Esther Minciotti


Esther Cunico Minciotti was an Italian actress.

Biography

Esther Cunico and her husband – Silvio Minciotti, also an actor of Italian origin – emigrated to the United States and settled in New York. There, she played on Broadway in two plays, the first from November 1949 to January 1950, the second in October 1956.
In the cinema, she collaborated in only eight American films, between 1949 and 1956. Her best known role is undoubtedly that of Theresa Piletti, Ernest Borgnine's mother, in Marty by Delbert Mann. The following year, she is this time the mother of Henry Fonda, in The Wrong Man directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Note that her husband Silvio Minciotti appears in five of these films.
On television, Esther Minciotti participated in five series in the 1950s. In particular, she created the role of Theresa Piletti, with Rod Steiger playing Marty, in an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse broadcast in 1953, on an original screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, whose film already mentioned in 1955 is the adaptation to the cinema.

Filmography

Film

  • 1949: Shockproof - Mrs. Marat
  • 1949: The Undercover Man - Maria Rocco
  • 1949: House of Strangers - Theresa Monetti
  • 1951: Strictly Dishonorable - Mme. Maria Caraffa
  • 1955: Marty - Mrs. Teresa Piletti
  • 1955: Murder in Villa Capri - Mama Flumeri
  • 1956: The Wrong Man - Mama Balestrero
  • 1956: Full of Life - Mama Colletta Rocco

    Television

  • 1950: Studio One - Mrs. Cassini
  • 1951: Armstrong Circle Theatre - Mme. Maria Caraffa
  • 1953: The Philco Television Playhouse, Season 5, episode: "Marty", by Delbert Mann) - Mrs. Pilletti - Mother
  • 1957: Playhouse 90 - Augustias
  • 1958: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse - Mama

    Theatre

;Plays performed on Broadway