Full Name Rosario Urzi Name Saro Urzi Nationality Italian | Occupation actor Awards Cannes Best Actor Award Years active 1939-1977 | |
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Movies Seduced and Abandoned, The Godfather, The Little World of Don Cam, Path of Hope, The Railroad Man Similar People Pietro Germi, Carmine Gallone, Carlo Rustichelli, Tullio Pinelli, Julien Duvivier | ||
Saro Urzì, (born Rosario Urzì, February 24, 1913 in Catania – November 1, 1979 in San Giuseppe Vesuviano) was an Italian actor.
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Biography
Born in Sicilia, 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 (1950), The Railroad Man (1956), The Facts of Murder (1959), Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) 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 love Apollonia.
Filmography
Actor
1977
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (TV Mini Series) as
Vitelli
- Episode #1.3 (1977) - Vitelli
1976
Giovannino as
Notaio Cali - padre di Giovannino
1975
Occhio alla vedova! as
Leopoldo Donnarumma
1975
Il Sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale as
Corporal Martucci
1973
Il figlioccio del padrino as
Don Salvatore Trizzino
1973
Sgarro alla camorra as
Il capo
1972
The Pisciotta Case as
Don Vincenzo Coluzzi
1972
Torino nera as
Jaco (as Saro Urzi')
1972
Alfredo, Alfredo as
Maria Rosa's Father
1972
The Godfather as
Vitelli - Sicilian Sequence
1971
Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima as
Salvatore Uzzeda
1970
Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (Short) as
Brusco (rumored)
1970
La prima notte del Dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo as
The doctor
1970
Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera as
John Cardaci
1970
Un caso di coscienza as
Pharmacist
1969
Johnny Belinda (TV Movie) as
John McDonald
1968
Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) as
Piccarone
- L'altra faccia della giustizia (1968) - Piccarone
1968
Serafino as
Uncle Agenore
1968
Love in the Night
1967
Gente d'onore as
Francesco 'Ciccio' Natale
1967
The Road to Corinth as
Kalhides (as Saro Urzzi)
1966
Fortuna as
Monsieur Simon
1966
Modesty Blaise as
Basilio (as Saro Urzi)
1966
Me, Me, Me... and the Others as
2nd Praying Man
1965
Le chant du monde as
Carle
1965
Mission spéciale à Caracas as
Emile Vasson
1965
Il compagno Don Camillo as
Brusco
1965
The Sucker as
Tagliella - un garagiste à Naples (uncredited)
1964
Una storia di notte as
Peppino
1964
Seduced and Abandoned as
Don Vincenzo Ascalone
1963
Divorzio alla siciliana as
Avvocato dell'accusa
1962
Lo sgarro as
Carmelo
1961
Liane, die Tochter des Dschungels
1961
Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo as
Brusco, il sindaco
1961
Un giorno da leoni as
Il sergente
1961
The Fruit Is Ripe as
Buonacasa
1960
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
Ça va être ta fête as
Alvarez
1960
Seven in the Sun as
Fernand
1959
The Facts of Murder as
Il Maresciallo P.S.
1959
I mafiosi
1959
Son of the Red Corsair as
Mendoza
1959
...and the Wild Wild Women as
Maresciallo del carcere
1958
Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen as
Koch Peppino
1958
Man of Straw as
Beppe Colamonici
1958
Scampolo as
Maresciallo (uncredited)
1957
Dinanzi a noi il cielo as
Padre di Tom
1957
Nature Girl and the Slaver as
Polizist Emilio
1957
Girl Merchants as
Mottia (as Sarzo Urzi)
1957
I fidanzati della morte as
Tulio
1956
The Railroad Man as
Gigi Liverani
1955
Motivo in maschera
1955
La ladra as
Il Caporale
1955
Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone as
Brusco, il parucchiere / Brusco, le coiffeur
1954
I cinque dell'Adamello as
Briscola
1954
Frisky as
Il capocomico
1954
Cañas y barro as
Cañamel (as Saro Urzi)
1954
Opinione pubblica
1953
Rivalità as
Sindaco
1953
Beat the Devil as
Captain of SS Nyanga (as Saro Urzi)
1953
Cronaca di un delitto as
Martino
1953
The Return of Don Camillo as
Brusco - il barbiere
1952
Io, Amleto
1952
Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo as
Commissario Francesco Siceli
1952
Una madre ritorna as
Nino
1952
The Little World of Don Camillo as
Brusco
1951
Fuoco nero
1951
Trieste mia!
1951
Revenge of the Pirates as
Aguirre
1951
The Counterfeiters as
Maresciallo Terlizi
1951
Il bivio as
Il brigadiere Carmelo Carlin
1950
Il monello della strada as
Il commissario
1950
The Path of Hope as
Ciccio Ingaggiatore
1950
Lo sparviero del Nilo as
Sahid
1950
Mountain Smugglers as
Il brigadiere
1950
Streets of Sorrow as
Carlo
1950
Mistress of the Mountains as
sindaco Giusà
1949
La mano della morta as
Marco (as Saro Urzi)
1949
Patto col diavolo
1949
Monastero di Santa Chiara as
Il direttore del teatro (uncredited)
1949
In the Name of the Law as
Il maresciallo Grifò
1948
11 uomini e un pallone as
Carrettiere
1948
Emigrantes
1947
Tombolo as
Barista
1945
La freccia nel fianco (uncredited)
1944
La locandiera (uncredited)
1943
The Peddler and the Lady (uncredited)
1943
Inviati speciali as
Un soldato
1943
Harlem
1942
Odessa in fiamme (uncredited)
1942
Giorno di nozze (uncredited)
1942
Un colpo di pistola as
Uno dei servitori alla scampagnata (uncredited)
1941
Pia de' Tolomei
1941
La compagnia della teppa as
Il maggiordomo di casa Carrera
1941
Marco Visconti
1941
Tosca (uncredited)
1940
Senza cielo as
Un portatore
1939
La conquista dell'aria
1939
The Dream of Butterfly
Miscellaneous
1964
Beautiful Families (voice dubbing: Oreste Palella - uncredited)
1963
Divorzio alla siciliana (voice dubbing: Ernesto Calindri - uncredited)
Self
2011
Andata e ritorno (Documentary) as
Self
Archive Footage
2023
Compression (TV Series documentary)
- Compression Il Cammino della Speranza de Pietro Germi (2023)
2008
Il falso bugiardo as
Self
1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (Video) as
Vitelli
References
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