After attending the College of Strada in his native Italy, Gino Corrado emigrated to the U.S., where he completed his education at St. Bede College in Peru, Illinois. Corrado entered films sometime in the early 1920s. During the silent era he occasionally played such important roles as Marcel in La Boheme (1926) and Aramis in The Iron Mask (1929), but for the most part was limited to character bits. Reportedly, he briefly changed his name to Eugene Corey, hoping to escape from stereotypical Italian roles; it didn't work. Active in films until 1954, the stocky, pencil-mustached Corrado was most often seen playing barbers, hotel clerks and especially headwaiters. As the maitre d' of the El Rancho nightclub in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), his character name is "Gino," indicating how firmly entrenched he was in his particular cinematic niche. In lesser productions at studios like Republic and Monogram, Corrado was afforded larger roles, occasionally villainous in nature. He was seen at his very best as a comic foil in the Columbia short-subject product of the 1930s and 1940s, appearing opposite such comedians as Monty Collins, Tom Kennedy, Buster Keaton and Hugh Herbert. His all-time best role at Columbia was the bombastic Signor Spumoni in the Three Stooges' Micro Phonies (1945). Art imitated life in 1949 when Gino Corrado was hired as the maitre d' at the swanky Italia Restaurant in Beverly Hills--a job he accepted with the understanding that he'd be permitted to accept whatever movie roles came his way.