1937 | Nina non far la stupida | Il podestà | ||
| 1938 | The Black Corsair | Van Stiller - Korsar | ||
| 1938 | Giuseppe Verdi | Papà Verdi | ||
| 1939 | The Widow | Anselmo | ||
| 1939 | The Carnival of Venice | Momolo | ||
| 1940 | Scandalo per bene | Un servitore di casa Contarini | ||
| 1940 | Mare | Zane | ||
| 1940 | Piccolo alpino | L'alpino Brustolon | ||
| 1940 | Il sogno di tutti | Il padrone di casa | ||
| 1941 | Orizzonte dipinto | Parodi | ||
| 1941 | Pia de' Tolomei | Matteo | ||
| 1941 | The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday | Ambrogio Brambilla | ||
| 1942 | I sette peccati | Il profesore Barni | ||
| 1942 | Angelo del crepuscolo | Matteo | ||
| 1942 | Notte di fiamme | |||
| 1943 | Measure for Measure | Schiumetta | ||
| 1943 | Dagli Appennini alle Ande | Il vecchio matto | ||
| 1943 | Men of the Mountain | Il maggiore | ||
| 1943 | Annabella's Adventure | Lo zio di Roberto | ||
| 1943 | Gian Burrasca | Il signor Stoppani | ||
| 1943 | Canal grande | Menego | ||
| 1943 | La moglie in castigo | Il notaio Bardi | ||
| 1944 | Finalmente sì | Il conte padre | ||
| 1945 | Fatto di cronaca | |||
| 1945 | La buona fortuna | Anselmo | ||
| 1945 | The Ten Commandments | (segment "Onora il padre e la madre") | ||
| 1945 | L'angelo del miracolo | |||
| 1945 | Trent'anni di servizio | |||
| 1946 | Paese senza pace | Padron Fortunato | ||
| 1949 | The Merry Widower | Il suocero | ||
| 1950 | The White Line | Giovanni Sebastian | ||
| 1951 | Arrivano i nostri | Il colonello | ||
| 1953 | I Chose Love | |||
| 1955 | The Barber of Seville | Dr. Bartolo | ||
| 1956 | The Intruder | Father Peppino | ||
| 1957 | Salomon |