Anthony Novelli — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸
Anthony Novelli [Amleto Novelli] looks to “Quo Vadis?” as his master triumph as an actor.
He maintains bachelor apartments in the Appian Way, a short distance from the Cines studio.
Fond of music and painting, he won some fame as an amateur painter prior to his appearance on the stage. An initial engagement with a stock company in Naples paved the way for his appearance in pictures.
His only noteworthy experience has been with the Kleine-Cines Company, and he has played “leads” for them for the past three years.
His face and mannerisms are familiar to picturegoers the world over, not only because of his wonderful interpretation of Vinitius in Quo Vadis? but for many other splendid bits of character work. However, Novelli is not a “character man.” He is emphatically Kleine-Cines’ leading man, but the difficult roles given him entitle him to the distinction of “character man” as well as “lead.”
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Collection: Motography Magazine, August 1913