Galeazzo Benti
Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991.

Life and career
Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy,  a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which ruled Bologna from 1401 until 1506 and from 1511 until 1512, he started his career as a  cartoonist and a set designer. He was the step brother of colleague Fiammetta Baralla. After his first roles in 1942, he had his breakout in 1943, in Sergio Tofano's Gian Burrasca, in which he played a frivolous and falsely modest snob, a role he specialized during his career. After successfully alternating between cinema and revue, in the late 1950s he moved to Venezuela, where he worked in a television channel dedicated to Italian immigrants. He came back to Italy in the early 1980s, and here he reprised his acting career equally splitting between films and TV-series until his death from a heart attack in 1993.

Selected filmography

 Souls in Turmoil (1942) - Un amico di Elena
 The Three Pilots (1942) - Andrea Torelli
 The Lady Is Fickle (1942) - Un giovanetto al teatro
 Annabella's Adventure (1943)
 Gian Burrasca (1943) - Tinti, il giornalista
 Gente dell'aria (1943) - Il tenente Prollo
 The Za-Bum Circus (1944) - (segment "Galop finale al circo")
 La freccia nel fianco (1945) - Duccio Massenti
 Life Begins Anew (1945) - Un cliente del ristorante (uncredited)
 Che distinta famiglia! (1945) - The real Michele di Montuja
 Departure at Seven (1946)
 Peddlin' in Society (1946) - Rorò di Torretia
 Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone (1947)
 Flesh Will Surrender (1947) - L'ufficiale di cavalleria
 The Two Orphans (1947) - Giorgio
 Dove sta Zaza? (1947)
 Cab Number 13 (1948) - Le commissaire Portier
 Fear and Sand (1948) - George
 The Dance of Death (1948)
 Accidenti alla guerra!... (1948) - F.23
 Be Seeing You, Father (1948) - Il 'contino'
 Una voce nel tuo cuore (1949)
 The Emperor of Capri (1949) - Dodo della Baggina
 Se fossi deputato (1949)
 Margaret of Cortona (1950) - Arsenio del Monte
 Totò Tarzan (1950) - L'esercitatore dei superparacadutisti
 The Transporter (1950) - Un cliente galante
 The Knight Has Arrived! (1950) - Marchese Bevilacqua
 Milano miliardaria (1951) - Walter
 La paura fa 90 (1951) - Carlo Champignon
 Seven Hours of Trouble (1951) - Ernesto
 Paris Is Always Paris (1951) - Gianni Forlivesi
 Amor non ho! Però, però.. (1951)
 Free Escape (1951)
 Three Girls from Rome (1952) - Marisa's friend
 Toto in Color (1952) - Poldo
 Wife For a Night (1952) - Maurizio
 Altri tempi (1952) - Amante della signora (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")
 I figli non si vendono (1952)
 Sunday Heroes (1952) - Benti - Lucy's wooer
 Primo premio: Mariarosa (1952)
 Poppy (1952) - Viveur del night
 The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952) - Un giornalista
 Canzoni di mezzo secolo (1952)
 Beauties on Motor Scooters (1952) - Gastone
 Fermi tutti... arrivo io! (1953) - Giornalista
 Cavalcade of Song (1953) - Il soldatino
 Viva la rivista! (1953)
 Scampolo 53 (1953)
 Canto per te (1953)
 Matrimonial Agency (1953) - Lodolini
 It Takes Two to Sin in Love (1954)
 Tears of Love (1954)
 Neapolitan Carousel (1954) - French tourist
 Papà Pacifico (1954) - Alberto di Pontenero - the baron
 Angela (1954) - Gustavo Venturi
 An American in Rome (1954) - Fred Buonanotte
 A Free Woman (1954) - Sergio Rollini
  Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! (1954) - Snob
 Toto in Hell (1955) - Il cantante esistenzialista
 Carovana di canzoni (1955) - Mickey Spillone
 Red and Black (1955)
 Yo y las mujeres (1959)
 Il dio serpente (1970) - Bernard Lucas
 Lola (1974) - Doctor
 El enterrador de cuentos (1978)
 La terrazza (1980) - Galeazzo
 Morituri (1984)
 Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987) - Barone Fricò
 Me and My Sister (1987) - Avv. Sironi
 Animali metropolitani (1987) - Dott. Cohen
 Mortacci (1989) - Tommaso Grillo
 Rouge Venise (1989) - Silvio Conio
 Massacre Play (1989) - Cornelius Plank
 Nel giardino delle rose (1990) - Troncucci
 Vacanze di Natale '90 (1990) - Principe Galiberti
 Rossini! Rossini! (1991) - La Rochefoucault
 Count Max (1991) - Conte Max

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1923 births
1993 deaths
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male television actors
20th-century Italian male actors