Ugo Sasso
Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910), was an Italian film and television actor.
Ugo Sasso | |
|---|---|
 Ugo Sasso in The Iron Crown (1941) | |
| Born | March 23, 1910 Turin, Italy |
| Died | ? |
| Occupation | Actor |
Life and career
Born in Turin, in the early 1930s Sasso moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.[1][2] He made his film debut in 1934, in Alessandro Blasetti's The Old Guard, and until his retirement in 1973 he appeared in over 100 films, sometimes in main roles.[1] He was mainly active in the adventure, historical and peplum film genres.[1] Also active on television, he was sometimes credited as Hugo Arden.[3]
Selected filmography
- The Amnesiac (1936)
- Joe the Red (1936)
- Tonight at Eleven (1938)
- Guest for One Night (1939)
- The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941)
- Light in the Darkness (1941)
- Rita of Cascia (1943)
- La Fornarina (1944)
- The Ten Commandments (1945)
- Les Misérables (1948)
- Anthony of Padua (1949)
- The Lion of Amalfi (1950)
- Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
- Cavalcade of Heroes (1950)
- The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino (1951)
- The Queen of Sheba (1952)
- Altri tempi (1952)
- Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952)
- Disowned (1954)
- The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)
- Girls of Today (1955)
- The Two Friends (1955)
- The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)
- David and Goliath (1960)
- Goliath and the Dragon (1960)
- Terror of the Red Mask (1960)
- The Giant of Metropolis (1961)
- Revenge of the Conquered (1961)
- Sword in the Shadows (1961)
- Between Shanghai and St. Pauli (1962)
- I diavoli di Spartivento (1963)
- Hercules the Invincible (1964)
- Desert Raiders (1964)
- Terror of the Steppes (1964)
- Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)
- Adventures of the Bengal Lancers (1964)
- Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
- Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1968)
- Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
References
- Ida Biondi (28 April 2007). "Ugo Sasso: Era dallo straripamento del Pecos che non vedevo tanto sudiciume!". MyMovies. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-183-5.
- Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Gremese 2006, pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-88-8440-425-1.
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