He was born on July 23rd 1899 in Bologna, Italy.[6] He had 2 wives, Erminia Grandi and Hilda Petri (dates for both marriages are unknown).
Nerio studied mathematics and medicine, but abandoned this to persue a career as a theatre actor. He first appeared in films playing leading roles in the silent era, between 1918-1923, then concentrated on theatrical work for the next 10 years.
In 1934 he returned to film acting, now as a character actor, and he would be one of the busiest actors in Italian films for the next 37 years, while, initially at least, also continuing his work in the theatre. During the second world war he spent some time living in Spain, where he also reportedly appeared in films (these titles currently seem to be unknown). Casting directors tended to see him as royalty or other members of nobility, or high-ranking military officers, in the 60's adding high priests and other high-ranking members of the clergy to his repertoire. I can say with some authority that, outside of Asian films, Nerio appeared in more historically-themed films than any other actor. He also worked as a dubbing artist.
Nerio died in Rome on January 12th 1971, aged 71.
- Birthplace: Bologna.
- Height: 1,80 m.
- Instruction: University.
- Foreign languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mexican.
- Dubbing.
- Radio.
- Television.
- Prose and revue theatre.
- Abode: Rome, via Annone, 6.
- Il filo d'Arianna .... role unknown (poster credit)
- La maschera .... role unknown (poster credit)
1934 - Tempo massimo …. Prince Huerta (credited)
- Teresa Confalonieri .... Count Federico Confalonieri (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1936 - Fiat voluntas dei …. The Gentleman Amendoli (credited)
- Il re di denari …. Lawyer Lorenzi (credited)
1938 - Il corsaro nero .... Van Gould (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1939 - Processo e morte di Socrate …. The Judge (uncredited)
1940 - Abbandono .... Ridaud (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Incanto di mezzanotte .... Lieutenant Du Brissac & Papanin (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- La nascita di Salomè .... The Parthian King (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Lucrezia Borgia …. Alfonso d'Este (credited)
1941 - L'ultimo ballo …. Blanche (credited)
1942 - A che servono questi quattrini? …. Michele (credited)
- Gioco pericoloso .... Andrea (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1943 - I nostri sogni …. Manager of the "Ragno d'oro" (credited)
- Inviati speciali .... Major Alessandri (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- La maschera e il volto .... The ethereal artist (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Sempre più difficile .... Prince Raimondo di Falcomarzano (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1945 - Quartieri alti …. Emilio Buscaglione (credited)
1947 - I due orfanelli …. Duke Filippo (credited)
- Il corriere del re …. Butler in de La Mole house (credited)
1948 - Arrivederci, papà …. Renardine (credited)
- Cuore …. Major De Rossi (credited)
- La Certosa di Parma …. Fausta's husband (credited)
- Legge di sangue .... The Captain (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Mare nostrum …. Enrico De Paoli (credited)
- Una lettera all'alba …. Carlo's old friend (uncredited / poster credit)
1949 - Adamo ed Eva …. Agamemnon (credited)
- Fabiola …. Imperial messenger (uncredited)
- Il grido della terra …. British General (credited)
- L'imperatore di Capri …. Osvaldo (credited)
- La mano della morta …. Senator Tibaldi (credited)
1950 - Capitan Demonio .... The Grand Duke (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- È più facile che un cammello …. The baritone Gigliosi (credited)
- I cadetti di Guascogna …. The Colonel (credited)
- La forza del destino …. Don Angelo Saavedra (credited)
- La portatrice di pane .... Étienne Castel (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Totò cerca moglie …. Jacinto (credited)
1951 - Bellezze in bicicletta .... Medical official (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Enrico Caruso - Leggenda di una voce …. Francesco Zucchi (credited)
- I falsari …. Major (credited)
- Il caimano del Piave …. Senator (credited)
- Il diavolo in convento …. Commander Brina (credited)
- Il tradimento …. President of the tribunal (credited)
- La vendetta di Aquila Nera …. Tsar Paul III (credited)
- Licenza premio .... Count Carlo (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Peppino e Violetta …. Father Superior (credited)
