Arnoldo Foà
Arnoldo Foà was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014.
Biography
Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish family, though Foà was an atheist in his adult life. Foà completed high school in Florence, where he moved with his family, and studied at the acting school of Rasi. He abandoned his studies in economics and at age 20 moved to Rome, where he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.He was initiated to the Italian Scottish Rite Freemasonry in 1947 at the lodge "Alpi Giulie" n.150, taking later the highest degree.
Foà died on 11 January 2014 from respiratory failure, just 13 days short of his 98th birthday.
Theatre
1930s
La serenata al vento by Carlo Veneziani, directed by Alberto Bracaloni, 1935La dodicesima notte by William Shakespeare, directed by Pietro Sharoff, 1938L’Alcalde di Zalamea by Calderón de la Barca, directed by Rappresentazione di Santo Ignazio, directed by G. Pacuvio, 1939Frenesia by Charles de Peyret-Chappuis, directed by Edoardo AntonLa vita è sogno by Calderon de la Barca, directed by Nino MeloniLe Allegre Comari di Windsor by William Shakespeare, directed by Pietro Scharoff1940s
I Masnadieri by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Guido Salvini, 1941I Fratelli Castiglioni by Alberto Colantuoni, directed by, 1942L’Arco di Ulisse by Gerhart HauptmannLa Nascita di Salomè, directed by La ragazza indiavolata by Ralph Benatzky, Teatro Quirino, 1943La Parte di Marito by Vincenzo TieriLa Vedova Allegra, by Franz LehárIl Marchese di Priolà by Henry LavedanNon Rinuncio all’Amore by Giovanni BokayPapà by Gaston Arman De Caillavet and Robert De FlersPiccoli Traguardi by La brava gente by Irwin Shaw, directed by Jean Giraudoux, Teatro Eliseo, 1945La luna è tramontata by John Steinbeck, directed by Vito Pandolfi, Arsenico e vecchi merletti by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Ettore GianniniLa bella avventura by Caillavet e De Flers, directed by Ettore GianniniParenti Terribili by Jean Cocteau, directed by Luchino Visconti, Compagnia del Teatro EliseoEnrico IV by Luigi PirandelloLa quinta colonna by Ernest Hemingway, directed by Luchino Visconti, Compagnia del Teatro Eliseo di RomaLa via del tabacco Jack Kirkland, directed by Luchino Visconti, Teatro Quirino of Roma 16 April 1946Mia sorella Evelina by J. Fields e J. Chodorov, directed by Guido SalviniSusanna e i peccatori directed by Tullio CarminatiDelitto e castigo by Gaston Baty, directed by Luchino ViscontiLa Madre degli emigranti by Turi Vasile and Alberto Perrini, directed by Nino Meloni, Basilica of Maxentius, 6 luglioIl Ritratto di Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, directed by Guido Salvini, Teatro QuirinoIncantesimo by Philip Barry, directed by Gerardo Guerrieri, Teatro delle Arti, Rome, 7 febbraioAppuntamento a Senlis by Jean Anouilh, directed by Guido Salvini, 1947Candida by George Bernard Shaw, directed by, La fine della Signora Cheiney by Frederick LonsdaleFiera delle maschere, version by and Luigi Squarzina, directed by Luigi SquarzinaSposateci, Signore...! by Jean de Létraz, directed by L’Uomo e il Fucile by Sergio Sollima, directed by Luigi Squarzina, PragaAnfitrione 38 by Jean Giradoux, directed by, Teatro Quirino, 23 dicembreCristo ha ucciso by Gian Paolo Callegari, directed by Guido Salvini, Compagnia Straordinaria di G. Salvini, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, 1948Una bella domenica di settembre by Ugo Betti, directed by Turi Vasile, Teatro Quirino di RomaEdipo Re di Eschilo, directed by Guido Salvini, Comp. Straordinaria di G. Salvini, Teatro Olimpico di VicenzaLa porta chiusa by Marco Praga, directed by, Teatro QuirinoScendete..vi chiamano by Jean De Letraz, directed by I due mondi by Rose Franken, directed by, compagnia Ferrati-Scelzo-Cortese-MarchiòStefano by Jacques Déval, directed by Il regno animale by Philip Barry, directed by Luigi SquarzinaLa notte del 16 gennaio by Ayn Rand, directed by Guglielmo Cortese,, Teatro QuirinoArdelia o La Margherita by Jean Anouilh, directed by, Compagnia Cortese-Bagni-Cimara, Teatro Valle di Roma, 25 marzo 1949Giulio Cesare by William Shakespeare, directed by Guido Salvini, Compagnia del Festival Drammatico, Medea di Euripides, directed by Guido Salvini,, Le Mani Sporche by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by L’Avaro by Molière, directed by Luciano Salvi, Teatro AteneoVivere Così by Dino FalconiProibito al Pubblico by Rogers Dornès and Jean Marsan, directed by I Masnadieri by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Guido Salvini1950s
