Saro Urzì

Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films In the Name of the Law, The Railroad Man (1956), Seduced and Abandoned (1964), which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and The Godfather (1972).

Biography Born in Sicily, 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 as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's first wife Apollonia.

Selected filmography

The Dream of Butterfly (1939) La conquista dell'aria (1939) Senza cielo (1940) - Un portatore Tosca (1941) - (uncredited) Marco Visconti (1941) La compagnia della teppa (1941) Pia de' Tolomei (1941) A Pistol Shot (1942) - Uno dei servitori alla scampagnata (uncredited) Giorno di nozze (1942) Odessa in fiamme (1942) - (uncredited) Harlem (1943) Special Correspondents (1943) - Un soldato The Peddler and the Lady (1943) - (uncredited) The Innkeeper (1944) La freccia nel fianco (1945) - (uncredited) Tombolo, paradiso nero (1947) Immigrants (1948) In the Name of the Law (1949) - Il maresciallo Grifò Monastero di Santa Chiara (1949) - Il direttore del teatro Hand of Death (1949) - zingaro Marco Pact with the Devil (1950) Hawk of the Nile (1950) - Sahid Mistress of the Mountains (1950) - sindaco Giusà Barrier to the North (1950) - Il brigadiere Path of Hope (1950) - Ciccio Ingaggiatore Il monello della strada (1950) - Il commissario The Crossroads (1951) - Il brigadiere Carmelo Carlin La vendetta del corsaro (1951) - Aguirre Trieste mia! (1951) The Counterfeiters (1951) - Maresciallo Terlizi Black Fire (1951) Little World of Don Camillo (1952) - Brusco A Mother Returns (1952) The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952) - Police commissioner Siceli Fratelli d'Italia (1952) Io, Amleto (1952) The Return of Don Camillo (1953) - Brusco - il barbiere Cronaca di un delitto (1953) - Martino Beat the Devil (1953) - Captain of SS Nyanga Rivalry (1953) Public Opinion (1954) Cañas y barro (1954) - Cañamel Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954) - Il capocomico I cinque dell'Adamello (1954) - Briscola Don Camillo's Last Round (1955) - Brusco, il parucchiere / Brusco, le coiffeur La ladra (1955) - Il Caporale Motivo in maschera (1955) The Railroad Man (1956) - Gigi Liverani Engaged to Death (1957) - Tulio Marchands de filles (1957) (1957) - Polizist Emilio Dinanzi a noi il cielo (1957) - Padre di Tom A Man of Straw (1958) - Beppe Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen (1958) - Koch Peppino ...And the Wild Wild Women (1959) - Maresciallo del carcere Son of the Red Corsair (1959) - Mendoza I mafiosi (1959) The Facts of Murder (1959) - Maresciallo Saro Seven in the Sun (1960) - Fernand Ça va être ta fête (1960) - Alvarez Cavalcata selvaggia (1960) Les filles sèment le vent (1961) - Buonacasa A Day for Lionhearts (1961) - Il sergente Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961) - Brusco, il sindaco

Lo sgarro (1962) Divorzio alla siciliana (1963) Seduced and Abandoned (1964) - Don Vincenzo Ascalone The Sucker (1965) - Tagliella, un garagiste à Naples (uncredited) Don Camillo in Moscow (1965) - Brusco Mission to Caracas (1965) - Emile Vasson Le Chant du monde (1965) - Carle Fortuna (1966) - Monsieur Simon Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) - 2nd Praying Man Modesty Blaise (1966) - Basilio The Road to Corinthe (1967) - Kalhides Gente d'onore (1967) Vivre la nuit (1968) Serafino (1968) - Uncle Agenore Un caso di coscienza (1970) - Pharmacist La prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo (1970) - The doctor Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo, col complesso della buonanima (1971) - John Cardaci The Godfather (1972) - Signor Vitelli - Sicilian Sequence Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) - Maria Rosa's father Black Turin (1972) - Jaco Il caso Pisciotta (1972) - Don Vincenzo Coluzzi Sgarro alla camorra (1973) Il figlioccio del padrino (1973) - Don Salvatore Trizzino Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975) - Corporal Martucci Giovannino (1976) - Giovannino's father Occhio alla vedova! (1976)