Rossano Brazzi

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Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor. Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria (née Ghedini) Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four. He made his film debut in 1939. He was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), followed by the leading male role in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn. His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), South Pacific (1958), Count Your Blessings (1959),The Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969).

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Known For

The Italian Job

Beckerman

The Final Conflict

De Carlo

The Barefoot Contessa

Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini

Little Women

Professor Bhaer

Charlie's Angels

Vincenti Donettelli

The Love Boat

Signor Falzoni

Summertime

Renato de Rossi

Hawaii Five-O

Zeno Stavrik

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1999	Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998	Rossellini Under the Volcano MOVIE	Donato (archive footage)
1996	Fatal Frames MOVIE	Dr. Lucidi
1989	Blaues Blut TV	Prof. Donelli
1989	A Fine Romance TV	Castello
1988	The Third Solution MOVIE	Marini
1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries TV	Sir Manuel Carmargue
1986	Le Tiroir secret TV	Charles Dutilleul
1985	Formula for a Murder MOVIE	Dr. Sernich
1985	Christopher Columbus TV	Diego Ortiz De Vilhegas
1984	Final Justice MOVIE	Lamanna
1984	Fear City MOVIE	Carmine
1984	The Far Pavilions TV	Rana von Bhithor
1982	The Voice MOVIE	Priest
1982	The Paramedic MOVIE	Augusto Pinna
1981	The Final Conflict MOVIE	De Carlo
1980	A Time for Miracles MOVIE	Fillipo Fillici
1980	Champagne... e fagioli MOVIE	voce narrante
1980	Catherine and I MOVIE	Arthur
1979	Mr. Too Little MOVIE	Zabo the Great
1979	La promessa TV	Commissario Matthäi
1979	Orient Express TV	André Val-Bergot
1979	Hart to Hart TV	Inspector Pastori
1978	Caribia - Ein Filmrausch in Stereophonie MOVIE	Villeneuve
1977	The Love Boat TV	Signor Falzoni
1977	Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti MOVIE	Archimede (archive footage)
1976	Charlie's Angels TV	Vincenti Donettelli
1975	Season for Assassins MOVIE	Father Eugenio
1975	Political Asylum MOVIE	Embajador Francisco Lara
1975	The Angels with Bound Hands MOVIE	Self
1975	Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza MOVIE	dottor Paluzzi
1975	Giro girotondo... con il sesso è bello il mondo MOVIE	Self
1974	Police Woman TV	Salim Douad
1974	Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks MOVIE	Count Frankenstein
1973	Coralba TV	Marco Danon
1973	Mr. Kingstreet's War MOVIE	Italian Major
1972	The Great Waltz MOVIE	Tedesco
1972	Master of Love MOVIE	Lorenzo del Cambio
1971	Day of Judgment MOVIE	Sheriff
1971	Vivi ragazza vivi! MOVIE	padre di Barbara
1971	Sex of the Devil MOVIE	Andrea, the Surgeon
1970	Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa MOVIE	Adolfo Rogano
1970	The Adventurers MOVIE	Baron de Coyne
1969	Honeymoon with a Stranger MOVIE	Capt. Sevilla
1969	The Eyes MOVIE	Self
1969	The Italian Job MOVIE	Beckerman
1969	Krakatoa, East of Java MOVIE	Giovanni
1969	Psychout for Murder MOVIE	Brigoli
1968	Criminal Affair MOVIE	Ross Simpson
1968	Hawaii Five-O TV	Zeno Stavrik
1968	The Name of the Game TV	Karim Lazanos
1968	One Step to Hell MOVIE	Dr. Hamilton
1968	Il diario segreto di una minorenne MOVIE	Self
1967	Woman Times Seven MOVIE	Giorgio
1967	Soldier's Girl MOVIE	Fernando Moschino
1967	Per amore... per magia... MOVIE	l'araldo
1967	The Bobo MOVIE	Carlos Matabosch
1966	The Christmas That Almost Wasn't MOVIE	Phineas T. Prune
1966	Melissa TV	Guy Foster
1966	Gli altri, gli altri e noi MOVIE	Inspector General
1965	Un amore MOVIE	Antonio Dorigo
