Amedeo Nazzari

Amedeo Nazzari (actually Amedeo Carlo Leone Buffa ; born December 10, 1907 in Cagliari , † November 5, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .

Life

Amedeo Nazzari dropped out of engineering studies in favor of a career as an actor and first worked in the theater with the troops of Annibale Ninchi , Marta Abba , Luigi Pirandello and Tatiana Pavlova . In 1935 he came to film and made his debut under the direction of Guido Brignone in Ginevra degli Almieri . In the following years he was successful as a cavalry captain in the melodrama Cavalleria (1936) and the war film Luciano Serra pilota (1938), both by Goffredo Alessandrini . His appearance in Alessandro Blasetti's La cena delle beffe (1938) is considered one of Nazzari's best acting performances. Alongside Vittorio de Sica, he became one of the most elegant and popular male actors in Italian film in the 1930s and 1940s. Even in the first decade and a half after the Second World War, its popularity with the public remained unbroken. In 1949, Raffaello Matarazzo's melodrama Catene marked the beginning of a long-term film partnership with actress Yvonne Sanson . With Federico Fellini , Nazzari played a disappointed film star in Le Notti di Cabiria (1956).

From the 1960s onwards he was mostly only used in supporting roles, but appeared in numerous international productions, including Henri Verneuil's Le clan des Siciliens (1969) and Vincente Minnelli's Nina - Just a Question of Time (A Matter of Time , 1976), on. During this time, Nazzari was also a television actor in films and series such as La donna di cuori (1969) by Leonardo Cortese . In 1978 his last film Melodrammore by Maurizio Constanzo was released ; Nazzari plays himself in it.

Filmography (selection)

• 1938: Between Life and Death (Luciano Serra pilota)
• 1942: Benghazi
• 1942: Fedora
• 1942: Knock-Out (Harlem)
• 1946: Bandito (The Bandit) (Il bandito)
• 1947: Gaetano Donizetti / Princess Waldenburg's last love (Il cavaliere del sogno)
• 1947: Uprising in Siberia (Il figlia del capitano)
• 1949: The Wolf of the Sila Mountains (Il lupo della Sila)
• 1949: Atonement without Sin (Catene)
• 1950: Duel in the mountains (Barriera a Settentrione)
• 1950: Fair game (Il brigante Musolino)
• 1950: Between love and vice (Alina)
• 1950: A mother's sacrifice (Tormento)
• 1951: women and rebels (Donne e briganti)
• 1951: Erotic (Ultimo incontro)
• 1951: Mother's love, mother's suffering (I figli di nessuno)
• 1951: Sensuality (Sensualità)
• 1952: We are all murderers (Siamo tutti assassini)
• 1952: The Song of Treason (Processo alla citta)
• 1952: The rebel of Tacca del Lupo (Il brigante del Tacca del Lupo)
• 1952: Those who live by love (Il mondo le condanna)
• 1953: Curse of Beauty (Un marito per Anna Zaccheo)
• 1953: Heart between the Fronts / Blood Wedding (Les révoltes de Lomanach)
• 1954: Forbidden (Proibito)
• 1955: women behind bars (Angelo bianco)
• 1957: The nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)
• 1957: Heaven in Flames (Il cielo brucia)
• 1958: Anna of Brooklyn (Anna di Brooklyn)
• 1958: The Naked Maja (The Naked Maja)
• 1959: Clumsy makes a career (Policarpo de Tapetti)
• 1959: labyrinth
• 1959: The girl from Granada (Carmen de Granada)
• 1961: Nefertiti - Queen of the Nile (Nefertite, regina del Nilo)
• 1961: The Corsican Brothers (I fratelli corsi)
• 1961: lovable opponents (I due nemici)
• 1961: The mistress of Atlantis (Antinea, l'amante della città sepolta)
• 1962: The gray galley (Odio mortale)
• 1962: Do you think Constanze is behaving correctly?
• 1962: Promise Street
• 1963: Crazy Summer (Frenesia dell'estate)
• 1966: The Poppy Is Also a Flower (The Poppy Is Also a Flower)
• 1966: Mister Dynamit - Tomorrow death will kiss you
• 1968: The Tyrant (Columno lui Trajan)
• 1969: The Clan of Sicilians (Le Clan des Siciliens)
• 1972: The Valachi Papers (Carteggio Valachi)
• 1976: Nina - A Matter of Time
• 1976: Derrick : The Man from Portofino (episode 29)

Award

• 1947: Nastro d'Argento as best leading actor for Il bandito .

Web links

• Amedeo Nazzari in the Internet Movie Database (English)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 622.
• Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): Lexikon Filmschauspieler International , 1st edition, Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 621 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lexicon of Film Actors, Henschel Verlag 1995