Valentina Cortese

Valentina Cortese is known for acting, with films including Appassionata, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Day for Night. Browse the full filmography and find where to stream on sseenn.

Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress. The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night. Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.

Filmography

• Appassionata (1974)
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
• Day for Night (1973)
• Barabbas (1961)
• The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
• La Classe américaine (1993)
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
• When Time Ran Out... (1980)
• Thieves' Highway (1949)
• Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
• The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
• The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
• The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
• The Possessed (1965)
• Le Amiche (1955)