Biography
Vittorio Duse (21 March 1916 – 2 June 2005) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He trained at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia and began his career with small roles in the early 1940s.
One of his earliest credited parts was as a police officer in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione (1943). He appeared in numerous Italian films, including The Leopard (1963) and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), and took on international roles such as Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III (1990) and Zi Vittorio in The Sopranos (2000).
Duse also directed and wrote three films in the mid-1950s. In 1989 he played Nonno in Queen of Hearts and received the Jury Distinction Award at the Montréal World Film Festival.
