Guido Celano

Italian actor (1904–1988)

Actor
voice actor
film director

Years active1929–1988

Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director.^[1] He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two spaghetti Westerns: Cold Killer and Gun Shy Piluk.^[2]

Selected filmography

Rotaie (1929, directed by Mario Camerini)
The Charmer (1931, directed by Guido Brignone) - Un cliente del night club
The Devil's Lantern (1931)
La scala (1931, directed by Gennaro Righelli) – Il pianisto
Palio (1932, directed by Alessandro Blasetti) – Zarre
The Blue Fleet (1932, directed by Gennaro Righelli) – Castelli
Acqua cheta (1933) – Cecco
My Little One (1933) – Paolo Vallini – il corridore automobilista
La serva padrona (1934)
Music in the Square (1936, directed by Mario Mattoli)
Squadrone bianco (1936, directed by Augusto Genina) – Il tenente Fabrizi
Amore (1936) – Marco Albert
Doctor Antonio (1937) – Domenico Morelli
Pietro Micca (1938) – Pietro Micca
The Black Corsair (1938, directed by Amleto Palermi) - Morgan - Korsar
Giuseppe Verdi (1938) - Francesco Maria Piave
Jeanne Doré (1938, directed by Mario Bonnard) - Avvocato Charles
Le sorprese del divorzio (1939, directed by Guido Brignone) - Giovanni, il cameriere di Duval
Ultima giovinezza (1939) - Reynaud
Follie del secolo (1939) - Il delegato di Pubblica Sicurezza
The Silent Partner (1939)
Arditi civili (1940, directed by Domenico Gammino) - Il giovane vigile
Fanfulla da Lodi (1940) - Il duca di Termoli
The Cavalier from Kruja (1940, directed by Carlo Campogalliani) - Hasslan Haidar
First Love (1941)
Fedora (1942, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque)
Don Cesare di Bazan (1942, directed by Riccardo Freda) - Il capitano del "Flavio Gioia"
The Two Orphans (1942) - Monsieur Gérard
La fabbrica dell'imprevisto (1942) - Il soggettista
Sleeping Beauty (1942, directed by Luigi Chiarini) - Lo solfataro
Fedora (1942) - Cirillo
Four Steps in the Clouds (1942, directed by Alessandro Blasetti) - Pasquale - Fratello di Maria
Knights of the Desert (1942)
A Living Statue (1943) - L'amante di Rita
Enrico IV (1943) - Barberis
La maschera e il volto (1943) - Marco
L'affaire du Grand Hôtel (1946)
Il fabbro del convento (1947) - Boris
Fatal Symphony (1947) - Giorgio
Legge di sangue (1948) - Saverio
Fabiola (1949) - Pompey
Flying Squadron (1949)
Deported (1950) - Aldo Brescia
Pact with the Devil (1950) - Il sottuficiale dei carabinieri
Women and Brigands (1950) - Sergente borbone
Il Brigante Musolino (1950) - Brigadier Rinaldi
The Thief of Venice (1950, directed by John Brahm) - Polo
L' Amore di Norma (1951) - D'Emilis
Without a Flag (1951) - Sottocapo Poggi
Seven Hours of Trouble (1951, directed by Marcello Marchesi) - Achille
The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue (1951)
Peppino e Violetta (1951) - Strotti
Never Take No for an Answer (1951) - Strotti
Viva il cinema! (1952)
Femmina senza cuore (1952) - Vittorio Lombardo
Times Gone By (1952) - Il tenente medico (segment "Il tamburino sardo")
Black Feathers (1952, directed by Oreste Biancoli) - Olinto Cossutti
Red Love (1952) - Bantine Fera
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1953) - Morgan, il pirata
Legione straniera (1953) - Capitano Della Nave
The Man from Cairo (1953) - Emile Touchard
Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953)
Verdi, the King of Melody (1953) - Victor Hugo (uncredited)
La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)
The Stranger's Hand (1954, directed by Mario Soldati) - Chief Constable
