Valentina Cortese
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Acting · Born 1923-01-01 · age 96 at death · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress. The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night. Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.
Titles
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Day for Night
Jesus of Nazareth
Juliet of the Spirits
The Barefoot Contessa
La Classe américaine
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Barabbas
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Thieves' Highway
Le Amiche
When Time Ran Out...
The House on Telegraph Hill
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Possessed
Appassionata
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Rocket from Calabuch
The Visit
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Kidnap Syndicate
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Sparrow
Black Magic
The Big Operator
Give Her the Moon
Secret People
The Jester's Supper
Tender Dracula
Via Montenapoleone
Malaya
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Chronicle of a Homicide
Nick the Sting
Rome: Free City
Ring of Darkness
The Love Mates
Love and Troubles
Les Misérables
The Boat on the Grass
Listen, Let's Make Love
Lux Video Theatre
First Love
Amore mio non farmi male
Magic Fire
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
I promessi sposi
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Il matrimonio
The Glass Mountain
Square of Violence
Angels of Darkness
Diva!
Shadow of the Eagle
Il passatore
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
Black Sun
Buster's Bedroom