I Persiani by Eschilo directed by Luigi Squarzina,, Greek Theatre of Syracuse, 12 maggio 1950Le Baccanti by Euripides, directed by Luigi Squarzina,, Greek Theatre of SyracusePeer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Vittorio Gassman, Compagnia del Teatro nazionale, Teatro Valle di RomaSophonisba by Giangiorgio Trissino, directed by Giorgio Strehler, Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Guido Salvini, Commedia degli Straccioni by Annibal Caro, directed by Guido Salvini, Compagnia Teatro NazionaleCaterina da Siena by Cesare Vico Ludovici, directed by Fernando De CrucciatiI Fratelli by Publius Terentius Afer, directed by Luigi Squarzina, Teatro Greco di AcraeLa Cameriera Brillante by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Lucio ChiavarelliAnna per mille giorni by Maxwell Anderson, directed by Guido Salvini, Teatro Valle, 1951Detective story, by Sidney Kingsley, directed by Luigi Squarzina, Compagnia del Teatro NazionaleIl libro di Cristoforo Colombo by Paul Claudel, directed by Guido SalviniGiulietta e Romeo by William Shakespeare, directed by Guido Salvini, Teatro ValleLa Casa Nova by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Carlo Lodovici, Teatro di Palazzo Grassi Yo, el Rey by, directed by Guido SalviniUn mese in campagna by Ivan Turgenev, directed by Orazio Costa, Teatro Odeon di Milano, 1952Le Nuvole by Sophocles, directed by, Pseudolus by Plautus, directed by, Lazzaro by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Claudio Fino, Compagnia PagnaniLa Fiaccola sotto il moggio by Gabriele D'Annunzio, directed by Corrado PavoliniCapitan Carvallo by Denis Cannan, directed by, Compagnia Italiana di Prosa, Teatro CarignanoChéri by Léopold Marchand, directed by André Barsacq, Compagnia Italiana di Prosa, Teatro DuseGiulio Cesare by William Shakespeare, directed by, Compagnia del Piccolo Teatro della Città di Milano, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, 1953Amphitryon by Plautus, directed by Jean Giraudoux, comp. Teatro Eliseo of Roma, Palazzo dei Diamanti a Ferrara, 1955Pseudolus by Plautus, directed by Giulio Pacuvio, Compagnia del Dramma Antico, Teatro Romano di OstiaLe Nuvole by Aristofanes, directed by Giulio Pacuvio, Compagnia del Dramma Antico, Teatro Romano di OstiaVeglia d’armi by D. Fabbri, directed by Orazio Costa, Istituto Dramma Popolare, Teatro Olimpia di Milano, 1956Paura di me by V. Bompiani, directed by Daniele D’Anza, Comp. Teatrale Italiana Teatro delle ArtiNoi due by Alessandro De Stefani, directed by Mario Landi, Compagnia Teatrale Italiana, Teatro delle Arti of RomaLa professione della signora Warren by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Mario Ferrero, Compagnia Pagnani-Villi-Foà, Teatro Eliseo of RomaAdorabile Giulia of Marc Gilbert Sauvajon, directed by Daniele D'Anza, Compagnia Pagnani-Villi-Foà-Ferzetti, Teatro Eliseo of RomaMusica di foglie morte by Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, directed by Alberto GagliardelliCasa di Bambola by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Luciano LucignaniMa non è una cosa seria by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Luigi Squarzina, comp. Pagnani-Villi-Foà-Ferzetti, 1957Signori buonasera by A. Foà, directed by A. Foà, Compagnia Pagnani-Villi-Foà-Ferzetti, Teatro Odeon di MilanoLa figlia di Jorio by Gabriele D'Annunzio, directed by Luigi SquarzinaLa Commedia degli Equivoci by W. Shakespeare, directed by Mario Ferrero, 1958Racconto d’Inverno by William Shakespeare, directed by Guido Salvini, 1959Commedia degli Straccioni by Annibal Caro, directed by Guido Salvini- Miles gloriusus by Plautus, directed by
