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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franco Fabrizi (Cortemaggiore, 15 February 1926 - Cortemaggiore, 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor. Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film. When he was 24 years old, with a few experience in cinema, has got a small important roll in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut. Federico Fellini offers him the starring role in I vitelloni. In Italy, he was considerated the Cary Grant all'italiana.
Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor active from the 1950s through the 1990s, often cast as the charming but shallow cad in popular Italian cinema.
He is best known for his role as the lady-killer Fausto in Federico Fellini's I Vitelloni, as well as performances in Nights of Cabiria and A Difficult Life.