ACTOR

Carmelo Bene

1937 - 2002

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Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002) was an Italian actor, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema. In 1968, his movie Our Lady of the Turks won the Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival) at the Venice Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carmelo Bene has received more than 80,063 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carmelo Bene is the 4,735th most popular actor (down from 4,197th in 2019), the 3,638th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,287th in 2019) and the 156th most popular Italian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Carmelo Benes by language

Over the past year Carmelo Bene has had the most page views in the with 121,541 views, followed by English (8,717), and French (2,967). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (321.28%), Sicilian (93.83%), and Latin (33.33%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Carmelo Bene ranks 4,735 out of 13,578. Before him are Dana Reeve, Bill Paterson, Ku Hye-sun, Hugh Dancy, Park Bo-young, and Emily Ratajkowski. After him are Kim Jung-eun, Larry Fine, James Franciscus, Danny Nucci, Seth Gilliam, and Phoebe Tonkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Carmelo Bene ranks 370. Before him are Garth Hudson, Bruno Mora, Guido Vildoso, Nina Companeez, Eric Arturo Delvalle, and Alexander Vampilov. After him are Héctor Facundo, Attilio Nicora, Nancy Wilson, Ferenc Kósa, Jacques Barrot, and Jan Kaplický. Among people deceased in 2002, Carmelo Bene ranks 228. Before him are Kevin Smith, Mal Waldron, Indra Devi, Ong Teng Cheong, Vernon A. Walters, and John Eriksen. After him are Pasieguito, Tore Svensson, Lotfia Elnadi, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Mikayil Abdullayev, and Hernán Gaviria.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carmelo Bene ranks 3,638 out of 5,161. Before him are Fernando Altimani (1893), Giovanni Berchet (1783), Saverio Ragno (1902), Giovanni Caselli (1815), Alberto Malesani (1954), and Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (1865). After him are Nicola Mancino (1931), Guido Boni (1892), Attilio Lombardo (1966), Antonello Cuccureddu (1949), Ilaria Occhini (1934), and Attilio Nicora (1937).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Carmelo Bene ranks 156. Before him are Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (1968), Giorgio Albertazzi (1923), Arnoldo Foà (1916), Alvaro Vitali (1950), Letícia Román (1941), and Lyda Borelli (1884). After him are Ilaria Occhini (1934), Kim Rossi Stuart (1969), Marta Abba (1900), Anna Kanakis (1962), Michele Morrone (1990), and Flavio Bucci (1947).

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Television and Movie Roles

Salome
Erode Antipa / Onorio
Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution.
Oct 20o 19726.9 / 10
Our Lady of the Turks
The Protagonist
A man (Carmelo Bene) can not bear to be part of society. He considers himself a "jerk" and so invents its own philosophy, which involves the destruction of his land of Puglia where all citizens are devoted to the Catholic religion. However, the man can not destroy the belief of the pilgrims of Salento, because a woman would prevent that. It is an unknown "Santa Margherita", which tries to divert man from his weird and impossible philosophy. Successive scenes of the film show various situations unreal and dream in which the two protagonists try to obtain the best one on the other. After a blasphemous dialogue between monks, the man includes his whole philosophy in a Moorish building. In fact, this seems to have been the scene of the massacre of the famous 800 Martyrs of Otranto, which are considered by the scetic man the absolute death of Christianity.
Sep 3o 19686.404 / 10
Oedipus Rex
Creonte
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…
Sep 7o 19676.757 / 10