Ermete Novelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian actor
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1851
Place of Birth: Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death: 30-Jan-1919
Profession: stage actor
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Ermete Novelli
- Ermete Novelli (5 March 1851 – 30 January 1919) was an Italian actor and playwright. Born in Lucca, the son of a prompter, Novelli made his first appearance in 1866, and played character and leading comedy parts in the best companies between 1871 and 1884.
- By 1885 he had his own company, and made a great success in Paris in 1898 and 1902.He established in Rome in 1900 a new theatre, the Casa di Goldoni, on the lines of the Comédie-Française.
- He dramatized Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq, and alone or in collaboration wrote several comedies and many monologues; his tragedy La Masque, written in collaboration with Bonaspetti, was produced in 1911.
- He appeared in a number of early silent films.He died in Naples in 1919, aged 67, survived by at least one child, his son, Enrico "Yambo" Novelli.
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