Saro Urzì, was an Italian

Italy

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 actor.

Biography

Born in Sicilia, he moved to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 to seek his fortune.

He met Pietro Germi

Pietro Germi

Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

 in 1949 and appears in Germi's In nome della legge, a film for which he won Nastro d'Argento

Nastro d'Argento

The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics...

 as Best Supporting Actor. He became Germi's favourite actor, working together with him in Path of Hope

Path of Hope

Path of Hope is a 1950 Italian language drama film directed by Pietro Germi that belongs to the Italian neorealism film movement. It is based on Nino Di Maria's novel Cuori negli abissi...

(1950), The Railroad Man

The Railroad Man

The Railroad Man is a 1956 Italian language award winning drama film directed by Pietro Germi.It is available on DVD in USA on NoShame films.-Cast:* Pietro Germi - Andrea Marcocci* Luisa Della Noce - Sara Marcocci...

(1956), The Facts of Murder (1959), Alfredo, Alfredo

Alfredo, Alfredo

Alfredo, Alfredo is a 1972 Italian language award winning comedy film directed by Pietro Germi.Starring Dustin Hoffman, it is dubbed into Italian by Ferruccio Amendola.-Awards:* Golden Globe Nominee: Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film...

(1972) and most notably Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned is a 1964 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily, as was Germi's previous film...

  in 1964. That film earned him Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

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 and the Nastro d'Argento

Nastro d'Argento

The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics...

 the following year.

He acted in Don Camillo

Don Camillo

Don Camillo is the main character created by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi , and is based on the historical Roman Catholic priest, WW II partisan and detainee of the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, Don Camillo Valota . Don Camillo is one of two protagonists,...

sequels, John Huston

John Huston

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's Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil (1953 film)

Beat the Devil is a 1953 film directed by John Huston. It was co-authored by Huston and Truman Capote, and loosely based upon a novel of the same name by British journalist and critic Claud Cockburn, writing under the pseudonym James Helvick...

, Luigi Comencini

Luigi Comencini

Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....

's Bread, Love and Jealousy, and international films such as Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw is a 1964 British crime thriller starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. It was directed by Basil Dearden and written by Robert Muller and Stanley Mann, adapted from the 1964 novel by Catherine Arley.- Plot :...

, and Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

's The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...

as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's love Apollonia

Simonetta Stefanelli

Simonetta Stefanelli is an Italian film actress. She is best known outside Italy for her role in The Godfather , in which she played Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, Michael Corleone's wife...

.