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Saro Urzì
Catania 24 February 1913 - San Giuseppe Vesuviano 1 November 1979
Saro urzì, real name Rosario urzì, leaves Sicily, in search of fortune, arriving, in Rome where he begins to work in the cinema, as an appearance, stunt and acrobat, and then as an actor in the background. In 1943, he took part in the film Mario Bonnard " Field of Flowers", in 1944 to the film Alberto Lattuada " The arrow in the side ", and in 1948 in that of Aldo Fabrizi " Emigrantes ". He holds a good working agreement with the director Pietro Germi, who chose him initially to interpret the role of the Marshal in "in the name of the law", in 1948, which allows him to win the Silver Ribbon, and then will continue to cast it for his other films , with increasingly important roles, to interpret in "seduced and abandoned", the role of the authoritarian Don Ascalone, interpretation that the Fruit Award for Best Actor at the Cannes film Festival, in 1964, and another Silver Ribbon in 1965. He works with the major Italian directors of the time, Nanni Loy, Luigi Comencini, Alessandro Blasetti, Carlo Lizzani; He also took part in all the five films of the saga of Don Camillo, with Fernandel and Gino Cervi; He appeared in " The Godfather " of 1972, by Francis Ford Coppola and in the parody of the same film " The godson of The Godfather ", by Mariano Laurenti, with Franco Franchi.
Filmography
1939/ The conquest of the air, by Romolo Marcellini
1939/ The dream of Butterfly, by Carmine Gallone
1940/ Without Sky, by Alfredo Guarini
1941/ The company of the Teppa, by Corrado D'Errico
1941/ Pia de ' Tolomei, of Exodus, Pratelli
1941/ Tosca, by Carlo Koch
1942/ Wedding day, by Goffredo Alessandrini
1942/ Odessa on Fire, by Carmine Gallone
1942/ A gunshot, by Renato Castellani
1943/ The Locandiera, by Luigi Chiarini
1943/ Harlem, by Carmine Gallone
1943/ Special Envoys, by Romolo Marcellini
1943/ Campo dè Fiori, by Mario Bonnard
1944/ The arrow next to, by Alberto Lattuada
1947/ Tombolo, Black Paradise, by Giorgio Ferroni
1948/ So people, of Fernando Circle
1948/ Emigrantes, by Aldo Fabrizi
1948/ Covenant of the Devil, by Luigi Chiarini
1948/ in the name of the law, by Pietro Germi
1949/ North Barrier, by Luis Trenker
1949/ Monastery of St. Clare, by Mario Sequi
1949/ The hand of Death, by Carlo Campogallini
1949/ The bird-of-Prey of the Nile, by Giacomo Gentilomo
1950/ The forgers, by Franco Rossi
1950/ The journey of Hope, by Pietro Germi
1950/ I dreamed of the Paradise, by Giorgio Patina
1950/ The street brat, by Carlo Borghesio
1951/ Black Fire, by Silvio Siano
1951/ The turnoff, by Fernando Circle
1951/ The Revenge of the Corsair, of Primo Zeglio
1951/ Chronicle of a crime, by Mario Sequi
1952/ Don Camillo, by Julien Duvivier
1952/ The robber of Wolf Notch, of Pietro Germi
1952/ Trieste never, by Mario Costa
1953/ A mother returns, by Roberto Bianchi Montero
1953/ The return of Don Camillo, by Julien Duvivier
1953/ Rivalry, by Giuliano Biagetti
1953/ The Treasure of Africa, by John Huston
1954/ The five of Adamello, of Pino Mercanti
1954/ Bread, love, and jealousy, by Luigi Comencini
1954/ Public opinion, by Maurizio Corgnati
1955/ Don Camillo, and the Honourable Peppone, by Carmine Gallone
1955/ Masked pattern, by Stefano Canzio
1955/ The Thief , by Mario Bonnard
1956/ The railroad worker, by Pietro Germi
1956/ The boyfriends of Death, by Romolo Marcellini
1957/ Before us the Sky, by Roberto Savarese
1957/ Liana the white slave, by Herman Leitner
1958/ A cursed cheat, by Pietro Germi
1958/ The straw man, by Pietro Germi
1958/ In the city Hell, by Renato Castellani
1959/ The son of the Red Corsair
1959/ Romarey: Operation Mazaref, of Harald Reinl
1960/ The adventurers of the Tropoci, by Sergio Bergonzelli
1960/ Wild Calvalcata , by Piero Pierotti
1961/ Don Camillo Monsignor but not too much, by Carmine Gallon
1961/ Fake passport, by Pierre Montazel
1961/ One day as a lion, by Nanni Loy
1962/ The Sgarro, by Silvio Siano
1963/ Divorce in Sicily, by Enzo di Gianni
1964/ Seduced and abandoned, by Pietro Germi
1965/ The Comrade Don Camillo, by Luigi Comencini
1965/ Naked obsession, by Marcel Camus
1965/ Mission Caracas, by Raoul Andrè
1965/ I and the others, by Alessandro Blasetti
1966/ A story of Night, by Luigi Petrini
1966/ Modesty Blaise, the beautiful that kills, by Joseph Losey
1967/ The girls at night, by Marcel Camus
1967/ Criminal Story, by Claude Chabrol
1967/ People of Honor, of Folco Lulli
1968/ Serafino, by Pietro Germi
1970/ The first night of the industrial Doctor Danieli, with the.. toy complex, by Giovanni Grimaldi
1970/ Crowned Prince wanted for rich heiress, of Giovanni Grimaldi
1972/ Torino nera, by Carlo Lizzani
1972/ The Godfather, by Francis Ford Coppola
1972/ Alfredo, Alfredo, di Pietro Germi
1973/ The godson of The Godfather, by Mariano Laurenti
1973/ Camorra Sgarro, by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti
1975/ Sergeant Breaker becomes Corporal, of Mariano Laurenti
1976/ Giovannino, by Paolo Nuzzi
1976/ Eye to the widow, by Sergio Pastore
Television
1968/ Johnny Belinda, comedy by Pietro Schivazappa