Rome – Gabriele Ferzetti, the silently seductive Italian actor who rose to international prominence during the 1950’s and 60’s, when he played a dissolute playboy opposite Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonioni’s melancholy masterpiece “L'Avventura,” died in Rome on Wednesday. He was 90.
Ferzetti’s stage, screen and TV career spanned seven decades all the way to his role as a Milanese patriarch in Luca Guadagnino’s “I Am Love,” in 2009.
His more memorable international credits – among more than 160 titles – comprise playing Lot in John Huston’s “The Bible,” the role of Morton the railroad baron in “Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West,” and mob boss Draco in 1969 James Bond pic “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
In Italy Ferzetti worked with many of the best directors of his day, including opposite Gina Lollobrigida in Mario Soldati’s “La Provinciale,” with Elio Petri (“We Still Kill The Old Way”), Ettore Scola,...
Ferzetti’s stage, screen and TV career spanned seven decades all the way to his role as a Milanese patriarch in Luca Guadagnino’s “I Am Love,” in 2009.
His more memorable international credits – among more than 160 titles – comprise playing Lot in John Huston’s “The Bible,” the role of Morton the railroad baron in “Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West,” and mob boss Draco in 1969 James Bond pic “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
In Italy Ferzetti worked with many of the best directors of his day, including opposite Gina Lollobrigida in Mario Soldati’s “La Provinciale,” with Elio Petri (“We Still Kill The Old Way”), Ettore Scola,...
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