Raf Vallone, who sprang untrained from journalism and professional soccer to one of the most long-running, internationally successful careers of any Italian actor of his generation, died Oct. 31 in ...

Phaedra proves a number of things: that Jules Dassin knows how to direct a movie; that antique Greek tragedy can be done as modern cinema brilliantly and meaningfully; that Melina Mercouri is as ...

Raf Vallone is dead at 86. The young man from Calabria who came to Turin to become a professional footballer and went on to become an international film star died this morning in Rome’s Villa Pia. He ...

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 ...