Saro Urzì
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Saro Urzì, (born Rosario Urzì, Catania, February 24 1913 - San Giuseppe Vesuviano, November 1 1979) 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.
