Afro Poli
Know for: Acting
Born: 1902-12-21
Place of birth: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Also know as:
The Queen of Sheba (1952)
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
Tosca (1956)
A nasty Rome police chief circa 1800 forces the lover of a painter, suspected of harboring a political prisoner, to reveal the hiding place and to...
Hercules (1958)
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of...
La traviata (1967)
Musical - Soprano Anna Moffo stars as winsome courtesan Violetta Valery -- who tries to protect her rash lover, Alfredo (Franco Bonisolli), even if...
Cenerentola (1949)
1949 movie version of the Rossini opera
Pagliacci (1948)
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario Costa. The film stars Tito Gobbi and Gina...
Aida (1953)
This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.
Love and Poison (1950)
Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count....