Franco Fabrizi has grown into a veteran actor with credits spread across cinema, television and everything between. The film 'I Vitelloni' accounts for more of the public profile than anything else does. 'Death in Venice' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography. The first screen credit dates from 1950. He has worked in comedy more often than in any other register. Very few actors keep finding work for 76 years.
Franco Fabrizi
Actor · Since 1953
69 years (Feb 15, 1926 – Oct 18, 1995)Cortemaggiore - Piacenza - Emilia-Romagna - Italy
98 Movies
Franco Fabrizi has grown into a veteran actor with credits spread across cinema, television and everything between. The film 'I Vitelloni' accounts for more of the public profile than anything else does. 'Death in Venice' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography. The first screen credit dates from 1950. He has worked in comedy more often than in any other register. Very few actors keep finding work for 76 years.
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.