Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film Rossini. Selected filmography Notte di tempesta (1916) Mimì e gli straccioni (1916) Il gioiello sinistro (1917) La nemica (1917) Margheritella (1918) La scala di seta (1920) The Love Letters of Baroness S (1924) - Straßenmusikant Giovanni The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925) - Theo Hartwig, Schriftsteller The Old Lady (1932) - Joe The Lucky Diamond (1933) - Il maggiordomo Il trattato scomparso (1933) - John Brown - detective The Haller Case (1933) - Judge Haller L'impiegata di papà (1934) - Banchiere Monti Everybody's Woman (1934) - Leonardo Nanni Conquest of the Air (1936) - Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited) Lady of Paradise (1937) - Matteo Iran Scipione l'africano (1937) - Cato Tonight at Eleven (1938) - L'ambasciatore Leopoldo Norton Princess Tarakanova (1938) - L'ambasciatore russo La conquista dell'aria (1939) - Il Gesuita Franceesco Lama Orizzonte dipinto (1941) - Il burattinaio Il vagabondo (1941) - Fanfulla The Jester's Supper (1942) - Il Tornaquinci The Two Orphans (1942) - Il conte di Linières Fedora (1942) - Il principe Yariskine Rossini (1942) - Beethoven I due Foscari (1942) - Donato Almorò Quarta pagina (1942) - Il pazzo The Son of the Red Corsair (1943) - Il marchese di Montelimar Measure for Measure (1943) - Lucio Peccatori (1945) Paese senza pace (1946) - Padron Toni L'ultimo sogno (1946) The Tyrant of Padua (1946) - Cesare, il pittore La taverna della libertà (1950) The Affairs of Messalina (1951) - Claudio / Claude Red Shirts (1952) - (uncredited) Too Bad She's Bad (1954) - (uncredited) Adriana Lecouvreur (1955) - Michonnet References External links Bibliography Mathew, Nicholas & Walton, Benjamin. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1886 births 1957 deaths Actors from the Province of Parma Italian male film actors Italian male silent film actors Italian male stage actors 20th-century Italian male actors