1965	Run for Your Life TV	Alex Staphos
1965	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita MOVIE	Lorenzo
1965	Uncertain Verification MOVIE	(archive footage)
1964	Italian Engagement MOVIE	Mario Menacci
1964	Instant Love MOVIE	Claudio DeSantis
1964	Dark Purpose MOVIE	Count Paolo Barbarelli
1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre TV	Luder
1962	The Four Truths MOVIE	Leo (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
1962	The Merv Griffin Show TV	Self
1962	Redhead MOVIE	Fabio
1962	Rome Adventure MOVIE	Roberto Orlandi
1962	Mondo Cane MOVIE	Self
1962	Light in the Piazza MOVIE	Signor Naccarelli
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self - Co-Host
1960	The Battle of Austerlitz MOVIE	Lucien Bonaparte
1960	Siege of Syracuse MOVIE	Archimede
1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson TV	Julio Vaccarous
1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson TV	Vittorio
1959	Count Your Blessings MOVIE	Charles Edouard de Valhubert
1958	A Certain Smile MOVIE	Luc Ferrand
1958	South Pacific MOVIE	Emile De Becque
1957	Legend of the Lost MOVIE	Paul Bonnard
1957	The Story of Esther Costello MOVIE	Carlo Landi
1957	Interlude MOVIE	Tonio Fischer
1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show TV	Self
1956	Loser Takes All MOVIE	Bertrand
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Presenter
1955	Il Conte Aquila MOVIE	Conte Federico Confalonieri
1955	Summertime MOVIE	Renato de Rossi
1955	It Happens in Roma MOVIE	Dino Moriani
1954	Angela MOVIE	Nino
1954	The Barefoot Contessa MOVIE	Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini
1954	The Contessa's Secret MOVIE	Le comte de Cavour
1954	Flesh and Desire MOVIE	Giuseppe Guardini
1954	Three Coins in the Fountain MOVIE	Georgio Bianchi
1954	Barrier of the Law MOVIE	Lt. Mario Grandi
1953	Condemned to Hang MOVIE	Juan Pablo de Osuna
1953	La prigioniera della torre di fuoco MOVIE	Cesare Borgia
1952	Guilt Is Not Mine MOVIE	Self
1952	Son of the Hunchback MOVIE	Philippe de Lagardère
1952	Eran trecento MOVIE	Volpintesta
1952	Milady and the Musketeers MOVIE	Conte de la Fere aka Athos
1952	This Is Your Life TV	Self
1952	The Woman Who Invented Love MOVIE	Conte Grilli
1952	The Mistress of Treves MOVIE	Sigfrido, conte di Treviri
1951	Revenge of the Black Eagle MOVIE	Vladimir Dubrovskij
1951	Incantesimo tragico MOVIE	Pietro
1951	Black Crown MOVIE	Andrés
1950	All for love MOVIE	Enrico Toselli
1950	The Fighting Men MOVIE	Saro Costa
1950	Volcano MOVIE	Donato
1949	I contrabbandieri del mare MOVIE	Mario
1949	Little Women MOVIE	Professor Bhaer
1947	The White Devil MOVIE	Self
1947	Il corriere del re MOVIE	Self
1947	Il passatore MOVIE	Stefano Pelloni
1947	Furia MOVIE	Antonio
1947	The Great Dawn MOVIE	Renzo Gamba
1947	La monaca di Monza MOVIE	Self
1946	Aquila Nera MOVIE	Vladimir Dubrowskij
1945	La casa senza tempo MOVIE	Paolo Sivera
1945	La resa di Titì MOVIE	Guido, il diplomatico
1945	I dieci comandamenti MOVIE	(segment "Non commettere atti impuri")
1943	Silenzio, si gira! MOVIE	Andrea Corsi
1943	Il treno crociato MOVIE	Self
1943	Damals MOVIE	Pablo, Radrennfahrer und Clown
1943	The Genius and the Nightingale MOVIE	Carlo de Beriot
1942	I due Foscari MOVIE	Jacopo Foscari
1942	The Gorgon MOVIE	Lamberto Finquinaldo
1942	We the Living, Part Two MOVIE	Leo Kovalenski
1942	We the Living, Part One MOVIE	Leo Kovalenski
1942	Girl of the Golden West MOVIE	William
1941	È caduta una donna MOVIE	dottor Roberto Frassi
1941	Il bravo di Venezia MOVIE	Guido Fuser
1941	The King's Jester MOVIE	Francesco I
1941	Tosca MOVIE	Mario Cavaradossi
1941	Brute Force MOVIE	Fred
1940	Ritorno MOVIE	Michele Donato
1940	Il ponte di vetro MOVIE	Comandante Mario Marchi
1939	Processo e morte di Socrate MOVIE	Simmia
1938	Il destino in tasca MOVIE	Self
	Mort d'un zombie MOVIE	Self

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