{{Short description|Italian film actor (1922–1989)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Ennio Balbo | image = Sequestro di persona 57.png | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Ennio Balbo as Mr. Marras in ''Sardinia Kidnapped'' (1968) | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|4|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|6|18|1922|4|18|df=yes}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1945–1989 }}

'''Ennio Balbo''' (18 April 1922 &ndash; 18 June 1989) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vociebal.htm |title=Ennio Balbo's dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |access-date=26 April 2020}}</ref>

==Biography== Born in Naples, Balbo made his debut on stage immediately after the Second World War alongside Paola Borboni and Lamberto Picasso in Luigi Pirandello's ''Così è se vi pare''.<ref name="la re">{{cite news|title=E' MORTO ENNIO BALBO PROTAGONISTA DEL TEATRO|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1989/06/20/morto-ennio-balbo-protagonista-del-teatro.html?ref=search|access-date=12 July 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=20 June 1989}}</ref> He was later a member of the theater company of Gino Cervi, as well as one of the members of the "Society of the Four" alongside Valeria Moriconi, Lia Zoppelli and Gianni Agus.<ref name="la re"/> He was also very active as a character actor in films, mainly in villain roles; Balbo took part to numerous Spaghetti Western films in which he was usually credited as '''Edward Bell'''.<ref name="la re"/> Balbo appeared in over 45 films between 1958 and 1988. He appeared in an episode of the short-lived 1974 ABC police drama ''Nakia'', credited as Edward Bell.

==Selected filmography== [[File:Ennio Balbo Il fidanzamento.png|thumbnail|Balbo in ''Il fidanzamento'' (1975)]] {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'' (1959) − Poliziotto calvo (voice, uncredited) * ''The Police Commissioner'' (1962) * ''A Queen for Caesar'' (1962) − Theodoto * ''Catherine of Russia'' (1963) − count Panin * ''Corruption'' (1963) * ''Casanova 70'' (1965) − Il giudice * ''Terror−Creatures from the Grave'' (1965) − Oskar Stinner − The paralytic * ''The Possessed'' (1965) − Coroner * ''Agent 077 From the Orient with Fury'' (1965) − Professor Franz Kurtz * ''Seven Golden Men'' (1965) − Police Chief * ''Kiss the Other Sheik'' (1965) − Brother of Mohamed (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited) * ''Seven Golden Men Strike Again'' (1966) − Police Chief * ''Spies Strike Silently'' (1966) * ''Pardon, Are You For or Against?'' (1966) * ''Master Stroke'' (1967) − Doctor * ''Da Berlino l'apocalisse'' (1967) − Papillon * ''Day of Anger'' (1967) − Turner − Banker * ''Two Faces of the Dollar'' (1967) − Gunsmith (uncredited) * ''Qualcuno ha tradito'' (1967) * ''The Day of the Owl'' (1968) − First Mafioso at the Banquet * ''Gunman Sent by God'' (1968) − Thomas Clerigen * ''Sardinia Kidnapped'' (1968) − Marras * ''The Man with the Balloons'' (1968) * ''The Black Sheep'' (1968) − Father−in−law of Agasti * ''Gatling Gun'' (1968) − Richard Gatling * ''The Appointment'' (1969) − Ugo Perino * ''Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence'' (1969) − Mocenigo * ''Django the Bastard'' (1969) − Storekeeper (uncredited) * ''Rendezvous with Dishonour'' (1970) − Chief of Police * ''Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa'' (1970) − General * ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1972) − Alidoro (voice) * ''The Great Kidnapping'' (1973) − Prefetto * ''Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment'' (1973) − Frossi * ''Anno uno'' (1974) − Nenni * ''How to Kill a Judge'' (1975) − Il giudice istruttore * ''Il fidanzamento'' (1975) − Monsignor Solinas * ''The Left Hand of the Law'' (1975) − Lombardi * ''Hallucination Strip'' (1975) − Antiquario * ''Street People'' (1976) − Continenza * ''Bestialità'' (1976) * ''Star Odyssey'' (1979) − Professor Mauri * ''Saremo felici'' (1989) {{div col end}}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0049531|Ennio Balbo}}

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