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Anthony Franciosa. Actor. 25 October 1928 to 19 January 2006. Handsome, Italian-American Franciosa announced his arrival in movies with an Oscar nomination for his performance in A Hatful of Rain (1957). He starred in a number of TV series, and took roles in films such as Long Hot Summer (1958), Fathom (1967), The Drowning Pool (1975) and City ...
Jan 19, 2006 · Anthony Franciosa burst onto the scene (after several years' servitude in bit parts) in the 1955 drug-addiction play A Hatful of Rain. He was brought to Hollywood to recreate his stage role in Rain-- winning an Oscar nomination for his part--but his first film appearance was as a taciturn nightclub owner in the MGM comedy This Could Be the Night.
Vittorio Gassman. Actor: Sleepers. Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball player. He debuted on stage in 1943 and soon felt home in all classical theatre works. Since 1946 he also worked at the movies and his first big role there was the criminal in Bitter Rice (1949). This fixed him to his main parts: The ambiguous gentleman inflicting pain and pleasure ...
Jul 13, 2020 · Suspecting her last husband, Tony Franciosa, of carrying on with Anna Magnani, Winters tucked a butcher knife (again!) into her purse and raced up to Magnani’s penthouse apartment in a Hollywood ...
Biography. A handsome, forceful, compact leading man of Italian descent with an easy, lithe manner and walk and an aggressive, sly quality not unlike Burt Lancaster, Franciosa first established himself on stage with a powerful turn as the brother of a drug addict in Michael V Gazzo's play "A Hatful of Rain" (1956).
Jan 23, 2006 · Franciosa's first television series was the short-lived Valentine's Day (1964-65), but The Name of the Game (1968-71), was a hit in which he alternated with Gene Barry and Robert Stack as ...
Anthony Franciosa nació el 25 de octubre de 1928 en Nueva York. Nominado al Oscar como Mejor Actor en 1957 por Un sombrero lleno de lluvia , su segundo film, junto a Eva Marie Saint . En ese año trabaja en A Face in the Crowd ( Un rostro en la oscuridad ), de Elia Kazan , y en A Hatful of Rain (Un sombrero lleno de lluvia) de Fred Zínnemann ...
