Italian actor stubs

Aldo Fiorelli (1915–1983) was an Italian actor who appeared in around thirty films between 1938 and 1960. One of his final roles was Argos, the Shipbuilder in the 1958 film Hercules and its 1959 sequel Hercules Unchained.

Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945), was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in Italian cinema during decade 1935–1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period. The actress was famous as a films diva and she is remembered for her tragic death; in fact during the period of anti-fascist vendettas, immediately after Italian Civil War, she was assassinated, as was later proved by the Milan Court of Appeal, by shooting following a summary trial carried out by some partisans: she was shot with her lover, the actor and member of Decima Flottiglia MAS Osvaldo Valenti, as accused of alleged and hypothetical participation in war crimes and torture in connection with so-called Koch gang, facts of which she was then deemed innocent after the war. Therefore a war pension was allocated to the mother, who had no other source of income.

Luciano Federico (born 28 August 1968, in Sanremo) is an Italian actor. He starred in the 1998 film Radiofreccia.

Maria Giovanna Elmi (born 25 August 1940, in Rome) is an Italian former television announcer, presenter, journalist, actress and singer.
Born in Rome, Italy, Elmi attended the faculty of letter at the university, then in 1968 she was employed by RAI TV as an announcer.
Her popularity raised in early seventies, when she hosted the children show Il dirigibile together with the singer Mal, playing the fairy Azzurrina, from which she inherited the nickname "fatina" (i.e. young fairy in Italian).Elmi hosted two editions of the Sanremo Music Festival (in 1977 and 1978).
She ranked at first place in two public polls of the most appreciated female television personalities in 1970 (Doxa) and in 1981 (Abacus).In 1970 Elmi also became a journalist and publicist, collaborating for three years with the newspaper Il Messaggero and later with a large number of magazines and newspapers. In 2005 she took part to the reality show L'isola dei famosi, ranking third. She considers herself Roman Catholic.

Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father. In 1924 he co-directed the epic Quo Vadis with Georg Jacoby, but the project was a commercial failure and he retired from filmmaking. He died on 8 December 1945 at 59 years old, due to a disease that afflicted him.

Ugo D'Alessio (26 August 1909 – 16 February 1979) was an Italian film actor.

Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini.

Francesco "Checco" Durante (19 November 1893 – 5 January 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1931 and 1973.

Maurizio Donadoni (born 7 January 1958) is an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Born in Bergamo, Donadoni started his career on stage in the late 1970s, working among others with Luca Ronconi and Gabriele Lavia. He made his film debut in 1982, working mainly with young directors, but also collaborating with established directors such as Marco Ferreri, Marco Bellocchio and Marco Tullio Giordana. He is also active on television, appearing in a number of series and TV-movies of some success.

Giulio Donadio (5 July 1889 – 15 June 1951) was an Italian actor and film director. Donadio appeared in over forty films between 1912 and 1947, including the historical melodrama Red Passport (1935). He also directed several films during the silent era.