Franco Fabrizi
- Birth Date:
- 15.02.1916
- Death date:
- 18.10.1995
- Categories:
- Actor
- Nationality:
- italian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Franco Fabrizi (15 February 1916 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. Fabrizi also starred on several revues and stage works, then he debuted on big screen with a supporting role in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut.
The role that made him known him was the role of 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. Past the fifties, Fabrizi was mainly relegated in character roles in Italian, French and Spanish minor productions; 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.
In 1993 he had a serious car accident from which he recovered; immediately after, however, it manifested the illness that led him to death. Fabrizi died of a 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)
- 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)
- Death in Venice (film) (Morte a Venezia), Luchino Visconti (1971)
- La Mala ordina (1972)
- La Polizia ringrazia (1972)
- Touche pas à la femme blanche, Marco Ferreri (1974)
- 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)
Source: wikipedia.org
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1 | Sergio Fantoni | Coworker | ||
2 | Luigi Zampa | Coworker | ||
3 | Valentina Cortese | Coworker | ||
4 | Isabella Biagini | Coworker | ||
5 | Marisa Mell | Coworker | ||
6 | Virna Lisi | Coworker | ||
7 | Colette Brosset | Coworker | ||
8 | Pierre Tchernia | Coworker | ||
9 | Dino Risi | Coworker | ||
10 | Ermanno Olmi | Familiar |
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