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{{Infobox person
| name = Arnoldo Foà
| honorific_suffix = {{small|[[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|OMRI]]}}
| image = Arnoldo
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|1|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Ferrara]], Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|1|11|1916|1|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Rome]], Italy
| birth_name = Arnoldo Eugenio Foà
| occupation = {{flatlist|
*Actor *director *voice actor *singer *writer }}
| years_active = 1935–2014
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'''Arnoldo Foà''' {{post-nominals|list=[[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI]]}} (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vociaf.htm |title=Arnoldo Foà's dubbing contributions|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |access-date=19 December 2019}}</ref> He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014.
==Biography==
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Foà was born in [[Ferrara]], Italy, to a Jewish family, though Foà was an [[Atheism|atheist]] in his adult life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/gennaio/17/Ateo_Foa_Difende_Dio_dalle_co_9_090117105.shtml|title=E l' Ateo Foà Difende Dio dalle Accuse di Moni Ovadia|author=Ventura Marco|access-date=26 February 2015}}</ref> Foà completed high school in [[Florence]], where he moved with his family, and studied at the acting school of Rasi. He abandoned his studies in economics and at age 20 moved to [[Rome]], where he attended the [[Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia]].
He was initiated to the Italian [[Scottish Rite|Scottish Rite Freemasonry]] in 1947 at the [[Masonic
Foà died on 11 January 2014 from respiratory failure, just 13 days short of his 98th birthday.<ref name="death">{{cite web|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2014/01/11/cultura/morto-a-roma-arnoldo-fo-5dn44AqxSnLsxZYcLXCZAK/pagina.html|title=È morto a Roma Arnoldo Foà|
==Theatre==
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* ''La serenata al vento'' by [[Carlo Veneziani]], directed by Alberto Bracaloni, 1935
* ''La dodicesima notte'' by [[William Shakespeare]], directed by Pietro Sharoff, 1938
* ''L’Alcalde di Zalamea'' by
* ''Rappresentazione di Santo Ignazio'' (Anonimo del XV secolo), directed by G. Pacuvio, 1939
* ''Frenesia'' by Charles de Peyret-Chappuis, directed by [[Edoardo Anton]]
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* ''Susanna e i peccatori'' directed by [[Tullio Carminati]]
* ''Delitto e castigo'' by Gaston Baty ([[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]), directed by [[Luchino Visconti]]
* ''La Madre degli emigranti'' by [[Turi Vasile]] and Alberto Perrini, directed by Nino Meloni,
* ''Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray'' by [[Oscar Wilde]], directed by [[Guido Salvini (director)|Guido Salvini]], [[Teatro Quirino]]
* ''Incantesimo'' by Philip Barry, directed by [[Gerardo Guerrieri]], Teatro delle Arti, Rome, 7 febbraio
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* ''Peer Gynt'' by [[Henrik Ibsen]], directed by [[Vittorio Gassman]], Compagnia del Teatro nazionale, [[Teatro Valle]] di Roma
* ''[[Sophonisba]]'' by [[Giangiorgio Trissino]], directed by [[Giorgio Strehler]], {{Interlanguage link|Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza|it|vertical-align=sup}}
* ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'' by [[Sophocles]], directed by [[Guido Salvini (director)|Guido Salvini]], {{Interlanguage link|Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza|it|vertical-align=sup}}
* ''Commedia degli Straccioni'' by [[Annibal Caro]], directed by [[Guido Salvini (director)|Guido Salvini]], Compagnia Teatro Nazionale
* ''Caterina da Siena'' by Cesare Vico Ludovici, directed by Fernando De Crucciati
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* ''La Fiaccola sotto il moggio'' by [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]], directed by [[Corrado Pavolini]]
* ''Capitan Carvallo'' by Denis Cannan, directed by {{Interlanguage link|Mario Ferrero|it|vertical-align=sup}}, Compagnia Italiana di Prosa, Teatro Carignano
* ''[[Chéri (novel)|Chéri]]'' by Léopold Marchand (of Colette), directed by [[André Barsacq]], Compagnia Italiana di Prosa, [[Teatro Duse]]
