He was born on May 24th 1933 in Poggiardo, Italy. His daughter, Germana, has followed her father into the industry as a dubbing artist. IMDb gives the unconfirmed detail that his birth name was Mario Longo, which was the name he was credited with in his first film appearance.
While he only played one lead role, in La grande savana the year of his graduation, he was nevertheless one of the more successful actors to emerge from c.s.c., working steadily for the next 25 years, mostly in fairly substantial supporting roles in peplum and historical features, then in westerns where he adopted the pseudonym Grant Laramy.
Moving into the 70's he worked mostly in television. He disappeared from the screen after 1981, but made a surprising return 31 years later in 2012 and again in 2014, his last known appearance on-screen.
In addition to film acting he was much in demand as a dubbing artist and as an actor in fotoromanzi. He also co-authored the book Cento anni di cinema in Piemonte, 1896-1996, published in 1997. Germano does have a personal Facebook page, but he is either not very active or else keeps his content private.
Germano passed away on July 14th 2022, at the age of 89.
Almost all Germano's roles are credited, so I think the chances of finding unknown appearances are fairly small, but then again who knows!
- Divisione Folgore .... Parachutist (credited as "Mario Longo", but not found)
1955 - La grande savana .... Enrico (poster credit - unconfirmed role)
1956 - Orlando e i Paladini di Francia .... Gualtiero (credited)
1957 - Sigfrido .... Gerenot (credited)
1958 - Afrodite, dea dell'amore .... Osco (credited)
- El Alamein .... Soldier (uncredited - probably re-used footage)
- Il pirata dello sparviero nero .... Marco (credited)
- Il terribile Teodoro .... unknown role (poster credit)
- La zia d'America va a sciare .... Lucio (credited)
1959 - I mafiosi .... Carlo Spano (credited)
- Juke box - Urli d'amore .... Mario's friend (credited)
- Le notti di Lucrezia Borgia .... Ricardo de Sandaval (credited)
1960 - Appuntamento con la morte (TV movie) .... Curtis (credited)
- Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV series) - season 2, ep. 5: "Gioco d'azzardo" .... Lask (credited)
- Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV series) - season 3, ep. 4: "Un'impronta dall'aldilà" .... Tom (credited)
1961 - I fratelli Corsi .... Claudio Franchi (credited)
- Il segreto dello sparviero nero .... Zampa di Gatto (credited)
- Il terrore dei mari .... Michel (credited)
- Le avventure di Mary Read .... Ivan (credited)
- Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi .... King Agisandro (credited)
- Romolo e Remo .... Scebro (credited)
- Tutto da rifare pover'uomo (TV series) - ep. 3 .... Pipping (credited)
- Una spada nell'ombra .... Braccio (credited)
1962 - Il trionfo di Robin Hood .... Alan Clare (credited)
- Maciste, il gladiatore più forte del mondo .... Ligonius (credited)
- Pastasciutta nel deserto .... The mechanic (credited)
1963 - Io Semiramide .... General Omnos (credited)
1964 - Gli schiavi più forti del mondo .... Lucius Emilius (credited)
- La vendetta di Spartacus .... Marcellus (credited)
1965 - Adiós gringo (credited as Grant Laramy) .... Stan Clevenger (credited)
- La Colt è la mia legge .... Mark (maybe credited as "Grant Laramy")
- La figlia del capitano (TV mini-series) - ep. 2, 3, 4, 5 .... Beloborodov (credited)
- Le avventure di Laura Storm (TV series) - season 1, ep. 4: "Un cappotto di mogano per Joe" .... Freddie Coppola (credited)
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV series) - season 1, ep. 2: "L'affare Picpus" .... Justin (credited)
- Resurrezione (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 2, 3 .... Courtroom guard (credited)
- Vita di Dante (TV mini-series) - ep. 3 .... Fulcieri de' Calboli (credited)
