Walter Chiari was a renowned Italian athlete before entering show business in 1948. A specialist in light comedy, Chiari came to prominence in the atypical role of a callous seducer in Visconti's Bellissima. Though he spent most of his career in Italian films, he was prominently cast in such "outside" productions as Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1957) and Welles' Chimes at...