He tested for a part in Ben Hur, but his big break was the role of Apollodorus, Cleopatra's personal servant in the 1963 film, Cleopatra directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison.
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Two of his best roles were as the neighborhood mafia Don, Giovanni Cappa, in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and as the corrupt town mayor, Carmine DePasto, in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
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Danova died of a heart attack in 1992, aged 66, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Los Angeles while attending a meeting of the Foreign Language Film committee.
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Danova is a cousin of American poet, editor, publisher and translator Frank Judge and Italian artist Sergio Deitinger, who lives in Rome and paints under the name DeiTinger.
The four were: Actor (Cesare' Danova) a handsome, resonant-voiced con man; Casino (Rudy Solari), a tough, wiry safe-cracker and mechanic; Goniff (Christopher Cary) a slender, likable Cockney cat burglar; and Chief (Brendon Boone) a rugged, somber American Indian who handled a switchblade like he was born to it.
Cesare Borgia | Cesare Ripa | Cesare Pavese | Cesare Beccaria | Cesare Zavattini | Cesare Lombroso | Cesare Siepi | Cesare Cremonini | Cesare Bonventre | Cesare Salvi | Cesare Prandelli | Cesare Danova | Cesare Cremonini (singer-songwriter) | SS ''Giulio Cesare'' | Italian cruiser Cesare Rossarol | Giulio Cesare Croce | Cesare Vecellio | Cesare Tallone | Cesare Segre | Cesare Seassaro | ''Cesare Rossarol'' | Cesare Ripa's ''Iconologia'' | Cesare Rinaldi | Cesare Previti | Cesare Nebbia | Cesare Mariani | Cesare Maldini | Cesare Maccari | Cesare G. De Michelis | Cesare dell'Acqua (1867), Maximilian receiving the Mexican delegation, being offered the Second Mexican Empire |
The Man Who Understood Women is a 1959 American drama film written and directed by Nunnally Johnson from a novel by Romain Gary, and starring Henry Fonda, Leslie Caron, Renate Hoy and Cesare Danova.