Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 15, 1926
Place of Birth
Cortemaggiore - Piacenza - Emilia-Romagna - Italy
Also Known As
- Fabrizzi Franco
- Franco Fabrizzi
- Франко Фабрици
Franco Fabrizi
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franco Fabrizi (Cortemaggiore, 15 February 1926 - Cortemaggiore, 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor.
Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film. When he was 24 years old, with a few experience in cinema, has got a small important roll in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut.
Federico Fellini offers him the starring role in I vitelloni. In Italy, he was considerated the Cary Grant all'italiana.
Known For - Movies
Nights of Cabiria
as Giorgio (uncredited)
Death in Venice
as Barber
I Vitelloni
as Fausto Moretti
I Knew Her Well
as Paganelli
Le Amiche
as Cesare Pedoni, the Architect
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
as Lino Benedetti
Complexes
as Francesco Martello (III)
The One Man Band
as le fiancé de Françoise (as Franco Fabrizzi)
Action
as The Producer
The Shortest Day
as Ferito con la borsa del ghiaccio (uncredited)