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Gino Corrado
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Actor Born: February 9, 1893 in Firenze, Italy Death: December 23, 1982 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:Enjoying one of the longer careers in Hollywood history, "Gino Corrado" is today best remembered as a stocky bit-part player whose pencil-thin mustache made him the perfect screen barber, maître d', or hotel clerk, roles he would play in both major and Poverty Row films that ranged from "Citizen Kane" (1941) and "Casablanca" (1942) to serials such as "The Lost City" (1935) and, perhaps his best-remembered performance, the Three Stooges short Micro Phonies (1945; he was the bombastic Signor Spumoni).
A graduate of his native College of Strada, Corrado finished his education at St. Bede College in Peru, IL, and entered films with "D.W. Griffith" in the early 1910s, later claiming to have played bit parts in both "Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916). By the mid-1910s, he was essaying the "other man" in scores of melodramas, now billed under the less ethnic-sounding name of "Eugene... Full Biography
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