Liana Del Balzo

Italian actress (1899–1982)

Liana Del Balzo
Del Balzo in the movie Deep Red (1975)
Born	(1899-03-04)4 March 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	26 March 1982(1982-03-26) (aged 83) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1935–1979

Liana Del Balzo (4 March 1899 – 26 March 1982) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1979. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died in Rome, Italy. Even making her film debut quite late, in her forty, Del Balzo was one of the most active character actresses in the Italian cinema, usually cast in humorous roles.^[1] She was also active on stage and in the operetta, in which she met her husband-to-be, the tenor Guido Agnoletti.^[1]

Selected filmography

Casta Diva (1935)
A Wife in Danger (1939) - Una invitata alla festa di nozze
The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
We Were Seven Widows (1939) - Passenger
It Always Ends That Way (1939) - La cameriera dell' albergo
Torna, caro ideal! (1939) - Madame de Villet
The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (1939) - L'insegnante di musica
Ballo al castello (1939)
Scandalo per bene (1940)
One Hundred Thousand Dollars (1940) - Miss Vernon
Kean (1940) - Una invitata al ballo
La canzone rubata (1940) - La portinaia
La fanciulla di Portici (1940) - La duchessa Carafa
Idyll in Budapest (1941)
Tosca (1941) - La dama di compagnia della marchesa (uncredited)
Caravaggio (1941)
Orizzonte dipinto (1941)
I mariti (Tempesta d'anime) (1941)
The King's Jester (1941) - La marchesa che nasconde l'età
A Woman Has Fallen (1941) - Una vicina di casa
Sancta Maria (1942) - Una passeggera sulla nave
Soltanto un bacio (1942) - Un invitata alla festa di fidanzamento
La principessa del sogno (1942) - Una amica della cantante lirica
Miliardi, che follia! (1942) - Una invitata alla festa
La signorina (1942)
Sette anni di felicità (1942) - La cantante sul camion
The Woman of Sin (1942)
Harlem (1942)
La danza del fuoco (1943)
Sempre più difficile (1943) - La direttrice del collegio svizzero
Apparition (1943) - Susanna, la governante
La storia di una capinera (1943)
The Devil Goes to Boarding School (1944) - Signora Testones
Eugênia Grandet (1946)
L'apocalisse (1947)
Cab Number 13 (1948) - (segment "Il castigo")
Toto Looks For a House (1949) - La contessa (uncredited)
The Pirates of Capri (1949) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Santo disonore (1950) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Romanzo d'amore (1950) - Guest at the Continis'
The Thief of Venice (1950) - La duenna
Strano appuntamento (1950)
Love and Blood (1951)
Shadows Over Naples (1951)
The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
Seven Hours of Trouble (1951) - Donna Lucrezia (uncredited)
Quo Vadis (1951) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Una bruna indiavolata! (1951) - Mamma di Giulio
Wife for a Night (1952)
In Olden Days (1952) - Spettatrice al processo (segment "Il processo di Frine") (uncredited)
Don Lorenzo (1952)
Finishing School (1952) - Princess De Vick-Beranger
Il romanzo della mia vita (1952) - The Woman in Trattoria (uncredited)
Una donna prega (1953) - Una vicina curiosa
Verdi (1953) - (uncredited)
Neapolitan Carousel (1954) - Minor Role (uncredited)
I cavalieri della regina (1954)
Beautiful but Dangerous (1955) - (uncredited)
Bravissimo (1955)
Noi siamo le colonne (1956) - Madre di Sofia
Valeria ragazza poco seria (1958)
Le cameriere (1959)
The Moralist (1959) - The Baroness (uncredited)
Ben-Hur (1959) - Guest at Banquet (uncredited)
The Cossacks (1960) - Grandduchess, Aunt of Tsar (uncredited)
The Dam on the Yellow River (1960)
The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)
It Started in Naples (1960) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Five Golden Hours (1961) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Come September (1961) - Mother Superior (uncredited)
I masnadieri (1961) - Acilia (uncredited)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) - Rich Hebrew Woman
Imperial Venus (1962) - Principessa Borghese
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963) - Old Lady on the Beach (segment "Bagnino Lover") (uncredited)
I gemelli del Texas (1964) - Madre di Makenzie
Il disco volante (1964) - la madre di Dolores
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra (1969) - Woman at party (uncredited)
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) - Woman attending sermon (uncredited)
Shango (1970) - Taña
Mr. Superinvisible (1970)
Cross Current (1971) - Mrs. Foschi
Colpo grosso... grossissimo... anzi probabile (1972)
Novelle galeotte d'amore (1972)
La prima notte di quiete (1972) - Signora Dominici, Daniele's mother (uncredited)
Il gatto di Brooklyn aspirante detective (1973) - Adelina Bacherozza De Porcaris - the grandmother
Deep Red (1975) - Elvira
La Cage aux Folles (1978) - Mme Charrier
La Luna (1979) - Maestro's Sister (uncredited)