Franco Fabrizi (; 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) – Sita (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 (1967) – 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) The Lady Has Been Raped (1973) – The photographer 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
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