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- Died
- Birth nameDomenico Benassi
- Memo Benassi was born on June 21, 1886 in Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Affairs of Messalina (1951), Il trattato scomparso (1933) and Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1943). He died on February 24, 1957 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of this actor, his most important biography has been published: Memo Benassi. Un grande attore diversa by Leonardo Bragaglia , published by Persiani.
- In 1954 Roberto Rossellini called him to play Frère Dominique in Arthur Honegger 's Joan of Arc at the Stake, alongside Ingrid Bergman, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film Rossini.
- His native village, Sorbolo , in whose cemetery he rests, has named a street after him.
- He was enrolled in several major theater companies of the time, notably working with Eleonora Duse and Emma and Irma Gramatica.
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