Saro Urzì
| Saro Urzì | |
|---|---|
 Urzì in Seduced and Abandoned (1964) | |
| Born |
Rosario Urzì February 24, 1913 Catania, Italy |
| Died |
November 1, 1979 (aged 66) San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1939-1977 |
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
- A Pistol Shot (1942)
- The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
- The Innkeeper (1944)
- Hand of Death (1949)
- Hawk of the Nile (1950)
- Barrier to the North (1950)
- Mistress of the Mountains (1950)
- Pact with the Devil (1950)
- The Crossroads (1951)
- The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
- Beat the Devil (1953)
- I cinque dell'Adamello (1954)
- Public Opinion (1954)
- Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
- Seven in the Sun (1960)
- Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
- Woman of Straw (1964)
- Modesty Blaise (1966)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)