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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 1, 1926
Died
March 19, 1992
Place of Birth
Bergamo, Italy
Cesare Danova
0.8 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cesare Danova (March 1, 1926 - March 19, 1992), born Cesare Deitinger in Bergamo, Italy, was a television and screen actor. He adopted the stage name Danova when he turned to acting in Rome at the end of World War II. He migrated to the United States in the 1950s to make the film Don Giovanni (Don Juan) in 1955. He was contracted to MGM in 1956. Other appearances include The Man Who Understood Women. He tested for a part in Ben Hur, but his big break was the role of Apollodorus, Cleopatra's personal servant in the 1963 film, Cleopatra directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. While the original script called for a major role for Danova, who was to form a trio of Cleopatra's lovers alongside Harrison's Caesar and Burton's Marc Antony. Though a number of scenes featuring Taylor and Danova were shot, the script was revised and the role truncated as the Burton-Taylor affair made tabloid headlines. What remained was little more than a cameo. The following year he starred as Count Elmo Mancini in Viva Las Vegas as Elvis Presley's rival for both Ann Margaret's Rusty Martin and for the Las Vegas Grand Prix (predictably losing both to Elvis's Lucky Jackson). In 1967, Danova had another break with the TV series, Garrison's Gorillas, in which he played the role of Actor. Clearly inspired by the hit film, The Dirty Dozen and the hit TV series Mission: Impossible, the series had an ensemble cast but, unfortunately, only ran for 26 episodes. Two of his best roles were as the neighborhood mafia Don, Giovanni Cappa, in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and as the corrupt town mayor, Carmine DePasto, in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). He also acted in three episodes of The Rifleman, and regularly appeared as a guest star on numerous television series, including Murder, She Wrote, Maude, Falcon Crest, and the revival of Mission: Impossible (1988–90). He died of a heart attack at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Los Angeles while attending a meeting of the Foreign Language Film committee. His mausoleum is in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Danova was married twice and had two sons, Marco & Fabrizio, by his first wife, Pamela. He was an expert horseman, avid polo player, and an excellent archer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cesare Danova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
Blacke's Magic
as Nick Gasparini
1986
6.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Lt. Edmund Cavette
1984
7.5
Hunter
as Roger Duquesne
1984
7.1
Airwolf
as Alonzo Delomo
1984
7.6
Automan
as Captain Romano
1983
7.8
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Hotel
1982
6.8
Nero Wolfe
1981
7.4
Falcon Crest
as Count Antoine de Muriac
1981
5.6
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
The Fall Guy
1981
7.5
Magnum, P.I.
as President Manuel Ebenez
1980
7.3
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
1979
5.1
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Eischied
1979
6.0
13 Queens Blvd.
1979
0.0
Vega$
1978
7.0
Animal House
as Mayor Carmine DePasto
1978
7.0
The Astral Factor
as Mario
1978
3.9
The Love Boat
as Fedalio Cevini
1977
6.3
Tentacles
as John Corey
1977
4.6
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
7.1
Scorchy
as Philip Bianco
1976
3.8
Charlie's Angels
as Frank Bartone
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as Franco Cirella
1976
6.7
Matt Helm
as Knebel
1975
7.4
A Matter of Wife... and Death
as Dottore
1975
0.0
Death Cruise
as Captain Vettori
1974
5.8
Chico and the Man
1974
5.8
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Horowitz in Dublin
as George
1973
0.0
Mean Streets
as Giovanni Cappa
1973
7.1
Police Story
1973
6.9
🎬
The Sandy Duncan Show
1972
0.0
Maude
as Russell Asher
1972
6.7
Sanford and Son
1972
7.4
McMillan & Wife
1971
6.9
Cannon
1971
6.6
Decisions! Decisions!
as Dieter Klaus
1971
0.0
Night Gallery
as Man (segment "Smile, Please")
1970
7.8
McCloud
1970
7.1
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Second Ernesto
1969
6.7
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Che!
as Ramon Valdez
1969
4.9
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
The Name of the Game
as Alfieri
1968
6.8
Mannix
1967
6.7
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
7.8
Chamber of Horrors
as Anthony Draco
1966
5.4
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Count Egan
1966
6.6
The Green Hornet
as Felix Garth
1966
7.2
That Girl
1966
6.1
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
as Pepe Pepponi
1966
5.2
Honey West
as Abbott
1965
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Michelet
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Henri Le Gaux
1964
7.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Count Cesare Guardia
1964
7.1
Viva Las Vegas
as Count Elmo Mancini
1964
6.2
Breaking Point
1963
7.2
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.7
Gidget Goes to Rome
as Paolo Cellini
1963
4.8
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Mario Cellini
1963
7.0
Cleopatra
as Apollodorus
1963
7.0
The Lucy Show
as Umberto Fabriani
1962
7.0
Stoney Burke
1962
5.7
Tender Is the Night
as Tommy Barban
1962
5.4
Valley of the Dragons
as Hector Servadac
1961
5.5
The Roaring 20's
1960
0.0
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Adventures in Paradise
as Father Juan Perez
1959
5.7
The Man Who Understood Women
as Major Marco Ranieri
1959
3.0
Tarzan, the Ape Man
as Harry Holt
1959
3.9
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
These Sacred Holidays
as Ralph Carigan
1956
3.5
Incatenata dal destino
as Kirk Mauri
1956
0.0
Don Giovanni
as Don Giovanni
1955
0.0
Non scherzare con le donne
as Cesare il fusto
1955
5.0
Loves of Three Queens
as Il conte Sigfride (segment: I Cavalieri dell'illusione)
1954
0.0
The Fate of Two Queens
1954
0.0
Crossed Swords
as Raniero
1954
3.3
Dappled Mare
as Sandro Fabbri
1953
0.0
Toys and perfumes
as Lorenzo
1953
0.0
I tre corsari
as Carlo di Ventimiglia, il Corsaro Verde
1952
0.0
Processo contro ignoti
as L'avvocato Enzo Pirani
1952
0.0
Pentimento
as Sandro
1952
0.0
El correo del rey
as Marcos de Malta
1951
8.0
El final de una leyenda
as Carlos Montaña
1951
0.0
Monaca santa
1949
0.0
The Captain's Daughter
as Piotr Grinev
1947
6.5