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Occupation
  
Actor

Years active
  
1910-1955


Name
  
Giovanni Grasso

Role
  
Film actor

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Born
  
11 November 1888 (
1888-11-11
)
Catania, Sicily, Italy

Died
  
April 30, 1963, Catania, Italy

Spouse
  
Virginia Balistrieri (m. ?–1960)

Movies
  
Don Cesare di Bazan, The Fighting Men, Doorway to heaven, Sentinels of Bronze, Eleonora Duse

Similar People
  
Guido Brignone, Mario Mattoli, Luigi Capuano, Raffaello Matarazzo, Camillo Mastrocinque

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Giovanni Grasso (11 November 1888 – 30 April 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1910 and 1955. He was born and died in Catania, Sicily, Italy.

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Born into a family of marionettists, he was cousin and namesake of Giovanni Grasso, a respected stage actor specialized in the Sicilian language repertoire, so he assumed at the beginning of his career the stage name "Giovanni Grasso Junior" to stand out. He was mainly active on stage, often acting together with his wife, Virginia Balestrieri.

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Filmography

Actor
1957
Onore e sangue as
The Public Prosecutor
1955
Le village magique as
Sindaco
1955
Totò e Carolina as
Commissario (uncredited)
1954
Of Life and Love as
The doorman (segment "Marsina stretta")
1953
Cuore di spia
1953
Anni facili as
L'onorevole Michele Rapisarda
1953
Too Young for Love as
Un giocatore
1952
Una croce senza nome
1952
Melodie immortali - Mascagni as
Domenico Mascagni
1952
Melody of Love as
Don Salvatore Morelli
1952
Times Gone By as
Presidente del tribunale (segment "Il processo di Frine")
1952
What Price Innocence? as
suocero di Stefano
1951
La famiglia Passaguai as
The Watermelon Seller
1951
Serenata tragica (Guapparia)
1951
Fugitive in Trieste
1950
The Fighting Men as
Saverio Luparello
1950
First Communion
1950
Margaret of Cortona as
Tancredi, padre di Margherita
1950
Benvenuto reverendo! as
Il brigadiere
1949
La figlia del peccato as
padron Giuseppe
1949
Rondini in volo as
Capo Dei Contadini
1949
Vento d'Africa
1948
Anni difficili as
L'avvocato Mascali
1948
Legge di sangue as
Il padre di Alberto
1948
Sono io l'assassino
1948
Ruy Blas as
Don Gaspar Guritan
1947
Eleonora Duse as
impressario Schurman
1947
Il principe ribelle
1947
Bullet for Stefano as
Il brigante Lazzarini
1947
La grande aurora as
Oreste Bellotti
1946
Malacarne as
Raìs Pietro
1945
Chi l'ha visto?
1945
Ten Commandments
1945
All'ombra della gloria as
Il frate
1945
The Gates of Heaven as
Il commerciante paralitico
1944
Il cappello da prete as
L'avvocato Francesco Scuoto
1943
La carica degli eroi
1943
Due cuori fra le belve as
Il capo-cuoco
1943
Harlem as
Guardascione
1942
Il fanciullo del West as
Donovan
1942
Quarta pagina
1942
Madrid de mis sueños as
Carlos Aguilera
1942
Don Cesare di Bazan as
Don José di Nogueira
1942
Luisa Sanfelice
1942
Addio Kira! as
Tishenko
1942
We the Living as
Stephan Tishenko
1942
Bengasi (scenes deleted)
1942
Sissignora as
Il commendator Bracco-Rinaldi
1942
I Live as I Please as
Il dottore
1941
Il vetturale del San Gottardo as
Mastro Antonio, il vetturale
1941
Ragazza che dorme as
Marco, il padrone del mulino
1940
I pirati del golfo
1940
La leggenda azzurra as
Il padre adottivo di Scilla
1940
Mare as
Liborio, il capitano
1940
Il signore della taverna as
Il taverniere
1940
L'uomo della legione as
Un meccanico del cantiere
1940
Il segreto di Villa Paradiso as
Gorman
1939
La conquista dell'aria as
Contadino che assiste al volo
1939
Retroscena as
Il commissario
1939
Los hijos de la noche as
Tabernero (as Juan Grasso)
1939
Il ladro as
Zio Gigio
1939
Piccolo hotel as
Il dottor Kralik
1939
Traversata nera
1939
La grande luce - Montevergine as
Pasquale
1939
Nobody's Land as
Il puparo
1939
The Little Adventurers as
Il 'commandante'
1938
Under the Southern Cross as
Marco, il capo della piantagione
1937
Sentinelle di bronzo as
Sergente Amato
1934
Porto as
Nicola Bellamonte
1932
La telefonista as
Gedeone
1920
Skeletros
1919
Nennella
1918
Il lampionaro del Ponte Vecchio
1918
L'incubo (Short)
1918
Sole!
1917
Il lupo
1914
Il mio gregge (Short)
1914
I naufraghi
1914
Il figlio (Short)
Archive Footage
1953
C'era una volta Angelo Musco (Documentary)

References

Giovanni Grasso Wikipedia