Biography
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 in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm. He played professional Football at a young age, playing in Serie A for Torino. He won an Italian Cup with his team in season 1935-1936. Subsequently, he became the editorial head of the culture sec...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
2001
as Nonno
Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th...

Toni
1999
as The Old Man
Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one's roots. The protagonist, Toni, is a young man from a small village in...
Mit dem Herzen einer Mutter
1992
as Fedrico DeConti
A woman loses her husband in a car accident and plunges into a severe emotional crisis, which is why she leaves her son in the care of her mother-in-l...

The First Circle
1992
as Pyotr Makaraguine
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a spec...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as actor 'The Cardinal' (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...

The Godfather Part III
1990
as Cardinal Lamberto
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sin...

A Season of Giants
1990
as Ambasciatore spagnolo
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpie...
Der Bierkönig
1988
as Der Baron

Power Of Evil
1985
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.

The Scarlet and the Black
1983
as Father Vittorio
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His...

I Remember Nelson
1982
as Caracciolo
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story ...

A Time to Die
1982
as Genco Bari
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian w...

Season of Peace in Paris
1981
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures,...

Lion of the Desert
1981
as Colonel Diodiece
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War....

Retour à Marseille
1980
as Michel - un émigré de retour à Marseille
Michel left Marseilles to Italy when he was twenty years old. Courageous and active, he has succeeded in the construction industry. Thirty years later...

An Almost Perfect Affair
1979
as Freddie
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair be...

The Greek Tycoon
1978
as Spyros Tomasis
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.

Fame
1978
as Driver
A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film....

The Devil's Advocate
1977
as Bishop Aurelio
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canoni...

The Other Side of Midnight
1977
as Constantin Demeris
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marri...

The Human Factor
1975
as Dr. Lupo
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

That Lucky Touch
1975
as General Peruzzi
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO ...

Rosebud
1975
as George Nikolaos
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film c...

The Girl in Room 2A
1974
as Mr. Dreese
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be th...

Simona
1974
as Marcelle's Uncle
While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sex...

The Catholics
1973
as Father General
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has elimin...

The Small Miracle
1973
as Father Superior
A small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick donkey. Hearing the stories of St Frances on how he loved...

Honor Thy Father
1973
as Joseph Bonnano
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of N...

Summertime Killer
1972
as Lazaro Alfredi
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His la...

Cannon for Cordoba
1970
as Córdoba
In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves fr...

Death Occurred Last Night
1970
as Amanzio Berzaghi
A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops ra...

The Kremlin Letter
1970
as Puppet Maker
After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercove...

The Italian Job
1969
as Altabani
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose ...

1001 Nights
1968
as Hixxum
Omar and his friend, Ali, returning to Moorish Granada after several years in the Middle East, discover that an evil usurper is now in power. With the...

Volver a vivir
1968
as Luis Rubio
A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by ...

The Desperate Ones
1967
as Victor
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their...

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
1966
as Mr. Ardonian
In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the w...

Nevada Smith
1966
as Father Zaccardi
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and...

Harlow
1965
as Marino Bello
Jean Harlow arrives in Los Angeles as a teenager, pushed into showbiz by her mother and stepfather. Kindhearted agent Arthur Landau becomes Jean's men...

Dangerous Pleasures
1965
as Suo Marito
Two married women on vacation decide to see who the better seductress is. When the local authorities investigate the death of a local prostitute, thei...

The Secret Invasion
1964
as Roberto Rocca
During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.

The Cardinal
1963
as Cardinal
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Phaedra
1962
as Thanos Kyrilis
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson ...

A View from the Bridge
1962
as Eddie Carbone
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from...

El Cid
1961
as Count Ordóñez
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeed...

Two Women
1960
as Giovanni
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up wit...

Recourse in Grace
1960
as Mario di Donati
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his...

The Apartment
1960
as Alberto Fiorini
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.

No Escape
1958
as Gino Carsone
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until t...

Revenge
1958
as Luis el Torcido
After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.

The Violet Seller
1958
as Fernando
On New Year's Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets aristocrat Fernando. The couple falls in love but their dif...

Guendalina
1957
as Guido Redaelli, padre di Guendalina
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of...

Rose Bernd
1957
as Arthur Streckmann
A servant girl on a remote farm is sexually assaulted by both her employer and a coworker, Rose later bears a child, who die soon afterward. After nea...

Liebe
1956
as Andrea Ambaros
Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika.

Passionate Summer
1956
as Angelo
Agata, her daughter Silvia and sister-in-law Pia run a farm lost in the mountains. The hiring of Angelo, an attractive forty-something, will provoke c...

Sister Angele's Secret
1956
as Marcello Maglione
A poor wop entrusts his savings to an antique dealer's care. Bad idea. When he comes back to claim his dough,the villain acts as if they've never met....

The Sign of Venus
1955
as Ignazio Bolognini
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Le souffle de la liberté
1955
as Gérard
In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.

Obsession
1954
as Aldo Giovanni
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is inj...

Human Torpedoes
1954
as Carlo Ferri
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring atta...
Storm
1954
as André
André is a loving and attentive husband, but when he agrees to plead his enamored brother's case with student Françoise Massard, he in turn becomes in...

The Boarder
1954
as Silvio, il sindaco di Pontorno
A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the sea...

Daughters of Destiny
1954
as Callias (segment "Lysistrata")
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war w...

Thérèse Raquin
1953
as Laurent
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when...

Perdonami!
1953
as Marco Gerace
The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

Sunday Heroes
1952
as Gino Bardi
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he ...

The Eyes Leave a Trace
1952
as Martín Jordán
Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Rob...

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
as Giuseppe Garibaldi
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Don Juan's Night of Love
1952
as Mandrin
Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws att...

Rome 11:00
1952
as Carlo the artist
The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic acci...

Anna
1951
as Andrea
Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who beco...

The Forbidden Christ
1951
as Bruno Baldi
Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

Il bivio
1951
as Aldo Marchi
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime...

The Path of Hope
1950
as Saro Cammarata
The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

The White Line
1950
as Domenico
Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian. A white lin...

Under the Olive Tree
1950
as Francesco Dominici
A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of war camp. He finds that the local landowner has stolen his ...

Bitter Rice
1949
as Marco
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. Sh...