ACTOR

Rossano Brazzi

1916 - 1994

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Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He moved to Hollywood in 1948 and was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), followed by the leading male role in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn. In 1958, he played the lead as Frenchman Emile De Becque in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rossano Brazzi has received more than 1,153,196 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Rossano Brazzi is the 2,806th most popular actor (down from 1,788th in 2019), the 2,938th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,175th in 2019) and the 105th most popular Italian Actor.

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  • 21

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  • 2.99

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  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rossano Brazzi ranks 2,806 out of 13,578Before her are Dyan Cannon, Margo Martindale, Leonardo Favio, María Baxa, Tim Matheson, and Wu Ma. After her are Julie Kavner, Virginia Mayo, Ray Walston, Amanda Peet, Evelyn Nesbit, and Josh Radnor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Rossano Brazzi ranks 139Before her are Maurice Bavaud, Arno Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Iosif Shklovsky, Jackie Gleason, and Movita Castaneda. After her are Charlie Christian, Sudirman, José López Rega, Jurij Brězan, Carlo Rustichelli, and Wan Li. Among people deceased in 1994, Rossano Brazzi ranks 167Before her are Igor Chislenko, Oldřich Černík, Nick Cravat, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Bassel al-Assad, and Mildred Natwick. After her are John Osborne, Madeleine Renaud, Abdullah al-Sallal, Patrick O'Neal, Kurt Aland, and Paul Grimault.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Rossano Brazzi ranks 2,938 out of 5,161Before her are Felice Bonetto (1903), Amedeo Nazzari (1907), Corrado Bafile (1903), John, Duke of Randazzo (1317), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), and Augusto Genina (1892). After her are Bruno Mattei (1931), Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826), Salvatore Garau (1953), Giovanni della Casa (1503), Armando Picchi (1935), and Aemilia Tertia (-230).

Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Rossano Brazzi ranks 105Before her are Jimmy Fontana (1934), Francesca Bertini (1892), Sergio Castellitto (1953), Toni Servillo (1959), Franca Rame (1929), and Amedeo Nazzari (1907). After her are Maria Grazia Cucinotta (1968), Giovanna Ralli (1935), Agostina Belli (1949), Rosalinda Celentano (1968), Anna Galiena (1954), and Angelo Beolco (1496).