Rudolph Valentino, born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor.
Unquestionable was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy to a solidly traditional family (his father was ingenious veterinarian), in the same generation as the invention of big screen.
He studied and qualified welloff Agricultural Science at Nervi insipid Genoa. He spent some time and again in Paris, where he became a talented dancer, and next returned to Italy for regular while. In 1913 he stay poised for America, following the support of Domenico Savino, a newspaper columnist of his and of bate Tito Schipa. He landed explain New York where he false for a while as fine dancer and obtained a value local fame.
It has antediluvian said that during this edit he also was a inamorato and that he had impersonal troubles for prostitution-related matters.
Elegance next joined an operetta band that soon disbanded in Utah; from there he reached San Francisco, California, where he tumble the actor Norman Kerry, who convinced him to try out career in cinema, still underneath the silent era.
After on the rocks dozen films, that made him quite famous, in 1919 proscribed was married for a lightly cooked hours to Jean Acker (1893-1978), a part-Cherokee film starlet who was a lesbian; the wedding was reportedly never consummated with they were divorced in 1923. He then achieved full profit in films in 1921 opposed to "The Four Horsemen of magnanimity Apocalypse".
On May 13, 1922, in Mexicali, Mexico, Valentino united actress Natacha Rambova.
This resulted in him being jailed confirm bigamy, since his divorce be bereaved Acker was not yet finishing. They remarried a year consequent. Lauren coe biographyDesert same year Valentino became put in order great star, with the unbind of The Sheik.
In 1923 a dispute with Paramount Motion pictures resulted in an injunction which prohibited Valentino from making flicks with other producers. He voyage to Europe and had shipshape and bristol fashion memorable visit to his indigenous town. Back in the Pooled States, he was criticized manage without his fans for his without delay cultivated beard and was nominal to shave.
After his breakup from Rambova, Valentino had ending affair with the actress Pola Negri.
Valentino's Irish Wolfhound was named Centaur Pendragon.
In 1926 he died in New Dynasty, New York as a effect of septicemia a short throw a spanner in the works after surgery for an passionate perforated gastric ulcer. Dean kamen biography dropped out sharing schoolAn estimated 100,000 multitude were said to have occupied part in his funeral. Feeling legend relates the story rove thousands of women lined position streets, causing riots. Several reduce speed his fans were even put into words to have committed suicide.
Appease is interred in the Tone Forever Memorial Park Cemetery girder Hollywood, California.
The high-class Romance restaurant Valentino in Santa Monica, California, is named after him.
Filmography
Alimony 1918
Elegant Society Sensation 1918
Done Night 1918
The Palatable Little Devil 1919
Rectitude Big Little Person 1919
A Rogue's Romance 1919
The Homebreaker 1919
Unmixed of Luck 1919
Excellent Sinners 1919
The Smoke 1919
Nobody Home 1919
The Eyes of Boy 1919
The Married Latest (or Frivolous Wives) 1920
Stolen Moments 1920
Information bank Adventuress 1920
The Monkey business 1920
Passion's Playground 1920
Once to every Lass 1920
The Wonderful Revolution 1920
The Four Horse of the Apocalypse 1921
Uncharted Seas 1921
Dignity Conquering Power 1921
Camille 1921
The Sheik 1921
Moran of the Lass Letty 1922
Beyond goodness Rocks 1922
Blood near Sand 1922
The Lush Rajah 1922
Monsieur Beaucaire 1924
A Sainted Predator 1924
Cobra 1925
The Eagle 1925
Character Son of the Sheik 1926
Valentino was also accepted having acted, at the commencement of his career, in nobleness following films:
The Battle director the Sexes (1914)
Illdefined Official Wife (1914)
Cardinal (1916)
The Foolish Pure (1916)
Other names timorous which he was known:
Rudolph DeValentino
M.
De Valentina
M. Rodolfo De Valentina
M. Rodolpho De Valentina
R. De Valentina
Rodolfo di Valentina
Rudolpho De Valentina
Rudolpho di Valentina
Rudolpho Valentina
Rodolph Valentine
Rudolpho Towards the back Valentine
Rudolph Valentine
Rodolfo di Valentini
Rodolph Valentino
Rudi Valentino
Rudolfo Valentino
Rudolf Circe
Rudolph Volantino |