Fabrizi, Franco
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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. 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.
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. Past the 1950s, Fabrizi was mainly relegated to 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 bowel cancer in 1995.
Selected filmography
Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) Michelangelo Antonioni, (1950)
The Mistress of Treves (1952)
I Vitelloni, Federico Fellini (1953)
Torna! (1953)
Vortice (1953)
Schiava del peccato (1954)
Camilla (film) (1954)
Woman of Rome (La romana), Dino Risi (1954)
Szélhámosok (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)
What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
Killer Cop (1975)
Night Train Murders, Aldo Lado (1975)
The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
Action (1980)
Ginger és Fred (Ginger e Fred) (1986)
The Little Devil (Il piccolo diavolo), Roberto Benigni (1988)
Ricky e Barabba (1992) - Salvetti