Mino Bellei (June 26, 1936 – March 13, 2022) was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.^[1]

Career

Born in Savona in 1936, he graduated from the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in 1959, and began as a stage actor in pièce by Pirandello, Molière and Shakespeare; critics counted him among the most promising and outstanding talents of these years. In the 1960s he also devoted himself to theater directing. His comedy "Life is not a film of Doris Day" was a great success.

Only occasionally he took roles in film and television; In 1979 he directed the film Bionda fragola (Strawberry blonde) from his own screenplay. Despite good reviews and financial success, it was his only film as director.^[2]

Filmography (selection)

• 1965: The Mandrake, dir. Alberto Lattuada
• 1966: Francesco di Assisi, dir. Liliana Cavani
• 1978: Melodrammore, dir. Maurizio Costanzo
• 1980: Bionda fragola, dir. Mino Bellei
• 1988: Topo Galileo, dir. Francesco Laudadio
• 1989: Un uomo di razza, dir. Bruno Rosia
• 1999: Tea with Mussolini, dir. Franco Zeffirelli
• 2002: Pinocchio, dir. Roberto Benigni

Theatre (selection)

• In the Jungle of Cities, of Bertolt Brecht, dir. Antonio Calenda, Rome, 1968.
• La vita non è un film di Doris Day, dir Mino Bellei, Rome, 1989.

References

External links

• Mino Bellei at IMDb