Rossano Brazzi

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).

He was named after Rossano Veneto, where his father was stationed during his military service in World War I. Brazzi attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four.

[1][2] Early Italian roles included Tosca (1941), The Hero of Venice (1941), The King's Jester (1941), A Woman Has Fallen (1941) and We the Living (1942) with Alida Valli.

After the war, Brazzi was in The Black Eagle (1946), The Great Dawn (1947), Fury (1947), Bullet for Stefano (1947), The Courier of the King (1947), and The White Devil (1947).

After Il conte Aquila (1955) he made some British movies, Loser Takes All (1956), and The Story of Esther Costello (1957) then went to Hollywood for Interlude (1957) with June Allyson, Legend of the Lost (1957) with John Wayne and Sophia Loren, South Pacific (1958) with Mitzi Gaynor, and A Certain Smile (1958) with Joan Fontaine.

Eccentricities Brazzi was known in film production circles for a number of strange traits, including his preference for ordering off-menu and his love of karaoke.