Antonio Centa
Also Known As: Tony Centa, Tony Cento, Антонио Чента
Biography: 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. Source: Article "Antonio Centa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Maniago, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: August 10, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 19, 1979
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The Wages of Fear
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Headlights in the Fog
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-15
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Ombre sul Canal Grande
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1951
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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Battles in the Shadow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Overview: 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 When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Fugitive Lady
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-08
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A Difficult Life
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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The Two Sergeants
Overview: Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Black Sheep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-09
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Zazà
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-03-08
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But It's Nothing Serious
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-04-01
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Marcella
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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La luce del mondo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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A Pistol Shot
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-08-31
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Manovre d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Princess Tarakanova
Overview: A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-23
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The Glass Mountain
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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The Knight of Kruja
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Pian delle stelle
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-17
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T'amerò sempre
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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White Squadron
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Ballo al castello
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Una moglie in pericolo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Laura nuda
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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The Duchess of Parma
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Woman Who Came from the Sea
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-22
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Ballerine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-02-14
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Anything for the Woman
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Gente dell’aria
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-04
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Validità giorni dieci
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-08-03
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The Mysterious Rider
Overview: Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Under the Southern Cross
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1938
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Besieged
Overview: Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Arma bianca
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Secret Conclave
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-17
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