Giuseppe Varni

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Hairdresser (uncredited)

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Boehmer

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Head Physician

A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Count of Ceprano

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Monti

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Pallante

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Mr. Des Grassins

Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Amilcare Bondani, il bidello

A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Detrattore

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Il pellegrino caritatevole

Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as publisher Wolkoff

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Maggiordomo di casa Fumaroli

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Oicard, il cameriere

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Il commissario

Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanina Vanini and her secret love for the Carbonaro Pietro Mirilli. The latter, given his commitments in the underground struggle, decides to abandon his young lover, who is nevertheless willing to marry him. Left alone, Vanina is unable to escape her despair and tries in every way to reunite with her companion, even going so far as to denounce the Carbonari to the Cardinal of Romagna, naming them all except Pietro and revealing the hiding place where they meet. Pietro, learning of Vanina's betrayal, casts her out. Only then does Vanina realize the gravity of her actions and decides to join the Carbonari, even participating in combat operations, during one of which she is wounded. This brings the two young people closer together forever.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Lo scrivone

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Cavalier Rublo

Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Vecchio conte di Luna

Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.