Saro Urzì
Rosario "Saro" Urzì was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films In the Name of the Law, The Railroad Man, Seduced and Abandoned, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and The Godfather.
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, The Railroad Man, The Facts of Murder, Alfredo, Alfredo 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 La conquista dell'aria Senza cielo - Un portatoreTosca - Marco Visconti La compagnia della teppa Pia de' Tolomei A Pistol Shot - Uno dei servitori alla scampagnata Giorno di nozze Odessa in fiamme - Harlem Special Correspondents - Un soldatoThe Peddler and the Lady - The Innkeeper La freccia nel fianco - Tombolo, paradiso nero Immigrants In the Name of the Law - Il maresciallo GrifòMonastero di Santa Chiara - Il direttore del teatroHand of Death - zingaro MarcoPact with the Devil Hawk of the Nile - SahidMistress of the Mountains - sindaco GiusàBarrier to the North - Il brigadierePath of Hope - Ciccio IngaggiatoreIl monello della strada - Il commissarioThe Crossroads - Il brigadiere Carmelo CarlinLa vendetta del corsaro - AguirreTrieste mia! The Counterfeiters - Maresciallo TerliziBlack Fire Little World of Don Camillo - BruscoA Mother Returns The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo - Police commissioner SiceliFratelli d'Italia Io, Amleto The Return of Don Camillo - Brusco - il barbiereCronaca di un delitto - MartinoBeat the Devil - Captain of SS Nyanga Rivalry Public Opinion Cañas y barro - CañamelBread, Love and Jealousy - Il capocomicoI cinque dell'Adamello - BriscolaDon Camillo's Last Round - Brusco, il parucchiere / Brusco, le coiffeurLa ladra - Il CaporaleMotivo in maschera The Railroad Man - Gigi LiveraniEngaged to Death - TulioMarchands de filles - Polizist EmilioDinanzi a noi il cielo - Padre di TomA Man of Straw - BeppeRomarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Koch Peppino...And the Wild Wild Women - Maresciallo del carcereSon of the Red Corsair - MendozaI mafiosi The Facts of Murder - Maresciallo SaroSeven in the Sun - FernandÇa va être ta fête - AlvarezCavalcata selvaggia Les filles sèment le vent - BuonacasaA Day for Lionhearts - Il sergenteDon Camillo: Monsignor - Brusco, il sindacoLo sgarro Divorzio alla siciliana Seduced and Abandoned - Don Vincenzo AscaloneThe Sucker - Tagliella, un garagiste à Naples Don Camillo in Moscow - BruscoMission to Caracas - Emile VassonLe Chant du monde - CarleFortuna - Monsieur SimonMe, Me, Me... and the Others - 2nd Praying ManModesty Blaise - Basilio The Road to Corinthe - Kalhides Gente d'onore Vivre la nuit Serafino - Uncle AgenoreUn caso di coscienza - PharmacistLa prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo - The doctorLe inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo, col complesso della buonanima - John CardaciThe Godfather - Signor Vitelli - Sicilian SequenceAlfredo, Alfredo - Maria Rosa's fatherBlack Turin - Jaco Il caso Pisciotta - Don Vincenzo ColuzziSgarro alla camorra Il figlioccio del padrino - Don Salvatore TrizzinoIl sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale - Corporal MartucciGiovannino - Giovannino's father- ''Occhio alla vedova!''