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Italian film director and actor
A.K.A.
Rosario Urzì
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Catania
Place of death
San Giuseppe Vesuviano
Age
66 years
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Biography
Saro Urzì, (born Rosario Urzì, February 24, 1913 in Catania – November 1, 1979 in San Giuseppe Vesuviano) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Born in Sicilia, he moved to Rome to seek his fortune.
He met Pietro Germi in 1949 and appears in Germi's In nome della legge, a film for which he won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actor. He became Germi's favourite actor, working together with him in Path of Hope (1950), The Railroad Man (1956), The Facts of Murder (1959), Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) and most notably Seduced and Abandoned in 1964. That film earned him Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Nastro d'Argento the following year.
He acted in Don Camillo sequels, John Huston's Beat the Devil, Luigi Comencini's Bread, Love and Jealousy, and international films such as Woman of Straw, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's love Apollonia.
Selected filmography
- Il sogno di Butterfly (1939)
- La conquista dell'aria (1939)
- Senza cielo (1940) - Un portatore
- Tosca (1941) - (uncredited)
- Marco Visconti (1941)
- La compagnia della teppa (1941)
- Pia de' Tolomei (1941)
- A Pistol Shot (1942) - Uno dei servitori alla scampagnata (uncredited)
- Giorno di nozze (1942)
- Odessa in fiamme (1942) - (uncredited)
- Harlem (1943)
- Inviati speciali (1943) - Un soldato
- The Peddler and the Lady (1943) - (uncredited)
- The Innkeeper (1944)
- La freccia nel fianco (1945) - (uncredited)
- Tombolo, paradiso nero (1947)
- Immigrants (1948)
- In the Name of the Law (1949) - Il maresciallo Grifò
- Monastero di Santa Chiara (1949) - Il direttore del teatro
- Hand of Death (1949) - zingaro Marco
- Pact with the Devil (1950)
- Hawk of the Nile (1950) - Sahid
- Mistress of the Mountains (1950) - sindaco Giusà
- Barrier to the North (1950) - Il brigadiere
- Path of Hope (1950) - Ciccio Ingaggiatore
- Il monello della strada (1950) - Il commissario
- The Crossroads (1951) - Il brigadiere Carmelo Carlin
- La vendetta del corsaro (1951) - Aguirre
- Trieste mia! (1951)
- Black Fire (1951)
- Little World of Don Camillo (1952) - Brusco
- Una madre ritorna (1952)
- The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952) - Police commissioner Siceli
- Fratelli d'Italia (1952)
- Io, Amleto (1952)
- The Counterfeiters (1953) - Maresciallo Terlizi
- The Return of Don Camillo (1953) - Brusco - il barbiere
- Cronaca di un delitto (1953) - Martino
- Beat the Devil (1953) - Captain of SS Nyanga
- Rivalry (1953)
- Public Opinion (1954)
- Cañas y barro (1954) - Cañamel
- Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954) - Il capocomico
- I cinque dell'Adamello (1954) - Briscola
- Don Camillo's Last Round (1955) - Brusco, il parucchiere / Brusco, le coiffeur
- La ladra (1955) - Il Caporale
- Motivo in maschera (1955)
- The Railroad Man (1956) - Gigi Liverani
- I fidanzati della morte (1957) - Tulio
- Marchands de filles (1957)
- Liane, die weiße Sklavin (1957) - Polizist Emilio
- Dinanzi a noi il cielo (1957) - Padre di Tom
- A Man of Straw (1958) - Beppe
- Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen (1958) - Koch Peppino
- Nella città l'inferno (1959) - Maresciallo del carcere
- Son of the Red Corsair (1959) - Mendoza
- I mafiosi (1959)
- Un maledetto imbroglio (1959) - Maresciallo Saro
- Seven in the Sun (1960) - Fernand
- Ça va être ta fête (1960) - Alvarez
- Cavalcata selvaggia (1960)
- Les filles sèment le vent (1961) - Buonacasa
- A Day for Lionhearts (1961) - Il sergente
- Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961) - Brusco, il sindaco
- Liane, die Tochter des Dschungels (1961)
- Lo sgarro (1962)
- Divorzio alla siciliana (1963)
- Seduced and Abandoned (1964) - Don Vincenzo Ascalone
- Woman of Straw (1964) - Peppino
- The Sucker (1965) - Tagliella, un garagiste à Naples (uncredited)
- Don Camillo in Moscow (1965) - Brusco
- Mission to Caracas (1965) - Emile Vasson
- Le Chant du monde (1965) - Carle
- Fortuna (1966) - Monsieur Simon
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) - 2nd Praying Man
- Modesty Blaise (1966) - Basilio
- The Road to Corinthe (1967) - Kalhides
- Gente d'onore (1967)
- Vivre la nuit (1967)
- Serafino (1968) - Uncle Agenore
- Un caso di coscienza (1970) - Pharmacist
- La prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo (1970) - The doctor
- Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo, col complesso della buonanima (1971) - John Cardaci
- The Godfather (1972) - Signor Vitelli - Sicilian Sequence
- Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) - Maria Rosa's father
- Black Turin (1972) - Jaco
- Il caso Pisciotta (1972) - Don Vincenzo Coluzzi
- Sgarro alla camorra (1973)
- Il figlioccio del padrino (1973) - Don Salvatore Trizzino
- Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975) - Corporal Martucci
- Giovannino (1976) - Giovannino's father
- Occhio alla vedova! (1976)
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