Background
He was born on 16 February 1939 in Zagarolo, Italy.
He was born on 16 February 1939 in Zagarolo, Italy.
He appeared in over 90 films between 1961 and 2010. He died on 12 October 2010 in Tivoli, Italy due to cardiac arrest. He is perhaps best known to non-Italian audiences as Fabrizio in The Godfather.
Fabrizio was a bodyguard to Michael Corleone who was hiding in Sicily.
Fabrizio betrays Michael by setting up explosives in his car, but kills his new bride instead. In the novel, Fabrizio is later shot dead in revenge for killing Michael.
This scene was filmed but cut from the motion picture before its theatrical release. lieutenant appears in the 1977 The Godfather: A Novel for Television, which combined the first two films - The Godfather and Godfather II, adding back scenes that had been previously cut and telling the story chronologically beginning with Vito Andolini"s childhood in Sicily.