Ivo Garrani

{{Short description|Italian actor and voice actor (1924–2015)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Ivo Garrani | image = Ivo Garrani 54.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|2|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Introdacqua, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|3|25|1924|2|6|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Actor, voice actor | years_active = 1952–2010 | spouse = Lidia Gheducci (m. 1950–2015) | children = Toni Garrani }}

'''Ivo Garrani''' (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's ''Black Sunday'' (1960).

== Biography == Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.<ref name=ffg>{{cite book|last=Silvio D'Amico|title= Enciclopedia dello spettacolo, Volume 5|publisher=Unedi-Unione editoriale, 1975}}</ref> Aside from his work on stage, including works with Giorgio Strehler, in the fifties he started a parallel activity in cinema, starring in a great number of films, even if usually in secondary roles.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gianni Canova|title=Enciclopedia del cinema|publisher=Garzanti, 2005}}</ref>

Garrani died on 25 March 2015, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2015/03/26/news/addio_a_ivo_garrani_dal_gattopardo_a_un_posto_al_sole_-110502988/|title=Addio a Ivo Garrani dal "Gattopardo" a "Un posto al sole"|date=26 March 2015|publisher=La Repubblica}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Ragazze da marito'' (1952) - Tommaso Spadoni *''Orient Express'' (1954) *''Eighteen Year Olds'' (1955) - Il medico *''The Rival'' (1956) - Secondo ufficiale inquirente *''Roland the Mighty'' (1956) - Carlo Magno *''Terrore sulla città'' (1957) *''Hercules'' (1958) - Pelias, King of Iolcus *''Città di notte'' (1958) - Un dottore *''Slave Women of Corinth'' (1958) - Antigono *''The Day the Sky Exploded'' (1958) - Prof. Herbert Weisse *''Il padrone delle ferriere'' (1959) - Monsieur Moulinet *''Le Fric'' (1959) - Belar *''General della Rovere'' (1959) - Partisan chief (uncredited) *''The Giant of Marathon'' (1959) - Creuso *''Vento del sud'' (1959) - Padrino *''Carthage in Flames'' (1960) - Thala *''La strada dei giganti'' (1960) - Vincent Micocci *''L'ultimo zar'' (1960) *''Black Sunday'' (1960) - Prince Vajda *''Atom Age Vampire'' (1960) - commissioner Bouchard *''Adua and Friends'' (1960) - L'Avvocato - Adua's ex-customer *''Morgan, the Pirate'' (1960) - Governor Don José Guzman *''The Hunchback of Rome'' (1960) - Moretti *''Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' (1961) - Re di Megalia * ''Dreams Die at Dawn'' (1961) - Andrea *''Ten Italians for One German'' (1962) - Giovanni Ferroni *''The Slave'' (1962) - Julius Caesar - Roman Triunvir *''The Legion's Last Patrol'' (1962) - Colonel Dionne *''The Captive City'' (1962) - Mavroti *''The Shortest Day'' (1963) - Erede Siciliano (uncredited) *''The Verona Trial'' (1963) - Roberto Farinacci *''The Leopard'' (1963) - Colonel Pallavicino *''The Betrothed'' (1964) - L'Innominato *''Cyrano et d'Artagnan'' (1964) *''Senza sole nè luna'' (1964) *''Casanova 70'' (1965) - Il avvocato *''I grandi condottieri'' (1965) - Gedeone / Gideon *''La jeune morte'' (1965) - Le père *''The Rover'' (1967) - Scevola *''On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...'' (1967) - Duca Pandolfo *''Deadly Inheritance'' (1968) - Leon *''The Bandit'' (1969) *''Waterloo'' (1970) - Marshal Soult *''Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow'' (1971) - Mussolini *''Maddalena'' (1971) *''Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria'' (1971) - Attorney General *''Caliber 9'' (1972) - Don Vincenzo *''{{ill|Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato|it}}'' (1972) - Nicola Lombardo *''Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire'' (1972) - Lucetta's father *''{{ill|À la guerre comme à la guerre|fr|3=À la guerre comme à la guerre (film, 1972)|lt=À la guerre comme à la guerre}}'' (1972) - Lubianski *''Section spéciale'' (1975) - L'amiral François Darlan, vice-président du Conseil *''Street People'' (1976) - Salvatore Francesco *''Italia: Ultimo atto?'' (1977) *''Holocaust 2000'' (1977) - Prime Minister *''The Repenter'' (1985) *''Soldati - 365 all'alba'' (1987) - Colonel *''The Invisible Wall'' (1991) - Copo Stato Maggiore della Difesa *''Nel continente nero'' (1993) - Monsignor Fantazzini *''Dio c'è'' (1998) - Ettore, Riccardo's father *''Zora the Vampire'' (2000) - Priest *''The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII'' (2003) - Cardinal Carcano *''Marcello Marcello'' (2008) - Delegate {{div col end}}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name | id=0307995 | name=Ivo Garrani}}

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