Carmelo Bene
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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Biography
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
Acting
(1966) Bis
as ---
(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
as ---
(1982) La poesia dimenticata
as ---
(1970) Don Giovanni
as Don Giovanni
(1970) Necropolis
as ---
(1967) Catch As Catch Can
as Prete
(1970) Red Hot Shot
as Billy Desco
(1985) L'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto
as ---
(2002) Otello o la deficienza della donna
as ---
(1969) Capricci
as Poet
(1971) Tre nel mille
as Pannocchia
(1980) Modi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita
as ---
(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
as ---
(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
as ---
(1997) Macbeth Horror Suite
as ---
(1977) Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
as ---
(1997) In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
as ---
(1990) Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
as Amleto
(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
as ---
(1998) Voce dei Canti
as ---
(1996) Carmelo nei Canti Orfici
as Himself
(1965) Un'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio
as Himself
(1975) Claro
as ---
(2017) Tracce di Bene
as Self
(1984) Le tecniche dell'assenza
as Self
(2024) È severamente vietata la sosta in palcoscenico ai non autorizzati. Un documentario di meno su Carmelo Bene
as Himself (archive footage)