Ada Colangeli

{{Short description|Italian character actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Ada Colangeli | image = Ada_Colangeli_54.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|3|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|1992|2|29|1913|3|5|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Actress }}

'''Ada Colangeli''' (5 March 1913 – 29 February 1992) was an Italian character actress.

==Life and career== Born on 5 March 1913 in Rome, Colangeli began acting in the early 1940s, and she was mainly cast in roles of women from a low social class.<ref name=ATTRICI>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X|pages=81–82}}</ref> Active for about twenty years, she often collaborated with the director Alessandro Blasetti, of whom she was a real life friend.<ref name=ATTRICI /> Her credits also include works by Federico Fellini, Luigi Zampa, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani and Mario Camerini.<ref name=ATTRICI />

She died on the leap day of 1992, five days before her 79th birthday.

==Selected filmography== {{Div col}} * ''An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (1939) – Una popolana * ''One Hundred Thousand Dollars'' (1940) – Francesca, la moglie di Paul * ''The Iron Crown'' (1941) - (uncredited) * ''Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) – Anna – La serva (uncredited) * ''Dagli Appennini alle Ande'' (1943) * ''Apparition'' (1943) – Geltrude * ''Nessuno torna indietro'' (1945) – Una sorvegliante * ''Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) – Suor Gaetana * ''Alarm Bells'' (1949) – Francesca * ''The Bride Can't Wait'' (1949) – Sister Celeste * ''Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!'' (1949) – Domestica del conte * ''Welcome, Reverend!'' (1950) * ''His Last Twelve Hours'' (1950) – La direttrice del collegio (uncredited) * ''È arrivato il cavaliere!'' (1950) – (uncredited) * ''Strano appuntamento'' (1950) * ''Rome-Paris-Rome'' (1951) – Assunta * ''Una bruna indiavolata!'' (1951) – Caterina * ''The City Stands Trial'' (1952) – The Maid at Tortorella's (uncredited) * ''The Shameless Sex'' (1952) – Portinaia * ''Lieutenant Giorgio'' (1952) – Evelina (uncredited) * ''Il romanzo della mia vita'' (1952) – (uncredited) * ''Una croce senza nome'' (1952) * ''Er fattaccio'' (1952) * ''Carne inquieta'' (1952) * ''Prisoner in the Tower of Fire'' (1952) – L'ancella * ''La voce del silenzio'' (1953) – (uncredited) * ''One of Those'' (1953) – (uncredited) * ''Anni facili'' (1953) * ''Via Padova 46'' (1953) – The Woman Who Gets Out of the Lift (uncredited) * ''Pane, amore e fantasia'' (1953) – Una comare intrigante (uncredited) * ''Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1954) – Fidalma * ''A Slice of Life'' (1954) – (segment "Casa d'altri") * ''Papà Pacifico'' (1954) * ''Disonorata - Senza colpa'' (1954) – Madre di Amedeo * ''Woman of Rome'' (1954) – Padrona della pensione * ''La Luciana'' (1954) * ''Too Bad She's Bad'' (1954) – Una signora al commissariato (uncredited) * ''The Art of Getting Along'' (1954) – Cameriera dei gesuiti (uncredited) * ''Le signorine dello 04'' (1955) – The Caretaker (uncredited) * ''Il bidone'' (1955) – Minor Role (uncredited) * ''The Belle of Rome'' (1955) – Vicina di casa di Gracco (uncredited) * ''Bravissimo'' (1955) – Woman with a tall Candle (uncredited) * ''Girls of Today'' (1955) – Filomena * ''Revelation'' (1955) – Rosa (uncredited) * ''Lucky to Be a Woman'' (1956) – Minor Role (uncredited) * ''The Bigamist'' (1956) – Minor Role (uncredited) * ''The Intruder'' (1956) – Caterina (uncredited) * ''Difendo il mio amore'' (1956) – Minor Role (uncredited) * ''I calunniatori'' (1956) * ''Marisa'' (1957) – (uncredited) * ''Ladro lui, ladra lei'' (1958) – Poplana alla finestra (uncredited) * ''Nel blu dipinto di blu'' (1959) – Sor Napoleone's Wife (uncredited) (final film role) {{div col end}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0170166}}

Category:Actresses from Rome Category:Italian film actresses Category:1913 births Category:1992 deaths Category:20th-century Italian actresses