Birthday
1937/09/03
Day of death
2002/03/16 (64 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Campi Salentina, Lecce, Italia
Also know as
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The filmmaking career of Carmelo Bene (1937 - 2002) lasted from 1968 to 1973, six years out of a lengthy time spent in the theater that made Bene one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. Bene first made a name for himself with a controversial production of Camus’ Caligula in Rome in 1959. Subsequent productions retained this sense of notoriety, and Bene (like Pasolini) quickly acquired a police record. Bene, however, would come to bem...Read more
(1966) Bis
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(1967) Oedipus Rex
as Creonte
(1981) Riccardo III
as Riccardo III
(1968) Our Lady of the Turks
as The Protagonist
(1967) Carmelo Bene, il canto d'amore di Alfred J. Prufrock
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(1982) La poesia dimenticata
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(1970) Don Giovanni
as Don Giovanni
(1970) Necropolis
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(1967) Catch As Catch Can
as Prete
(1970) Red Hot Shot
as Billy Desco
(1985) L'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto
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(2002) Otello o la deficienza della donna
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(1969) Capricci
as Poet
(1971) Tre nel mille
as Pannocchia
(1980) Modi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita
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(1968) Hermitage
as The Man
(1972) Salomé
as Erode Antipa / Onorio
(2023) The Last Days of Humanity
as Self (archive footage)
(2022) BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale
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(1973) One Hamlet Less
as Hamlet
(1999) Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
as Pinocchio / Geppetto / Mastro Ciliegia / Grillo Parlante / Mangiafuoco / Volpe / Lucignolo
(1978) Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
as Amleto
(1983) Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio
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(1997) Macbeth Horror Suite
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(1997) In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
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(1990) Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
as Amleto
(1977) Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
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(1969) Umano non umano
as Self
(1973) Ventriloquio
as Jean des Esseintes
(1990) Cos'è il teatro?!
as Himself
(1996) Ai Rotoli
as Self
(2003) Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi
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(1998) Voce dei Canti
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(1996) Carmelo nei Canti Orfici
as Himself
(1965) Un'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio
as Himself
(1975) Claro
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