Highest rated movie: Lion of the Desert (1981)
Lowest rated movie: A Time to Die (1982)
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Looking for reviews of Raf Vallone movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,235 reviews across 23 movies.
Movies starring Raf Vallone have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
Lion of the Desert - released in 1981 - is Raf Vallone's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 64 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Raf Vallone is A Time to Die - released in 1982 - with a score of 41% based on 3 reviews.
Raffaele "Raf" Vallone (17 February 1916 – 31 October 2002) was an Italian actor and an international film star.
Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm. He played professional Football at a young age, playing in Serie A for Torino. He won an Italian Cup with his team in season 1935-1936. Subsequently, he became the editorial head of the culture section of L'Unità, then the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, and also a film and drama critic for the Turin newspaper La Stampa. During World War II, Vallone served with the Communist resistance.
His first film appearance was as a sailor in We the Living (1942), but Vallone was not interested in an acting career. Nevertheless, he was cast as a soldier competing with Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice) (1949). The film became a neo-realist classic and Vallone was launched on an international career. In 2001 he published his autobiography, L'alfabeto della memoria, with Gremese (Rome).
Vallone was married to the actress Elena Varzi from 1952 until his death. They had three children, two of whom are actors, Eleonora Vallone and Saverio Vallone.
He died in Rome on 31 October 2002.
Raf Vallone has acted in films with Christopher Plummer, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn and Patrick O'Neal.
Raf Vallone has worked with these film directors: Otto Preminger, Paul Wendkos, Francis Ford Coppola and Roger Corman.
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