Rufus (born 19 December 1942) or Zio Vittorio is the

stage name A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians. Such professional aliases are adopted for a wide variety of reasons and they may be similar, or nearly identical, to an individu ...

of Italian-French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known to international film audiences for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in ''

Amélie ''Amélie'' (also known as ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''; ; en, The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, italic=yes) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume L ...

'' (2001).

Career

After three years at medical school, he became a theatre manager. He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations. Debuting as a di ...

. He played the lead role in the movie ''

Train de vie ''Train of Life'' (in French ''Train de vie''; in Romanian ''Trenul vieţii'') is a 1998 tragicomedy film by France, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Romania made in the French language. It tells the story of an eastern European Jewish village's pl ...

'' (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the

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Personal life

He lives in

Neauphle-le-Château Neauphle-le-Château () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. History Neauphle-le-Château gained international fame in 1978 when, on October 8, Iranian Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Kh ...

in the

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the regions of France, admin ...

and has three children; his daughter Zoé Narcy and his son Basile Narcy are themselves actors.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rufus 1942 births Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French male film actors French male stage actors French male television actors French male writers People from Riom