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

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. From 1939 Tavazzi began working on the design and construction of

film set A set is artificially constructed scenery used in theatre, film and TV. In the latter two cases there are many reasons to build or use a set instead of travelling to a real location, such as budget, time, the need to control the environment, or ...

s. He was a friend of the director

Roberto Rossellini Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such ...

, who cast him in the title role as a Catholic Priest in his 1943 war film ''

The Man with a Cross ''The Man with a Cross'' ( it, L'uomo dalla croce) is a 1943 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt and Attilio Dottesio. It was the final part of Rossellini's "Fascist trilogy" following '' ...

''.Bondanella p.37 Tavazzi played a priest again in Rossellini's 1945 neorealist drama ''

Rome, Open City ''Rome, Open City'' ( it, Roma città aperta, also released as ''Open City'') is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in ...

''.

Selected filmography

Art director

* '' Equator'' (1939) * ''

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'' (1951)

Actor

* ''

'' (1943) * ''

'' (1945)

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1912 births 2006 deaths Italian male film actors Italian art directors Male actors from Rome 20th-century Italian male actors {{Italy-actor-stub