Alan Furlan (13 April 1920 – 14 May 1997) was an Italian-American
actor.
Biography
Born Aleardo Furlan in Farla, in the North
Friuli region of
Italy, Furlan acted in films in Europe and the United States, on
Broadway and in commercials.[1]
On Broadway he appeared in productions such as Holiday for Lovers (1957), The Best House in Naples (1956), Idiot's Delight (1951)[2] and Romeo and Juliet (1951) starring
Olivia de Havilland.[3] In the late 1940s, he performed in Chicago area
summer stock theaters with actors such as
Richard Kiley.[4]
Furlan played the role of Giancarlo in the Italian film Donatella (1956)[5] which was selected for competition at the
Berlin Film Festival.[6] He appeared in numerous live broadcast
anthology drama television series with lead roles in episodes of
Police Call,[7][8] one of the top grossing television series released in 1955,[9] as well as a supporting role in the
Producers' Showcase production (1957) of the melodramatic comedic Broadway play The Great Sebastians, starring
Alfred Lunt and
Lynn Fontanne[10] and the
Armstrong Circle Theatre episode The Sound of Violence: The Jukebox Racket (1959).[11]
He toured with
Mae West as her Latin lover in Come On Up, Ring Twice and performed in the TV version of the Moon and Sixpence with
Laurence Olivier (1959).[12]