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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.
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Raf Vallone Biography / Wiki
| Name | Raf Vallone |
| Also Know | Раф Валлоне |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tropea, Calabria, Italy |
| Date of Birth | February 17, 1916 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 86 |
| Deathday | 2002-10-31 |
Raf Vallone Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Path of Hope | Saro Cammarata | 1950-11-22 | The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships…. |
| The Eyes Leave a Trace | MartÃn Jordán | 1952-09-12 | Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Rob… |
| Vengeance | Luis ‘El Torcido’ | 1958-05-02 | After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, John is free. He is determined to kill Luis “The Twisted”, which believes that is th… |
| Under the Olive Tree | Francesco Dominici | 1950-09-10 | A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of war camp. He finds that the local landowner has stolen his … |
| A View from the Bridge | Eddie Carbone | 1962-01-19 | Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from… |
| Don Juan’s Night of Love | Mandrin | 1952-03-08 | … |
| Retour à Marseille | Michel – un émigré de retour à Marseille | 1980-01-02 | Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years later… |
| Storm | André | 1954-04-16 | … |
| Il bivio | Aldo Marchi | 1951-03-19 | After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime… |
| Sunday Heroes | Gino Bardi | 1952-12-30 | Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he … |
| Perdonami! | Marco Gerace | 1953-02-18 | The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother…. |
| Recourse in Grace | Mario di Donati | 1960-05-19 | Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his… |
| The Forbidden Christ | Bruno Baldi | 1951-06-08 | Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis…. |
| The Apartment | Alberto Fiorini | 1960-01-01 | A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model…. |
| Human Torpedoes | Carlo Ferri | 1954-01-01 | A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring atta… |
| Dangerous Pleasures | Suo Marito | 1965-04-22 | Two married women on vacation decide to see who the better seductress is. When the local authorities investigate the death of a local prostitute, thei… |
| Volver a vivir | Luis Rubio | 1968-02-12 | A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by … |
| Obsession | Aldo Giovanni | 1954-10-28 | Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is i… |
| The Secret Invasion | Roberto Rocca | 1964-09-16 | During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission…. |
| Thérèse Raquin | Laurent | 1953-11-06 | Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret) and Laurent (Raf Vallone) think they’ve gotten away with murder after Thérèse’s weakling husband “fa… |
| The Girl in Room 2A | Mr. Dreese | 1974-07-01 | A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be th… |
| Death Occurred Last Night | Amanzio Berzaghi | 1970-09-05 | A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops ra… |
| The Violet Seller | Fernando | 1958-04-06 | On New Year’s Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets aristocrat Fernando. The couple falls in love but their dif… |
| The White Line | Domenico | 1950-09-26 | Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian. A white lin… |
| Rose Bernd | Arthur Streckmann | 1957-01-31 | West Germany’s entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The title character, played b… |
| The Boarder | Silvio, il sindaco di Pontorno | 1954-04-24 | A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who’s being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the sea… |
| Mit dem Herzen einer Mutter | Fedrico DeConti | 1992-11-22 | … |
| Der Bierkönig | Der Baron | 1988-01-01 | … |
| Red Shirts – Anita Garibaldi | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 1952-08-15 | The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination…. |
| Anna | Andrea | 1951-12-20 | Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who beco… |
| No Escape | Gino Carsone | 1958-06-25 | In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until … |
| Les Possédées | Angelo | 1956-05-30 | On a farm ,a handsome man woos three attractive women and sows discord among them…. |
| Love | Andrea Ambaros | 1956-09-26 | Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika…. |
| Harlow | Marino Bello | 1965-06-23 | Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both… |
| Two Women | Giovanni | 1960-12-22 | Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remo… |
| The “Human” Factor | Dr. Lupo | 1975-11-19 | After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible…. |
| El Cid | Count Ordóñez | 1961-10-24 | Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (“El Cid” to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeed… |
| Phaedra | Thanos | 1962-05-25 | A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis’s father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra… |
| The Greek Tycoon | Spyros Tomasis | 1978-05-12 | A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president…. |
| Honor Thy Father | Joseph Bonnano | 1973-03-01 | Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of N… |
| Cannon for Cordoba | Córdoba | 1970-10-01 | In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves fr… |
| Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die | Mr. Ardonian | 1966-09-08 | In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the w… |
| An Almost Perfect Affair | Freddie | 1979-04-27 | An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair … |
| Le souffle de la liberté | Gérard | 1955-01-01 | … |
| Fame | Driver | 1978-01-02 | A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film…. |
| Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein | Nonno | 2001-01-01 | Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son’s son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa’s 80t… |
| 1001 Nights | Hixxum | 1968-12-02 | Omar and his friend, Ali, returning to Moorish Granada after several years in the Middle East, discover that an evil usurper is now in power. With the… |
| The Desperate Ones | Victor | 1967-01-01 | In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their… |
| The Catholics | Father General | 1973-11-29 | Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has elimin… |
| Toni | The Old Man | 1999-01-20 | Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one’s roots. The protagonist, Toni, is a young man from a small village in… |
| Bitter Rice | Marco | 1949-09-30 | Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. Sh… |
| The Scarlet and the Black | Father Vittorio | 1983-02-02 | Fr. Hugh O’Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His… |
| The Other Side of Midnight | Constantin Demeris | 1977-06-08 | When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he’ll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marri… |
| The Sign of Venus | Ignazio Bolognini | 1955-03-12 | Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her…. |
| Simona | Marcelle’s Uncle | 1974-02-22 | While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sex… |
| Guendalina | Guido Redaelli, padre di Guendalina | 1957-03-14 | Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of… |
| A Time To Die | Genco Bari | 1982-03-26 | A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian w… |
| I Remember Nelson | Caracciolo | 1982-04-14 | Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson’s remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story … |
| The Italian Job | Altabani | 1969-06-02 | Charlie’s got a ‘job’ to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose … |
| Lion of the Desert | Colonel Diodiece | 1981-04-17 | This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a … |
| Season of Peace in Paris | 1981-07-01 | A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures,… | |
| Nevada Smith | Father Zaccardi | 1966-06-10 | Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and… |
| The First Circle | Pyotr Makaraguine | 1992-02-25 | In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante’s Inferno), a spec… |
| That Lucky Touch | General Peruzzi | 1975-08-07 | A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO … |
| Rome 11:00 | Carlo the artist | 1952-02-27 | The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads overcrowding in the building and a tragic acciden… |
| Summertime Killer | Lazaro Alfredi | 1972-07-01 | During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His la… |
| The Devil’s Advocate | Bishop Aurelio | 1977-10-26 | A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canoni… |
| The Godfather Part III | Cardinal Lamberto | 1990-12-25 | In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sin… |
| Rosebud | George Nikolaos | 1975-03-24 | In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film c… |
| The Kremlin Letter | Puppet Maker | 1970-02-01 | When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government’s willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Ron… |
| A Season of Giants | Ambasciatore spagnolo | 1991-11-04 | … |
| Daughters of Destiny | Callias (segment “Lysistrata”) | 1954-01-21 | Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d’Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war w… |
| The Cardinal | Cardinal | 1963-12-12 | A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal…. |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor ‘The Cardinal’ (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 | This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me… |
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