Franco Fabrizi

Actor

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Birth Place

Italy

Born

February 15, 1926

Died

October 18, 1995

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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If Cary Grant or George Clooney were supporting actors in 1950s Italy, they would be a lot like Franco Fabrizi. Originally trained as a song-and-dance man, the suave, smoldering Fabrizi transitioned into screen acting as a prominent figure in "fotoromanzas," a sort of early, still-photo form of soap opera which appeared first in magazines and then in cinemas. Shortly after making his fea...

Filmography

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The Little Devil (1988)

Ginger and Fred (1986)

Television Program Host

Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986)

L' Affaire Suisse (1978)

Permette signora che ami vostra figlia (1974)

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I Vitelloni (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Now You'll Be In The Movies

I Vitelloni (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Lets Go Watch Guidizio Fish

Biography

If Cary Grant or George Clooney were supporting actors in 1950s Italy, they would be a lot like Franco Fabrizi. Originally trained as a song-and-dance man, the suave, smoldering Fabrizi transitioned into screen acting as a prominent figure in "fotoromanzas," a sort of early, still-photo form of soap opera which appeared first in magazines and then in cinemas. Shortly after making his feature film debut with a bit part in the stirring crime-drama romance "Story of a Love Affair" (which also marked the famed director Michelangelo Antonioni's start), he was cast as one of the leads in Frederico Fellini's pivotal, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, "I Vitelloni" (1953). The persona he created in that film-that of a scheming, insatiable skirt chaser-followed him not only into his subsequent Fellini-helmed performance as a small-town con man in the picturesque drama "The Swindle" ('55) but throughout the rest of his career and into his personal life. Romantically linked to dozens of Italian starlets via the glossy pages of gossip magazines, he appeared in nearly 125 films and television series over the course of four decades, almost always as a lascivious lady killers and materialistic cads. In 1995, he died of cancer at the age of 79.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Little Devil (1988)

Ginger and Fred (1986)

Television Program Host

Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986)

L' Affaire Suisse (1978)

Permette signora che ami vostra figlia (1974)

L' Agression (1974)

Don't Touch the White Woman! (1973)

Ancora una Volta Prima di Lasciarci (1973)

La Polizia Ringrazia (1972)

The Italian Connection (1972)

Death in Venice (1971)

Padella Calibro 38 (1971)

Madigan's Millions (1969)

Anyone Can Play (1968)

Sandro, Luisa's lover

Girl Game (1968)

The Postman Goes to War (1967)

The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians (1967)

The Viscount (1967)

The Facts of Murder (1965)

The Doll That Took the Town (1965)

The Moralist (1964)

Duel of Champions (1964)

Love on the Riviera (1964)

Three Faces of Sin (1963)

Run With the Devil (1963)

The Wastrel (1963)

Il bidone (1962)

Le amiche (1962)

Sait-on-Jamais (1957)

The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)

Woman Of Rome (1954)

Sacco di Roma, Il (1953)

Fanfulla Dalodi

I Vitelloni (1953)

Life Events

1947

First role on stage as a variety review actor

1952

Film acting debut

1961

Starred in Fellini's "I Vitelloni"

Videos

I Vitelloni (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Now You'll Be In The Movies Federico Fellini begins in an Adriatic coastal town, resembling his native Rimini, introducing his gang, many by their own first names, Alberto Soldi, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Interlenghi (the narrator), Fellini’s brother Riccardo, and Franco Fabrizi, and Eleonora Ruffo as beauty queen Sandra, in I Vitelloni, 1953.

I Vitelloni (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Lets Go Watch Guidizio Fish Arguably exquisite scene by Federico Fellini as “the young bulls,” (one translation of the ambiguous title), Riccardo Fellini, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste, winter at their Italian summer town, Alberto (Sordi) discovering his sister (Claude Farell) with a nasty boyfriend, in I Vitelloni, 1953.

I Vitelloni (1953) -- (Movie Clip) What Are You Crying For? Fausto (Franco Fabrizi) upbraided by his dad (Jean Brochard) for planning to leave his pregnant girlfriend, her brother Moraldo (Franco Interlenghi) narrating and impartial, then the wedding with Eleonara Ruffo as Sandra, Alberto (Sordi) and the gang, in Federico Fellini’s I Vitelloni, 1953.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Are We In Such Bad Shape? Escaping the inescapably Federico Fellini-esque backstage scene of the low-rent Roman TV nostalgia special, the principals (the director’s wife Giullietta Masina as Amelia, a.k.a. Ginger and Marcello Mastroianni as Pippo, a.k.a. “Fred”) with their old friend Toto (Mignoli), assume their costumes and continue their reacquaintance, in Ginger And Fred, 1986.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't See The Resemblance On the first evening in the modest Rome hotel, Amelia (Giulietta Masina, the director’s wife, stage name “Ginger,”) remains in good spirits, awaiting the corny TV special and her still-absent partner “Fred,” Martin Maria Blau the disinterested assistant director, in Federico Fellini’s Ginger And Fred, 1986.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) It's Like A Landing Strip Still not discouraged that her old partner hasn’t turned up for the TV variety show in Rome, Amelia, (a.k.a. “Ginger,” Giulietta Masina, wife of the director Federico Fellini) manages to be charitable when she discovers he (Marcello Mastroianni, his first scene, as Pippo, a.k.a. “Fred”) is her noisy neighbor, in Ginger And Fred, 1986.

I Vitelloni (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Listen To This Mambo Fausto (Franco Fabrizi) and pregnant Sandra (Eleonora Ruffo) home from their honeymoon, her brother Moraldo (Franco Interlenghi), Alberto (Sordi) and the gang welcoming, then he must take a job, her father (Enrico Viarisio) having engaged a shopkeeper (Carlo Romano), in Federico Fellini’s I Vitelloni, 1953.

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