Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi 3 May 1901 3 January 1974 was an Italian actor of international fame Cervi was born in Bologna His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi In 1928 he married Nini Gordini one of his partners and they had a son Tonino Cervi Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi Peppone the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s He shared great complicity and friendship with costar Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies At the end of his career he played Commissioner Maigret for six years in the Italian version of those murder stories which ended with a movie Maigret in Pigalle Mario Landi 1966 produced by his son Antonio Cervi He died at Punta Ala in 1974 Description above from the Wikipedia article Gino Cervi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia