Alberto Tavazzi

Alberto Tavazzi
Tavazzi in Rome, Open City (1945)
Born	(1912-03-25)25 March 1912 Rome, Lazio Kingdom of Italy
Died	22 April 2006(2006-04-22) (aged 94) Rome, Lazio Italy
Occupation(s)	Art director Actor
Years active	1939–1966 (film)

Alberto Tavazzi (1912–2006) was an Italian painter^{[citation needed]}, art director and occasional actor.

From 1939 Tavazzi began working on the design and construction of film sets.^{[citation needed]} 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)
• No Turning Back (1945)

References

Bibliography

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

External links

• Alberto Tavazzi at IMDb