Eduardo Cemano

Eduardo Cemano

Artist, photographer, filmmaker and cartoon cell animator Eduardo Cemano was born Ed Seeman in New York City, New York. He studied art at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In the 1960s his highly textured oil paintings consisting of tiny juxtaposed points of color were represented by the East Hampton Galleries on 57th St. in New York City. One of those paintings hung at the New York Museum of Modern Art for three years ,other paintings were purchased by the Chrysler Museum in Provincetown and the University of Massachusetts. Five of Ed's experimental films are in the Library of Congress. His Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention movie Uncle Meat (1987) won a Cine Gold Eagle Award at the Venice Bienalle, while his film "Space Oddity" won a Silver Phoenix Award at the Atlanta Film Festival. Ed began his career as a cartoon cell animator for Paramount Pictures in New York, where he animated such legendary characters as "Popeye" and "Casper the Ghost". Seeman's own production company, Gryphon Productions, produced a slew of TV commercials featuring such popular characters as Cocoa Puffs, Sugar Bear (16 years), Flintstones Vitamins, Bullwinkle, My Little Pony, and Trix Rabbit. He has won numerous Cleo Awards, Art Director Awards, and Addy's. In addition, Ed and his partner Ray Favata won an Emmy Award for the animated opening of the children's show "The Great Space Coaster." In the early 1970s Seeman made a handful of unusual adult films under the pseudonym Eduardo Cemano: He first did the offbeat one-day wonders Millie's Homecoming (1971) and The Weirdos and the Oddballs (1971), which was followed by the gloriously bizarre troika of The Healers (1972), Fongaluli (1973) and Madame Zenobia (1973). Moreover, Ed has enjoyed a successful career as a glamor photographer who contributed to such publications as "Cheri", "Penthouse", "Oui", "Genesis" and "Puritan". From 1990 to 2001 Ed Seeman's Animation Productions produced many popular animated TV commercials. Seeman and his wife Amy then formed the cartoon t-shirt company Mana-T's Inc., which produces a wide variety of T-shirts for various retail outlets in Florida. Ed also does digital fine art on both canvas and matted prints. Seeman and Amy both reside in Ocala, Florida.
Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli was born on the beautiful island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples, which is renowned for its thermal baths. His father, a physician, owned a health spa there and Eduardo briefly followed the same career path and studied medicine at the University of Naples, graduating as a fully qualified doctor. His calling, however, lay elsewhere. He first came to prominence as a leading baritone opera star, performing at La Scala and touring internationally. Then he reinvented himself as a dramatic actor of stage and screen, first in Europe, and, from 1919, in America. He first performed on Broadway in the short-lived play 'Always You' (1920), then had better roles in 'Rose-Marie' (1924-1926), 'The Front Page' (1928-29, as Diamond Louis, establishing his stereotypical later screen persona) and 'Uncle Vanya' (1930,as Telegin). He reprised his stage role from 'Reunion in Vienna' (1931-32) in the MGM movie of 1933. With his heavily-lined face, piercing eyes and erudite Italian-accented manners, Ciannelli was soon cast as Italian gangsters (apparently, there was also some alleged resemblance to the infamous Lucky Luciano). One of his most celebrated roles was as Trock Estrella in Winterset (1936) (re-creating another previous stage performance), which the New York Times review of December 4 described as the film's 'most compelling characterization'. This set the pattern for many of Ciannelli's later efforts, such as the smooth, elegant racketeer Johnny Vanning in Marked Woman (1937) or Rockey in Law of the Underworld (1938). Other notable villains in his repertoire include the maniacal leader of the Kali sect in Gunga Din (1939) and the suave evil genius, titular villain in the Republic serial Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940). Attempting to shake-off his typecast 'bad guy' image, Eduardo appeared as the jovial speakeasy proprietor Giono in Kitty Foyle (1940). Following that, his screen roles began to diminish. Changing his name to Edward Ciannelli failed to re-ignite his career. In 1952, he returned to Italy to appear in continental co-productions, occasionally re-surfacing in Hollywood sword-and-sandal epics (Attila (1954),Helen of Troy (1956), Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)). He also continued to portray Godfather-types in film (The Brotherhood (1968),Stiletto (1969)) and on television (Naked City,The Untouchables,I Spy). Among his last roles of note, one must include Houseboat (1958), as Arturo Zaccardi, and a recurring character part, jazz club owner Waldo, in the television series Johnny Staccato (1959). Eduardo died in Rome in October 1969 and is interred at the Cimitero Flaminio in Lazio.

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