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Raf Vallone
17 February 1916
Raf Vallone played in 8 movies in the Crime, Drama, Romance, Action, Biography, War, Comedy, Thriller, Western, Music genres.
Raf Vallone got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian flicks known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a preceding soccer player who time after time was compared to 'Burt Lancaster' (qv), was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Cambria, Italy, the son of a outstanding attorney-at-law and his aristocratic mate. At the University of Turin, Vallone took degrees in law and philosophy and then entered his generate's law firm. Vallone played semi-competent soccer but never realize... d his of fitting a skilled athlete. Subsequently, he became a sports reporter for L'Unita, a communist newspaper, and also a drama critic with a view La Stampa. During Dialect birth b deliver Combat II, Vallone served with the anti-Fascist resistance. His maiden job as a movie actor was a bit voice in _Noi vivi (1942)_ (qv) (aka, "We the Living"), but Vallone was not no laughing matter in the matter of acting as a career. Hired as a researcher on a film about labor unrest, director 'Giuseppe De Santis' (qv) cast Vallone as a soldier competing with 'Vittorio Gassman' (qv) in spite of the beau of 'Silvana Mangano' (qv) in what became the neo-realist classic _Riso amaro (1949)_ (qv) ("Bitter Rice"). The steam propelled Vallone, pronounced a artist actor near De Santis, into international stardom and ended his journalism pursuit. Vallone became a big falling star in Italy in the 1950s and then a virtuoso in the extensive film vigour, making movies in Italian, French and English. Vallone achieved trend with American audiences in the 1960s, starting with his supporting roles in _La ciociara (1960)_ (qv) ("Two Women") and _El Cid (1961)_ (qv), both co-starring 'Sophia Loren' (qv). Other major actresses he co-starred with on film and fake included 'Gina Lollobrigida' (qv), 'Anna Magnani' (qv), 'Melina Mercouri' (qv), 'Simone Signoret' (qv), and 'Elena Varzi' (qv), to whom he was married recompense 52 years, until his extinction in 2002. Vallone's oldest "American" role was as the incest-minded Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone in 'Sidney Lumet' (qv)'s film of 'Arthur Miller (I)' (qv)'s _Vu du pont (1962)_ (qv) ("A View from the Tie"). Other prominent roles in American films included 'Otto Preminger' (qv)'s _The Essential (1963)_ (qv), 'Roger Corman' (qv)'s _The Secret Drive (1964)_ (qv), _Harlow (1965/I)_ (qv) starring 'Carroll Baker' (qv), and 'Henry Hathaway' (qv)'s _Nevada Smith (1966)_ (qv). Vallone played many priests during his yearn career, culminating with the cardinal-confessor of mobster Michael Corleone, a abbess who becomes pope and is murdered by the Mafia, in 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv)'s _The Godfather: As regards III (1990)_ (qv). Appearing for the other side, Vallone was great as the Mafia boss Altabani in the original _The Italian Job (1969)_ (qv).Read more Less
