Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)

Writer | Actor

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born in Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was the son of ...

Born: July 29, 1883
Died: April 28, 1945 (age 61)

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Known For

Hundred Days Writer (1935)
100 Days of Napoleon Writer (1936)
Villafranca Writer (1934)
Known For

Chasing Through Europe Benito Mussolini (1929)
Writer

100 Days of Napoleon (1936)
Hundred Days (1935)
Writer

Villafranca (1934)
Actor

Chasing Through Europe Benito Mussolini (1929)
Archive footage

Royals: Keeping the Crown (2021)
The Bolt Report (2021)
Bullets Over Marseille (2021)
Les revues du monde (2021)
How to Become a Tyrant (2021)
Hitler's Last Stand (2021)
The Abyss: Rise and Fall of the Nazis (2021)
L'Histoire nous le dira (2020-2021)
Hemingway (2021)
La case du siècle (2017-2021)
Blutiges Erbe (2021)
Living with Hitler (2020)
Der Preis des Krieges (2020)
Hugo Boss: History (2020)
D-Day and the Dambusters (2020)
History (2018-2020)
Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020)
Abandoned Engineering (2020)
Nazi Mega Weapons (2015-2020)
Nazi Death Marches: 1944 - 1945 (2019)
World War II in Numbers (2019)
A History of the Future (2019)
Nazi Megastructures: Battle Ready (2019)
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour (2019)
Rich Hall's Red Menace (2019)
Disasters Engineered (2019)
Ancient Aliens (2019)
Drôle de guerre (2019)
La passione di Anna Magnani (2019)
Terror (2019)
La guerra de España (2019)
Le pacte Hitler-Staline (2019)
The Corporate Coup D'État (2018)
The Dictator's Playbook (2018)
La galerie France 5 (2018)
Vice (2018)
The mystery of Padre Pio (2018)
Sergio Leone Portrait of an «Outlaw» (2018)
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Rick Steves' Europe (2018)
III Gruppo Esplorante Arditi (2018)
L'heure D (2018)
Visconti's Eagles (2018)
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg? (2018)
Primo Carnera: Le colosse aux pieds d'argile (2017)
Fotografías de guerra (2017)
Agnelli (2017)
La carica di Isbuscenskij (2017)
A Timewatch Guide (2017)
Forbidden History (2017)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
How to Stage a Coup (2017)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Five Came Back (2017)
Hitler's Steel Beast (2016)
L'ultimo sparviero (2016)
Boy 23 - The Forgotten Boys of Brazil (2016)
Anthropoid (2016)
Paul Murray Live (2016)
Volando con il gobbo (2016)
Spécial investigation (2016)
Jean Zay, ministre du cinéma (2015)
Hiroshima: Hidden Traces (2015)
Britain Stands Alone (2015)
La Squadriglia Gigi Tre Osei (2015)
Mystères d'archives (2015)
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century (2015)
Du sollst leben! - Holocaust-Überlebende im Gespräch mit Markus Lanz (2015)
Kreuz & Quer (2015)
Laissez-faire (2015)
Il ragazzo della Folgore (2015)
Secrets of the Third Reich (2014)
JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick (2014)
In guerra con l'Ala Littoria (2014)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014)
Mio padre, il mare, i deserti (2014)
Menschen & Mächte (2009-2014)
Tornando a casa (2014)
Dalla Corsica alla linea gotica (2013)
L'uomo dai quattro nomi (2013)
Howard Goodall's Story of Music (2013)
L'ultimo esploratore - Vita e avventure del barone Franchetti (2013)
Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
Raiders of the Lost Past (2012-2013)
Sabbia e ferro (2012)
UFO Europe: The Untold Stories (2012)
The Mystery of San Nicandro (2012)
The Untold History of the United States (2012)
Un homme médiocre en cette époque de prétendus surhommes (2012)
The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, the True Story (2012)
Ben e Clara - Le ultime lettere (2012)
Dagli ascari all'ala littoria (2012)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012)
Et silenter deleo (2012)
Propaganda (2012)
Histoire immédiate (2012)
Cielo e sabbia (2012)
Una lunga vacanza (2012)
Il corpo del duce (2011)
Il sorriso del capo (2011)
