Giorgio Albertazzi(1923-2016)

Alain Resnais immediately thought of him as a possible X. in El año pasado en Marienbad (1961) after seeing a photo of him in a stage production of "The Condemned of Altona". The director immediately showed it to writer Alain Robbe-Grillet along with those of many other actors and asked him who his ideal X. was. Robbe-Grillet immediately pointed Albertazzi. The director went to see the actor in a stage production of "The Idiot" and later offered him the role.