Gualtiero Tumiati

Italian actor and stage director

Gualtiero Tumiati

Born	(1876-05-08)8 May 1876 Ferrara
Died	23 April 1971(1971-04-23) (aged 94) Rome
Occupation	Actor

Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director.

Life and career

Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi.^[1] He later graduated in law and while working as an apprentice lawyer at his father's law firm he started performing in some local stage companies.^[1] Tumiati's breakout role was Cyrano de Bergerac in a critically acclaimed representation of the Edmond Rostand's eponymous play held in 1910.^[1] With his wife, the actress and painter Beryl Hight, in 1928 Tumiati founded the "Sala Azzurra" ("Blue Room"), one of the first Avant-garde theaters in Italy.^[2]^[3] He taught acting at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and at the Accademia dei filodrammatici in Milan. Gone blind, his last role was in the blind Tiresias in a representation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex held in 1969 in the La Scala theatre.^[1]^[4]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1935	Casta Diva	Nicolò Paganini
1942	Malombra	Il conte Cesare d'Ormengo
1942	Piazza San Sepolcro
1943	La vita è bella	Il professore Luca Lecedius
1945	Vivere ancora	L'anarchico pazzo
1946	The Adulteress	Il vecchio indovino
1946	Eugenia Grandet	Eugenia's father
1946	The Lovers	Alviso Foscarini
1946	The Ways of Sin	Don Salvatore
1946	Tempesta d'anime
1947	The Captain's Daughter	Andrej Grinev, padre di Piotr
1947	Bullet for Stefano	Stefano's Father
1947	Daniele Cortis	Aldo
1948	L'uomo dal guanto grigio	Pittore Masero
1949	The Legend of Faust
1950	Devotion	Zio Zua
1950	Hearts at Sea	Ammiraglio Silvestri - nonno di Paolo
1950	The Thief of Venice	Il doge
1951	The Forbidden Christ	Bruno's Father
1951	Nobody's Children	Don Demetrio
1952	The Adventures of Mandrin	Prince Guido
1952	Little World of Don Camillo	Ciro della Bruciata
1952	The Dream of Zorro	Don Cesar Alcazan
1952	The City Stands Trial	The Chief Prosecutor
1952	Falsehood	Don Clemente
1952	I tre corsari	Comte di Ventimiglia
1952	Lieutenant Giorgio	Zio del conte
1952	Who is Without Sin	Il sacerdote
1953	The Merchant of Venice
1953	Noi peccatori	Don Quirino, il prete
1953	The Ship of Condemned Women	Pietro Silveris
1954	The Count of Monte Cristo	L'abbé Faria (1)
1954	Ulysses	Laerte
1954	Guai ai vinti	Don Marzi
1956	Rigoletto e la sua tragedia	Conte di Monterone
1956	War and Peace	Count Kirill Bezukhov	Uncredited, (final film role)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alfredo Testoni, Paola Daniela Giovanelli. La Società teatrale in Italia fra Otto e Novecento. Bulzoni, 1984.
^ Danilo Ruocco. Tatiana Pavlova, diva intelligente. Bulzoni, 2000.
^ Anna Maria Fioravanti Baraldi, Francesca Mellone. 4a Biennale Donna--1990: presenze femminili nella vita artistica a Ferrara tra Ottocento e Novecento. Liberty House, 1990.
^ Leonardo Bragaglia. Ritratti d'attore. P.E. Persiani, 2007.