Renato Salvatori
| Renato Salvatori | |
|---|---|
 Salvatori in L'Harem (1967) | |
| Born |
20 March 1933 Seravezza, Italy |
| Died |
27 March 1988 (aged 55) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1952–1981 |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Girardot (1962-1988: his death) |
Renato Salvatori (20 March 1933 – 27 March 1988) was an Italian multi-purpose character actor.
Biography
Salvatori was born in Seravezza, Province of Lucca.
His acting career as a teenager playing juvenile romantic roles. After working with series of major directors, including Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, in the 1960s, he developed into one of Italy's strongest characters actors in grim and realistic drama.
He met French actress Annie Girardot on the set of the 1960 movie Rocco and His Brothers and married her on 6 January 1962. In sharp contrast to their off-camera relationship, in the movie Salvatori played a boxer-turned-thug who viciously rapes Annie, who played a prostitute. They had a daughter, Giulia; later they separated but never divorced.
Salvatori died in Rome of cirrhosis of the liver.
Selected filmography
- Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (1952)
- Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero (1952)
- I tre corsari (1953)
- What Scoundrels Men Are! (1953)
- La domenica della buona gente (1953)
- Public Opinion (1954)
- Era di venerdì 17 (Sous le ciel de Provence) (1956)
- Poveri ma belli (1956)
- Belle ma povere (1957)
- Classe di ferro (1957)
- La nonna Sabella (1957)
- Mariti in città (1957)
- Marisa la civetta (1957)
- Promesse di marinaio (1958)
- Io, mammeta e tu (1958)
- Poveri milionari (1958)
- I soliti ignoti (1958)
- La nipote Sabella (1958)
- Mogli pericolose (1958)
- Nella città l'inferno (1958)
- Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
- Vento del sud (1959)
- Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959)
- I magliari (1959)
- Era notte a Roma (1960)
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)
- La ciociara (1960)
- Un giorno da Leoni (1961)
- Smog (1962)
- Il baro (1962)
- Uno dei tre (1962)
- La banda Casaroli (1962)
- Il disordine (1962)
- Omicron (1963)
- I compagni (1963)
- Le glaive et la balance (1963)
- La vedova (1964)
- Extraconiugale (1964)
- Three Nights of Love (1964)
- Una bella grinta (1965)
- La ragazza del bersagliere (1966)
- 100 ragazze per un playboy (1966)
- L'harem (1967)
- Queimada (1969)
- Z (1969)
- Il faro in capo al mondo (The Light at the Edge of the World) (1971)
- Gli scassinatori (Le casse) (1972)
- La prima notte di quiete (1972)
- L'amerikano (État de siège) (1972)
- La mia legge (Les granges brulées) (1973)
- Una breve vacanza (1973)
- Il sospetto (1975)
- Flic Story (1975)
- Lo zingaro (Le gitan) (1975)
- Todo modo (1976)
- Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore (1976)
- L'ultima donna (1976)
- Cadaveri eccellenti (1976)
- Quel giorno il mondo termerà (1977)
- Kimblim (1978) - TV
- Ernesto (1979)
- La luna (1979)
- Oggetti smarriti (1980)
- La cicala (1980)
- Asso (1981)
- La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981)