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Gabriele Ferzetti

Pasquale Ferzetti | Gabriel Ferzetti | Gaetano Ferzetti

About the person
Career:

Acting

Date of birth:
1925-03-17
Place of birth:

Rome, Italy

Gender:

Male

Popularity:

1

Date of death

2015-12-02

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Biography

Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man.

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