1960s
Due in altalena by William Gibson, directed by A. Foà, Teatro Eliseo di Roma, 1960La terra è rotonda by Armand Salacrou directed by Roberto GuicciardiniGiulietta e Romeo by W. Shakespeare, directed by Franco Enriquez, Teatro Romano di VeronaRashomon di Fay e Kanin,, directed by Arnoldo Foà, 1961I Turchi se la giocano a primiera by Alfio Beretta, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Nuovo di MilanoPene d’amor perdute by William Shakespeare, directed by Franco Enriquez, Compagnia Stabile della città di Napoli, Teatro MercadanteUn giorno nella vita di... by Jack Popplewell, directed by Umberto Benedetto, Piccolo Teatro Stabile della città di FirenzeAnfitrione by Plautus, directed by Silverio Blasi, Centro Teatrale Italiano, 1962Ifigenia by Ildebrando Pizzetti e Alberto Perrini, directed by Aldo Vassallo Mirabella, Teatro dell’Opera di RomaIl Pipistrello by Johann Strauss Jr, directed by Herbert Graf, Direttore d’orchestra Samuel Krachmalnick, regia teatrale Arnoldo Foà, Teatro dell’Opera di RomaI Masteroidi by Marcel Aymè, directed by A. Foà, 1963Notti a Milano by Carlo Terron, directed by A. FoàLa Lanzichenecca by Vincenzo di Mattia, directed by Virginio Puecher, Compagnia del Piccolo Teatro di Milano, 1964Eracle by Euripide, translated by Salvatore Quasimodo, directed by Giuseppe Di Martino, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, Teatro Greco di SiracusaAndromaca by Euripide, directed by Mario Ferrero, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, Teatro Greco di SiracusaCanti e poesie della libertà, directed by Raffaele Maiello, testi a cura di Arnoldo Foà e Gigi Lunari, Teatro Lirico di Milano, 1965Re Cervo da Carlo Gozzi, directed by Andrea CamilleriRuy Blas by Victor Hugo, directed by Mario Ferrero, Teatro Duse di Bologna, 1966Il testimone by A. Foà, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Duse di BolognaLa stanza degli Ospiti by Brunello Rondi, directed by A. Foà, Teatro della CometaI Menecmi by Plauto, translated by Ettore Paratore, directed by Accursio Di Leo, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma AnticoLa Pace by Aristofane, directed by A. Foà, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, 1967Zio Vania by Anton Checov, directed by Pietro Sharoff, Teatro Centrale di Roma, 1968Golem by Alessandro Fersen, directed by A. Fersen, E.T.I. Teatro La Pergola di Firenze, 1969Malatesta by Henry de Montherlant, translated by Mario Moretti, directed by José Quaglio1970s
Il Burbero Benefico by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Carlo Lodovici, ripresa televisiva 22 dicembre 1970Diana e la Tuda by L. Pirandello, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Stabile di Palermo, 1971Flavia e le sue Bambole by Salvato Cappelli, directed by Giorgio Prosperi, Fondazione Andrea Biondo Compagnia Stabile di PalermoThe entertainer by John Osborne, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Compagnia Teatro San Babila di Milano, 1972Per una giovinetta che nessuno piange by Renato Mainardi, directed by Arnoldo FoàLisistrata by Aristofane, directed by Daniele D’Anza, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, Teatro Greco di SiracusaVecchi vuoti a rendere by Maurizio Costanzo, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Valle 1973Miles Gloriosus by Plauto, trad. e ridu. di A. Foà, directed by A. Foà, Compagnia Attori RiunitiL’estro del Poeta by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Enrico ColosimoLa folle Amanda by Pierre Barillet e Jean-Pierre Gredy, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Compagnia del Teatro Comico, Teatro Duse di Bologna, 1974Maschere Nude by L. Pirandello, directed by Lambreto Puggelli, Compagnia del Teatro San Babila, 1975Farsa d’amore e di gelosia by Mario Amendola e Bruno Corbucci, directed by Filippo Crivelli, Teatro Nuovo di Milano 1976Un angelo calibro 9 by Nino Marino, directed by A. Foà, Theatritalia/Compagnia del Momento Teatrale, Teatro Duse di Bologna, 1977–1978La Roba da G. Verga, directed by A. MazzoneQuella della porta accanto by Nino Marino, directed by A. FoàDiana e la Tuda by L. Pirandello, directed by Arnoldo Foà, con A. Foà, Teatro Parioli di Roma, 19791980s
