Alberto Tavazzi

Alberto Tavazzi
Born	25 March 1912 Rome, Lazio Italy
Died	22 April 2006 (aged 94) Rome, Lazio Italy
Occupation	Painter Art director Actor
Years active	1939 - 1966 (film)

Alberto Tavazzi (1912–2006) was an Italian painter, art director and occasional actor.

From 1939 Tavazzi began working on the design and construction of film sets. He was a friend of the director Roberto Rossellini, who cast him in the title role as a Catholic Priest in his 1943 war film The Man with a Cross.^[1] Tavazzi played a priest again in Rossellini's 1945 neorealist drama Rome, Open City.

Selected filmography

Art director

• Equator (1939)
• Toto and the King of Rome (1951)

Actor

• The Man with a Cross (1943)
• Rome, Open City (1945)

References

1. Bondanella p.37

Bibliography

• Bondanella, Peter. The Films of Roberto Rossellini. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

External links

• Alberto Tavazzi at the Internet Movie Database