Ivo Garrani Explained

Ivo Garrani
Birth Date:	6 February 1924
Birth Place:	Introdacqua, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:	Rome, Italy
Occupation:	Actor, voice actor
Yearsactive:	1952–2010
Spouse:	Lidia Gheducci (m. 1950–2015)
Children:	Toni 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 (1960).

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.^[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]

Garrani died on 25 March 2015, at the age of 91.^[3]

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) - Prince Vajda
• 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
• L'amante di Gramigna (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
• (1977)
• Holocaust 2000 (1977) - Prime Minister
• The Repenter (1985)
• Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987) - Colonel
• Il muro di gomma (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
• (2003) - Cardinal Carcano
• Marcello Marcello (2008) - Delegate

References

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