Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career Born in Introdacqua, Abruzzo, Garrani originally studied to become an engineer in Rome before embarking on an acting career. He began his professional stage career in Carlo Tamberlani's company in 1943. In 1960, he founded the influential company with Enrico Maria Salerno and Giancarlo Sbragia.
Aside from his work on stage, including works with Giorgio Strehler, beginning in the 1950s he started a parallel activity in cinema, starring in a great number of films, even if usually in secondary or supporting roles. Two of his internationally best-known roles was as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's horror film Black Sunday (1960) and as Marshal Soult in Sergei Bondarchuk's Napoleonic epic Waterloo (1970). He worked other prominent directors like Luchino Visconti, Abel Gance, Roberto Rossellini, Eduardo De Filippo, Costa-Gavras, and Carlo Lizzani. Garrani was also a frequent fixture on RAI television dramas and radio plays.
He was also active in Italian-language dubbing, including of Edmond O'Brien, Fredric March, John Wayne, Rod Steiger, and Brian Donlevy, among others.
Personal life Garrani married Lidia Gheducci in 1950. They had a son, Toni.
Death Garrani died in Rome on 25 March 2015, at the age of 91.
Selected filmography
Ragazze da marito (1952) - Tommaso Spadoni Orient Express (1954) Eighteen Year Olds (1955) - Il medico The Rival (1956) - Secondo ufficiale inquirente Roland the Mighty (1956) - Carlo Magno Terrore sulla città (1957) Hercules (1958) - Pelias, King of Iolcus Città di notte (1958) - Un dottore Slave Women of Corinth (1958) - Antigono The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) - Prof. Herbert Weisse Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) - Monsieur Moulinet Le Fric (1959) - Belar General della Rovere (1959) - Partisan chief (uncredited) The Giant of Marathon (1959) - Creuso Vento del sud (1959) - Padrino Carthage in Flames (1960) - Thala La strada dei giganti (1960) - Vincent Micocci L'ultimo zar (1960) Black Sunday (1960) - Prince Vajda Atom Age Vampire (1960) - commissioner Bouchard Adua and Friends (1960) - L'Avvocato - Adua's ex-customer Morgan, the Pirate (1960) - Governor Don José Guzman The Hunchback of Rome (1960) - Moretti Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961) - Re di Megalia Dreams Die at Dawn (1961) - Andrea Ten Italians for One German (1962) - Giovanni Ferroni The Slave (1962) - Julius Caesar - Roman Triunvir The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Colonel Dionne The Captive City (1962) - Mavroti The Shortest Day (1963) - Erede Siciliano (uncredited) The Verona Trial (1963) - Roberto Farinacci The Leopard (1963) - Colonel Pallavicino The Betrothed (1964) - L'Innominato Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964) Senza sole nè luna (1964) Casanova 70 (1965) - Il avvocato I grandi condottieri (1965) - Gedeone / Gideon La jeune morte (1965) - Le père The Rover (1967) - Scevola On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967) - Duca Pandolfo Deadly Inheritance (1968) - Leon The Bandit (1969) Waterloo (1970) - Marshal Soult Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow (1971) - Mussolini Maddalena (1971) Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria (1971) - Attorney General Caliber 9 (1972) - Don Vincenzo (1972) - Nicola Lombardo Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972) - Lucetta's father (1972) - Lubianski Section spéciale (1975) - L'amiral François Darlan, vice-président du Conseil Street People (1976) - Salvatore Francesco Italia: Ultimo atto? (1977) Holocaust 2000 (1977) - Prime Minister The Repenter (1985) Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987) - Colonel The Invisible Wall (1991) - Copo Stato Maggiore della Difesa Nel continente nero (1993) - Monsignor Fantazzini Dio c'è (1998) - Ettore, Riccardo's father Zora the Vampire (2000) - Priest The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (2003) - Cardinal Carcano Marcello Marcello (2008) - Delegate
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