Occupation actor Name Gualtiero Tumiati | Role Actor Spouse Beryl Hight (m. ?–1970) | |
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Born 8 May 1876 ( 1876-05-08 ) Ferrara Died April 23, 1971, Rome, Italy Parents Gaetano Tumiati, Eda Ferraresi Siblings Domenico Tumiati, Corrado Tumiati, Leopoldo Tumiati Movies Eugenia Grandet, Malombra, Don Juan's Night of Love, Ulysses, Nobody's Children Similar People Raffaello Matarazzo, Mario Soldati, Aldo De Benedetti, Mario Camerini, Luigi Zampa | ||
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Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director.
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Life and career
Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi. He later graduated in law and while working as an apprentice lawyer at his father's law firm he started performing in some local stage companies. Tumiati's breakout role was Cyrano de Bergerac in a critically acclaimed representation of the Edmond Rostand's eponymous play held in 1910. With his wife, the actress and painter Beryl Hight, in 1928 Tumiati founded the "Sala Azzurra" ("Blue Room"), one of the first Avant-garde theaters in Italy. He taught acting at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and at the Accademia dei filodrammatici in Milan. Gone blind, his last role was in the blind Tiresias in a representation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex held in 1969 in the La Scala theatre.