Anecdotes

Met actress Annie Girardot on the set of Rocco et ses frères (1960) and later married her. In sharp contrast to their off-camera relationship, in the movie Salvatori played a boxer-turned-thug who viciously rapes Annie, who played a prostitute. They had a daughter Giulia, later separating but not divorcing.

Came to acting by chance, when he was picked for his athletic good looks while working at a resort in Viareggio.

Italian multi purpose actor who started off handsomely as a romantic juvenile actor but after working with the powerful likes of directors Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, and Vittorio De Sica in the '60s, turned into one of Italy's strongest characters actors of grim, harrowing drama.

He has a daughter with Annie Girardot: Giulia Salvatori.

His grandson, the son of Giulia Salvatori, is also named Renato Salvatori.

Became good friends with Alain Delon after they both starred in Rocco et ses frères (1960). They subsequently worked together in Les granges brûlées (1973), Flic Story (1975) and Le Gitan (1975).