# Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi (Italian pronunciation:; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor.

## Life and career

Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several revues and stage works, then he debuted on the big screen with a supporting role in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's feature film debut.
The role that made him known was as Fausto in Federico Fellini's I vitelloni; from then he was inextricably linked to the character of a full-time seducer, a young wastrel, a young not-so-young man who refuses to grow up, a character that he reprised, with different facets, in a great number of films. Past the 1950s, Fabrizi was mainly relegated to character roles in Italian, French and Spanish minor productions; he still appeared on several major works of Italian cinema, and one of his last great roles was in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice.
In 1993 he had a serious car accident. During his recovery, he was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he died in 1995.

## Selected filmography

* Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) Michelangelo Antonioni) (1950) – Fashion show presentator
* The Mistress of Treves (1952)
* The Woman Who Invented Love (1952)
* They Were Three Hundred (1952) – Pisacane
* Heroic Charge (1952) – Captain Franchi
* Ragazze da marito (1952) – Claudio Fortis
* Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952)
* I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini) (1953) – Fausto Moretti
* The Pagans (1953) – Fanfulla Da Lodi
* Vortice (1953) – Viaggiani
* Cristo è passato sull'aia (1953) – Giovanni
* Torna! (1954) – Giacomo Marini
* Schiava del peccato (1954) – Carlo
* Nel gorgo del peccato (1954) – Filippo
* Woman of Rome (La romana) (Dino Risi) (1954) – Gino
* Camilla (1954) – Gianni Rinaldi
* Human Torpedoes (1954) – Antonio
* Farewell, My Beautiful Lady (1954) – Marco
* Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni) (1955) – Cesare Pedoni, the architect
* Il bidone (Federico Fellini) (1955) – Roberto
* Roman Tales (1955) – Alvaro Latini
* Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga) (1956) – Langosta
* Peccato di castità (1956)
* Noi siamo le colonne (1956) – Aldo
* The Doll That Took the Town (1956) – Aldo
* Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini) (1957) – Giorgio (uncredited)
* No Sun in Venice (1957) – Busetti
* Una pelliccia di visone (1957) – Francipane
* Anyone Can Kill Me (1957) – Karl Herman
* Husbands in the City (1957) – Alberto De Carlo
* È arrivata la parigina (1958) – Nick
* Adorabili e bugiarde (1958) – Geronti
* Le dritte (1958) – Amleto Bettini
* Mogli pericolose (1958) – Bruno
* Racconti d'estate (1958) – Sandro Morandi
* Anche l'inferno trema (1958)
* Addio per sempre! (1958) – Mike
* Witness in the City (1959) – Lambert – le radio-taxi de nuit
* The Moralist (1959) – Giovanni
* Wild Cats on the Beach (1959) – Nicola Ferrara
* The Nights of Lucretia Borgia (1959) – Cesare Borgia
* The Black Chapel (1959) – Graf Emanuele Rossi
* The Facts of Murder (1959) – Massimo Valdarena
* Le sorprese dell'amore (1959) – Battista Crispi
* I Genitori in Blue-Jeans (1960) – Gianni
* Run with the Devil (1960) – Giosuè Corsetti
* Le svedesi (1960) – Franco
* La moglie di mio marito (1961) – Giorgio Hintermann
* The Wastrel (1961) – Rudi Veronese
* Three Faces of Sin (1961) – Philippe Guerbois
* Duel of Champions (1961) – Curazio
* A Difficult Life (Una Vita Difficile) (Dino Risi) (1961) – Franco Simonini
* Quattro notti con Alba (1962) – Lieutenant Zecchini
* Una domenica d'estate (1962) – Giacomo
* Night Train to Milan (1962) – L'uomo snob
* Copacabana Palace (1962)
* La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963) – Paolo (segment "Bagnino Lover")
* Rat Trap (1963) – Paul
* Storm Over Ceylon (1963) – Manuel Da Costa
* Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963) – Barón Max von Stauffen
* Gli onorevoli (1963) – Roberto Cicconetti
* The Commandant (1963) – Sandrelli
* I maniaci (1964) – Stipa, the Insolent Employee (segment "Lo sport")
* I complessi (1965) – Francesco Martello (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone")
* I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli) (1965) – Paganelli
* Le reflux (1965)
* The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore e signori) (Pietro Germi) (1966) – Lino Benedetti
* El misterioso señor Van Eyck (1966)
* A Question of Honour (1966) – Egidio Porcu
* Vacanze sulla neve (1966)
* Le facteur s'en va-t-en guerre (1966) – Ritoni
* Che notte ragazzi! (1966) – D. Luis
* The Viscount (1967) – Ramon
* Bang Bang (1967) – Mario Raffaelli
* Anyone Can Play (1968) – Luisa's lover
* The Little Bather (1968) – Marcello Cacciaperotti
* Madigan's Millions (1968) – Condon
* Dismissed on His Wedding Night (1968) – Chauffeur
* Satyricon (1969) – Ascilto
* L'homme orchestre (1970) – Franco Buzzini – le fiancé de Françoise
* A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970) – Bernardi
* Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) (Luchino Visconti) (1971) – Barber
* Roma Bene (1971) – Nino Rappi
* Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) – Prince Gondrano Pantegani del Cacco
* Il provinciale (1971) – Colombo
* Panhandle 38 (1972) – Fernand
* Execution Squad (1972) – Francesco Bettarini
* Shadows Unseen (1972) – Commissioner Resta
* The Italian Connection (1972) – Enrico Moroni
* Il generale dorme in piedi (1972) – Col. Beltrami
* Cake in the Sky (1973)
* La signora è stata violentata (1973) – Il fotografo
* Società a responsabilità molto limitata (1973) – Don Celestino
* La notte dell'ultimo giorno (1973) – Sergio Varzi
* Ancora una volta prima di lasciarci (1973) – Marco
* Don't Touch the White Woman! (Marco Ferreri) (1974) – Tom
* Claretta and Ben (1974) – Franco De Rosa
* What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) – Bruno Paglia
* Killer Cop (1975) – Luigi Balsamo
* Last Stop on the Night Train (Aldo Lado) (1975) – The Voyeur on the Train
* Act of Aggression (1975) – Sauguet
* The Flower in His Mouth (1975) – Dottore Sanguedolce
* La verginella (1975)
* Stato interessante (1977) – Gaetano La Monica (second story)
* L'affaire Suisse (1978) – Poschetti
* Action (1980) – The Producer
* Habibi, amor mío (1981)
* A Proper Scandal (1984) – Count Guarienti
* Mi faccia causa (1984)
* Ginger and Fred (1986) – Show host
* Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986) – Gino
* Grandi magazzini (1986) – Ing. Zambuti
* The Little Devil (Il piccolo diavolo) (Roberto Benigni) (1988) – Monsignore
* Un uomo di razza (1989) – Radames
* Ricky & Barabba (1992) – Salvetti