Luigi Pavese was born on October 25, 1897 in Asti,
Piedmont, Italy. Luigi was an Italian film actor who appeared in 173 films
between 1916 and 1970. The older brother of actor Nino Pavese [1904-1979] he
debuted in films very young, playing in 1916 in two silent films directed by
Roberto Roberti (the father of Sergio Leone) “La peccatrice” and “La vampa”.
In 1921 he made his debut in the theater, being a part of
different companies and continued this activity even during World War II. In
the postwar years Luigi was active mainly in the cinema, playing, thanks to his
talent and his brilliant authoritative look, comic figures of soldiers,
officers, lawyers, notaries, doctors, commanders, accountants and betrayed
husbands especially in comedies alongside Toto, Aldo Fabrizi, Renato Rascel,
Walter Chiari and Alberto Sordi.
Equipped with an unmistakable tone of voice which was
deep and incisive, he was also a popular voice actor, lending his voice, among
others to, Anthony Quinn, Burl Ives, Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Gary
Cooper as well as characters from the Disney animated films such as the Clown
in “Dumbo” (1948), Boris in “Lady and the Tramp” (1955), the Newfoundland dog
in “101 Dalmatians” (1961), Colonel Hathi in “The Jungle Book” (1967) and
Eeyore in “Winny Pooh” (1966). Pavese also worked in several RAI television
dramas of the 1950s and 1960s. Luigi appeared in three Euro-westerns “The Dream
of Zorro” (1951), “For a Few Dollars Less” (1966), “God May Forgive You, Not
Me” (1968). He also was the Italian voice of several actors in Euro-westerns
including Jose Calvo and Daniel Martin in “Fistful of Dollars” (1964), Antonio
Casas and John Bartha in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Emilio Fernandez in
“Return of the Seven” (both 1966) and Roberto Camardiel in “A Train for
Durango” (1968). Pavese died on December
13, 1969 in Rome. Today we remember Luigi Pavese on what would have been his
115th birthday.
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