Francesco Golisano (25 June 1930 in

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– 21 December 1991 in

Velletri Velletri (; la, Velitrae; xvo, Velester) is an Italian ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, approximately 40 km to the southeast of the city centre, located in the Alban Hills, in the region of Lazio, central Italy. Neighbouring comm ...

) was an Italian film actor. He was an employee of the Post Office when film director

Renato Castellani Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 in Varigotti, Liguria – 28 December 1985 in Rome) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Early life Son of a representative of Kodak, he was born in Varigotti, a hamlet at the time of Final Pia, ...

held auditions to appear in ''

Under the Sun of Rome ''Under the Sun of Rome'' ( it, Sotto il sole di Roma) is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Renato Castellani. It was the first film of Castellani's Italian neorealism trilogy about poor people, followed by '' È primavera...'' in 1949 and Cann ...

'' (1948). Golisano was chosen along with other young people of the street, and played the part of Geppa. This led to more work with filmmaker Giorgio Bianchi. In 1951, Golisano played his most famous role - the kind-hearted Totò in Vittorio De Sica's '' Miracle in Milan'', which won the

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at the

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. He appeared in two more films in 1952. After six films Golisano abandoned his acting career and retired to private life. He spent his last 20 years living in the town of

in the province of Rome. He died in 1991, at age 61, of natural causes. He is survived by his two children, Patrizia (born in Rome) and Fabrizio (born in Velletri).

Filmography

* '' Sotto il sole di Roma'' (1948) aka ''Under the Sun of Rome'' * ''

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'' (1949) * '' Il Caimano del Piave'' (1951) * '' Miracolo a Milano'' (1951) aka ''Miracle in Milan'' * ''

A Thief in Paradise ''A Thief in Paradise'' is a 1925 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by George Fitzmaurice, and adapted by Frances Marion from Leonard Merrick's 1900 novel ''The Worldlings''.

'' (1952) * '' Una Croce senza nome'' (1952) * ''

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'' (1952)

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* . {{DEFAULTSORT:Golisano, Francesco 1929 births 1991 deaths Male actors from Rome 20th-century Italian male actors