A Slice of Life (1954) - Regista (segment "Scena all'aperto)
Ho pianto per te! (1954) - Pagliaccio Toni
Loves of Three Queens (1954) - Giove (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
A Invasão dos Bárbaros (1954) - Capo della tribu / Tribe Chieftan
The Boatman of Amalfi (1954) - Antonio Selva
The River Girl (1954)
I cinque dell'Adamello (1954) - Don Romualdo
Non c'è amore più grande (1955)
Il padrone sono me (1955, directed by Franco Brusati) - Maresciallo dei carabinieri
Don Camillo's Last Round (1955, directed by Carmine Gallone) - Il maresciallo
L'ultimo amante (1955, directed by Mario Mattoli)
Seu Último Amante (1955) - Medico di guardia
Girls of Today (1955)
Storia di una minorenne (1956)
War and Peace (1956) - Victor (uncredited)
The Lebanese Mission (1956) - M. Hennequin
The Wolves (1956, directed by Giuseppe De Santis) - Don Pietro
Io, Caterina (1957) - Jacopo Benincasa
Dreams in a Drawer (1957) - The Hospital Doctor
La diga sul Pacifico (Orig.: This Angry Age) (1958, directed by René Clément) - Bart
Seven Hills of Rome (1957) - Luigi
Amarti è il mio destino (1957) - Franco Albonetti
Mattino di primavera' (1957) - Benzinaio
Orizzonte infuocato' (1957) - Padre di Manuela
Young Husbands (1958) - Padre di Franco
Fortunella (1958) - Concierge
Il Conte di Matera (1958) - The Innkeeper Giacomo (uncredited)
Valeria ragazza poco seria (1958)
The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina (1958) - Tavernet
Tempest (1958) - Contadino dell'isba
Anche l'inferno trema (1958)
Dubrowsky (1959) - Gerichtsvorsitzender
The Indian Tomb (1959) - Gen. Dagh (uncredited)
L'isola del tesoro (1959, TV Mini-Series, directed by Anton Giulio Majano) - Morgan
Il padrone delle ferriere (1959, directed by Anton Giulio Majano) - Gobert
The Great War (1959) - Italian major
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959, directed by Fritz Lang)
Carthage in Flames (1960)
Il bell'Antonio (1960, directed by Mauro Bolognini) - Calderana
Five Branded Women (1960) - Drago
Under Ten Flags (1960) - (uncredited)
Il gobbo (1960, directed by Carlo Lizzani)
La Donna dei Faraoni (AKA: The Pharaoh's Woman) (1960)
Il carabiniere a cavallo (1961, directed by Carlo Lizzani) - Padre di Rita
Goliath and the Vampires (1961) - Kobrak, the Vampire
Sword of the Conqueror (1961) - Delfo
Black City (1961) - Brigadiere
The Italian Brigands (1961) - Muso
Barabbas (1961, directed by Richard Fleischer) - Scorpio
Ipnosi (1962) - Tony
L'Immortelle (1963, directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet) - M, the Stranger
Duel at the Rio Grande (1963)
The Invincible Masked Rider (1963) - Dottor Aguilera
Il disco volante (1964) - fratellastro di Vittoria
The Hills Run Red (1966) - Jonathan Burger, Ferrier
The Blonde from Peking (1967) - De Lucca
The Cold Killer (1967) - Sheriff
Giurò... e li uccise ad uno ad uno... Piluk il timido (1968) - Sam Wyler (uncredited)
The Sicilian Checkmate (1972)
Boccaccio (1972) - Anselmo
Flavia the Heretic (1974, directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi) - Man who prepares the decoction
Lo sgarbo (1975, directed by Marino Girolami) - Don Mimì
Mark Shoots First (1975) - Mario Borelli
Cross Shot (1976) - Blasi's Father
L'educatore autorizzato (1980) - Mancuso
Sciopèn (1982, directed by Luciano Odorisio) - zio Cesarino
I due carabinieri (1984, directed by Carlo Verdone) - Uncle Renato
Via Paradiso (1988, directed by Luciano Odorisio) - Andrea, nonno di Francesco (final film role)