He was born in Detroit on the 12th of November 1920. After acting in theatre when he was a child, he debuted in 1934 in The world moves on, a movie directed by John Ford.
One of the fathers of the Italian cinema of the second post-war period. He was born in Vaprio d’Adda in the province of Milan on the 14th of November 1914. His father Felice was a composer.