Umberto Orsini
He achieved prominence as a stage actor in Luchino Visconti's company,[1] before becoming known to general audiences for his roles in RAI television dramas.He enrolled in the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, and graduated in 1954.He began his professional stage career as a founding member of Milan's Compagnia dei Giovani, under the direction of Giorgio De Lullo and Romolo Valli.After several supporting roles, including in the star-studded international production Candy, Orsini made his breakthrough in Visconti's The Damned, playing a disillusioned industrialist in 1930s Germany whose anti-Nazi views leave him a target of the new regime.The role earned Orsini praise from Italian critics, and he won that year's Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor.