Armando Falconi (1871–1954) was an Italian stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1931 comedy The Charmer.[2]

Armando Falconi
Falconi (left), Chiaretta Gelli and Carlo Campanini in Il birichino di papà (1943)
Born	(1871-07-10)10 July 1871 Rome, Lazio Italy
Died	10 September 1954(1954-09-10) (aged 83)[1] Milan, Lombardy Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1915-1944 (film)

Life and career

Born in Rome, Falconi was the son of two Neapolitan stage actors.[3] His elder brother Arturo Falconi also became an actor. He first worked as an employee and an officer before starting to work as a professional actor in the late 1890s.[3] In 1901 he married the actress Tina Di Lorenzo, with whom he often teamed up on stage.[3] Following several national and foreign tours, in 1912 he founded the Stable Company of the Manzoni Theatre in Milan.[3] Following the retirement of his wife in 1920, he directed the company Compagnia Comoedia, and headed in a number of other companies, notably having a remarkable success with the musical comedy Wunder Bar.[3] After having appeared in some silent films between 1915 and 1918, in the 1930s Falconi intensified his cinema activities, starring in a number of comedy films.[3] Widowed since 1930, he remarried to actress Elisabetta Svoboda (also known with the stage name Lili Svett) in 1942.[3] His son Dino Falconi was a screenwriter, director, journalist and playwright.[3]

Selected filmography

• The Charmer (1931)
• The Old Lady (1932)
• The Last Adventure (1932)
• The Joker King (1935)
• Joe the Red (1936)
• The Carnival Is Here Again (1937)
• The Document (1939)
• The Sons of the Marquis Lucera (1939)
• Don Pasquale (1940)
• The Man on the Street (1941)
• The Betrothed (1941)
• Rossini (1942)
• Wedding Day (1944)
• The Innkeeper (1944)

References

Bibliography

• Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 2008.

External links

• Armando Falconi at IMDb

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