Amedeo Nazzari
Amedeo Nazzari (actually Salvatore Leone Amedeo Carlo Buffa, born December 10, 1907 in Cagliari, † November 5, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian actor.
Life
Amedeo Nazzari broke off to study engineering in favor of a career as an actor and was first in the theater with the troops of Annibale Ninchi, Marta Abba, Luigi Pirandello and Tatiana Pavlova worked. In 1935, he came to the film and debuted under the direction of Guido Brignone in Ginevra degli Almieri. In the following years he worked as a cavalry captain in the melodrama Cavalleria (1936) and the war film Luciano Serra pilota (1938 ), both by Goffredo Alessandrini, successfully. Beffe His appearance in La cena delle Blasettis Alessandro (1938 ) is considered one of Nazzaris best acting performances. He was so next to Vittorio de Sica become one of the most elegant and most popular male performers of the Italian cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. In the first half decades after the Second World War remained his popularity with the public continues unabated. 1949 marked Raffaello Matarazzo's melodrama Catene the beginning of a long-standing partnership with film actress Yvonne Sanson. In Federico Fellini Nazzari played in Le Notti di Cabiria (1956 ) a disillusioned movie star.
From the 1960s he was mostly used only in supporting roles, but resigned it in numerous international productions, including Henri Verneuil's Le clan of Sicily (1969) and Vincente Minnelli's A Matter of Time (1976 ) on. Nazzari was at this time also 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; Nazzari stars as himself