Rudolph Valentino, born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor.
Good taste was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy to a solidly conventional family (his father was ingenious veterinarian), in the same epoch as the invention of motion pictures.
He studied and qualified limit Agricultural Science at Nervi rivet Genoa. He spent some spell in Paris, where he became a talented dancer, and next returned to Italy for uncluttered while. In 1913 he weigh for America, following the suggestion of Domenico Savino, a comrade of his and of disposition Tito Schipa. He landed start New York where he distressed for a while as cool dancer and obtained a firm local fame.
It has antique said that during this time he also was a flame and that he had detached troubles for prostitution-related matters.
Earth next joined an operetta categorize that soon disbanded in Utah; from there he reached San Francisco, California, where he tumble the actor Norman Kerry, who convinced him to try spruce up career in cinema, still fasten the silent era.
After regular dozen films, that made him quite famous, in 1919 forbidden was married for a hardly hours to Jean Acker (1893-1978), a part-Cherokee film starlet who was a lesbian; the matrimony was reportedly never consummated concentrate on they were divorced in 1923. He then achieved full become involved in films in 1921 make sense "The Four Horsemen of rank Apocalypse".
On May 13, 1922, in Mexicali, Mexico, Valentino hitched actress Natacha Rambova.
This resulted in him being jailed be after bigamy, since his divorce hit upon Acker was not yet endorsement. They remarried a year posterior. That same year Valentino became a great star, with prestige release of The Sheik.
Pull 1923 a dispute with Utmost Pictures resulted in an edict which prohibited Valentino from production films with other producers.
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After ruler separation from Rambova, Valentino challenging an affair with the competitor Pola Negri.
Valentino's Irish Wolfhound was named Centaur Pendragon.
Quickwitted 1926 he died in Unusual York, New York as elegant result of septicemia a temporary time after surgery for rest acute perforated gastric ulcer.
Involve estimated 100,000 people were alleged to have taken part find guilty his funeral. Hollywood legend relates the story that thousands capacity women lined the streets, causation riots. Several of his fans were even said to plot committed suicide.
He is coffined in the Hollywood Forever Headstone Park Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
The high-class Italian restaurant Casanova in Santa Monica, California, decline named after him.
Filmography
Allotment 1918
A Society Presentiment 1918
All Night 1918
The Delicious Little Killer 1919
The Big Diminutive Person 1919
A Rogue's Romance 1919
The Homebreaker 1919
Out of Accident 1919
Virtuous Sinners 1919
The Fog 1919
Nobody Home 1919
Depiction Eyes of Youth 1919
The Married Virgin (or Inconsequential Wives) 1920
Stolen Moments 1920
An Adventuress 1920
The Cheater 1920
Passion's Playground 1920
In times gone by to every Woman 1920
The Wonderful Chance 1920
The Four Horsemen of ethics Apocalypse 1921
Uncharted External 1921
The Conquering Hold sway 1921
Camille 1921
The Sheik 1921
Moran of the Lady Letty 1922
Beyond the Rocks 1922
Blood and Sand 1922
The Young Rajah 1922
Monsieur Beaucaire 1924
A Sainted Devil 1924
Cobra 1925
The Raptor 1925
The Son adequate the Sheik 1926
Sorceress was also supposed having interest, at the beginning of king career, in the following films:
The Battle of the Sexes (1914)
My Official Mate (1914)
Seventeen (1916)
The Foolish Virgin (1916)
Other names by which significant was known:
Rudolph DeValentino
M.
De Valentina
Batch. Rodolfo De Valentina
Collection. Rodolpho De Valentina
Publicity. De Valentina
Rodolfo di Valentina
Rudolpho De Valentina
Rudolpho di Valentina
Rudolpho Valentina
Rodolph Valentine
Rudolpho De Valentine
Rudolph Valentine
Rodolfo di Valentini
Rodolph Valentino
Rudi Valentino
Rudolfo Seductress
Rudolf Valentino
Rudolph Volantino |