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
L'aviatore (2011)
Extraordinary Women (2011)
Il cacciatore del cielo (2011)
Sopra e sotto i mari (2011)
The Great War (2011)
Comandante Max (2011)
Reagan (2011)
Nazi Hunters (2010)
Nazi Collaborators (2010)
Rome: Power & Glory (2010)
A Symphony of War: Part I (2010)
Der zweite Weltkrieg (2010)
Uno scrittore al fronte (2010)
War of the Gods (2010)
Mtm 548 (2010)
Propaganda (2010)
Hitler's Bodyguard (2010)
The Project (2010)
Il nemico sulle ali (2010)
Volando con Visconti (2010)
Ante Pavelic Bez Maske (2009)
Suomen tie jatkosotaan (2009)
World War II in Colour (2009)
Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
MysteryQuest (2009)
The Athlete (2009)
To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War (2009)
Vincere (2009)
Hitler & Stalin - Portrait of Hostility (2009)
Believe, Obey, Fight! (2008)
Great Planes (2008)
Hollywood contra Franco (2008)
The Naked Archaeologist (2008)
Wild Blood (2008)
Ein General gegen Hitler - Wilhelm Zehner (2008)
In Europe (2007)
Hitler & Mussolini - Eine brutale Freundschaft (2007)
The War (2007)
True Bond (2007)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Protagonistas del recuerdo (2007)
Operación Barbarossa (2007)
History's Mysteries (1998-2006)
Shootout! (2006)
Notes to Anarchism (2006)
Churchill's Bodyguard (2005)
Biography (1994-2005)
Hitler's War (2005)
The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Il segreto di Mussolini (2005)
Edouard VIII d'Angleterre (2005)
Trieste Sotto- 1943-1954 (2004)
The Ninth (2004)
Oh! Man (2004)
Worthwhile Dream (2003)
Vanishings! (2003)
Days That Shook the World (2003)
The Corporation (2003)
World War 1 in Colour (2003)
Gladiators of World War II (2002)
Sendung ohne Namen (2002)
Mythos Rommel (2002)
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
Prelude to War (2001)
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
The Real... (2001)
Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2001)
ToonHeads (2001)
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone (2001)
Kings of the Ring (2000)
Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre (2000)
Medal of Honor: Underground (2000)
Shooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000)
Tourists of the Revolution (2000)
The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
Hitler and Stalin: Twin Tyrants (1999)
Television Under the Swastika (1999)
Medal of Honor (1999)
Frozen Heart (1999)
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War (1998)
Untold Stories of World War II (1998)
The Third Reich, in Color (1998)
The Last Days (1998)
Hitlers Krieger (1998)
Human Remains (1998)
The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
100 Years of Olympic Glory (1996)
Battlefield (1995)
Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov (1995)
Royal Family at War (1995)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Hitler: A Profile (1995)
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped (1995)
The Last Days of World War II (1995)
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)
The Russian German War (1995)
Time Capsule: WW II - War in Europe (1994)
D-Day, 6th June 1944: The Official Story (1994)
A Newsreel History of the Third Reich (1993)
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (1993)
Death Scenes 3 (1993)
The Century of Warfare (1993)
American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993)
Death Scenes 2 (1992)
Stepinac: A Symbol of the Time (1991)
I 600 giorni di Salò (1991)
Lune froide (1991)
Fighter Aces (1990)
Bumazhnye glaza Prishvina (1990)
The Nazis: Blitzkrieg (1989)
The History of the Luftwaffe (1989)
The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler (1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
The Road to War (1989)
Living Colour: Cult of Personality (1988)
The Speeches of Winston Churchill (1988)
The 1930's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988)
Eye of the Dictator (1988)
The Jeweller's Shop (1988)
