Sexiest Italian actor of all time

Adriano Giannin?! WTF His dad,Giancarlo, oozed sex in films like the original Swept Away. He had such gorgeous eyes and had tons of sex appeal. He really was charismatic and sexy in The Seduction Of Mimi.

I'm going to transfer on this thread the three photos of the three Italian actors you sent to the previous thread.

Let's start with your beloved Valentino.

Fabio Testi and his eternal sex appeal.

Yes, as you have already commented before, Lino Capolicchio used to be very hot.

None of the above. For me it is unequivocally Massimo Girotti.

From the beautiful martyr St. Sebastian in "Fabiola" to the sexy, hairy shouldered rich daddy in "Teorama" this man was HAF at any age.

Do we consider DeNiro an "Italian" actor?

As a kid when I saw him in "Midnight Run" I wanted him to fuck me SO bad.

Alex Marte!!!

I'm so fucking clumsy, R5. Lol.

I put sexy Massimo Girotti on the previous poll, but i forgot to include him on this one. I won't start a new thread on the same topic again, because i guess they are going to kick me out and that would be justifiable! Damn.

R1, i like Giancarlo Giannini more as an actor, but his son is sexier, in my opinion...

R6, yes, why not...

R7, hmm...

Nice.

Abe Vigoda

Urbano.

Vittorio Gassman in the intensely homoerotic Il Sorpasso owns this thread.

Terence Hill deserves to get some votes, too.

Raoul Bova

OP, I 'd like to know why you chose Urbano Barberini - a character actor nobody knows - when italian cinema has a long and glorious history of gorgeous male and female superstars.

If we are restricted to Italian born than Massimo Girotti

Hunky Raf Vallone

For the many Girotti fans, did you know he played a Tarzan-like character in italian 40s fantasy masterpiece La corona di ferro? He looked the part, and how!

Robert Deniro.

Because Urbano Barberini is sexy as hell, R16 and this thread is about sex appeal and not acting skills.

I guess you haven't seen 'Opera' by Dario Argento, or Otello by Franco Zeffirelli, R16.

Marcello is not the sexiest, but the most popular and handsome.

But, anyway, whatever rocks your boat, kittyland.

Giancarlo Giannini (smoking hot in Wertmueller's Swept Away and Love and Anarchy)

Pierfrancesco Favino

Runner up: Marco Giallini

then you'll be happy to know that Barberini is gay, OP

Renato Salvatori.

Urbano Barberini aged incredibly fast and is only about 55. I think he has poz face.

Alessandro Gassman, Vittorio's son, is hot (and quite talented as an actor)

also, Kim Rossi Stuart, Claudio Santamaria and Luca Marinelli.

R24, i have heard about the gay rumors before. That's extra hot, if it is true.

You mentioned some very sexy Italian actors, guys. You have made this a very yummy thread. However, i still feel guilty about the Massimo Girotti omission.

Anyway, i guess that you can make your poll and put the Italian hunks that you like. Just change the title and i don't think that you will meet any problem. I'm not the administration, though. There is no guarantee.

I'd love to climb on the Franco Nero train

Raoul Bova

Renato Baldi

Franco Nero is still pretty hot now.

For graphic R31.

Raf Vallone and Renato Salvatori were both smoking hot in their prime.

As Pauline Kael said in her review of PHADRA in 1962, "who would believe Melina Mercouri would leave Raf Vallone for scrawny Tony Perkins?"

Terence Hill was incredibly handsome.

Franco Nero. Vanessa Redgrave chose well.

Yes, R36., they were both hot in their prime, i agree. Renato Salvatori had an animal magnetism in 'Rocco and His Brothers'. But, Renato didn't age well.

R37, i don't want to sound like a bitch, but i wonder what Franco Nero found in Vanessa Redgrave. I guess he was attracted to her personality. I cannot explain it, otherwise. Great actress and an eloquent human being, but she was never hot, or beautiful.

R38, you could ask the same question about Renato Salvatori: his biggest love was with Annie Girardot (i think they met during Rocco). She was a wonderful actress and had an interesting look, but she was not a bombshell. It was an unusual coupling...

Che dire di me?

Gandolfini was sexier than all of these guys

R40 correct Italian would be: "Cosa dite di me?"

R6 No He's American and he's part Irish and WASP.

OP's list is incomplete with some odd choices

Anyway, I say Alan Steel aka Sergio Ciani...haha

Where's Rossano Brazzi? This is from SUMMERTIME and he's hot in this scene!

