{{Short description|Italian film and television actor (1906–1971)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Amedeo Trilli | image = Amori di mezzo secolo Trilli.png | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date|9 July 1906}} | birth_place = Ronciglione, Italy | death_date = {{Death-date and age|30 November 1971|9 July 1906}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = }} '''Amedeo Trilli''' (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor.
== Life and career == Born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and later he started working on stage.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}</ref> He made his film debut in the early days of the sound films, and from the 1940s his presence on the big screen became continuous.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}</ref> One of the most active character actors in Italian genre cinema, Trilli also got some leading roles in a number of low budget films, sometimes credited as '''Amedeo Novelli'''.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}</ref>
== Selected filmography == * ''Pergolesi'' (1932) * ''La Wally'' (1932) * ''Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * ''Cardinal Messias'' (1939) * ''The Two Tigers'' (1941) * ''Document Z-3'' (1942) * ''The Gorgon'' (1942) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''Turri il bandito'' (1950) * ''Father's Dilemma'' (1950) * ''Il richiamo nella tempesta'' (1950) * ''The Cliff of Sin'' (1950) * ''Destiny'' (1951) * ''Tomorrow Is Another Day'' (1951) * ''The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo'' (1952) * ''Il prezzo dell'onore'' (1952) * ''Guilt Is Not Mine'' (1952) * ''Frontier Wolf'' (1952) * ''Francis the Smuggler'' (1953) * ''Peppino e la vecchia signora'' (1954) * ''Disowned'' (1954) * ''Serenata a Maria'' (1957) * ''Revolt of the Mercenaries'' (1961) * ''Hawk of the Caribbean'' (1962) * ''I diavoli di Spartivento'' (1963) * ''Revolt of the Praetorians'' (1964) * ''Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens'' (1964) * ''Treasure of the Petrified Forest'' (1965) * ''Giant of the Evil Island'' (1965) * ''Serafino'' (1968)
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== External links == * {{IMDb name|id =0872820}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trilli, Amedeo}} Category:1906 births Category:1971 deaths Category:20th-century Italian male actors Category:Italian male film actors Category:Italian male stage actors Category:People from the Province of Viterbo Category:Male actors from Lazio Category:Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni