Saro Urzì

Saro Urzì
Saro Urzì
	Urzì in Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
Born	Rosario Urzì; 24 February 1913; Catania, Sicily, Italy
Died	1 November 1979 (aged 66); San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Campania, Italy
Resting place	Cimitero di Ottaviano, Naples, Campania, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1939–1977

Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979)^[1] was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films In the Name of the Law (1949), The Railroad Man (1956), Seduced and Abandoned (1964), which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and The Godfather (1972).

Biography

Born in Sicily, 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 first wife Apollonia.

Selected filmography

The Dream of 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)
Special Correspondents (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)
The Counterfeiters (1951) - Maresciallo Terlizi
Black Fire (1951)
Little World of Don Camillo (1952) - Brusco
A Mother Returns (1952)
The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952) - Police commissioner Siceli
Fratelli d'Italia (1952)
Io, Amleto (1952)
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
Engaged to Death (1957) - Tulio
Marchands de filles (1957)
Nature Girl and the Slaver [de] (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)
The Facts of Murder (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
Lo sgarro (1962)
Divorzio alla siciliana (1963)
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) - Don Vincenzo Ascalone
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 (1968)
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)

References

^ Il diritto al cinema: cent'anni di courtroom drama e melodrammi giudiziari

External links

Saro Urzì at IMDb

[1] Il diritto al cinema: cent'anni di courtroom drama e melodrammi giudiziari

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