R38 Italian guys English girls. No VR was never a great beauty but Italian women can be bitchy, cunty and crazy. Franco and Vanessa definitely had chemistry because they got together much later in life again and got married. VR speaks pretty decent Italian too.

R44, your observation is not objective, because all is relative when it comes to sex appeal.

I meant Italian guys like English girls.

Rudolph

Vanessa was a classy woman with stately looks.

Rudolph

R50 Hey she had very good taste she married a gay guy didn't she?!

Interesting comment R46. So Italian females are nutty?

Franco and Vanessa were in a big movie together playing lovers. It happens.

Franco and Vanessa were big time communists, I'm sure that played a role

R38, Frano himself didn't see much in Vanessa the first time they met. The director of the movie they were making wanted the actors to go out on a date, in order to build chemistry. Franco's first impression was that Redgrave was "very ugly" and that nobody'd believe he was attracted to her.

Lol, R56, that's an excellent trivia.

while Vanessa R. was not a bombshell i don't think she's unattractive... quite the contrary

Didnt Tariq Ali fuck her?

R53 Yes the guys over there made them that way. The love mothers their sons is insane. The mamma moves literally next door to their sons when they get married and still do their laundry and their wash! Mother in laws usually end marriages in Italy. There is a lot of tension between women there too. They basically hate each other on top of that.

women hate each others in every country of the world, r60.

some tidbits I didn't know about Renato Salvatori: he retired from acting in the early 80s to work as PR person for an Italian Ministry. Sadly he died a couple years later (only 55yo) from cirrhosis. He was an alcoholic.

R60 Not like in Italy! It is more magnified there. Especially with the fight for their husband's affection with their mother-in-law. In Southern Europe, Italy has the worst mother-in-law culture by far. That's why Italian guys can't wait to fins a foreign girl who thinks they are the ultimate romantic man until they meet mama. That's when The Greeks, Spanish and The French take over because the mother love is not as strong.

Marco Leonardi. He was stunningly handsome until at least 30. He hasn't matured that well though.

I Second Marco Leonardi.

Terence Hill was incredibly handsome in his youth, with those gorgeous blue eyes of his, and he remains a handsome older man He gets my vote, but lots of these guys are sexy.

Adorable Nino Castelnuovo. Jacques Demy sure had the hots for him

I had a big crush on Nino Castelnuovo after seeing "Umbrellas of Cherbourg". I would give an honorable mention to the French actor Jean Sorel, just because he made so many Italian films , a real heartthrob.

WETH Italian Cinema? There doesn't seem to be any international releases/distribution at all anymore.

never heard of Sorrentino and Garrone, R69?

I live in Switzerland in the French speaking part and I've never seen Sorrentino films distributed to screens. Had to watch on DVD.

really? Not even La Grande Bellezza??? It won a fucking oscar!

American films and French films. Thats pretty much it. Never german films either. Or very very rarely. La Grande Bellezza maybe in one of the cities, I dunno, but I missed it.

In NYC in the 80's we still had all sorts of global cinema but I guess its petering off quite a bit in this new world of how people consume cinema.

R69 A famous art house cinema in the NYC area rarely plays Italian films. The directors prefer French and German films.

Raf Vallone was so fucking sexy in "Two Women" when he seduced a "reluctant" Sophia in his shop before she set off on her trip with her daughter. He was dirty and scruffy and crude but Mama Mia, he was one spicy meatball.

Cine Citta is a graveyard today. Hard to believe this could have come to pass.

Italians are so hot.

I voted for Valentino, but I would give honorary mention to Vittorio Gassman.

Shelley Winters had excellent taste in men.

Shelley Winters must have been great in bed, she was not exactly a sex symbol but fucked so many hot men

Perhaps, she was, R79.

Did she swing both ways?

I don't know... never hear anything about that, R80. I wouldn't be surprised, tho... she sure loved to have fun!

Shelley didn't swing both ways. She would have said so in her autobiographies - and she said A LOT.

She did indeed get about a mile of choice dick in her time.

We should have a thread about her.

Fabio Test in 1978

I always had a thing for italian actor and chansonnier Duilio Del Prete (he was in two Bogdanovich films too). That GIF is superhot...what a chest!

R84, this gif?

She pinged like hell, R82.

You know sometimes we talk a lot about other things, omitting the ones we want to conceal...

yes, R85, that GIF

Terence Hill, Franco Nero.

As for the comments about Vanessa Redgrave, she may not be the hottest looker, but she had style.

Massimo Girotti is unspeakably hot in OSSESSIONE

Franco de Nero. Think he had a child with Vanessa Redgrave, but might be wrong.