Franco Fabrizi
| Franco Fabrizi | |
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| Born | 15 February 1916 |
| Died | 18 October 1995 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | actor |
Franco Fabrizi (15 February 1916, in Cortemaggiore – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Son of a barber and of a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi.[1] Fabrizi also starred on several revues and stage works, then he debuted on the big screen with a supporting role in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut.[1]
The role that made him known was as Fausto in Federico Fellini's I vitelloni; from then he was inextricably linked to the character of a full-time seducer, a young wastrel, a young not-so-young man who refuses to grow up, a character that he reprised, with different facets, in a great number of films.[1] Past the 1950s, Fabrizi was mainly relegated to character roles in Italian, French and Spanish minor productions;[1] he still appeared on several major works of Italian cinema, and one of his last great roles was in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice.[2]
In 1993 he had a serious car accident from which he recovered; immediately after, however, it manifested the illness that led him to death.[3] Fabrizi died of bowel cancer in 1995.
Selected filmography
- Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) Michelangelo Antonioni, (1950)
- I Vitelloni, Federico Fellini (1953)
- Torna! (1953)
- Vortice (1953)
- Schiava del peccato (1954)
- Camilla (film) (1954)
- Woman of Rome (La romana), Dino Risi (1954)
- Il bidone, Federico Fellini (1955)
- Le amiche, Michelangelo Antonioni (1955)
- Racconti romani (1955)
- Calabuch, Luis García Berlanga (1956)
- Noi siamo le colonne (1956)
- No Sun in Venice (1957)
- Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini (1957)
- Racconti d'estate (1958)
- Un maledetto imbroglio, Pietro Germi (1959)
- I Genitori in Blue-Jeans (1960)
- The Wastrel (1961)
- Orazi e curiazi (1961)
- A Difficult Life (Una Vita Difficile), Dino Risi (1961)
- Copacabana Palace (1962)
- Gli onorevoli (1963)
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963)
- Night Train to Milan (1963)
- Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963)
- Via Margutta (1963)
- Rat Trap (1963)
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore e signori), Pietro Germi (1965)
- Una questione d'onore (1965)
- Io la conoscevo bene, Antonio Pietrangeli(1966)
- Le Petit Baigneur (1968)
- Anyone Can Play (1968)
- Satyricon (1969)
- L'homme orchestre (1970) Franco Buzzini
- Death in Venice (film) (Morte a Venezia), Luchino Visconti (1971)
- Panhandle 38 (1972)
- La Mala ordina (1972)
- La Polizia ringrazia (1972)
- Touche pas à la femme blanche, Marco Ferreri (1974)
- Night Train Murders, Aldo Lado (1975)
- The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
- Action (1980)
- Ginger and Fred (1986)
- The Little Devil (Il piccolo diavolo), Roberto Benigni (1988)
- Ricky e Barabba (1992)
References
- 1 2 3 4 Guglielmo Siniscalchi. Enciclopedia del Cinema. Treccani, 2003.
- ↑ Maurizio Porro (19 October 1995). "E' morto Franco Fabrizi, una carriera da "vitellone"". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ↑ S. N. (1995-10-19). "Morto Franco Fabrizi, rubacuori dei Vitelloni". La Stampa. p. 21.