--- name: "Amedeo Nazzari" canonical: "https://film.one/person/amedeo-nazzari" fi1m_id: "amedeo-nazzari" imdb_id: "nm0623443" tmdb_id: 31989 wikidata_id: "Q460648" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 December 1907" died: "5 November 1979" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T08:06:02.904570+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Amedeo Nazzari ## Identity Amedeo Nazzari - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/amedeo-nazzari - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** amedeo-nazzari - **IMDb ID:** nm0623443 - **TMDB ID:** 31989 - **Wikidata ID:** Q460648 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Nazzari, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460648, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31989 Actor. Born 10 December 1907 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Died 5 November 1979. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 December 1907, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy - **Died:** 5 November 1979 - **Also known as:** Salvatore Amedeo Buffa, Amadeo Nazzari, Amedeo Carlo Leone Buffa, Амедео Наццари, Амедео Надзари - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Nazzari, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460648, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31989 ## Biography Amedeo Nazzari (born Amedeo Carlo Leone Buffa) was an Italian actor. He was born on 10 December 1907 in Cagliari, Sardinia, and died on 5 November 1979 in Rome. He adopted his professional name from his maternal grandfather. Nazzari began his career in the theatre with companies including those of Annibale Ninchi and Marta Abba before making his film debut in 1935. His breakthrough came with the 1938 film *Luciano Serra, Pilot*. He appeared in numerous Italian films through the 1940s and 1950s, including *The Bandit* (1946), for which he received the Nastro d'Argento for best actor, and several melodramas directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. In 1957 he played Alberto Lazzari in Federico Fellini's *Nights of Cabiria*. Nazzari later worked in television and received a David di Donatello career award in 1979. He married actress Irene Genna in 1957; their daughter Maria Evelina also became an actress. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), Fi1m 88, as Alberto Lazzari — [page](https://film.one/film/nights-of-cabiria.md) ## Complete filmography (120) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti* (1977), Actor - *Origins of the Mafia* (1976), series, as The Senator - *A Matter of Time* (1976), as Tewfik - *Derrick* (1974), series, as Dr. Pinaldi - *The Valachi Papers* (1972), as Gaetano Reina - *The Sicilian Clan* (1969), as Tony Nicosia - *Rebecca (La prima moglie)* (1969), as Massimo De Winter - *The Column* (1968), as Traian - *Spy Today, Die Tomorrow* (1967), as Bardo Baretti - *The Poppy Is Also a Flower* (1966), as Captain Di Nonno - *Delitto d'amore* (1966), as François Derroux - *Le donne del Tenente Sheridan* (1965), series, as Frank Morgan - *The Captain's Daughter* (1965), series, as Pugacëv - *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Thanks - *Il gaucho* (1964), as Marucchelli - *Wherever You Are* (1964), as Max Branzeri - *Summer Frenzy* (1964), as Marcello - *The Little Nuns* (1963), as Livio Bertana - *The Shortest Day* (1963), as Soldato strabico col pallottoliere - *Straße der Verheißung* (1962), as Herr im seidenen Anzug - *La leggenda di Fra Diavolo* (1962), as General Hugo - *The Black Invaders* (1962), as Ruiz / André Leboeuf - *Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?* (1962), Actor - *The Corsican Brothers* (1961), as Orlandi - *The Best of Enemies* (1961), as Maj. Fornari - *Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile* (1961), as Amenophis IV - *Journey Beneath the Desert* (1961), as Tamal - *La contessa azzurra* (1960), as Salvatore Acierno - *The Devil Made a Woman* (1959), as Coronel - *Labyrinth* (1959), as Professor De Lattre - *Il mondo dei miracoli* (1959), as Il presentatore alla conferenza stampa - *Il raccomandato di ferro* (1959), as The State Secretary - *Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura* (1959), as Carabiniere (uncredited) - *The Naked Maja* (1958), as Prime Minister Manuel Godoy - *Melancholy Autumn* (1958), as Andrea, capitano del mercantile - *Il cielo brucia* (1958), as Carlo Casati - *Fast and Sexy* (1958), as Ciccone - *Nights of Cabiria* (1957), as Alberto Lazzari — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nights-of-cabiria.md) - *Manos sucias* (1957), as Miguel - *La puerta abierta* (1957), as Embajador Michel de Caroli - *Pasional* (1956), Actor - *L'ultimo amante* (1955), as Cesare Monti - *Forbidden* (1955), as Costantino Corraine - *The Intruder* (1955), as Carlo Conti - *The White Angel* (1955), as L'ingegnere Guido Carani - *Passionately* (1954), as Andrea Morandi - *The Rebels of Lomanach* (1954), as Jacques Barnaud - *Torna!* (1954), as Roberto Varesi - *Pietà per chi cade* (1954), as Carlo Savelli - *I Always Loved You* (1953), as Massimo - *A Husband for Anna* (1953), as Il dottor Illuminato - *The World Condemns Them* (1953), as Paolo Martelli - *He Who Is Without Sin...