Franco Fabrizi

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 long 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)
 * La donna che inventò l'amore (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
 * Siluri umani (1954) – Antonio
 * Farewell, My Beautiful Lady (1954) – Marco
 * Le amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni) (1955) – Cesare Pedoni, the architect
 * Il bidone (Federico Fellini) (1955) – Roberto
 * Racconti romani (1955) – Alvaro Latini
 * Calabuch (Luis García Berlanga) (1956) – Langosta
 * Peccato di castità (1956)
 * Noi siamo le colonne (1956) – Aldo
 * La donna del giorno (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
 * Via Margutta (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
 * Orazi e curiazi (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")
 * Io la conoscevo bene (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)
 * Una questione d'onore (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
 * Le Petit Baigneur (1968) – Marcello Cacciaperotti
 * Madigan's Millions (1968) – Condon
 * Sissignore (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
 * La Polizia ringrazia (1972) – Francesco Bettarini
 * Shadows Unseen (1972) – Commissioner Resta
 * La Mala ordina (1972) – Enrico Moroni
 * Il generale dorme in piedi (1972) – Col. Beltrami
 * La torta in cielo (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
 * Touche pas à la femme blanche (Marco Ferreri) (1974) – Tom
 * What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) – Franco De Rosa
 * La polizia chiede aiuto (1974) – Bruno Paglia
 * Killer Cop (1975) – Luigi Balsamo
 * Night Train Murders (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