Saro Urzì

Saro Urzì
Urzì in Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
Born	(1913-02-24)February 24, 1913 Catania
Died	November 1, 1979(1979-11-01) (aged 66)
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	actor

Saro Urzì, (born Rosario Urzì, February 24, 1913 in Catania – November 1, 1979 in San Giuseppe Vesuviano) was an Italian actor.

Biography

Born in Sicilia, he moved to Rome to seek his fortune.

He met Pietro Germi in 1949 and appears in Germi's In nome della legge, a film for which he won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actor. He became Germi's favourite actor, working together with him in Path of Hope (1950), The Railroad Man (1956), The Facts of Murder (1959), Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) and most notably Seduced and Abandoned in 1964. That film earned him Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Nastro d'Argento the following year.

He acted in Don Camillo sequels, John Huston's Beat the Devil, Luigi Comencini's Bread, Love and Jealousy, and international films such as Woman of Straw, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's love Apollonia.

Selected filmography

• A Pistol Shot (1942)
• The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
• The Innkeeper (1944)
• Pact with the Devil (1950)
• The Return of Don Camillo (1953)

External links

• Saro Urzì at the Internet Movie Database

Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Actor Andrea Checchi (1946) Amedeo Nazzari (1947) Vittorio De Sica (1948) Massimo Girotti (1949) Aldo Fabrizi (1951) Totò (1952) Renato Rascel (1953) Nino Taranto (1954) Marcello Mastroianni (1955) Alberto Sordi (1956) Marcello Mastroianni (1958) Vittorio Gassman (1959) Alberto Sordi (1960) Marcello Mastroianni (1961) Marcello Mastroianni (1962) Vittorio Gassman (1963) Ugo Tognazzi (1964) Saro Urzì (1965) Nino Manfredi (1966) Totò (1967) Gian Maria Volonté (1968) Ugo Tognazzi (1969) Nino Manfredi (1970) Gian Maria Volonté (1971) Riccardo Cucciolla (1972) Giancarlo Giannini (1973) Giancarlo Giannini (1974) Vittorio Gassman (1975) Michele Placido (1976) Alberto Sordi (1977) Nino Manfredi (1978) Flavio Bucci (1979) Nino Manfredi (1980) Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1981) Ugo Tognazzi (1982) Francesco Nuti (1983) Carlo Delle Piane (1984) Michele Placido (1985) Marcello Mastroianni (1986) Roberto Benigni (1987) Marcello Mastroianni (1988) Gian Maria Volonté (1989) Vittorio Gassman (1990) Marcello Mastroianni (1991) Roberto Benigni (1992) Diego Abatantuono (1993) Paolo Villaggio (1994) Alessandro Haber (1995) Sergio Castellitto (1996) Leonardo Pieraccioni (1997) Roberto Benigni (1998) Giancarlo Giannini (1999) Silvio Orlando (2000) Stefano Accorsi (2001) Sergio Castellitto (2002) Neri Marcorè / Gigi Proietti (2003) Alessio Boni / Fabrizio Gifuni / Luigi Lo Cascio / Andrea Tidona / Roberto Herlitzka (2004) Toni Servillo (2005) Pierfrancesco Favino / Kim Rossi Stuart / Claudio Santamaria (2006) Silvio Orlando (2007) Toni Servillo (2008) Toni Servillo (2009) Elio Germano / Christian De Sica (2010) Kim Rossi Stuart (2011) Pierfrancesco Favino (2012) Aniello Arena (2013) Fabrizio Bentivoglio / Fabrizio Gifuni (2014) Category

Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Supporting Actor 1946: Gino Cervi 1947: Massimo Serato 1948: Nando Bruno 1949: Saro Urzì 1951: Umberto Spadaro 1953: Gabriele Ferzetti 1954: Alberto Sordi 1955: Paolo Stoppa 1956: Memmo Carotenuto 1957: Peppino De Filippo 1958: Andrea Checchi 1959: Nino Vingelli 1960: Claudio Gora 1961: Enrico Maria Salerno 1962: Salvo Randone 1963: Romolo Valli 1964: Folco Lulli 1965: Leopoldo Trieste 1966: Ugo Tognazzi 1967: Gastone Moschin 1968: Gabriele Ferzetti 1969: Ettore Mattia 1970: Umberto Orsini / Fanfulla 1971: Romolo Valli 1972: Salvo Randone 1973: Mario Carotenuto 1974: Turi Ferro 1975: Aldo Fabrizi 1976: Ciccio Ingrassia 1977: Romolo Valli 1978: Carlo Bagno 1979: Vittorio Mezzogiorno 1980: Tomas Milian 1981: Massimo Girotti 1982: Paolo Stoppa 1983: Tino Schirinzi 1984: Leo Gullotta 1985: Leopoldo Trieste 1986: Gastone Moschin 1987: Diego Abatantuono 1988: Enzo Cannavale 1989: Fabio Bussotti 1990: Alessandro Haber 1991: Ennio Fantastichini 1992: Paolo Bonacelli 1993: Renato Carpentieri 1994: Alessandro Haber 1995: Marco Messeri 1996: Leopoldo Trieste 1997: Gianni Cavina 1998: Giustino Durano 1999: Antonio Catania / Riccardo Garrone / Vittorio Gassman / Giancarlo Giannini / Adalberto Maria Merli / Eros Pagni / Stefano Antonucci / Giorgio Colangeli / Giuseppe Gandini / Valter Lupo / Paolo Merloni / Carlo Molfese / Sergio Nicolai / Corrado Olmi / Mario Patanè / Pierfrancesco Poggi / Francesco Siciliano / Giorgio Tirabassi / Venantino Venantini / Andrea Cambi 2000: Felice Andreasi 2001: Giancarlo Giannini 2002: Leo Gullotta 2003: Diego Abatantuono 2004: Arnoldo Foà 2005: Raffaele Pisu 2006: Carlo Verdone 2007: Alessandro Haber 2008: Alessandro Gassman 2009: Ezio Greggio 2010: Ennio Fantastichini / Luca Zingaretti 2011: Giuseppe Battiston 2012: Marco Giallini 2013: Carlo Verdone Category