Charles II or Charles John Amadeus (Carlo Giovanni Amedeo in Italian) b.1489-d.1496, was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrato[?] was the actual ruler as a regent.
... and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936.
He was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercillious ...