Agostino Carraro (1 December 1910 – 12 January 1995) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Life and career Born in Milan, Carraro started acting at young age in several amateur stage companies. Carraro then graduated at the , and in 1941 he got his first personal critical success with his performance in an adaptation of Anna Karenina. In 1952 he made his film debut, in the Duilio Coletti's war film I sette dell'Orsa Maggiore. The same year, Carraro became first actor at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, starting a long and critically appreciated collaboration with the director Giorgio Strehler.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . Carraro is also well known for his television work, which include some very successful RAI miniseries, particularly Sandro Bolchi's Il Mulino del Po, I Miserabili and I promessi sposi and Vittorio Cottafavi's A come Andromeda.
Partial filmography
Falsehood (1952) - Fabrizio Hell Raiders of the Deep (1953) - Commander I quattro del getto tonante (1955) - Colonnello A Qualcuna Piace Calvo (1960) - John Bryll Constantine and the Cross (1961) - Emperor Maximianus Day by Day, Desperately (1961) - Pietro Imperial Venus (1962) - Canova The Terrorist (1963) - Smith De Ceva Our Men in Bagdad (1966) The Vatican Affair (1968) - Il maggiordomo Orgasmo (1969) - Brion Sanders The Lady of Monza (1969) - Monsignor Barrea La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (1970) - Dr. Pascal The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) - Prof. Fulvio Terzi The Beasts (1971) - The Minister (segment "La voce del sangue") Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973) - Father of Carmela Lovers and Other Relatives (1974) - Giustino Bellotto Zig-Zag (1975) - Le ministre Vergine e di nome Maria (1975) - Il vescovo Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Chief of Police Werewolf Woman (1976) - Count Neseri Per amore (1976) - Alberto's Father Italian Night (1987) - Ettore Melandri (final film role)
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