Armando Falconi

Born in Rome, Falconi was the son of two Neapolitan stage actors.^[3] His elder brother Arturo Falconi also became an actor. He first worked as an employee and an officer before starting to work as a professional actor in the late 1890s.^[3] In 1901 he married the actress Tina Di Lorenzo, with whom he often teamed up on stage.^[3] Following several national and foreign tours, in 1912 he founded the Stable Company of the Manzoni Theatre in Milan.^[3] Following the retirement of his wife in 1920, he directed the company Compagnia Comoedia, and headed in a number of other companies, notably having a remarkable success with the musical comedy Wunder Bar.^[3] After having appeared in some silent films between 1915 and 1918, in the 1930s Falconi intensified his cinema activities, starring in a number of comedy films.^[3] Widowed since 1930, he remarried to actress Elisabetta Svoboda (also known with the stage name Lili Svett) in 1942.^[3] His son Dino Falconi was a screenwriter, director, journalist and playwright.^[3]

• The Charmer (1931)
• The Old Lady (1932)
• The Last Adventure (1932)
• Everybody's Secretary (1933)
• The Joker King (1935)
• Joe the Red (1936)
• The Carnival Is Here Again (1937)
• The Document (1939)
• The Sons of the Marquis Lucera (1939)
• The Birth of Salome (1940)
• Don Pasquale (1940)
• The Man on the Street (1941)
• The Betrothed (1941)
• Rossini (1942)
• Fourth Page (1942)
• Wedding Day (1944)
• The Innkeeper (1944)

• Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 2008.

• Armando Falconi at IMDb