Rossano Brazzi

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Rossano Brazzi
Brazzi in 1952
Born	18 September 1916 Bologna, Kingdom of Italy
Died	24 December 1994(1994-12-24) (aged 78) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1939–1994
Spouses	Lidia Bertolini ​ ​ (m. 1940; died 1981)​ Ilse Fischer ​ (m. 1984)​

Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994)^[1] 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.^[2] In 1958, he played the lead as Frenchman Emile De Becque in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), opposite Joan Crawford, Count Your Blessings (1959), Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969).