Il lebbroso by Giancarlo Menotti, directed by Giancarlo Menotti, Festival dei Due Mondi, 1980Il teatro comico by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Augusto ZucchiQuesta sera si recita a soggetto by Luigi Pirandello, regia Marco Parodi, Cooperativa Teatro di Sardegna, 1982Le Supplici by Eschilo, regia Otomar Krejca, Greek Theatre of SyracuseL’Angelo Azzurro, adapted by Aldo Trionfo e Alessandro Giupponi dal testo di Heinrich Mann, directed by Alessandro Giupponi, 1983Il Settimo Sigillo, directed by Lucio Chiavarelli, Festival di Borgio Verezzi, 1984Diana e la Tuda by Luigi Pirandello, directed by A. FoàCiavieddu by Salvatore Fiume, directed by, Teatro dei Ruderi di Gibellina, 1985La corda a tre capi by A. Foà, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Astec - Teatro Stabile dei GiovaniFiorenza by Thomas Mann, directed by Aldo Trionfo, 1986Otello by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Auditorium di CagliariLa Tosca by Victorien Sardou, adattamento e directed by Aldo Trionfo, di Napoli, 1988L’ispettore generale by Nikolai Gogol, directed by, GITIESSE Spettacoli, 1989La palla al piede by Georges Feydeau, directed by Armando Pugliese, Teatro Quirino di RomaUn pezzo di paradiso by Steve J. Spears, directed by A. Foà,1990s
Don Giovanni e Faust by Christian Dietrich Grabbe, directed by Gino Zampieri, Festival del Teatro Classico, Borgio Verezzi, 1990L’Ultimo Viaggio di Pirandello by B. Belfiore, directed by P. Gazzara, 1991Adelchi by A. Manzoni, directed by Federico Tiezzi, produzione Teatro Biondo di Palermo e Teatro Argentina di Roma, Teatro Biondo di Palermo, 1992La bottega del caffè by C. Goldoni, directed by Mario Missiroli, Produzione Teatro Argentina di RomaLa Pace by Aristofane, trad. di Raffaele Cantarella, adattamento e directed by A. Foà, Teatro Olimpico di VicenzaIl Corsaro di Fausto Tapergi, directed by Marco Carniti, 1993–1994Aulularia by Plauto, directed by Renato Giordano, Teatro Romano di Ostia AnticaAminta by Torquato Tasso, directed by Luca Ronconi, Produzione Teatro di RomaUna serata per l'impresario teatrale directed by Stefano Mazzonis, Trittico di 3 opere buffe: Il maestro di cappella by D.Cimarosa e Epitaffi sparsi by Ennio Morricone, e L'impresario teatrale by W. A. Mozart. Orchestra Pro Arte Marche diretta da Bruno Rigacci. 1997La signora della musica by André Ernotte e Elliot Tiber, adattamento e directed by A. Foà, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano e Cubatea, 1998La rivoluzione di Frà Tommaso Campanella by Mario Moretti, directed by Mario Moretti, Teatro Ghione di Roma, 1999Diana e la Tuda by Luigi Pirandello, directed by A. Foà, produzione La Pirandelliana, Teatro Franco Parenti di MilanoTutti gli uomini del deficiente directed by Paolo Costella, 19992000s
Amphitryon Toujours by Arnoldo Foà, directed by Arnoldo Foà, produzione La Pirandelliana, Spoleto Festival 2000, 2000Ultimo giorno di un condannato a morte, di Giovanni De Feudis, directed by Giovanni De Feudis L’Igiene dell’Assassino by Amélie Nothomb, directed by Andrea Dosio, Torino Spettacoli, Teatro Erba di Torino, 2001ll Vantone by Pier Paolo Pasolini, directed by Pino QuartulloColpevole innocenza by Ronald Harwood, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Compagnia Mario Chiocchio, Teatro Greco di RomaPluto by Aristofanes, adattamento e directed by A. Foà, 2002Duse/D’Annunzio by Barbara Amodio, directed by Angelo GalloNovecento by Alessandro Baricco, directed by Gabriele Vacis, Produzione Mondrian Kilroy Fund e Irma Spettacoli, 2003–2004Oggi by Arnoldo Foà, directed by A. Foà, con A. Foà, produzione La Pirandelliana, Teatro Ghione di Roma, 2005Patrizia, il Musical, di Arnoldo Foà, Teatro SistinaSul lago dorato by Ernest Thompson, directed by Maurizio Panici, produzione La Pirandelliana, Festival di Borgio Verezzi 2006Scene dalla vita di Mozart testo di Lorenzo Arruga, musica di Albert Lortzing, regia Dan Jemmett, direzione musicale Paolo Arrivabeni, con Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Comunale di BolognaIo, Arturo Toscanini, di Piero Melograni, directed by Giulio Farnese, Teatro Politeama Pratese, 2007Selected filmography
