Alberto Tavazzi

Alberto Tavazzi (1912–2006) was an Italian painter, art director and occasional actor.

From 1939 Tavazzi began working on the design and construction of film sets. He was a friend of the director Roberto Rossellini, who cast him in the title role as a Catholic Priest in his 1943 war film The Man with a Cross.Bondanella p.37 Tavazzi played a priest again in Rossellini's 1945 neorealist drama Rome, Open City.

Selected filmography

Art director

Equator (1939) Toto and the King of Rome (1951)

Actor The Man with a Cross (1943) Rome, Open City (1945) No Turning Back (1945)

References

Bibliography Bondanella, Peter. The Films of Roberto Rossellini. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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