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Valentina Cortese
Born: 1st Jan 1923 Milan, Lombardy, Italy - Died 10th Jul 2019
Dept: Acting
Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress.
The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night.
Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 95
Film: 89 (94%)
Television: 6 (6%)
Remaining genres not in graph: TV Movie, War, Western
Filmography
2017
The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A ... view
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Original title: Michelangelo Antonioni: Lo sguardo che ha cambiato il cinema
2001
A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni. ... view
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Self (archive footage)
Original title: Federico Fellini - un autoritratto ritrovato
2000
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life eve ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Storia di una capinera
1994
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avo ... view
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Madre Superiora
1993
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of ... view
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The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient. ... view
Character:
Serafina Tannenbaum
Nov 1989 (first aired)
Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of t ... view
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Donna Prassede (5 ep.)
1988
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. ... view
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Queen Ariadne / Violet
1987
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diver ... view
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madre di Guido
Original title: Tango blu
1987
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterho ... view
Character:
Rachele Cigno
1980
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling fo ... view
Character:
Rose Valdez
Original title: Un ombra nell'ombra
1979
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daugh ... view
Character:
Elena Merrill
1978
Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, t ... view
Character:
Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
Original title: Nido de viudas
1977
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelc ... view
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Dolores
Mar 1977 (first aired)
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels. ... view
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Herodias (4 ep.)
Original title: Le Grand Escogriffe
1976
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire. ... view
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Witwe
Original title: Gli amici di Nick Hezard
1976
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American business ... view
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Regina
1975
The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively. ... view
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Sabina Foschini
Original title: La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori
1975
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his ... view
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Grazia Filippini
1975
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head ... view
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Olghina Franchetti
Original title: Il bacio
1974
Countess Elena marries the charming Guido Rambaldi, only for him to be seduced by dancer Nara during their Venice honeymoon. ... view
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Elizabeth Blixen
Original title: La Grande Trouille
1974
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder ... view
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1974
Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their pare ... view
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Sabina Foschini
1974
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally- ... view
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Elisa Rutelli
Original title: La Nuit américaine
1973
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and cre ... view
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Séverine
Original title: L'Assassinat de Trotsky
1972
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940. ... view
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Natalia Trotsky
Original title: Fratello sole, sorella luna
1972
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. H ... view
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Pica Di Bernardone
Original title: Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente
1972
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating ... view
Character:
Luisa Sola
Original title: L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco
1971
In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his ... view
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Madame Sobieski
Original title: Le Bateau sur l'herbe
1971
Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. Whe ... view
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Catherine
Original title: Madly
1970
Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each other. Though Julien often gives the impression of b ... view
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Eva
Original title: Erste Liebe
1970
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father. ... view
Character:
Mutter
Original title: Les Caprices de Marie
1970
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York. ... view
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Madeleine de Lépine
1970
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army. ... view
Character:
Gabriella (uncredited)
Original title: Toh, è morta la nonna!
1969
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off. ... view
Character:
Ornella
Original title: Scusi, facciamo l'amore?
1968
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful a ... view
Character:
Lallo's Mother
1968
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star. ... view
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Countess Bozo Bedoni
Original title: Soleil noir
1966
A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from ... view
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Maria
Original title: Giulietta degli spiriti
1965
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a ... view
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Valentina
Original title: Michelangelo Antonioni storia di un autore
1965
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the forme ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: La donna del lago
1965
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with. ... view
Character:
Irma
Original title: Zoom su Federico Fellini
1965
Documentary about the making of Federico Fellini's film JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, with behind the scenes footage and interviews with the director. ... view
Character:
Self
1964
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, ... view
Character:
Mathilda Miller
Original title: La ragazza che sapeva troppo
1963
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings. ... view
Character:
Laura Craven-Torrani
Original title: Axel Munthe - Der Arzt von San Michele
1962
A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psy ... view
Character:
Eleonora Duse
1961
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barab ... view
Character:
Julia
1961
Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces cam ... view
Character:
Erica Bernardi
Original title: Amore e guai...
1958
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart. ... view
Character:
Marisa
Original title: Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1957
England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the ... view
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Fanny
Original title: Calabuch
1956
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. H ... view
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Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
Original title: Le amiche
1955
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works ... view
Character:
Nene
1955
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and ... view
Character:
Mathilde Wesendonk
1954
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his pro ... view
Character:
Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
Original title: Avanzi di galera
1954
Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison. ... view
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Luprandi's wife
1954
An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov. ... view
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Original title: Donne proibite
1954
When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their l ... view
Character:
Vally
1953
Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl. ... view
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1953
A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of ... view
Character:
Lisa
1952
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bys ... view
Character:
Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
Oct 1951 (first aired)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was spon ... view
Character:
Dr. Bruni (1 ep.)
1951
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in o ... view
Character:
Victoria Kowelska
Oct 1950 (first aired)
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original telep ... view
Character:
Emilie Gallatin (1 ep.)
1950
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne. ... view
Character:
Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
1949
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he c ... view
Character:
Luana
1949
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa ... view
Character:
Rica
1949
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court. ... view
Character:
Zoraida
1949
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 w ... view
Character:
Alida Morrosini
Original title: Gli uomini sono nemici
1948
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Itali ... view
Character:
Maria Pilar
1948
Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yo ... view
Character:
Ester
Original title: I miserabili: Tempesta su Parigi
1948
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attemp ... view
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Cosetta
Original title: I miserabili: Caccia all'uomo
1948
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me ... view
Character:
Fantine
1947
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor. ... view
Character:
Barbara
Original title: Roma città libera
1946
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betra ... view
Character:
La ragazza
Original title: Nessuno torna indietro
1945
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s. ... view
Character:
Valentina
Original title: La cena delle beffe
1942
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the ... view
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Lisabetta
1941
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years. ... view
Character:
Nerina Redi
1941
Marco Fuser, an outlaw. returns to Venice after many years. His son who works in the studio of a celebrated painter is unaware of his father's history ... view
Character:
Alina