* ''[[Giulio Cesare]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]], directed by {{Interlanguage link|Giorgio Strelher|it|vertical-align=sup}}, Compagnia del Piccolo Teatro della Città di Milano, [[Piccolo Teatro (Milan)|Piccolo Teatro]] di Milano, 1953
* ''[[Amphitryon]]'' by [[Plautus]], directed by [[Jean Giraudoux]], comp. [[Teatro Eliseo]] of Roma, [[Palazzo dei Diamanti]] a Ferrara, 1955
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* ''Rashomon'' di Fay e Kanin, (dal film di Akira Kurosawa), directed by Arnoldo Foà, 1961
* ''I Turchi se la giocano a primiera'' by Alfio Beretta, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Nuovo di Milano
* ''Pene d’amor perdute'' by [[William Shakespeare]], directed by
* ''Un giorno nella vita di ... '' by Jack Popplewell, directed by Umberto Benedetto, Piccolo Teatro Stabile della città di Firenze
* ''Anfitrione'' by [[Plautus]], directed by Silverio Blasi, Centro Teatrale Italiano, 1962
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* ''Canti e poesie della libertà'', directed by Raffaele Maiello, testi a cura di Arnoldo Foà e Gigi Lunari, Teatro Lirico di Milano, 1965
* ''Re Cervo'' da Carlo Gozzi, directed by Andrea Camilleri
* ''Ruy Blas'' by [[Victor Hugo]], directed by Mario Ferrero, [[Teatro Duse di Bologna]], 1966
* ''Il testimone'' by A. Foà, directed by Arnoldo Foà, Teatro Duse di Bologna
* ''La stanza degli Ospiti'' by Brunello Rondi, directed by A. Foà, Teatro della Cometa
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* ''Miles Gloriosus'' by Plauto, trad. e ridu. di A. Foà, directed by A. Foà, Compagnia Attori Riuniti
* ''L’estro del Poeta'' by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Enrico Colosimo
* ''La folle Amanda'' by [[Pierre Barillet]] e
* ''Maschere Nude'' by L. Pirandello, directed by Lambreto Puggelli, Compagnia del Teatro San Babila, 1975
* ''Farsa d’amore e di gelosia'' by Mario Amendola e Bruno Corbucci, directed by Filippo Crivelli, Teatro Nuovo di Milano 1976
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* ''La Tosca'' by [[Victorien Sardou]], adattamento e directed by [[Aldo Trionfo]], {{Interlanguage link|Teatro Cilea|it|vertical-align=sup}} di Napoli, 1988
* ''L’ispettore generale'' by [[Nikolai Gogol]], directed by {{Interlanguage link|Roberto Guicciardini|it|vertical-align=sup}}, GITIESSE Spettacoli, 1989
* ''La palla al piede'' by [[Georges Feydeau]], directed by [[Armando Pugliese]], [[Teatro Quirino]] di Roma
* ''Un pezzo di paradiso'' by Steve J. Spears, directed by A. Foà, {{Interlanguage link|Taormina Arte|it|vertical-align=sup}}
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==Selected filmography==
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* ''[[Ettore Fieramosca (1938 film)|Ettore Fieramosca]]'' (1938) - Un gentiluomo alla corte di Graiano
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* ''Orizzonte dipinto'' (1941)
* ''Fuga nella tempesta'' (1945)
* ''[[O sole mio (film)|O sole mio]]'' (1946) - Peppino
* ''[[The Testimony (1946 film)|The Testimony]]'' (1946) - L'impiegato dell' anagrafe
* ''[[Un giorno nella vita]]'' (1946) - Brusan
* ''Sangue a Ca' Foscari'' (1946) - Cavaliere della Rosa (narrator, uncredited)
* ''[[The Opium Den]]'' (1947)
* ''[[The Captain's Daughter (1947 film)|The Captain's Daughter]]'' (1947) - Serguei (uncredited)
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* ''Marechiaro'' (1949) - L'avvocato difensore
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* ''[[Beauties on Bicycles]]'' (1951) - Sergente
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* ''[[Never Take No for an Answer]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Lorenzaccio (film)|Lorenzaccio]]'' (1951) - Il duca Alessandro
* ''[[Viva il cinema!]]'' (1952) - Productor
* ''[[Stranger on the Prowl]]'' (1952) - Inspector-in-Charge
* ''[[In Olden Days]]'' (1952) - Contadino toscano (segment "Questione d'interesse")
* ''[[Five Paupers in an Automobile]]'' (1952) - Alfredo
* ''[[Immortal Melodies]]'' (1952) - Narratore (narrator, uncredited)
* ''[[Red Love (1952 film)|Red Love]]'' (1952) - Sebastiano
* ''[[Genoese Dragnet]]'' (1952) - Basilio
* ''[[La storia del fornaretto di Venezia]]'' (1952) - Alvise Venier
* ''[[Infame accusa]]'' (1953) - Don Antonio