- Stasera sciopero .... role unknown (poster credit)
1952 - Fanfan la tulipe …. Don Angelo Saavedra (credited)
- Il boia di Lilla …. Porthos (credited)
- Il figlio di Lagardère .... Cocardasse (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Melodie immortali - Mascagni …. De Lellis (credited)
- Solo per te Lucia .... Luciano D'Auria (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1953 - Condannatelo .... The Baron (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Fermi tutti... arrivo io! …. Tullio Valera (credited)
- Il mercante di Venezia .... The Doge (credit unknown)
- Il viale della speranza …. Franci (credited)
- L'incantevole nemica …. role unknown (credited)
- Martin Toccaferro .... Laurence Blomfield (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Spartaco …. Banquet guest (poster credit)
- Thérèse Raquin …. Doctor (credited)
1954 - Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno …. The King (credited)
- Destini di donne …. Cretidès (credited)
- Gli amori di Manon Lescaut .... Baron De Fortè (credited)
- Il medico dei pazzi …. The Colonel (credited)
- Il prigioniero del re .... Saint-Maur (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- La bella Otero .... Grand Duke Pietro (credited)
- La mano dello straniero …. Hotel manager (credited)
- Mam'zelle Nitouche …. The Grocer (credited)
- Papà Pacifico …. The Prosecutor (credited)
- Se vincessi cento milioni - segment "Il tifoso" .... Commendator Galloni (credited)
- Siluri umani …. Captain Mauri (credited)
- Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio …. Belisario (credited)
- Trieste cantico d'amore .... Count of Sant'Elmo (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
1955 - Cartouche …. Pedante (credited)
- Da qui all'eredità .... Commissioner (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Dramma nel porto …. role unknown (poster credit)
- L'angelo bianco …. Lawyer Rossi (credited)
- Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova …. The Inquisitor (credited)
- Nana …. Prince of Sardinia (credited)
- Siamo uomini o caporali …. Psychiatrist (credited)
- Totò all'inferno …. Satan (credited)
1956 - Altair .... the Colonel (credited)
- Il cavaliere dalla spada nera …. Count Roccofiorita (credited)
- La rivale .... Prefect Maurizio Candi (poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- Maruzzella …. Commander Rossi (credited)
- Mi permette babbo! …. Enzo Bernard (credited)
- Moglie e buoi .... role unknown (credited)
- Serenata al vento …. role unknown (poster credit)
1957 - Ascoltami …. The Music Publisher (credited)
- Kean - Genio e sregolatezza …. Count Koefeld (credited)
- Liane - die weiße Sklavin …. Prince Derman (credited)
- Onore e sangue …. Lawyer Rossi (credited)
- S.O.S. Noronha …. The Governor (credited)
- Serenata a Maria …. role unknown (credited)
1958 - Il Conte di Matera …. Marquis Taldi (credited)
1959 - Caltiki il mostro immortale …. Police inspector (credited)
- Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna …. Bali of Dijon (credited)
- I battellieri del Volga …. Elagin (credited)
- I Reali di Francia …. King of France (credited)
- Il vendicatore …. Fürst of Were (credited)
- Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito …. The Notary (uncredited)
- Un canto nel deserto …. role unknown (poster credit)
1960 - Cartagine in fiamme …. High priest (uncredited)
- Cavalcata selvaggia …. role unknown (poster credit)
- I cosacchi …. General Rasumovsky (credited)
- Il vigile …. Monsignor Olivieri (credited)
- L'ultimo zar …. Comissaroff (credited)
- La donna dei faraoni …. Advisor to Sabaku (credited)
- La lunga notte del '43 …. Lawyer Attilio Villani (credited)
- La strada dei giganti …. Conrad (credited)
- Le passage du Rhin …. Rodier (uncredited)
- Plein soleil …. Agency director (credited)
- Teseo contro il minotauro …. King of Athens (credited)
1961 - I fratelli Corsi …. Professor Perrier (uncredited)
- I masnadieri …. Cardinal Medici (credited)
- Il conquistatore di Corinto .... Spokesman for the populous (uncredited)
- Il sicario …. Lawyer (credited)
- La guerra di Troia …. Agamemnon (credited)
- La vendetta di Ursus …. King Alteo (credited)
- Le baccanti …. High priest (credited)
- Psycosissimo …. Professor of physical anthropology (credited)
- Vanina Vanini …. Cardinal Savelli (credited)
1962 - Col ferro e col fuoco …. Geremia (credited)
- Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie …. Cicero (credited)
- La leggenda di Enea …. Drance (credited)
