Ugo Sasso Explained

Ugo Sasso
Birth Date:23 March 1910
Birth Place:Turin, Italy
Death Date: (aged 71)
Occupation:Actor

Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television 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. He was mainly active in the adventure, historical and peplum film genres. Also active on television, he was sometimes credited as Hugo Arden.[3]

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. News: Ida Biondi. Ugo Sasso: Era dallo straripamento del Pecos che non vedevo tanto sudiciume!. 5 September 2015. MyMovies. 28 April 2007.
  2. Book: Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni. 1998. Gremese Editore, 1998. 88-7742-183-5.
  3. Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Gremese 2006, pp. 99–100. .