* ''[[Lucrèce Borgia]]'' (1953) - Michelotto
* ''[[Ivan, Son of the White Devil]]'' (1953) - Emiro Abdul
* ''La figlia del forzato'' (1953) - Dott. Palmieri
* ''Viva la rivista!'' (1953)
* ''[[The Stranger's Hand]]'' (1954) - Commissioner
* ''[[Love in a Hot Climate]]'' (1954) - Riera
* ''Avanzi di galera'' (1954) - Il capo
* ''[[Angela (1955 film)|Angela]]'' (1954) - Capt. Ambrosi
* ''[[Cardinal Lambertini (1954 film)|Cardinal Lambertini]]'' (1954) - Il duca di Montimar
* ''[[The Courier of Moncenisio (1954 film)|The Courier of Moncenisio]]'' (1954) - conte di Brissac
* ''Rosso e nero'' (1954)
* ''[[Toto and Carolina]]'' (1955) - Commissario
* ''Le ragazze di San Frediano'' (1955) - Narrator (narrator, uncredited)
* ''[[Chéri-Bibi (1955 film)|Chéri-Bibi]]'' (1955) - Le Kanak
* ''Non c'è amore più grande'' (1955) - Romolo Rocca
* ''[[Destination Piovarolo]]'' (1955) - Il podestà
* ''[[The Letters Page]]'' (1955) - Narratore (uncredited)
* ''Cantami buongiorno tristezza'' (1955) - Marco Salviati
* ''[[Altair (film)|Altair]]'' (1956) - Narratore (uncredited)
* ''[[Difendo il mio amore]]'' (1956) - L'avvocato Guarini
* ''[[Supreme Confession]]'' (1956) - Armando
* ''Io, Caterina'' (1957)
* ''[[Desert Warrior (1957 film)|Desert Warrior]]'' (1957) - (uncredited)
* ''[[Rascel-Fifì]]'' (1957) - Narratore (uncredited)
* ''[[The Silent Enemy (1958 film)|The Silent Enemy]]'' (1958) - Tomolino
* ''[[Vengeance (1958 film)|Vengeance]]'' (1958) - Bermejo
* ''[[The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (1958, TV Series) - Rodolfo Nickleby
* ''Pia de' Tolomei'' (1958) as Nello Della Pietra
* ''[[Herod the Great (film)|Herod the Great]]'' (1959) - (uncredited)
* ''[[The Nights of Lucretia Borgia]]'' (1959) - Astorre
* ''[[Desert Desperadoes]]'' (1959) - The Chaldean
* ''[[Carthage in Flames]]'' (1960)
* ''Les canailles'' (1960) - Tonioni
* ''[[The Loves of Salammbo]]'' (1960) - Spendius
* ''[[The Angel Wore Red]]'' (1960) - Insurgent Major
* ''[[Captain Blood (1960 film)|Captain Blood]]'' (1960) - Concini
* ''Heaven on Earth'' (1960) - Count Verbano
* ''[[The Tartars]]'' (1961) - Ciu Lang
* ''[[Barabbas (1961 film)|Barabbas]]'' (1961) - Joseph of Arimathea
* ''[[Damon and Pythias (1962 film)|Damon and Pythias]]'' (1962) - Dionysius
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* ''[[The Shoes of the Fisherman (film)|The Shoes of the Fisherman]]'' (1968) - Gelasio
* ''[[
* ''[[Cause of Divorce]]'' (1972) - Maini - father of Ernesta
* ''Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata, cercasi'' (1972) - Democristiani / comunista / missino
* ''Primo tango a Roma... storia d'amore e d'alchimia'' (1973) - Sciarra Colonna
* ''[[The Devil Is a Woman (1974 film)|The Devil Is a Woman]]'' (1974) - Monsignor Badensky
* ''[[Il domestico]]'' (1974) - Ambrogio Perigatti / Engineer
* ''[[A Matter of Time (film)|A Matter of Time]]'' (1976) - Pavelli (uncredited)
* ''[[A Dangerous Toy]]'' (1979) - Nicola Griffo
* ''[[Cento giorni a Palermo]]'' (1984) - Rognoni, ministro dell'Interno
* ''L'attenzione'' (1985) - Direttore Giornale
* ''[[The King's Whore]]'' (1990) - 1st Priest
* ''Anteprima al terzo braccio'' (1995)
* ''Ardena'' (1997) - Rosolino
* ''Crimine contro crimine'' (1998) - Sua Eccellenza
* ''Asini'' (1999) - The Cardinal
* ''[[All the Moron's Men]]'' (1999) - Presidente Leone Stella
* ''[[Nora (2000 film)|Nora]]'' (2000) - Sig. Canarutto (uncredited)
* ''[[Calmi Cuori Appassionati]]'' (2001) - The Restorer
* ''[[I Love You Eugenio]]'' (2002) - Prof. Bonelli
* ''[[The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII]]'' (2003, TV Movie) - Cardinal Ottaviani
* ''[[Do You Mind If I Kiss Mommy?]]'' (2003) - Renato
* ''[[Gente di Roma]]'' (2003) - Restaurant Father
* ''La febbre'' (2005) - Il Presidente
* ''Anthony, Warrior of God'' (2006) - Papa Gregorio IX
* ''Anime veloci'' (2006) - Padre di Suzanne
* ''Quale amore'' (2006) - Robert Stefelmayer
* ''[[Il 7 e l'8]]'' (2007) - Padre Superiore
* ''[[The Rage (2008 film)|The Rage]]'' (2008)
* ''Legami di sangue'' (2009) - Father
* ''[[The Red Shadows]]'' (2009) - Massimo
* ''Ce n'è per tutti'' (2009) - Grandfather
* ''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]'' (2009) - Charles F. Muntz (Italian version)
* ''Sul nome Bach'' (2011)
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