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Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was known for playing roles that typified the suave, romantic leading man archetype, both in his native country and in Hollywood.
Brazzi trained as a stage actor and was a matinee idol of Italian cinema, before moving to Hollywood in the early 1950s. He was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), followed by leading male roles in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn, as well as in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), opposite Joan Crawford, Count Your Blessings (1959), Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969). He also wrote and directed several films in his native Italy, sometimes using the pseudonym Edward Ross.
Brazzi was born in Bologna, Italy, the son of Maria Ghedini and Adelmo Brazzi, an employee of the Rizzoli shoe factory. He was named after Rossano Veneto, where his father was stationed during his military service in World War I. Brazzi attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four. He was a lawyer before becoming an actor and made his film debut in 1939.
Early Italian roles included Tosca (1941), The Hero of Venice (1941), The King's Jester (1941), A Woman Has Fallen (1941) and We the Living (1942) with Alida Valli.
Brazzi was in Girl of the Golden West (1942), a Western, The Gorgon (1942), and the biopic Maria Malibran (1942). He made Back Then (1943) in Germany.
After the war, Brazzi was in The Black Eagle (1946), The Great Dawn (1947), Fury (1947), Bullet for Stefano (1947), The Courier of the King (1947), and The White Devil (1947). There was also the biopic Eleonora Duse (1948).
Brazzi moved to Hollywood and was cast as the professor in Little Women (1949). Back in Italy he made Volcano (1951) with Anna Magnani, The Fighting Men (1950), and Romanzo d'amore (1951).
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Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was known for playing roles that typified the suave, romantic leading man archetype, both in his native country and in Hollywood.
Brazzi trained as a stage actor and was a matinee idol of Italian cinema, before moving to Hollywood in the early 1950s. He was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), followed by leading male roles in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn, as well as in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), opposite Joan Crawford, Count Your Blessings (1959), Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969). He also wrote and directed several films in his native Italy, sometimes using the pseudonym Edward Ross.
Brazzi was born in Bologna, Italy, the son of Maria Ghedini and Adelmo Brazzi, an employee of the Rizzoli shoe factory. He was named after Rossano Veneto, where his father was stationed during his military service in World War I. Brazzi attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four. He was a lawyer before becoming an actor and made his film debut in 1939.
Early Italian roles included Tosca (1941), The Hero of Venice (1941), The King's Jester (1941), A Woman Has Fallen (1941) and We the Living (1942) with Alida Valli.
Brazzi was in Girl of the Golden West (1942), a Western, The Gorgon (1942), and the biopic Maria Malibran (1942). He made Back Then (1943) in Germany.
After the war, Brazzi was in The Black Eagle (1946), The Great Dawn (1947), Fury (1947), Bullet for Stefano (1947), The Courier of the King (1947), and The White Devil (1947). There was also the biopic Eleonora Duse (1948).
Brazzi moved to Hollywood and was cast as the professor in Little Women (1949). Back in Italy he made Volcano (1951) with Anna Magnani, The Fighting Men (1950), and Romanzo d'amore (1951).