1966 - I 5 della vendetta .... Jim Latimore (credited)
- La lama nel corpo .... Ivan (credited as "Grant Laramy")
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV series) - season 2, ep. 3: "La vecchia signora di Bayeux" .... Maitre'd (credited)
- Luisa Sanfelice (TV mini-series) - ep. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 .... Ferdinando Pignatelli (credited)
1967 - Del vento tra i rami del sassofrasso (TV movie) .... Carlos (credited)
- Holyday (Incantesimo) (TV movie) .... Nick Potter (credited)
- I criminali della metropoli .... Henry Delange (credited as "James Harrison")
- Il complotto di luglio (TV movie) .... Major (credited)
- Missione Wiesenthal (TV movie) .... Bauer (credited)
- Nascita di Salome (TV movie) .... Caio Lucrezio (credited)
- Serata con Karel Čapek (TV movie) .... unknown role
1968 - L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno (TV movie) .... Saxon chief (credited)
- La casa in ordine (TV movie) .... Guido Maurewarde (credited)
- Tenderly .... Giuseppe Belli (credited)
- Vendo cara la pelle .... Domenique Magdalena (credited as "Grant Laramy")
1969 - Kidnapping! Paga o uccidiamo tuo figlio .... The false sheriff (credited as "Herman Lang")
- Nero Wolfe (TV series) - ep. 2: "Circuito chiuso" .... Jim Eber (credited)
- Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore (TV mini-series) - ep. 1 .... Lieutenant Joyce (credited)
- Quarta parete .... Nani (credited)
1970 - I girasoli .... Ettore (credited)
- L'urlo .... Asylum director (credited)
- La mosca mora (TV movie) .... Commissario Scala (credited)
1971 - ...e le stelle stanno a guardare (TV mini-series) - ep. 6, 7, 8, 9 .... Jim Mowson (credited)
- La vita di Leonardo da Vinci (TV mini-series) ep. 5 .... Charles d'Amboise (credited)
- Policeman .... Officer giving lecture (credited)
1972 - Morte di Danton (TV movie) .... Légendre (credited)
1973 - Qui squadra mobile (TV mini-series) - ep. 4: "Il saltafossi" .... Vincenzoni (credited)
1974 - Amore amaro .... Francesco Galli (credited)
- Dedicato a una coppia (TV mini-series) - ep. 2 .... Giorgio (credited)
- L'assassinio dei fratelli Rosselli (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 2, 3 .... Pierrot (credited)
- L'olandese scomparso (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 2, 3 .... Vidoli (credited)
- Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? .... Burino (credited)
- Senza uscita (TV mini-series) - ep. 1 .... Ismael Melwill (credited)
1975 - I due prigionieri (TV series) - ep. 6 .... Racs (credited)
- Il marsigliese (TV mini-series) ep. 2 .... Colonnello della Guardia di Finanza (credited)
- Marco Visconti (TV mini-series) ep. 5 .... Arrigo (credited)
- Orlando furioso (TV mini-series) ep. 3 .... Oberto (credited)
- Racconti di Ernest Hemingway (TV series) - ep.: "I killers" .... Ole Anderson (credited)
1976 - Aut aut: Cronaca di una rapina (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 2 .... Inspector (credited)
- Extra (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 2 .... Sheriff (credited)
- Una vita venduta .... Major Limentani (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1977 - Castigo (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 4 .... Tocco-Stuart (credited)
1979 - Nel silenzio della notte (TV movie) .... Second agent (credited)
1980 - L'eredità della Priora (TV mini-series) - ep. 1, 2 .... Ruvo (credited)
2012 - Tutto tutto niente niente .... Speaker of the chamber (no credit info)
2014 - Che Dio ci aiuti (TV series) - season 3, ep. 17: "Il prezzo della vendetta" .... Dying father (credited - also credited in ep. 18, but does not appear)
- Il Fiacre n. 13 (Radio series, 1972) - ep. 14 .... Simon (credited)
- ...E noi non faremo karakiri (1981) - ANICA, as Gigi
1. Dante Lazzaro. Cineguida 1961. 2. Elenco degli ex allievi C.S.C. from Fondazione CSC.it. |