Massimo Serato

Massimo Serato
Serato in Domenica d'agosto (1950)
Born	Giuseppe Segato (1916-05-31)31 May 1916 Oderzo, Veneto, Italy
Died	Rome, Italy
Years active	1938-1991

Massimo Serato, born Giuseppe Segato, (31 May 1916 – 22 December 1989) was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years.

Serato was born in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy and started appearing in films in 1938. He played leading roles in several historical dramas and sword and sandal epics, mainly Italian, as well as roles in major international films. His notable appearances include Piccolo mondo antico (1941),The Naked Maja (1958), David and Goliath (1960), The Loves of Hercules (1960), El Cid (1961), 55 Days at Peking (1963) Camille 2000 (1969) and Don't Look Now (1973). In 1947 he won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the neorealist war-drama film Il sole sorge ancora.

He had an affair with the actress Anna Magnani who bore him a son, Cellino, whom she affectionately called Luca. Luca contracted polio at an early age; - " In time he was able to walk with steel braces but [he] spent much of his time in a wheelchair."

Serato died in Rome in 1989.

Selected filmography

• Luisa Sanfelice (1942)
• In High Places (1943)
• The Materassi Sisters (1944)
• The Courier of the King (1947)
• it (1949)
• The Thief of Venice (1950)
• Amore e sangue (1951)
• Il Conte di Sant'Elmo (1951)
• Milady and the Musketeers (1952): "Comte de Rochefort"
• The Merchant of Venice (1953)
• The Man from Cairo (1953)
• Lucrèce Borgia (1953): "Alfonso of Aragon"
• Pietà per chi cade (1954)
• The Widow (1955)
• it (1956)
• The Silent Enemy (1958)
• Slave Women of Corinth (1958)
• The Naked Maja (1958)
• The Sword and the Cross (1958)
• The Magistrate (1959)
• The Pirate and the Slave Girl (1959)
• Tunis Top Secret (1959)
• David and Goliath (1960)
• The Loves of Hercules (1960)
• Queen of the Pirates (1960)
• it (1960)
• Femmine di lusso (1960)
• El Cid (1961): "Fanez"
• Constantine and the Cross (1961): "Maxentius"
• Pontius Pilate (1962): "Nicodemus"
• Venus Against the Son of Hercules (1962)
• The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962): "Cardinal Richelieu"
• The Invincible Masked Rider (1963)
• 55 Days at Peking (1963): "Garibaldi"
• Samson and the Slave Queen (1963)
• Goliath and the Rebel Slave (1963)
• Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963): "Marcus Furius Camillus"
• Samson vs. the Giant King (1964)
• Gladiators Seven (1964)
• Jacob and Esau (1964)
• Hero of Rome (1964): "Lucius Tarquinius Superbus"
• it (1964)
• Challenge of the Gladiator (1965)
• Wild, Wild Planet (1966)
• The Lost Woman (1966)
• Cloud of Dust... Cry of Death... Sartana Is Coming (1970)
• The Gamblers (1970)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• Autopsy (1975)
• Killer Nun (1978)
• Via degli specchi (1982)

External links

• Massimo Serato at the Internet Movie Database
• Filmography