Screen and television actor. He came relatively late to the film business after a career as a footballer in the 1930s. Fought with anti-fascist partisans during World War II - in the brigade "I Gruppo Divisioni Alpine," commanded by Enrico Martini, from September 8, 1943 on. Captured by the Nazis and deported to Germany, he escaped and returned to Italy at the end of the War. A prolific and very popular character actor in more than 100 films, he started his career after the war in Alberto Lattuada's "Il bandito" (1946). Credits include "Senza pietà" (1949), "Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi" (1950/dir. Giuseppe De Santis), "Luci del varietà" (1950/Federico Fellini' s first direction), Henri-Georges Clouzot' s international hit "Le salaire de la peur" (1953), "La risaia" (1956, with Elsa Martinelli), Oeil pour oeil/Occhio per occhio" (1957, dir. André Cayatte), "La grande guerra" (1959, dir. Mario Monicelli), "Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal" (1965), "Le grand restaurant" (1966, with Louis de Funès) and "Spara, Gringo, spara" (1968), making films all over Europe in France, Spain, Germany and Austria. In 1967 he co-wrote, directed and starred in "Gente d'onore" (1967), a movie about the mafia. One of the best actors in Italy, he won the Silver Ribbon (Nastro d'Argento) award as Best Supporting Actor from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1964 for his role in Monicelli' s "I compagni." Held degrees in law and philosophy. Suffering from diabetes and respiratory difficulties, he died of a sudden embolism at the Policlinico Gemelli after twenty days of hospitalization caused by thrombophlebitis
Screen and television actor. He came relatively late to the film business after a career as a footballer in the 1930s. Fought with anti-fascist partisans during World War II - in the brigade "I Gruppo Divisioni Alpine," commanded by Enrico Martini, from September 8, 1943 on. Captured by the Nazis and deported to Germany, he escaped and returned to Italy at the end of the War. A prolific and very popular character actor in more than 100 films, he started his career after the war in Alberto Lattuada's "Il bandito" (1946). Credits include "Senza pietà" (1949), "Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi" (1950/dir. Giuseppe De Santis), "Luci del varietà" (1950/Federico Fellini' s first direction), Henri-Georges Clouzot' s international hit "Le salaire de la peur" (1953), "La risaia" (1956, with Elsa Martinelli), Oeil pour oeil/Occhio per occhio" (1957, dir. André Cayatte), "La grande guerra" (1959, dir. Mario Monicelli), "Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal" (1965), "Le grand restaurant" (1966, with Louis de Funès) and "Spara, Gringo, spara" (1968), making films all over Europe in France, Spain, Germany and Austria. In 1967 he co-wrote, directed and starred in "Gente d'onore" (1967), a movie about the mafia. One of the best actors in Italy, he won the Silver Ribbon (Nastro d'Argento) award as Best Supporting Actor from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1964 for his role in Monicelli' s "I compagni." Held degrees in law and philosophy. Suffering from diabetes and respiratory difficulties, he died of a sudden embolism at the Policlinico Gemelli after twenty days of hospitalization caused by thrombophlebitis
Bio by: Fritz Tauber
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