Giustino Durano (5 May 1923 – 18 February 2002) was an Italian actor best known for his work as Eliseo Orefice in the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful.

[1] For his role, he was nominated in part for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.

[2] The movie is centered on his nephew Guido and his son Giosuè.

In the movie, he is the head waiter of a hotel dining room.

While at the camp, he was separated from his nephew and later killed in a gas chamber along with several other elderly people.