Ugo Sasso

Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television actor.

Ugo Sasso
Ugo Sasso in The Iron Crown (1941)
Born	(1910-03-23)March 23, 1910 Turin, Italy
Died	(1981-07-21)July 21, 1981 (aged 71)
Occupation	Actor

Life and career

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]

Selected filmography

• The Amnesiac (1936)
• Joe the Red (1936)
• Tonight at Eleven (1938)
• Guest for One Night (1939)
• The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941)
• Light in the Darkness (1941)
• Rita of Cascia (1943)
• La Fornarina (1944)
• The Ten Commandments (1945)
• Les Misérables (1948)
• Anthony of Padua (1949)
• The Lion of Amalfi (1950)
• Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
• Cavalcade of Heroes (1950)
• The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino (1951)
• The Queen of Sheba (1952)
• Altri tempi (1952)
• Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952)
• Disowned (1954)
• The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)
• Girls of Today (1955)
• The Two Friends (1955)
• The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)
• David and Goliath (1960)
• Goliath and the Dragon (1960)
• Terror of the Red Mask (1960)
• The Giant of Metropolis (1961)
• Revenge of the Conquered (1961)
• Sword in the Shadows (1961)
• Between Shanghai and St. Pauli (1962)
• I diavoli di Spartivento (1963)
• Hercules the Invincible (1964)
• Desert Raiders (1964)
• Terror of the Steppes (1964)
• Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)
• Adventures of the Bengal Lancers (1964)
• Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
• Mutiny at Fort Sharpe (1966)
• Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1968)
• Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)