- Lo sparviero dei Caraibi …. Viceroy of Santa Cruz (credited)
- Totò contro Maciste …. Pharaoh Ramses (credited)
- Un appuntamento per uccidere …. Napoleon (credited)
- Una regina per Cesare …. Scaurus (credited)
- Zorro alla corte di Spagna …. Colonel Vargas (credited)
1963 - Brenno il nemico di Roma …. Nissia's father (credited)
- Ercole contro Moloch …. Asterion (credited)
- Gli imbroglioni …. Monsignor (credited)
- Il terrore dei mantelli rossi …. Rudolph (credited)
- L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato …. Don Gomez (credited)
- Zorro e i tre moschettieri …. Cardinal Richelieu (credited)
1964 - Coriolano eroe senza patria …. Menenio Agripa (credited)
- I marziani hanno 12 mani …. Foreign undersecretary (credited)
- I tre centurioni …. Adakir (credited)
- Il Leone di Tebe …. Xesostus (credited)
- La vendetta dei gladiatori …. Tidone (credited)
- Sansone contro il corsaro nero …. Governor of Hermosa (credited)
1965 - Gli amanti latini …. Colonel (credited)
- L'uomo di Toledo …. Don Alfonso (uncredited)
- La montagna di luce …. Great Brahmin (credited)
- La rivincita di Ivanhoe …. Donald (credited)
- Le notti della violenza …. Pratesi (credited)
1966 - Il santo prende la mira …. Cesare Pavone (credited)
- Io, io, io.... e gli altri …. Train passenger (credited)
- Se tutte le donne del mondo... …. Papal envoy (credited)
1967 - Il magnifico Texano …. Chico (credited as "Nerik Berkoff")
- Wanted Johnny Texas …. Army General (credited)
1968 - Satanik …. Professor Greaves (credited)
1969 - Salvare la faccia …. Brignoli's butler (credited)
1970 - Coralba (TV mini-series) Ep. 3 …. Professor Marchi (credited)
- Le tigri di Mompracem …. Great Brahmin (credited)
1971 - Arsène Lupin (TV series) S. 1, Ep. 8: "La femme aux deux sourires" …. Marquis Belmonte (credited)
- Marinella (1918) IMDb
- Rebus (1918) IMDb
- Il gorgo fascinatore (1919) IMDb
- Il mulino (1920) IMDb
- La buona figliola (1920) IMDb
- La casa in rovina (1920) IMDb
- La modella (1920) IMDb
- Musica profana (1920) IMDb
- Caterina (1921) IMDb
- Fior d'amore (1921) IMDb
- Giovanna la pallida (1921) IMDb as Orazio
- L'eredità di Caino (1921) IMDb
- La voce del cuore (1921) IMDb
- Una notte senza domani (1921) IMDb
- Bolscevismo! (1922) IMDb
- Il castello della malinconia (1922) IMDb
- La vittima (1922) IMDb
- Miss Dollar (1922) IMDb
- Nero (1922) IMDb as The Apostle
- The Shepherd King (1923) IMDb as David
- Porto (1934) ANICA as Pietro Sgamba
- Arma bianca (1938) ANICA as Giacomo Casanova
- Mille chilometri al minuto (1939) ANICA
- Antonio Meucci (1940) ANICA as Alexander Graham Bell
- Capitan Fracassa (1940) ANICA as The Prince
- Una lampada alla finestra (1940) IMDb
- La maschera di Cesare Borgia (1941) ANICA as Jacopo's father
- Fedora (1942) ANICA as Boleslao Lazinsky
- La fabbrica dell'imprevisto (1942) ANICA as Il divo
- La pantera nera (1942) ANICA as Doctor Rosenberg
- Le vie del cuore (1942) ANICA as Duke Alberto Castellani
- Regina di Navarra (1942) ANICA as Marquis of Gattinara
- Gli ultimi filibustieri (1943) ANICA as Governor of Guayaquil
- Il matrimonio segreto (1943) IMDb
- L'amico delle donne (1943) ANICA
- Principessina (1943) ANICA as Prince of Torrefranca
- Genoveffa di Brabante (1947) ANICA as Ambassador
- La mascotte dei diavoli blu (1947) IMDb
- La signora dalle camelie (1947) IMDb as Giuseppe Verdi
- Il figlio di d'Artagnan (1950) ANICA
- Abbiamo vinto (1951) ANICA
- Core 'ngrato (1951) ANICA as President of the court of assize
- Ha fatto 13 (1951) ANICA
- La grande rinuncia (1951) ANICA
- Libera uscita (1951) ANICA
- I Piombi di Venezia (1953) ANICA as The Doge
- Ivan (il figlio del diavolo bianco (1953) ANICA
- La figlia del reggimento (1953) ANICA
- L'amante di Paride (1954) ANICA
- La tua donna (1954) ANICA
- La chiamavan Capinera (1957) ANICA
- Sorrisi e canzoni (1958) ANICA
- Laura nuda (1961) ANICA as Lover of Adriana
- La leggenda di Genoveffa (1952) IMDb with no role. He is not credited and does not appear.
- Quando tramonta il sole (1956) IMDb with no role. He is not credited and does not appear.
- La ragazza del palio (1957) ANICA with no role. He is not credited and could not be found.
- El Cid (1961) IMDb as Soldier. There is a credit for "Nelio Bernardi", however Nerio is nowhere to be found, so the credit presumably belongs to someone else.
1. Dante Lazzaro. Cineguida 1956. 2. Dante Lazzaro. Cineguida 1957. 3. Dante Lazzaro. Cineguida 1961. 4. Dante Lazzaro. Cineguida 1963-64. 5. Dante Lazzaro. Cineguida 1968-69. 6. Profile of Nerio Bernardi in Tototruffa2002.it. |