* (1952), as Stefano Brunot - *La fiammata* (1952), as colonnello Felt - *The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo* (1952), as Capitano Giordani - *Times Gone By* (1952), as Andrea Fabbri (segment "La morsa") - *The City Stands Trial* (1952), as Prosecutor Antonio Spicacci - *Sensualità* (1952), as Riccardo Sartori - *We Are All Murderers* (1952), as Docteur Detouche (version italienne) - *Nobody's Children* (1951), as Guido Canali - *Last Meeting* (1951), as Piero Castelli - *Double Cross* (1951), as Pietro - *White Leprosy* (1951), as Francesco Leverrier, ispettore di polizia - *Volver a la vida* (1951), Actor - *Outlaw Girl* (1950), as Beppe Musolino - *The King's Guerrillas* (1950), as Michele Pezza detto 'Fra Diavolo' - *Mountain Smugglers* (1950), as Major Mauri - *Alina* (1950), as Giovanni - *Il vedovo allegro* (1950), as Professor De Carlo - *Love and Poison* (1950), as Franco Santinelli - *Tormento* (1950), as Carlo Guarnieri - *Lure of the Sila* (1949), as Rocco Barra - *L'invasore* (1949), as conte Carlo di Valfreda - *Romanticismo* (1949), as Vitaliano Lamberti - *Chains* (1949), as Guglielmo Aniello - *Don Juan de Serrallonga* (1949), as Don Juan de Serrallonga - *Conflicto inesperado* (1948), as Damian, the butler - *The Captain's Daughter* (1947), as Pugaciov - *Il cavaliere del sogno* (1947), as Gaetano Donizetti - *Fatalità* (1947), as Renato Scalesi - *Cuando los ángeles duermen* (1947), as Blin / Paolo Rivera - *Malacarne* (1946), as zu Bastiano - *The Bandit* (1946), as Ernesto - *A Day in the Life* (1946), as Captain De Palma - *Woman of the Mountains* (1944), as Rodolfo Morigi - *Apparizione* (1943), as Se stesso - *Quelli della montagna* (1943), as Tenente Andrea Fontana - *Harlem* (1943), as Amedeo Rossi - *Giorni felici* (1943), as Michele - *Il romanzo di un giovane povero* (1942), as Massimo Odiot - *Fedora* (1942), as Loris Ipanov / Ivan Petrovic - *The Taming of the Shrew* (1942), as Petruccio - *The Jester's Supper* (1942), as Neri Chiaramontesi - *Bengasi* (1942), as Filippo Colleoni - *Sleeping Beauty* (1942), as Salvatore, aka 'Il Nero della solfara' - *Sancta Maria* (1942), as Paolo Wronski - *Villa da vendere* (1941), as Franco Gádori - *Il cavaliere senza nome* (1941), as Bernardino Visconti - *Scampolo* (1941), as Tito Scacchi - *I mariti* (1941), as Fabio Regoli - *Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto* (1941), as Michelangelo Merisi, il "Caravaggio" - *L'ultimo ballo* (1941), as Il professore Stefano Boronkay - *L'uomo del romanzo* (1940), as Pietro Lanfranchi - *Chunky shoes* (1940), as Stefano Di Marco - *Dopo divorzieremo* (1940), as Phil Gilder - *A Hundred Thousand Dollars* (1940), as Woods - *È sbarcato un marinaio* (1940), as Gianni / Hans - *Beyond Love* (1940), as Pietro Mirilli - *La notte delle beffe* (1939), as Capatosta - *Cose dell'altro mondo* (1939), as Jack - *You Love Me, I Love You* (1939), as Doctor Carlo Cristiani - *Montevergine* (1939), as Rocco - *La casa del peccato* (1938), as Giulio - *Fuochi d'artificio* (1938), as Gerardo di Jersay - *Luciano Serra, Pilot* (1938), as Luciano Serra - *Il conte di Bréchard* (1938), as Francesco di Bréchard - *I fratelli Castiglioni* (1937), as Fulvio Castiglioni - *La fossa degli angeli* (1937), as Pietro - *Cavalleria* (1936), as Umberto Solaro - *Ginevra degli Almieri* (1935), as Antonio Rondinelli ## Gallery - ![Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film italiano La contessa azzurra (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/3875399/gallery-d76779a770a4.png) Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film italiano La contessa azzurra (1960) — Claudio Gora (director), Partenope Cinematografica (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/La_contessa_azzurra_%281960%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png/1280px-La_contessa_azzurra_%281960%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Amedeo Nazzari](https://film.one/media/person/3875399/gallery-de1ca6aea34b.png) Amedeo Nazzari — Film diretto da Jean de Limur e prodotto da Cines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Amedeo_Nazzari_-_Apparizione_%281943%29.png/1280px-Amedeo_Nazzari_-_Apparizione_%281943%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film per la televisione La cena delle beffe (1965)](https://film.one/media/person/3875399/gallery-247f3094c40a.png) Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film per la televisione La cena delle beffe (1965) — Guglielmo Morandi (director), RAI (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/La_cena_delle_beffe_%281965%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png/1280px-La_cena_delle_beffe_%281965%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film italiano Le monachine (1963).](https://film.one/media/person/3875399/gallery-f55f185a05b3.png) Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film italiano Le monachine (1963). — Luciano Salce (director), Erico Menczer (cinematographer), Hesperia Cinematografica (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Le_monachine_%281963%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png/1280px-Le_monachine_%281963%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Danielle De Metz e Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film Odio mortale (1962)](https://film.one/media/person/3875399/gallery-4c324c60d244.jpg) Danielle De Metz e Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film Odio mortale (1962) — Franco Montemurro (director), Aldo Scavarda (cinematographer), Morino Film (production), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Odio_mortale_%281962%29_De_Metz_e_Nazzari.jpg/1280px-Odio_mortale_%281962%29_De_Metz_e_Nazzari.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film Frenesia dell'estate (1964), girato in Italia.](https://film.one/media/person/3875399/gallery-322cb7f05bf6.png) Amedeo Nazzari in una scena del film Frenesia dell'estate (1964), girato in Italia. — Luigi Zampa (director), Marcello Gatti (cinematographer), Maleno Malenotti (producer)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Frenesia_dell%27estate_%281964%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png/1280px-Frenesia_dell%27estate_%281964%29_Amedeo_Nazzari.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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