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Carlo Simoneschi

Italian actor and film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3659857 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carlo Simoneschi (25 August 1878 – 20 July 1955) was an Italian stage and film actor. He also directed a number of films during the silent era.

Selected filmography

The Sack of Rome (1920)

The Gift of the Morning (1932)

Paradise (1932)

Pergolesi (1932)

Casta Diva (1935)

Condottieri (1937)

They've Kidnapped a Man (1938)

Heartbeat (1939)

Department Store (1939)

Teresa Venerdì (1941)

References

Bibliography

Mitchell, Charles P. The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002. McFarland, 2004.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Carlo Simoneschi” as italian actor and film director. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1878, 1955, 1920, 1932—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1878-08-25. The account is most persuasive where Carlo, Simoneschi and Italian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as italian actor and film director. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3659857. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1878, 1955, 1920 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carlo Simoneschi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.