Antonio Centa

Antonio Centa

Born: August 10, 1907
Died: April 19, 1979
in Maniago, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Antonio Centa (10 August 1907 – 19 April 1979) was an Italian film actor.

Born in Maniago, Province of Pordenone, Centa was among the most active and popular actors between the mid-1930s and 1943 (when the Italian film industry almost halted because of the war). He was especially popular with the female audience, and had critically acclaimed performances, notably in Renato Castellani's films A Pistol Shot and Zazà. After the war his success declined, and he gradually started to be cast in supporting roles.

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Besieged
Title: Besieged
Character: Lorenzo's father
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis.
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Character: commendator Mannocchi
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for the investigation of corruption. The other brother is a cynical trickster.
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A Difficult Life
Title: A Difficult Life
Character: Carlo, l'ami d'Elena
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
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Laura nuda
Title: Laura nuda
Character: Sandro
Released: August 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.
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The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Title: The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Character: Dottor Vargas
Released: January 22, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Wages of Fear
Title: The Wages of Fear
Character: Camp Chief
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
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Ombre sul Canal Grande
Title: Ombre sul Canal Grande
Character: Stefano
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1951
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Fugitive Lady
Title: Fugitive Lady
Character: Jeff
Released: May 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
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The Glass Mountain
Title: The Glass Mountain
Character: Gino, Alida's boyfriend
Released: March 9, 1949
Type: Movie
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
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L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Title: L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Antonio, fratello di Casanova
Released: November 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
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Pian delle stelle
Title: Pian delle stelle
Character: John
Released: September 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans.
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Zazà
Title: Zazà
Character: Dufresne
Released: March 8, 1944
Type: Movie
A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.
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T'amerò sempre
Title: T'amerò sempre
Character: Diego
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
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Gente dell’aria
Title: Gente dell’aria
Character: Raimondo Sandri
Released: March 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.
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A Pistol Shot
Title: A Pistol Shot
Character: Sergio Drutzky
Released: August 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
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Headlights in the Fog
Title: Headlights in the Fog
Character: Carlo
Released: February 15, 1942
Type: Movie
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Manovre d'amore
Title: Manovre d'amore
Character: Il sottotenente Zilihay
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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Validità giorni dieci
Title: Validità giorni dieci
Character: Paolo Rubini
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
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Anything for the Woman
Title: Anything for the Woman
Character: Gianni
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
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The Knight of Kruja
Title: The Knight of Kruja
Character: Stefano Andriani
Released: January 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1940
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Ballo al castello
Title: Ballo al castello
Character: Tenente Paolo Karinsky
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
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Una moglie in pericolo
Title: Una moglie in pericolo
Character: Giorgio De Martius
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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Battles in the Shadow
Title: Battles in the Shadow
Character: Mario
Released: March 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Foreign spies steal the formula for a revolutionary explosive created by an Italian scientist and to decrypt the secret code they kidnap his secretary who knows about it.
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Princess Tarakanova
Title: Princess Tarakanova
Character: Capitano Sleptozow
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
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Under the Southern Cross
Title: Under the Southern Cross
Character: Paolo
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1938
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Ballerine
Title: Ballerine
Character: Mario Verandi
Released: February 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment.
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Marcella
Title: Marcella
Character: Oliviero
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Duchess of Parma
Title: The Duchess of Parma
Character: Gino Vanni
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
La Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which the director established his international reputation, the film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). A little wanting in the way of plot or logic, La Constessa di Parma is at least consistently good to look at.
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Arma bianca
Title: Arma bianca
Character: servitore di Casanova
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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But It's Nothing Serious
Title: But It's Nothing Serious
Character: Grizzoffi (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
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White Squadron
Title: White Squadron
Character: Il tenente Mario Ludovici
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army.
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The Two Sergeants
Title: The Two Sergeants
Character: Luogotenente Carlo Duval / Colonnello Georges Masson
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
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La luce del mondo
Title: La luce del mondo
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie