Cesare Gravina

Cesare Gravina

Born: January 23, 1858
Died: September 16, 1954
in Naples, Italy
From Wikipedia

Cesare Gravina (23 January 1858 – 16 September 1954) was an Italian actor of the silent era. He appeared in 60 films between 1912 and 1929. He was born in Naples, Italy.

Gravina was an orchestra conductor in his native Italy. As the conductor at La Scala, among the noted vocalists he worked with were Mary Garden and Enrico Caruso. At some point he left music to become a character actor, sharing his reasons for the career change with no one. As the owner of many theatres in South America, Gravina was financially secure enough to retire from motion pictures by 1924, but he preferred to remain in acting.

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Burning the Wind
Title: Burning the Wind
Character: Don Ramón Valdez
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
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How to Handle Women
Title: How to Handle Women
Character: Tony
Released: October 14, 1928
Type: Movie
When Leonard Higgins, a cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx, ruler of the small nation of Vulgaria, he offers to help save the country by advertising the nonexistent crop, the peanut.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Martin Schrammell
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Ursus
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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The Trail of '98
Title: The Trail of '98
Character: Henry Kelland - Berna's Grandfather
Released: March 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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The Divine Woman
Title: The Divine Woman
Character: Gigi
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Tony Verdi
Released: December 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked lawyer, who places her with a gang of crooks. Posing as the Brockton family, they move to a seaside home, where they plan to steal the jewel collection of the Palmers, their neighbours. Nan wins the confidence of the family by flirting with Tom ( Kenneth Harlan ), who becomes infatuated and wants to go away with her, but she refuses him. Tom is caught red-handed in the Brockton mansion attempting to steal their jewels while Nan is making a success of the Palmer robbery.
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The Road to Romance
Title: The Road to Romance
Character: Castro
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to effect her rescue.
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The Magic Garden
Title: The Magic Garden
Character: Maestro
Released: June 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Story about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again. He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden.
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The Blonde Saint
Title: The Blonde Saint
Character: Ilario
Released: November 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy novelist Sebastian Maure falls for Ghiirlaine Bellamy, a product of a wealthy--and puritanical--society family, a girl so prim and proper that she's known as "The Blonde Saint". One night at a dinner party, she informs Maure that she is engaged to young VIncent Pamfort and is leaving for England the next day to marry him. Maure tricks her into meeting him onboard a boat going to Palermo, and before they get there she suddenly grabs her and jumps overboard. They wind up in a fishing village on a small island and before long find themselves caught up in a cholera epidemic and a local criminal gang.
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Dreams of Monte Carlo
Title: Dreams of Monte Carlo
Character: Count Davigny
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
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The Midnight Sun
Title: The Midnight Sun
Character: Opera Director
Released: April 23, 1926
Type: Movie
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Flower of Night
Title: Flower of Night
Character: Servant
Released: October 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
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The Circus Cyclone
Title: The Circus Cyclone
Character: Pepe
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Steve Brant, an ex-pugilist who owns a small circus, makes crude advances toward Doraldina, a lovely equestrienne; and when she resists him, he angrily beats her horse.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Manager (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Fifth Avenue Models
Title: Fifth Avenue Models
Character: Ludani's Tenement Neighbor
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
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The Charmer
Title: The Charmer
Character: Señor Sprott
Released: April 20, 1925
Type: Movie
A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionaire playboy, and his chauffeur, Dan Murray, both of whom first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite ( followed by her suspicious husband), and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own.
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Zwerkow a Junkman (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Those Who Dare
Title: Those Who Dare
Character: Panka
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
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The Rose of Paris
Title: The Rose of Paris
Character: George
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
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Butterfly
Title: Butterfly
Character: Von Mandescheid
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Character: Tomaso Silvano
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.
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The Humming Bird
Title: The Humming Bird
Character: Charlot
Released: January 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Circus Days
Title: Circus Days
Character: Luigi, the Clown
Released: July 30, 1923
Type: Movie
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Sylvester Urban
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Cesare Gallo
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli takes her son, Jackie, to the Holdens' farm and dies shortly afterward. The Holdens keep Jackie, but he eventually goes to the city when the elderly couple lose their farm and retire to the poorhouse. Jackie next is befriended by Cesare Gallo, a sidewalk musician who was also the teacher of Paul Savelli--now a famous violinist. A chance meeting with Savelli by Jackie reunites him with Gallo just before the old man dies. Savelli takes Jackie home with him, happily discovers the boy to be his son, and restores the farm to the Holdens.
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Foolish Wives
Title: Foolish Wives
Character: Cesare Ventucci
Released: January 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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God's Country and the Law
Title: God's Country and the Law
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
God's Country and the Law is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Pine Tree Pictures and distributed by Arrow Films. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Fred C. Jones and Gladys Leslie in the leading roles. It was adapted from the 1915 novel God’s Country and the Woman by James Oliver Curwood,which had been previously filmed under that title in 1916.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Art Teacher (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
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Mothers of Men
Title: Mothers of Men
Character: Mr. Schultz - Gaston Glass
Released: March 10, 1920
Type: Movie
Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prussian officer Captain Von Pfaffen, she flees to the safety of her French cousins, the De La Mottes. There she falls in love with their eldest son Gerome. On the night before their wedding, Marie sends a letter to Gerome confessing her indiscretion with the Prussian, but the letter is returned unopened. Soon after, she recognizes a new household servant to be Von Pfaffen, who demands that Marie disclose war secrets in return for his silence about her past. Torn, she passes on false information, which disgraces the Prussian. In revenge, he attempts to kill Marie, but she shoots him in self-defense. Shaken by remorse, Marie presents Gerome with her confession, which, he then reveals, he had read the night of their wedding. Their life thus unclouded, Marie announces she is expecting Gerome's child.
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Let's Get a Divorce
Title: Let's Get a Divorce
Character: Head Waiter
Released: April 28, 1918
Type: Movie
A bit too immature for marriage, Cyprienne allows her pretty head to be turned by an egotistical fop. The girl demands that her husband Prunelles grant her a divorce, but he devises a scheme to bring her back into the matrimonial fold.
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The Fatal Ring
Title: The Fatal Ring
Released: July 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.
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The Siren
Title: The Siren
Character: Her Father
Released: July 1, 1917
Type: Movie
After being unfaithful to "The Stranger", who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as "The Siren", leaves to work in a dance hall in the Western town of Nugget. When Burt Hall arrives in town to deliver a will to the heirs of Bruce McClade, he is captivated by Cherry, who learns of Burt's mission. Discovering that the will dictates that Dr. Langdon, a friend of the family, is to receive $25,000, Cherry decides to impersonate Langdon's daughter Rose and thus gain possession of the money. In the meantime, The Stranger, who has been freed from jail, returns, recognizes Cherry as The Siren and kills her. This frees Burt from her evil spell, and The Stranger, now insane, follows The Siren's spirit into the desert.
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Less Than the Dust
Title: Less Than the Dust
Character: Jawan
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died. Then, Ramlan, the sword maker who raised Radha, is arrested for taking part in an anti-British uprising, and before he goes to jail, he decides to tell Radha the story of her birth, her real father, Captain Brooke, died of a drug overdose, and her destitute mother then entrusted her to Ramlan. After learning about her background, Radha goes to England to claim her rightful inheritance from the estate of her late grandfather, who is also Raymond's uncle. Raymond is delighted to discover that his Hindu friend is really a white woman, and after dividing the estate with Radha, he brings the fortune back together by marrying her.
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Hulda from Holland
Title: Hulda from Holland
Character: Apartment Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Hulda, a plucky Dutch girl, brings her three little brothers from Holland to America to live with their rich Uncle Peter. Hulda finds love with a poor artist.
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Poor Little Peppina
Title: Poor Little Peppina
Character: Villato
Released: March 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years later, after having been raised by Italian peasants, Lois, now called Peppina, dresses as a boy and stows away on a ship to America in order to avoid a marriage to a particularly loathsome count. While aboard ship she befriends Hugh Carroll, an assistant district attorney, who arranges first-class transportation for the "boy." In New York, she once again meets her kidnapper, who fled to America after the crime. He forces Peppina to maintain the masculine disguise and to pass counterfeit bills for him, for which she is arrested. Peppina gladly exposes the kidnapper's operation to the authorities, one of whom, Hugh, recognizes her as the "boy" he met on the ship. Then, once the kidnapper has been apprehended, Peppina is reunited with her parents, after which she and Hugh, who has finally discovered that she is female, get married.
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Madame Butterfly
Title: Madame Butterfly
Character: The Soothsayer
Released: November 7, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.
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The White Pearl
Title: The White Pearl
Character: Setsu
Released: October 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A silent romantic drama film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter
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Butalin spazzacamino per amore
Title: Butalin spazzacamino per amore
Character: Butalin
Released: July 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A young lover is visiting the married woman he is wooing. the two sweeps cleaning the chimney are cramping his style, so he gives them some money to go away. When the woman's husband returns home unexpectedly, she hides him in the chimney.
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Butalin troppo onesto
Title: Butalin troppo onesto
Character: Butalin
Released: July 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A man emerges from the bank with his wallet full. He drops it on the ground. A workman spots it and tries to give it back. Fearing he is about to be mugged, the first man flees, with the second pursuing.
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Friscot Does a Rest Cure
Title: Friscot Does a Rest Cure
Released: July 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Italian comedy about a guy who won't be dragged OUT of bed.