Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Son of a barber and 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, Michelangelo Antonioni's feature 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. During his recovery, he was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he died in 1995.
Selected filmography
- Chronicle of a Love – Fashion show presentator
- The Mistress of Treves
- The Woman Who Invented Love They Were Three Hundred – Pisacane
- Heroic Charge – Captain Franchi
- Ragazze da marito – Claudio Fortis
- Prisoner in the Tower of Fire
- I Vitelloni – Fausto Moretti
- The Pagans – Fanfulla Da Lodi
- Vortice – Viaggiani
- Cristo è passato sull'aia – Giovanni
- Torna! – Giacomo Marini
- Schiava del peccato – Carlo
- Nel gorgo del peccato – Filippo
- Woman of Rome – Gino
- Camilla – Gianni Rinaldi
- Human Torpedoes – AntonioFarewell, My Beautiful Lady – Marco
- Le Amiche – Cesare Pedoni, the architect
- Il bidone – Roberto
- Roman Tales – Alvaro Latini
- Calabuch – Langosta
- Peccato di castità
- Noi siamo le colonne – Aldo
- The Doll That Took the Town – Aldo
- Nights of Cabiria – Giorgio
- No Sun in Venice – Busetti
- Una pelliccia di visone – FrancipaneAnyone Can Kill Me – Karl Herman
- Husbands in the City – Alberto De Carlo
- È arrivata la parigina – Nick
- Adorabili e bugiarde – Geronti
- Le dritte – Amleto Bettini
- Mogli pericolose – Bruno
- Racconti d'estate – Sandro Morandi
- Anche l'inferno trema
- Addio per sempre! – Mike
- Witness in the City – Lambert – le radio-taxi de nuit
- The Moralist – Giovanni
- Wild Cats on the Beach – Nicola Ferrara
- The Nights of Lucretia Borgia – Cesare Borgia
- The Black Chapel – Graf Emanuele RossiThe Facts of Murder – Massimo Valdarena
- Le sorprese dell'amore – Battista Crispi
- I Genitori in Blue-Jeans – Gianni
- Run with the Devil – Giosuè Corsetti
- Le svedesi – Franco
- La moglie di mio marito – Giorgio Hintermann
- The Wastrel – Rudi Veronese
- Three Faces of Sin – Philippe Guerbois
- Duel of Champions – Curazio
- A Difficult Life – Franco Simonini
- Quattro notti con Alba – Lieutenant Zecchini
- Una domenica d'estate – Giacomo
- Night Train to Milan – L'uomo snob
- Copacabana Palace
- La donna degli altri è sempre più bella – Paolo
- Rat Trap – Paul
- Storm Over Ceylon – Manuel Da Costa
- Casablanca, Nest of Spies – Barón Max von Stauffen
- Gli onorevoli – Roberto Cicconetti
- The Commandant – Sandrelli
- I maniaci – Sita
- I complessi – Francesco Martello
- I Knew Her Well – Paganelli
- Le reflux
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians – Lino Benedetti
- El misterioso señor Van Eyck
- A Question of Honour – Egidio Porcu
- Vacanze sulla neve
- Le facteur s'en va-t-en guerre – Ritoni
- Che notte ragazzi! – D. LuisThe Viscount – Ramon
- Bang Bang – Mario Raffaelli
- Anyone Can Play – Luisa's lover
- The Little Bather – Marcello Cacciaperotti
- Madigan's Millions – Condon
- Dismissed on His Wedding Night – Chauffeur
- Satyricon – Ascilto
- L'homme orchestre – Franco Buzzini – le fiancé de Françoise
- A Pocketful of Chestnuts – Bernardi
- Death in Venice – Barber
- Roma Bene – Nino Rappi
- Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte – Prince Gondrano Pantegani del Cacco
- Il provinciale – Colombo
- Panhandle 38 – Fernand
- Execution Squad – Francesco Bettarini
- Shadows Unseen – Commissioner Resta
- The Italian Connection – Enrico Moroni
- Il generale dorme in piedi – Col. Beltrami
- Cake in the Sky
- La signora è stata violentata – Il fotografo
- Società a responsabilità molto limitata – Don Celestino
- La notte dell'ultimo giorno – Sergio Varzi
- Ancora una volta prima di lasciarci – Marco
- Don't Touch the White Woman! – Tom
- Claretta and Ben – Franco De Rosa
- What Have They Done to Your Daughters? – Bruno Paglia
- Killer Cop – Luigi Balsamo
- Last Stop on the Night Train – The Voyeur on the Train
- Act of Aggression – Sauguet
- The Flower in His Mouth – Dottore Sanguedolce
- La verginella
- Stato interessante – Gaetano La Monica
- L'affaire Suisse – Poschetti
- Action – The Producer
- Habibi, amor mío
- A Proper Scandal – Count Guarienti
- Mi faccia causa
- Ginger and Fred – Show host
- Giovanni Senzapensieri – Gino
- Grandi magazzini – Ing. Zambuti
- The Little Devil – Monsignore
- Un uomo di razza – Radames
- Ricky & Barabba – Salvetti