Leonardo Cortese
Known For & Full Filmography31 Titles
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Franco Rossi
Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Il cavalier Trelawney
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Jacques Fontages
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Giorgio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Mario
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Italian Commander
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Mario
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Prof. Franco Bresci
Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Giorgio, suo figlio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Bruno Traldi
A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Giuseppe Manfredi
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Count Franco Amidei
An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Pietro Redi
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Giuliano de' Medici
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Il signor conte
At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Luigi Caracciolo
Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Marco Massi
At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Peppino
The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Gabrio Casati
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Giulio Marini
Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Conte di Chazeul
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Oliviero
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Carlo
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Rodolfo Poggi / Marcello Mari
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Don Roberto
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Luciano
After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Alberto
"Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Paolo Caminata
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.