Arnoldo Foà

Arnoldo Foà (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014. Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish family, though Foà was an atheist in his adult life. 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 Freemasonry in 1947 at the Lodge "Alpi Giulie" n.150 (in Rome), taking later the highest degree. Foà died on 11 January 2014 from respiratory failure, just 13 days short of his 98th birthday. 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 Calderón de la Barca, directed by it Rappresentazione di Santo Ignazio (Anonimo del XV secolo), directed by G. Pacuvio, 1939 Frenesia by Charles de Peyret-Chappuis, directed by Edoardo Anton La vita è sogno by Calderon de la Barca, directed by Nino Meloni Le Allegre Comari di Windsor by William Shakespeare, directed by Pietro Scharoff I Masnadieri by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Guido Salvini, 1941 I Fratelli Castiglioni by Alberto Colantuoni, directed by it, 1942 L’Arco di Ulisse by Gerhart Hauptmann La Nascita di Salomè, directed by it La ragazza indiavolata by Ralph Benatzky, Teatro Quirino, 1943 La Parte di Marito by Vincenzo Tieri La Vedova Allegra, by Franz Lehár Il Marchese di Priolà by Henry Lavedan Non Rinuncio all’Amore by Giovanni Bokay Papà by Gaston Arman De Caillavet and Robert De Flers Piccoli Traguardi by it La brava gente by Irwin Shaw, directed by Jean Giraudoux, Teatro Eliseo, 1945 La luna è tramontata by John Steinbeck, directed by Vito Pandolfi, (Teatro Quirino di Roma, 15 febbraio) Arsenico e vecchi merletti by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Ettore Giannini La bella avventura by Caillavet e De Flers, directed by Ettore Giannini Parenti Terribili by Jean Cocteau, directed by Luchino Visconti, Compagnia del Teatro Eliseo Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello La quinta colonna by Ernest Hemingway, directed by Luchino Visconti, Compagnia del Teatro Eliseo di Roma La via del tabacco Jack Kirkland (from novel of Erskine Caldwell), directed by Luchino Visconti, Teatro Quirino of Roma 16 April 1946 Mia sorella Evelina by J.