Ettore Fieramosca - Un gentiluomo alla corte di GraianoCrispino e la comare Orizzonte dipinto Fuga nella tempesta O sole mio - PeppinoThe Testimony - L'impiegato dell' anagrafeUn giorno nella vita - BrusanSangue a Ca' Foscari - Cavaliere della Rosa The Opium Den The Captain's Daughter - Serguei L'eroe della strada - Il pubblico ministeroThe Earth Cries Out - TerroristaYvonne of the Night - Il senatoreAdam and Eve - AchilleMarechiaro - L'avvocato difensoreThe Merry Widower - RoyThe Cadets of Gascony - Un ufficiale The Lion of Amalfi Toto the Sheik - Il mattoIl Brigante Musolino - The advocateTomorrow Is Another Day - CesareBeauties on Bicycles - SergenteDouble Cross - Avvocato LuigiVerginità - RenèNever Take No for an Answer Lorenzaccio - Il duca AlessandroViva il cinema! - ProductorStranger on the Prowl - Inspector-in-ChargeIn Olden Days - Contadino toscano Five Paupers in an Automobile - AlfredoImmortal Melodies - Narratore Red Love - SebastianoGenoese Dragnet - BasilioLa storia del fornaretto di Venezia - Alvise VenierInfame accusa - Don AntonioLucrèce Borgia - MichelottoIvan, Son of the White Devil - Emiro AbdulLa figlia del forzato - Dott. PalmieriViva la rivista! The Stranger's Hand - CommissionerLove in a Hot Climate - RieraAvanzi di galera - Il capoAngela - Capt. AmbrosiCardinal Lambertini - Il duca di MontimarThe Courier of Moncenisio - conte di BrissacRosso e nero Toto and Carolina - CommissarioLe ragazze di San Frediano - Narrator Chéri-Bibi - Le KanakNon c'è amore più grande - Romolo RoccaDestination Piovarolo - Il podestàThe Letters Page - Narratore Cantami buongiorno tristezza - Marco SalviatiAltair - Narratore Difendo il mio amore - L'avvocato GuariniSupreme Confession - ArmandoIo, Caterina Desert Warrior - Rascel-Fifì - Narratore The Silent Enemy - TomolinoVengeance - BermejoThe Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Rodolfo NicklebyPia de' Tolomei as Nello Della PietraHerod the Great - The Nights of Lucretia Borgia - AstorreDesert Desperadoes - The ChaldeanCarthage in Flames Les canailles - TonioniThe Loves of Salammbo - SpendiusThe Angel Wore Red - Insurgent MajorCaptain Blood - ConciniHeaven on Earth - Count VerbanoThe Tartars - Ciu LangBarabbas - Joseph of ArimatheaDamon and Pythias - DionysiusThe Reluctant Saint - Felixa - Giuseppe's FatherWar Gods of Babylon - ZoroastroThe Trial - Inspector A100 Horsemen - Don Gonzalo Herrera y MenendezThe Son of Cleopatra - VarroneJudith - InterrogatorThe Sailor from Gibraltar - Man on TrainThe Shoes of the Fisherman - GelasioBorsalino - MarelloCause of Divorce - Maini - father of ErnestaIncensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata, cercasi - Democristiani / comunista / missinoPrimo tango a Roma... storia d'amore e d'alchimia - Sciarra ColonnaThe Devil Is a Woman - Monsignor BadenskyIl domestico - Ambrogio Perigatti / EngineerA Matter of Time - Pavelli A Dangerous Toy - Nicola GriffoCento giorni a Palermo - Rognoni, ministro dell'InternoL'attenzione - Direttore GiornaleThe King's Whore - 1st PriestAnteprima al terzo braccio Ardena - RosolinoCrimine contro crimine - Sua EccellenzaAsini - The CardinalAll the Moron's Men - Presidente Leone StellaNora - Sig. Canarutto Calmi Cuori Appassionati - The RestorerI Love You Eugenio - Prof. BonelliThe Good Pope: Pope John XXIII - Cardinal OttavianiDo You Mind If I Kiss Mommy? - RenatoGente di Roma - Restaurant FatherLa febbre - Il PresidenteAnthony, Warrior of God - Papa Gregorio IXAnime veloci - Padre di SuzanneQuale amore - Robert StefelmayerIl 7 e l'8 - Padre SuperioreThe Rage Legami di sangue - FatherThe Red Shadows - MassimoCe n'è per tutti - GrandfatherUp - Charles F. Muntz- ''Sul nome Bach''