Rossano Brazzi
Acting
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rossano Brazzi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: September 18, 1916
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Known For
We the Living, Part Two
After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.
Processo e morte di Socrate
We the Living, Part One
At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out.
Orient Express
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.
The Far Pavilions
Adapted from M.M. Kaye's best-selling novel, this dramatic HBO miniseries follows two star-crossed lovers -- the young British officer Ash (Ben Cross) and the betrothed princess Anjuli (Amy Irving) -- as they face daunting odds in their quest to be together. Set in India during the time of the British Raj, this haunting (and BAFTA-nominated) love story features spectacular scenery and an epic saga of battle, treachery and intrigue.
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
The Story of Esther Costello
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is persuaded to help educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband.
The Eyes
A teenage girl begins a career as a prostitute.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Donato (archive footage)
as Dr. Lucidi
as Castello
as Marini
as Sir Manuel Carmargue
as Charles Dutilleul
as Dr. Sernich
as Diego Ortiz De Vilhegas
as Lamanna
as Carmine
as Rana von Bhithor
as Priest
as Augusto Pinna
as De Carlo
as Fillipo Fillici
as voce narrante
as Arthur
as Zabo the Great
as Commissario Matthäi
as André Val-Bergot
as Inspector Pastori
as Villeneuve
as Signor Falzoni
as Archimede (archive footage)
as Vincenti Donettelli
as Father Eugenio
as Embajador Francisco Lara
as dottor Paluzzi
as Salim Douad
as Count Frankenstein
as Italian Major
as Tedesco
as Lorenzo del Cambio
as Sheriff
as Andrea, the Surgeon
as Adolfo Rogano
as Baron de Coyne
as Capt. Sevilla
as Beckerman
as Giovanni
as Brigoli
as Ross Simpson
as Zeno Stavrik
as Karim Lazanos
as Dr. Hamilton
as Giorgio
as Fernando Moschino
as l'araldo
as Carlos Matabosch
as Phineas T. Prune
as Guy Foster
as Inspector General
as Antonio Dorigo
as Alex Staphos
as Lorenzo
as (archive footage)
as Mario Menacci
as Claudio DeSantis
as Count Paolo Barbarelli
as Leo (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
as Self
as Fabio
as Roberto Orlandi
as Self
as Signor Naccarelli
as Self - Co-Host
as Lucien Bonaparte
as Archimede
as Julio Vaccarous
as Vittorio
as Charles Edouard de Valhubert
as Luc Ferrand
as Emile De Becque
as Paul Bonnard
as Carlo Landi
as Tonio Fischer
as Self
as Bertrand
as Conte Federico Confalonieri
as Renato de Rossi
as Dino Moriani
as Nino
as Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini
as Le comte de Cavour
as Giuseppe Guardini
as Georgio Bianchi
as Lt. Mario Grandi
as Juan Pablo de Osuna
as Cesare Borgia
as Philippe de Lagardère
as Volpintesta
as Conte de la Fere aka Athos
as Self
as Conte Grilli
as Sigfrido, conte di Treviri
as Vladimir Dubrovskij
as Pietro
as Andrés
as Enrico Toselli
as Saro Costa
as Donato
as Mario
as Professor Bhaer
as Stefano Pelloni
as Antonio
as Renzo Gamba
as Vladimir Dubrowskij
as Paolo Sivera
as Guido, il diplomatico
as (segment "Non commettere atti impuri")
as Andrea Corsi
as Pablo, Radrennfahrer und Clown
as Jacopo Foscari
as Lamberto Finquinaldo
as Leo Kovalenski
as Leo Kovalenski
as William
as dottor Roberto Frassi
as Guido Fuser
as Francesco I
as Mario Cavaradossi
as Fred
as Michele Donato
as Comandante Mario Marchi
as Simmia