Romano Calò(1883-1952)

Born in Rome in 1883, Romano Calò was one of the few Italian stage actors who turned to the cinema in its silent period. Between 1911 and 1943, he played in about thirty movies, mainly in supporting roles. The same year, after the fall of Badaglio, he was stranded in Ticino, where he was selected by Leopold Lindtberg for the part of the priest in his classic war film La dernière chance (1945). But his greatest role was also to be the last on the big screen. Romano Calò remained active in his adopted country though, working for the radio studio of Lugano, where he had settled down and where he died in 1952.