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Cesare Gravina is a Actor Italien born on 23 january 1858 at Naples (Italie)

Cesare Gravina

Cesare Gravina
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Nationality Italie
Birth 23 january 1858 at Naples (Italie)
Death 16 september 1954 (at 96 years) at New York City (USA)

Cesare Gravina (23 January 1858 – 16 September 1954) was an Italian actor of the silent era. He appeared in 60 films between 1912 and 1929. He was born in Naples, Italy.

Gravina was an orchestra conductor in his native Italy. As the conductor at La Scala, among the noted vocalists he worked with were Mary Garden and Enrico Caruso. At some point he left music to become a character actor, sharing his reasons for the career change with no one. As the owner of many theaters in South America, Gravina was financially secure enough to retire from motion pictures by 1924, but he preferred to remain in acting.

Biography

D'abord acteur de théâtre (notamment dans sa ville natale, dès les années 1880), Cesare Gravina débute au cinéma avec treize courts métrages muets italiens, sortis de 1911 à 1914, dont onze dans le rôle comique de Butalin (nommé Bobillard en français). Puis il poursuit sa carrière aux États-Unis, contribuant à soixante films américains (tous muets), sortis entre 1915 et 1929, après quoi il se retire définitivement de l'écran.

Parmi ses films notables, citons Madame X de Frank Lloyd (1920, avec Pauline Frederick dans le rôle-titre), Folies de femmes d'Erich von Stroheim (1922, avec le réalisateur — qu'il retrouvera pour trois autres films —, Maude George et Mae Busch), Les Loups de Montmartre de Sidney Olcott (1924 avec Gloria Swanson), Le Fantôme de l'Opéra de Rupert Julian (1925, avec Lon Chaney et Mary Philbin), ou encore La Femme divine de Victor Sjöström (1928, avec Greta Garbo et Lars Hanson).

Usually with

Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott
(8 films)
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
(5 films)
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle
(6 films)
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Cesare Gravina (38 films)

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Actor

The Divine Woman, 1h20
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran, Dorothy Cumming, John Mack Brown
Roles Gigi
Rating69% 3.4860053.4860053.4860053.4860053.486005
Marianne (Greta Garbo) is a poor French country girl who goes to Paris in the 1860s to seek her fortune as an actress. As she rises to success in the theatre, she must choose between the romantic attentions of two men. The first is Lucien (Lars Hanson), a poor but passionate young soldier who deserts the army to be with Marianne and goes to jail after stealing a dress to give her. Her other suitor is Henry Legrand (Lowell Sherman), a wealthy middle-aged Paris producer who offers her fame and fortune.
The Man Who Laughs, 1h50
Directed by Paul Leni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Brandon Hurst, Olga Baclanova, Cesare Gravina, Stuart Holmes
Roles Ursus
Rating75% 3.7953053.7953053.7953053.7953053.795305
Taking place in England in the year 1690, The Man Who Laughs features Gwynplaine, the son of an English nobleman who has offended King James II. The monarch sentences Gwynplaine's father to death in an iron maiden, after calling upon a surgeon, Dr. Hardquannone, to disfigure the boy's face into a permanent grin. As a title card states, the King condemned him "to laugh forever at his fool of a father."
The Trail of '98, 1h27
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Dolores del Río, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane, Harry Carey, Tully Marshall, George Cooper
Roles Henry Kelland - Berna's Grandfather
Rating69% 3.482113.482113.482113.482113.48211
En 1898, des milliers de personnes convergent vers le port de San Francisco et s'embarquent pour l'Alaska, où de l'or a été découvert l'année précédente. Beaucoup d'appelés donc ; mais peu d'élus réaliseront leur rêve de richesse, car les obstacles sont nombreux, à commencer par les éléments naturels...
The Wedding March, 1h53
Directed by Erich von Stroheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, George Fawcett, George Nichols, Matthew Betz, Zasu Pitts
Roles Martin Schrammell
Rating73% 3.6913853.6913853.6913853.6913853.691385
In Vienna in 1914, Prince Nicki is the scion of a rundown noble family rundown and is commander of a cavalry regiment.
The Road to Romance
Directed by John S. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Ramón Novarro, Marceline Day, Marc McDermott, Roy D'Arcy, Cesare Gravina, John George
Roles Castro
Rating65% 3.2786953.2786953.2786953.2786953.278695
Serafina (Marceline Day) is captured by Don Balthasar (Roy D'Arcy)'s pirates on a Caribbean island, when José Armando (Ramon Novarro) arrives from Spain to the rescue.
Dreams of Monte Carlo
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lew Cody, Gertrude Olmstead, Roy D'Arcy, Karl Dane, Zasu Pitts, Margaret Campbell
Roles Count Davigny

An American adventurer hides from pursuing detectives in the hotel room of a young schoolteacher.
The Blonde Saint, 1h10
Directed by Svend Gade
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lewis Stone, Doris Kenyon, Gilbert Roland, Ann Rork Light, Cesare Gravina, Lillian Langdon
Roles Ilario

The plot of the film bears a striking resemblance to the plot of the Warner Brothers talkie, One Way Passage (1932). This silent appears to have been more exotic.
The Phantom of the Opera, 1h33
Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney, Rupert Julian, Ernst Laemmle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis
Roles Manager (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.7460253.7460253.7460253.7460253.746025
Based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print.
The Charmer, 1h19
Directed by Sidney Olcott
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Pola Negri, Robert Frazer, Wallace MacDonald, Cesare Gravina, Trixie Friganza, Gertrude Astor
Roles Señor Sprott

Sollicitée par un imprésario, une jeune danseuse espagnole est engagée en Amérique. Elle se dispute les faveurs d'un gentleman et de son chauffeur, homme très sympathique qui obtiendra à la fin, le cœur et la main de la belle.
The Family Secret, 1h10
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Baby Peggy, Gladys Hulette, Frank Currier, Lucy Beaumont, Edward Earle, Martha Mattox
Roles Tomaso Silvano
Rating62% 3.140923.140923.140923.140923.14092
Margaret Selfridge (Hulette) lives with her affluent father, Simon (Currier) and her Aunt Abigail (Lucy Beamont) in a mansion in New York City. She is involved in a romantic relationship with Garry Homes (Earle), an honest man from a modest background.