Birthname: Rossano Brazzi
| Sign | Virgo |
| Born |
Sep 18, 1916
Bologna, Italy |
| Died |
Dec 24, 1994
Rome, Italy |
| Age | Died at 78 |
Rossano Brazzi |
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| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1939-94 |
| Top Roles | Emile De Becque, Renato de Rossi, Count Vincenzo Torlato, Giorgio, Charles Edouard de Valhubert |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Romance (Drama), Book-Based, Italy, Based on Play, Romance (Comic) |
| Top Collaborators | Delmer Daves (Director), Jean Negulesco (Director), Mari Aldon, Gertrude Flynn, Bessie Love, June Allyson, David Lean (Director), Norma Varden |
| Also Born on September 18 | |
| Also Born in 1916 | |
| Also a Virgo | |
Rossano Brazzi Overview:
Legendary actor, Rossano Brazzi, was born on Sep 18, 1916 in Bologna, Italy. Brazzi died at the age of 78 on Dec 24, 1994 in Rome, Italy .
MINI BIO:
A former lawyer who, after 15 years in the Italian cinema, became one of Hollywood's Latin lovers. The light-haired, courteous, romantic Italian he projected with such relaxed ease was perhaps an extension of his own long and happy marriage. Unable or unwilling, however, to change the image, his international appeal decreased after a few years, and he became involved in a succession of increasingly unlikely ventures. Once claimed to have made 200 films. Died (on Christmas Eve) from a virus affecting the nervous system. (Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).HONORS and AWARDS:
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Brazzi was never nominated for an Academy Award.
Rossano Brazzi BlogHub Articles:
Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi in "Summertime"
Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi in "Summertime" Summertime (1955) romance directed by David Lean and starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi. The film is based on the play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents. Jane Hudson (Hepburn) is a middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, wh... Read full article
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Rossano Brazzi Quotes:
Paul Bonnard:
Walking alone in the desert is wonderful. It's like walking on the face of a clock that's stopped.
— From: Legend of the Lost
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Rossano Brazzi Facts
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In 1937, in his twenties, he earned his law degree, and was sent by his father to practice law in Rome with an established lawyer who was a friend of the family. While there he was approached by a theatrical company.
In 1940, Brazzi married Florentine Baroness Lidia Bertolini (1921-1981). She developed a serious endocrine dysfunction and the couple were unable to have children. She died of pancreatic cancer in 1981. Four years after his wife's death he married a German woman, Ilse Fischer. She survived him.
Made films in France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Great Britain. He starred in several popular telenovelas and TV movies in Italy and at least two European (and one American) television series.
Was a native of Bologna and studied law in Florence before World War II.
Lost both parents to the Fascist Italian government and, according to some sources, was active in the Resistance during the war.