[1] Born into a noble Roman family and brother of the much more famous Luigi Cimara, he had an unfortunate career as an actor at a young age but was later able to make up for himself by obtaining a first writing in the theater by the great Ermete Zacconi, to then move on to the company of Dina Gauls .
At that time he appeared in important and highly successful films such as The Bloody Primroses of 1914, Ettore Fieramosca of 1915, Passione tsigana and La contessa Arsenia directed by Ernesto Maria Pasquali in 1916 .
In 1933 he is Lisandro in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare directed by Max Reinhardt with Carlo Lombardi, Cele Abba, Nerio Bernardi, Rina Morelli, Sarah Ferrati, Cesare Bettarini, Armando Migliari, Ruggero Lupi, Luigi Almirante, Giuseppe Pierozzi, Memo Benassi, Evi Maltagliati and Eva Magni in the Boboli Gardens and Sinibaldo in the world premiere of The representation of Santa Uliva in the Great Cloister of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence with Morelli, Bettarini, Benassi, Andreina Pagnani, Lupi, Lombardi, Ferrati, Bernardi and Migliari directed by Jacques Copeau .
On the radio he continued to work assiduously even after the war, acting with the Company of the Teatro Comico Musicale in Rome directed by Riccardo Mantoni .
Cimara became, from 1946, for a certain period of acting teacher at the Free Academy of Art in Turin, appearing from time to time in secondary roles in some films of the forties and fifties : among these, Campo di Maggio, Catene invisibili and the bachelor of Antonio Pietrangeli of 1955 where it was next to Alberto Sordi .