Bekim Fehmiu

Bekim Fehmiu

Acting 1936-06-02 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bekim Fehmiu (Albanian: [bɛˈkim fɛhˈmiu]; Cyrillic: Беким Фехмију; 1 June 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War. In 1960, Fehmiu became a member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, which he left in 1967, citing bad treatment, to become a free artist. Fehmiu's big break was the 1967 film I Even Met Happy Gypsies, a subtle portrayal of Roma life which won two awards in Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar. Known for his macho appearance and mild manner, Fehmiu was then wooed by Western filmmakers and signed a contract with the Academy Award-winning producer Dino De Laurentiis. It was De Laurentiis who, in 1968, cast him as Odysseus in the acclaimed mini-series of The Odyssey. It was the first blockbuster of Italian television and made Fehmiu an icon in parts of Europe. Fehmiu seemed poised for stardom in Hollywood as well, but his first American film, The Adventurers, was a critical and financial disaster which "ruined any chances for Fehmiu to achieve similar stardom in Hollywood". In 1971, Fehmiu starred in the western action drama The Deserter, directed by Burt Kennedy. In 1973 he played the role of the busy father in Raimondo Del Balzo's heartbreaking film The Last Snows of Spring, and then in 1975 played the role of ex-politician Alexander Diakim in the movie Permission to Kill, with Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde. In 1976, Fehmiu starred as fictional murdered Luftwaffe pilot, Hans Reiter in Tinto Brass's film, Salon Kitty alongside Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin and Teresa Ann Savoy. He portrayed a Palestinian terrorist in John Frankenheimer's 1977 political thriller, Black Sunday. Despite his Hollywood films achieving little success, he did well in European art house cinema as well as in the theatre, the latter being his preferred medium. He portrayed the father of Mother Teresa, Nikola Boyaxhiu, in the 1982 film La Voce (The Voice). He acted as Joseph in the Italian production A Child Called Jesus (1987). He was to have acted in the movie Genghis Khan (1992), but it was ultimately never made. In 1987, in protest at the Yugoslavian government's treatment of Kosovar Albanians, he walked off the stage at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade during the play Madame Kollontai by Agneta Pleijel. He left the stage, and soon after, film. Fehmiu was found dead on 15 June 2010 in his apartment in Belgrade. Initial reports stated he committed suicide. Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said Fehmiu was found shot in his apartment and the gun was registered in Fehmiu's name. He was 74 years old. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered in Prizren Bistrica in Prizren, his childhood home. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bekim Fehmiu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2023 Himself (archive footage)
1998 Gormond
1989 Armando Zani #2
1987 Joseph
1985 Ivan Pipan
1983 Kálmán Furtek
1982 Ruler
1982 Nicolay
1981 Baja
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1979 Major Dragan
1978 Esad Ljumi
1977 Fasil
1977 Žarko Munižaba
1977 Marco
1976 Hans Reiter
1975 Alexander Diakim
1975 Sandro Poggi
1975 Pavle Pavlović
1975 Count Alexander Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo
1974 Alberto Santoro
1974 Il dottor Giorgio Sironi
1974 Deps
1974 Adam Milovanović
1973 Roberto
1972 Himself
1972 Georgi Dimitrov
1971 Doktor, obaveštajac OZNE
1970 Dax Xenos
1970 Captain Victor Kaleb
1968 Ulisse
1968 Mihajlo
1968 Ulisse
1967 Bora
1967 Ivo Bajšić
1966 Mirko
Roj
1966 Halil Beg
1966 Milija, trubač (segment "Put")
1965 Marko
1965
1964 Kerim
1962 Marić, poručnik Kraljevske vojske
1961 Etruscan Soldier (uncredited)