Ugo Sasso | |
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 Ugo Sasso in The Iron Crown (1941) | |
| Born | March 23, 1910 Turin, Italy |
| Died | July 21, 1981 (aged 71) |
| Occupation | Actor |
Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television actor.
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. [1] He was mainly active in the adventure, historical and peplum film genres. [1] Also active on television, he was sometimes credited as Hugo Arden. [3]
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