{{Short description|Italian actor (1894–1974)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Mario Ferrari | image = Ettore Fieramosca (film 1938) Mario Ferrari (2) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Ferrari in ''Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|09|03}} | birth_place = Rome, Lazio <br> Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|06|28|1894|09|03}} | death_place = Rome, Lazio <br> Italy | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1920–1974 }} '''Mario Ferrari''' (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the villainous Graiano d'Asti in the historical film ''Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938).<ref>Landy p.131-32</ref> Ferrari continued to work regularly in the post-Second World War years.
==Selected filmography== {{Div col}} * ''Il milione'' (1920) * ''Il rosso e il nero'' (1920) * ''Castello dalle cinquantasette lampade'' (1920) * ''L'isola scomparsa'' (1921) * ''Palio'' (1932) - Bachicche * ''The Table of the Poor'' (1932) - Attorney Volterra * ''Your Money or Your Life'' (1932) * ''1860'' (1933) - Colonel Carini * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * ''L'impiegata di papà'' (1934) - Capoufficio * ''The Little Schoolmistress'' (1934) - Giacomo Macchia * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) - Il produttore cinamatografico * ''La città dell'amore'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - Don Pablo Ramirez * ''Lorenzino de' Medici'' (1935) - Ser Maurizio * ''A Woman Between Two Worlds'' (1936) - Il dottor Lawburn * ''Cavalry'' (1936) - Alberto Ponza * ''The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) - Conte Fabrizio di Grottaferrata * ''Condottieri'' (1937) - Cesare Borgia * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) - Candido Ponti * ''Marcella'' (1937) * ''But It's Nothing Serious'' (1937) * ''The Count of Brechard'' (1938) - Socrate * ''Luciano Serra, Pilot'' (1938) - Il colonnello Franco Morelli * ''Pride'' (1938) - Il banchiere castoldi * ''Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) - Graiano d'Asti * ''The Knight of San Marco'' (1939) - Daniele Orsenigo * ''No Man's Land'' (1939) - Pietro Gori * ''Traversata nera'' (1939) - Bruce Brook, il commissario di bordo * ''Cardinal Messias'' (1939) - Abuna Atanasio * ''The Thrill of the Skies'' (1940) - L'aviatore * ''L'uomo della legione'' (1940) - Mario Ristorni * ''La última falla'' (1940) - Juan José * ''The Sinner'' (1940) - Nino Bandelli, fratello di Pietro * ''Piccolo alpino'' (1940) - Il capitano Lupo * ''Il cavaliere senza nome'' (1941) - L'ambasciatore di Genova * ''Il vetturale del San Gottardo'' (1941) - Favre * ''Divieto di sosta'' (1941) * ''Giungla'' (1942) - Il professore Foster * ''Giarabub'' (1942) - Il capitano Del Grande * ''Redemption'' (1943) - Il segretario del fascio * ''Tempesta sul golfo'' (1943) - Generale Nunziante * ''Men of the Mountain'' (1943) - Il capitano Piero Sandri * ''La storia di una capinera'' (1943) - Il padre di Maria * ''All'ombra della gloria'' (1945) - Il commissario della polizia borbonica * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''La carne e l'anima'' (1947) - Mattia, il padre di Katrin * ''Life of Donizetti'' (1947) - Il feldmaresciallo von Wallenburg * ''Vanity'' (1947) * ''The White Devil'' (1947) - Prof. Ilya * ''Il principe ribelle'' (1947) * ''I cavalieri dalle maschere nere'' (1948) - Conte Raimondo de la Motte * ''Anthony of Padua'' (1949) - Il giudice Don Alicante * ''Flying Squadron'' (1949) - Gen. Artesi * ''Torment'' (1950) - L'avvocato Bianchi * ''Women Without Names'' (1950) - Captain / Camp Commander * ''Cavalcade of Heroes'' (1950) - Generale Odivot * ''The Lion of Amalfi'' (1950) * ''Feathers in the Wind'' (1950) - Frassoni * ''Strano appuntamento'' (1950) * ''The Black Captain'' (1951) - Duca Fabrizzio Di Corvara * ''Verginità'' (1951) * ''Senza bandiera'' (1951) * ''Falsehood'' (1952) - Il padre di Mariella * ''The Queen of Sheba'' (1952) - Chaldis, High Priest of Sheba * ''Who Is Without Sin'' (1952) - John Morresi * ''Brothers of Italy'' (1952) - Comandante nave italiana * ''Storms'' (1953) - Il prefetto * ''Noi peccatori'' (1953) - L'avvocato Rinaldi * ''Lulu'' (1953) - Mister Franchi * ''Madonna delle rose'' (1953) - Commissario * ''The Pagans'' (1953) - Bishop Ghiberti * ''Verdi, the King of Melody'' (1953) - Ufficiale Austriaco (uncredited) * ''Il conte Aquila'' (1955) - Vitaliano Confalonieri * ''The Angel of the Alps'' (1957) - conte Roverbella * ''Goliath and the Dragon'' (1960, screenplay) * ''The Avenger'' (1962) - Latino - King of Latium * ''Me, Me, Me... and the Others'' (1966) {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Landy, Marcia. ''The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943''. SUNY Press, 1998.
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0274102}}
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