--- name: "Saro Urzì" canonical: "https://film.one/person/saro-urzi" fi1m_id: "saro-urzi" imdb_id: "nm0882237" tmdb_id: 119431 wikidata_id: "Q752652" roles: [] born: "24 February 1913" died: "2 November 1979" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-25T06:41:14.603851+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." --- # Saro Urzì ## Identity Saro Urzì - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/saro-urzi - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** saro-urzi - **IMDb ID:** nm0882237 - **TMDB ID:** 119431 - **Wikidata ID:** Q752652 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saro_Urz%C3%AC, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752652, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882237/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119431 Actor. Born 24 February 1913 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Died 2 November 1979. ## Details - **Born:** 24 February 1913, Catania, Sicily, Italy - **Died:** 2 November 1979 - **Active:** 1953–1972 - **Also known as:** Rosario Urzì , Saro Urzzi , Саро Урци - **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 72 (1), 1970s 93 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saro_Urz%C3%AC, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752652, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882237/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119431 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Beat the Devil*](https://film.one/film/beat-the-devil.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Saro Urzì (born Rosario Urzì) was an Italian actor. Born in Catania, Sicily, on 24 February 1913, he died on 1 November 1979 in San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Campania. He began his career in the late 1930s and became known for character roles, particularly in films directed by Pietro Germi. He appeared in the Don Camillo series as Brusco and played the Captain of SS Nyanga in John Huston's *Beat the Devil* (1953). Other notable credits include *Seduced and Abandoned* (1964), for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and *The Godfather* (1972) as Signor Vitelli. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The Godfather* (1972), Fi1m 93, as Vitelli - Sicilian Sequence — [page](https://film.one/film/the-godfather.md) - *Beat the Devil* (1953), Fi1m 72, as Captain of SS Nyanga — [page](https://film.one/film/beat-the-devil.md) ## Complete filmography (81) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959* (2016), as Vitelli - *The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980* (1992), as Vitelli - *Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television* (1977), series, as Mr. Vitelli - *Giovannino* (1976), as Giovannino's Father - *Occhio Alla Vedova!* (1976), Actor - *The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal* (1975), as caporale Martucci - *The Godfather's Godson* (1973), as Don Salvatore Trizzino - *The Pisciotta Case* (1972), as Don Vincenzo Coluzzi - *Alfredo, Alfredo* (1972), as Maria Rosa's Father - *Black Turin* (1972), as Jaco - *The Godfather* (1972), as Vitelli - Sicilian Sequence — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/the-godfather.md) - *Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima* (1971), as Salvatore Uzzeda - *The Lovemakers* (1970), as The Doctor - *Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera* (1970), as John Cardaci - *Un caso di coscienza* (1970), as Farmacista - *Johnny Belinda* (1969), as John McDonald - *Serafino* (1968), as Uncle Agenore - *Love in the Night* (1968), Actor - *People of Honor* (1967), as Francesco 'Ciccio' Natale - *The Road to Corinth* (1967), as Khalidès - *Modesty Blaise* (1966), as Basilio - *Me, Me, Me... and the Others* (1966), as 2nd Praying Man - *Fortuna* (1966), Actor - *Song of the World* (1965), as Carle - *Mission to Caracas* (1965), as Emile Vasson - *Don Camillo in Moscow* (1965), as Brusco - *The Sucker* (1965), as Tagliella, le garagiste napolitain (non crédité) - *Seduced and Abandoned* (1964), as Don Vincenzo Ascalone - *Una storia di notte* (1964), as Peppino - *Divorzio alla siciliana* (1963), Actor - *Lo sgarro* (1963), as Carmelo - *Don Camillo: Monsignor* (1961), as Brusco, il sindaco - *A Day for Lionhearts* (1961), as Il sergente - *The Fruit Is Ripe* (1961), as Buonacasa - *There's Going to Be a Party* (1960), as Alvarez - *Seven in the Sun* (1960), as Fernand - *Cavalcata selvaggia* (1960), Actor - *I mafiosi* (1959), Actor - *The Facts of Murder* (1959), as Il Maresciallo P.S. - *Son of the Red Corsair* (1959), as Mendoza - *Hell in the City* (1959), as Maresciallo del carcere - *Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes* (1958), as Koch Peppino - *Man of Straw* (1958), as Beppe - *Jungle Girl and the Slaver* (1957), as Polizist Emilio - *Girl Merchants* (1957), as Mottina - *Engaged to Death* (1957), as Tullio - *Dinanzi a noi il cielo* (1957), as Padre di Tom - *The Railroad Man* (1956), as Gigi Liverani - *Don Camillo's Last Round* (1955), as il Brusco - *La ladra* (1955), as Il caporale - *Frisky* (1954), as Don Nicola - *I cinque dell'Adamello* (1954), as Briscola - *Reeds and Mud* (1954), as Cañamel - *Public Opinion* (1954), Actor - *Beat the Devil* (1953), as Captain of SS Nyanga — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/beat-the-devil.md) - *Cronaca di un delitto* (1953), as Martino - *The Return of Don Camillo* (1953), as Brusco - il barbiere - *Rivalità* (1953), as Fauci - l'assessore - *The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo* (1952), as Commissario Siceli - *I, Hamlet* (1952), Actor - *The Little World of Don Camillo* (1952), as Brusco - *Brothers of Italy* (1952), Actor - *Revenge of the Pirates* (1951), as Aguirre - *The Counterfeiters* (1951), as Commissario - *Il bivio* (1951), as Il brigadiere Carmelo Carlin - *Il monello della strada* (1950), as Il commissario - *The Path of Hope* (1950), as Ciccio Ingaggiatore - *Mountain Smugglers* (1950), as Hauptmann - *Lo sparviero del Nilo* (1950), as Sahid - *Streets of Sorrow* (1950), as Carlo - *Pact with the Devil* (1950), Actor - *People Like That* (1950), Actor - *Monastero di Santa Chiara* (1949), as Il direttore del teatro (uncredited) - *In the Name of the Law* (1949), as Il maresciallo Grifò - *La mano della morta* (1949), as zingaro Marco - *Tombolo* (1947), Actor - *The Peddler and the Lady* (1943), as Amico di Elide e Olga - *Senza cielo* (1940), as Portatore - *The Dream of Butterfly* (1939), Actor - *The Conquest of the Air*, Actor - *Una madre ritorna*, as Nino ## Gallery - ![Saro Urzì](https://film.one/media/person/289078/gallery-a3c8497c97d3.png) Saro Urzì — Sedotta-Urzì.png: Gawain78 at the Italian Wikipedia project. derivative work: Cavarrone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Saro_Urz%C3%AC_cropped.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Creato e caricato dall' Utente:Lodewijk_Vadacchino, screenshot del film "Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo", anno 1961.](https://film.one/media/person/289078/gallery-063ccf6f6d33.jpg) Creato e caricato dall' Utente:Lodewijk_Vadacchino, screenshot del film "Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo", anno 1961. — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Don_Camillo_Peppone_il_ritorno.jpg/1280px-Don_Camillo_Peppone_il_ritorno.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won - 1964: Best Actor (won), for *Seduced and Abandoned* ### Other awards — 2 won - Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor 1965: Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor (won), for *Seduced and Abandoned* - Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor 1949: Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor (won), for *In the Name of the Law* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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