Enzo Staiola, Child Star in Vittorio De Sica’s ‘Bicycle Thieves,’ Dies at 85
The Italian actor was forever immortalized as the sad-faced son with big expressive eyes in the Oscar-winning 1948 Neo-realist masterpiece.
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Enzo Staiola, child actor who starred in the neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica was looking for ‘a boy with very human eyes and a strange face’ when he saw Enzo in the street – ‘a miracle,’ he said
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