Gino Cervi (born May 3, 1901 in Bologna; died January 3, 1974 in Punta Ala) was an Italian actor of international fame. May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
Cervi was best known for his role of Guiseppe Botazzi - "Peppone", the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. Don Camillo is a fictional catholic priest and the main protagonist in Giovanni Guareschis satirical tales. ...
Cervi's father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. He was the father of director Tonino Cervi and the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Valentina Cervi (born 13th April 1976 in Italy) is an Italian actress. ...
For several decades, GinoCervi was the leading character actor in Italy and certainly one of the pillars of the industry.
Blasetti recognized Cervi's range and cast him in the role of the plain, downtrodden traveling salesman who aids an unwed mother in Four Steps in the Clouds, the first of Cervi's films to be shown widely outside Italy.
Cervi played the role in Duvivier's first version of the story in 1952 and in the many sequels.
I was a child when, in 1935, I was taken by my parents to see a film entitled Aldebaran, directed by Alessandro Blasetti, in which GinoCervi played the part of a navy officer so in love and jealous of his wife as to put his career at risk.
Cervi was the leader of the thirteen Italian knights in the famous and victorious Barletta challenge.
But there is no doubt that their popularity was boosted by the five films which the stories inspired, starring GinoCervi and Fernandel.
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