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Actor Born: September 18, 1916 in Bologna, Italy Death: December 24, 1994 in Rome, Italy Biography:Bologna-born "Rosanno Brazzi" abandoned his law studies at San Marco University when his parents were killed by fascists. Becoming an actor, Brazzi rapidly rose to matinee-idol status after his film debut in 1939; but while making faces before the Mussolini-controlled cameras by day, he was tirelessly active in the Resistance by night. He made his first Hollywood film, "Little Women," in 1949, but it was his multi-hued portrayal of the impotent Count Vincenzo Toriato-Faurini in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954) that won him international stardom. He went on to play such suave Europeans as Renato di Rossi in "Summertime" (1955) and Emile DeBecque in "South Pacific" (1958), after which his film roles tended to become routine and repetitive. An occasional visitor to television after his first small-screen appearance on a 1960 episode of The June Allyson Show, Brazzi was a regular on the "Harold... Full Biography
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