Moonlighting (1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
I Love Hitler (1984)
Camps of Death (1983)
1984: A Personal View of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' (1983)
Jasenovac: The Cruelest Death Camp of All Times (1983)
Tokyo Trial (1983)
The Kid Who Couldn't Miss (1983)
The Spanish Civil War (1983)
Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)
Die Achse (1982)
The Making of Lion of the Desert (1981)
In Search of... (1981)
Vita di Antonio Gramsci (1981)
Heroes & Tyrants of the 20th Century: Hitler (1980)
The Lion of the Desert (1980)
Hollywood (1980)
Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979)
Geheime Reichssache (1979)
Faces of Death (1978)
The Unknown War (1978)
Hitler: A career (1977)
A Special Day (1977)
Mussolini (1976)
Vise od igre (1976)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
All This and World War II (1976)
Canciones para después de una guerra (1976)
Los Canadienses (1975)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Kapelski kresovi (1975)
Wonder Woman (1975)
Getúlio Vargas (1974)
I vsyo-taki ya veryu... (1974)
Fascista (1974)
The Last 4 Days (1974)
The World at War (1973-1974)
Swastika (1973)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
God Chose Paris (1969)
I Due Kennedy (1969)
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
Munich 1938 (1968)
A Wall in Jerusalem (1968)
Suomen itsenäisyys - Osa 2 (1967)
La feldmarescialla (1967)
¿Por qué morir en Madrid? (1966)
Menschen und Mächte (1966)
A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965)
Triumph Over Violence (1965)
Marionetten (1964)
Bethune (1964)
Schwarzes Hemd und weiße Weste (1964)
Franco: ese hombre (1964)
La bataille de France (1964)
Men of Our Time (1963)
To Die in Madrid (1963)
Biography (1962)
Blood on the Balcony (1962)
V Was for Victory (1962)
Road to Ortona (1962)
All'armi siam fascisti! (1962)
Year of Siege (1962)
Blitzkrieg (1962)
Dusk (1962)
Seit 5.45 Uhr wird zurückgeschossen (1961)
The Aegean Tragedy (1961)
Die Diktatoren (1961)
Project Twenty (1959)
The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler (1958)
Marionetten (1958)
60 ans de presse filmée (1957)
Navy Log (1956)
Deadly Decision (1954)
Victory at Sea (1954)
Bis fünf nach zwölf - Adolf Hitler und das 3. Reich (1953)
Halfway to Hell (1953)
Victory at Sea (1952-1953)
The Hoaxters (1952)
Näin syntyi nykypäivä... 1900-1950 (1951)
Wonderful Times (1950)
Autant en emporte l'histoire - La vie privée d'Hitler et d'Eva Braun (1949)
Crusade in Europe (1949)
Maniacs on Wheels (1949)
Anni difficili (1948)
Will It Happen Again? (1948)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Guilty Men (1945)
The Fall of Berlin (1945)
War Comes to America (1945)
Know Your Ally: Britain (1944)
Nostradamus IV (1944)
The Gates of Italy (1943)
The Nazis Strike (1943)
December 7th (1943)
The Battle of Russia (1943)
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
Vi mötte stormen (1943)
The World at War (1942)
United We Stand (1942)
Why We Fight (1942)
Further Prophecies of Nostradamus (1942)
Fight for Liberty (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Fight for Peace (1938)
Wort und Tat (1938)
Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
Dealers in Death (1934)
The World Moves On (1934)
Pick-up (1933)
Camicia nera (1933)
Mussolini Speaks (1933)
Archive footage

Histoire du soldat inconnu (1932)
Fascism in Color (2007)

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Trivia

Under intense German pressure he had his son-in-law, Italian diplomat Galeazzo Ciano, executed in January 1944. Mussolini admitted he greatly regretted allowing the execution.

Quotes

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

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Personal Details

Born

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
July 29, 1883
Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Died

April 28, 1945 (age 61)
Giulino di Mezzegra, Lombardy, Italy

Height:

5' 6½" (1.69 m)

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