Raf Vallone

Raffaele "Raf" Vallone (17 February 1916 – 31 October 2002) was an Italian actor and an international film star. Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm. He played professional Football at a young age, playing in Serie A for Torino. He won an Italian Cup with his team in season 1935-1936. Subsequently, he became the editorial head of the culture section of L'Unità, then the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, and also a film and drama critic for the Turin newspaper La Stampa. During World War II, Vallone served with the Communist resistance. His first film appearance was as a sailor in We the Living (1942), but Vallone was not interested in an acting career. Nevertheless, he was cast as a soldier competing with Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice) (1949). The film became a neo-realist classic and Vallone was launched on an international career. In 2001 he published his autobiography, L'alfabeto della memoria, with Gremese (Rome). Vallone was married to the actress Elena Varzi from 1952 until his death. They had three children, two of whom are actors, Eleonora Vallone and Saverio Vallone. He died in Rome on 31 October 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raf Vallone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tropea, Calabria, Italy, 1916-02-17

Died: 2002-10-31

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	Bitter Rice	Marco	74
2	1950	Under the Olive Tree	Francesco Dominici	70
3	1950	The White Line	Domenico	58
4	1950	The Path of Hope	Saro Cammarata	75
5	1951	Il bivio	Aldo Marchi	60
6	1951	The Forbidden Christ	Bruno Baldi	63
7	1951	Anna	Andrea	73
8	1952	Rome 11:00	Carlo the artist	77
9	1952	Don Juan's Night of Love	Mandrin	0
10	1952	Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi	Giuseppe Garibaldi	60
11	1952	The Eyes Leave a Trace	Martín Jordán	62
12	1952	Sunday Heroes	Gino Bardi	67
13	1953	Perdonami!	Marco Gerace	30
14	1953	Thérèse Raquin	Laurent	66
15	1954	Daughters of Destiny	Callias (segment "Lysistrata")	40
16	1954	The Boarder	Silvio, il sindaco di Pontorno	61
17	1954	Storm	André	0
18	1954	Human Torpedoes	Carlo Ferri	70
19	1954	Obsession	Aldo Giovanni	65
20	1955	Le souffle de la liberté	Gérard	58
21	1955	The Sign of Venus	Ignazio Bolognini	69
22	1956	Sister Angele's Secret	Marcello Maglione	0
23	1956	Passionate Summer	Angelo	35
24	1956	Liebe	Andrea Ambaros	0
25	1957	Rose Bernd	Arthur Streckmann	63
26	1957	Guendalina	Guido Redaelli, padre di Guendalina	65
27	1958	The Violet Seller	Fernando	68
28	1958	Revenge	Luis el Torcido	58
29	1958	No Escape	Gino Carsone	47
30	1960	The Apartment	Alberto Fiorini	80
31	1960	Recourse in Grace	Mario di Donati	10
32	1960	Two Women	Giovanni	78
33	1961	El Cid	Count Ordóñez	68
34	1962	A View from the Bridge	Eddie Carbone	63
35	1962	Phaedra	Thanos Kyrilis	57
36	1963	The Cardinal	Cardinal	65
37	1964	The Secret Invasion	Roberto Rocca	57
38	1965	Dangerous Pleasures	Suo Marito	45
39	1965	Harlow	Marino Bello	54
40	1966	Nevada Smith	Father Zaccardi	68
41	1966	Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die	Mr. Ardonian	67
42	1967	The Desperate Ones	Victor	0
43	1968	Volver a vivir	Luis Rubio	0
44	1968	1001 Nights	Hixxum	47
45	1969	The Italian Job	Altabani	70
46	1970	The Kremlin Letter	Puppet Maker	61
47	1970	Death Occurred Last Night	Amanzio Berzaghi	63
48	1970	Cannon for Cordoba	Córdoba	56
49	1972	Summertime Killer	Lazaro Alfredi	57
50	1973	Honor Thy Father	Joseph Bonnano	40
51	1973	The Small Miracle	Father Superior	0
52	1973	The Catholics	Father General	53
53	1974	Simona	Marcelle's Uncle	33
54	1974	The Girl in Room 2A	Mr. Dreese	55
55	1975	Rosebud	George Nikolaos	49
56	1975	That Lucky Touch	General Peruzzi	60
57	1975	The Human Factor	Dr. Lupo	57
58	1977	The Other Side of Midnight	Constantin Demeris	58
59	1977	The Devil's Advocate	Bishop Aurelio	80
60	1978	Fame	Driver	0
61	1978	The Greek Tycoon	Spyros Tomasis	55
62	1979	An Almost Perfect Affair	Freddie	45
63	1980	Retour à Marseille	Michel - un émigré de retour à Marseille	25
64	1981	Lion of the Desert	Colonel Diodiece	73
65	1981	Season of Peace in Paris		51
66	1982	A Time to Die	Genco Bari	35
67	1982	I Remember Nelson	Caracciolo	0
68	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Father Vittorio	70
69	1985	Power Of Evil		50
70	1988	Der Bierkönig	Der Baron	0
71	1990	A Season of Giants	Ambasciatore spagnolo	65
72	1990	The Godfather Part III	Cardinal Lamberto	74
73	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	actor 'The Cardinal' (archive footage) (uncredited)	77
74	1992	The First Circle	Pyotr Makaraguine	48
75	1992	Mit dem Herzen einer Mutter	Fedrico DeConti	0
76	1999	Toni	The Old Man	45
77	2001	Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein	Nonno	50

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
2	1957	Jane Eyre	Rochester	0
3	1963	Il mulino del Po	Lazzaro Scacerni	0
4	1985	Christopher Columbus	Jose Vizinho	65
5	1985	Goya	Canónigo Duaso	60
6	1989	Sabbath	Alejandro VI	0