From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raffaele "Raf" Vallone (17 February 1916 – 31 October 2002) was an Italian actor and an international film star. Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm. He played professional Football at a young age, playing in Serie A for Torino. He won an Italian Cup with his team in season 1935-1936. Subsequently, he became the editorial head of the culture section of L'Unità, then the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, and also a film and drama critic for the Turin newspaper La Stampa. During World War II, Vallone served with the Communist resistance. His first film appearance was as a sailor in We the Living (1942), but Vallone was not interested in an acting career. Nevertheless, he was cast as a soldier competing with Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice) (1949). The film became a neo-realist classic and Vallone was launched on an international career. In 2001 he published his autobiography, L'alfabeto della memoria, with Gremese (Rome). Vallone was married to the actress Elena Varzi from 1952 until his death. They had three children, two of whom are actors, Eleonora Vallone and Saverio Vallone. He died in Rome on 31 October 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raf Vallone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein | Nonno | 2001-01-01 |
Movie | Toni | The Old Man | 1999-01-20 |
Movie | The First Circle | Pyotr Makaraguine | 1992-02-25 |
Movie | Mit dem Herzen einer Mutter | Fedrico DeConti | 1992-11-22 |
Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'The Cardinal' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 |
Movie | The Godfather Part III | Cardinal Lamberto | 1990-12-25 |
Movie | The Black Moon | Alejandro VI (archive footage) | 1990-04-14 |
Movie | A Season of Giants | Ambasciatore spagnolo | 1990-11-04 |
Movie | Der Bierkönig | Der Baron | 1988-01-01 |
Series | Christopher Columbus | Jose Vizinho | 1985-03-07 |
Movie | Power Of Evil | 1985-08-01 | |
Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Father Vittorio | 1983-02-02 |
Movie | A Time To Die | Genco Bari | 1982-03-26 |
Movie | I Remember Nelson | Caracciolo | 1982-04-14 |
Movie | Lion of the Desert | Colonel Diodiece | 1981-04-17 |
Movie | Season of Peace in Paris | 1981-07-01 | |
Movie | Retour à Marseille | Michel - un émigré de retour à Marseille | 1980-09-10 |
Movie | An Almost Perfect Affair | Freddie | 1979-04-27 |
Movie | Fame | Driver | 1978-01-02 |
Movie | The Greek Tycoon | Spyros Tomasis | 1978-05-12 |
Movie | The Devil's Advocate | Bishop Aurelio | 1977-10-26 |
Movie | The Other Side of Midnight | Constantin Demeris | 1977-06-08 |
Movie | Rosebud | George Nikolaos | 1975-03-24 |
Movie | That Lucky Touch | General Peruzzi | 1975-08-07 |
Movie | The Human Factor | Dr. Lupo | 1975-11-19 |
Movie | Simona | Marcelle's Uncle | 1974-02-22 |
Movie | The Girl in Room 2A | Mr. Dreese | 1974-07-01 |
Movie | Honor Thy Father | Joseph Bonnano | 1973-03-01 |
Movie | The Catholics | Father General | 1973-11-29 |
Movie | Summertime Killer | Lazaro Alfredi | 1972-07-01 |
Movie | Death Occurred Last Night | Amanzio Berzaghi | 1970-09-05 |
Movie | The Kremlin Letter | Puppet Maker | 1970-02-01 |
Movie | Cannon for Cordoba | Córdoba | 1970-10-01 |
Movie | The Italian Job | Altabani | 1969-06-02 |
Movie | 1001 Nights | Hixxum | 1968-12-02 |
Movie | The Desperate Ones | Victor | 1967-01-01 |
Movie | Nevada Smith | Father Zaccardi | 1966-06-10 |
Movie | Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die | Mr. Ardonian | 1966-09-08 |
Movie | Harlow | Marino Bello | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | Dangerous Pleasures | Suo Marito | 1965-04-22 |
Movie | The Secret Invasion | Roberto Rocca | 1964-09-16 |
Movie | The Cardinal | Cardinal | 1963-12-12 |
Movie | Phaedra | Thanos Kyrilis | 1962-05-25 |
Movie | A View from the Bridge | Eddie Carbone | 1962-01-19 |
Movie | El Cid | Count Ordóñez | 1961-10-24 |
Movie | Recourse in Grace | Mario di Donati | 1960-05-19 |
Movie | The Apartment | Alberto Fiorini | 1960-01-01 |
Movie | Two Women | Giovanni | 1960-12-22 |
Movie | The Violet Seller | Fernando | 1958-04-06 |
Movie | Revenge | Luis el Torcido | 1958-05-02 |
Movie | No Escape | Gino Carsone | 1958-06-25 |
Movie | Rose Bernd | Arthur Streckmann | 1957-01-31 |
Movie | Guendalina | Guido Redaelli, padre di Guendalina | 1957-03-14 |
Movie | The Sign of Venus | Ignazio Bolognini | 1955-03-12 |
Movie | Le souffle de la liberté | Gérard | 1955-01-01 |
Movie | Daughters of Destiny | Callias (segment "Lysistrata") | 1954-01-21 |
Movie | The Boarder | Silvio, il sindaco di Pontorno | 1954-02-25 |
Movie | Obsession | Aldo Giovanni | 1954-10-28 |
Movie | Storm | André | 1954-04-16 |
Movie | Human Torpedoes | Carlo Ferri | 1954-05-07 |
Movie | Perdonami! | Marco Gerace | 1953-02-18 |
Movie | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent | 1953-11-06 |
Movie | Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 1952-08-15 |
Movie | Rome 11:00 | Carlo the artist | 1952-02-27 |
Movie | Don Juan's Night of Love | Mandrin | 1952-03-08 |
Movie | The Eyes Leave a Trace | Martín Jordán | 1952-09-12 |
Movie | Sunday Heroes | Gino Bardi | 1952-12-30 |
Movie | The Forbidden Christ | Bruno Baldi | 1951-06-08 |
Movie | Il bivio | Aldo Marchi | 1951-03-19 |
Movie | Anna | Andrea | 1951-12-20 |
Movie | Under the Olive Tree | Francesco Dominici | 1950-09-10 |
Movie | The White Line | Domenico | 1950-09-26 |
Movie | The Path of Hope | Saro Cammarata | 1950-11-22 |
Movie | Bitter Rice | Marco | 1949-09-30 |