Mino Bellei

Mino Bellei (June 26, 1936 – March 13, 2022) was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.

Career
Born in Savona in 1936, he graduated from the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in 1959, and began as a stage actor in pièce by Pirandello, Molière and Shakespeare; critics counted him among the most promising and outstanding talents of these years. In the 1960s he also devoted himself to theater directing. His comedy "''Life is not a film of Doris Day" was a great success.

Only occasionally he took roles in film and television; In 1979 he directed the film Bionda fragola (Strawberry blonde) from his own screenplay. Despite good reviews and financial success, it was his only film as director.

Filmography (selection)

 * 1965: The Mandrake, dir. Alberto Lattuada
 * 1966: Francesco di Assisi, dir. Liliana Cavani
 * 1978: Melodrammore, dir. Maurizio Costanzo
 * 1980: Bionda fragola, dir. Mino Bellei
 * 1988: Topo Galileo, dir. Francesco Laudadio
 * 1989: Un uomo di razza, dir. Bruno Rosia
 * 1999: Tea with Mussolini, dir. Franco Zeffirelli
 * 2002: Pinocchio, dir. Roberto Benigni

Theatre (selection)

 * In the Jungle of Cities, of Bertolt Brecht, dir. Antonio Calenda, Rome, 1968.
 * La vita non è un film di Doris Day, dir Mino Bellei, Rome, 1989.