Turi Ferro

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title: "Turi Ferro" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1921-births", "2001-deaths", "20th-century-italian-male-actors", "male-actors-from-catania", "david-di-donatello-winners", "italian-male-film-actors", "italian-male-stage-actors", "italian-male-television-actors"] description: "Italian actor" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turi_Ferro" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Italian actor ::

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Field	Value
image	Malizia1973-TuriFerro cropped.jpg
caption	Ferro in Malicious (1973)
name	Turi Ferro
birthname	Salvatore Ferro
birth_date
birth_place	Catania, Sicily, Italy
death_date
death_place	Catania, Sicily, Italy
occupation	Actor
yearsactive	1962-1998
spouse	Ida Carrara
children	3
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| image = Malizia1973-TuriFerro cropped.jpg | caption = Ferro in Malicious (1973) | name = Turi Ferro | birthname = Salvatore Ferro | birth_date = | birth_place = Catania, Sicily, Italy | death_date = | death_place = Catania, Sicily, Italy | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1962-1998 | spouse = Ida Carrara | children = 3

Salvatore "Turi" Ferro (10 January 1921 – 10 May 2001) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He is considered the most important actor in the Sicilian theatre post-World War II era.

Life and career

Born in Catania, Ferro launched his own theatrical company in 1953 alongside his wife, actress Ida Carrara. He later staged a great number of works by Sicilian authors. His stage credits include works directed by Roberto Rossellini and Giorgio Strehler.

From the early 1970s he started appearing in RAI Television, in appreciated and successful TV-series.

The film director Lina Wertmüller referred to him as "the greatest Sicilian actor after Angelo Musco". He died of a myocardial infarction.

Partial filmography

• A Man for Burning (1962) - Don Vincenzo
• Extraconiugale (1964) - Padre di Renato (segment "La moglie svedese")
• I Knew Her Well (1965) - Il commissario
• Rita the Mosquito (1966) - Sicilian professor
• Don't Sting the Mosquito (1967)
• Seven Times Seven (1968) - Bernard
• Un caso di coscienza (1970) - Judge
• Scipio the African (1971) - Giove Capitolino
• The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971) - Chef of Prison Guards
• The Sicilian Checkmate (1972) - Judge Nicola Altofascio
• Chronicle of a Homicide (1972) - Commissario Malacarne
• The Seduction of Mimi (1972) - Don Calogero / Vico Tricarico / Salvatore Tricarico
• Malicious (1973) - Ignazio
• La governante (1974) - Leopoldo Platania
• Virility (1974) - don Vito
• Il lumacone (1974) - Gianni
• Vergine e di nome Maria (1975) - Don Vito
• I baroni (1975) - Il barone Leopoldo Lalumera
• Che notte quella notte! (1977) - Maurizio
• Stato interessante (1977) - Domenico La Monica (second story)
• Blood Feud (1978) - Vito Acicatena
• Ernesto (1979) - Carlo Wilder
• The Turn (1981) - Don Diego Alcozér
• La posta in gioco (1988) - Prosecutor Mario Bellomo
• Malizia 2mila (1991) - Ignazio / Husband
• You Laugh (1998) - Dottor Ballarò (segment "Due sequestri")

References

References

1. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. (2003). "Gli attori: A-L". Gremese Editore.
2. Caterina Napoleone. (2007). "Enciclopedia della Sicilia". Ricci, 2007.
3. Chiara Merli. (2007). "Il teatro ad iniziativa pubblica in Italia". LED Edizioni Universitarie, 2007.
4. Lina Wertmüller. (2012). "Tutto a posto e niente in ordine". Mondadori.
5. Lane, John Francis. (22 May 2001). "Obituary: Turi Ferro". The Guardian.
6. III, Harris M. Lentz. (24 October 2008). "Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture". McFarland.

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