Elena Altieri

Acting

Elena Altieri

Born — Died

1916-07-27 — 1997-05-01

Place of birth

Stresa, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

20 titles

Elena Altieri was an Italian film and stage actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1937 and 1955. She was born in Stresa, the daughter of an Italian father and an English mother. She was mainly cast, both on stage and in films, in roles of haughty and aristocratic women.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 7 titles

The Golden Coach poster
7.1

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

The Golden Coach

1952

Times Gone By poster
5.2

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Times Gone By

1952

Defend My Love poster
9.0

As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.

Defend My Love

1956

Twelve Hours to Live poster
6.2

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeeds in obtaining to return to earth for a few hours to make reparation for the evil he committed and, above all, for the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's suicide attempt. The affair will lead him to make a risky but happy choice.

Twelve Hours to Live

1950

L'ultimo amante poster
5.0

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.

L'ultimo amante

1955

All for Love poster
7.0

Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine, young and beautiful wife of the Crown Prince of Saxony, manifests democratic sentiments that make her pleasing to the people, but not to the court. In 1902 old King George would like to have her committed to an asylum, but she escapes to Florence where she meets and loves the musician Enrico Toselli. Theirs will be a dramatic affair, with the man's death and her madness.

All for Love

1950

Scapricciatiello poster
7.0

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Scapricciatiello

1955

1940s · 10 titles