Howard Gossage
November, 1962
His Craggy face a ravaged bas-relief from a Roman coin, Italy's Raf Vallone radiates an elemental masculine magnetism matched by few men on or off the screen. Starring in the screenplay of Arthur Miller's Greek-tragic View from the Bridge earlier this year, the 43-year-old actor electrified American audiences with the feral potency of his performance as Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman consumed with carnal hunger for his nubile niece. More recently, portraying the brawny blacksmith who for...
