Alessandro Momo was one of the promising young Italian actors. He began
his acting career when he was very young, starring as a protagonist in
the soap operas along with
Valerio Fioravanti.
He became famous for his sexual exploitation of the maid played by the
Italian sex bomb,
Laura Antonelli in
Malicious (1973) directed by
Salvatore Samperi. In an eerie parallelism with
James Dean and his final film,
Giant (1956), Alessandro starred in his final film,
Scent of a Woman (1974) (Profumo di Donna), along with
Vittorio Gassman and
Agostina Belli.
Alessandro was killed in the motorcycle accident shortly after the
shooting was wrapped up.
Eleonora Giorgi, an actress and his friend,
had given him a motorcycle, Honda CB750 Four, in spite of Italian
traffic regulations at that time prohibiting the riders under 21 from
operating the powerful motorcycles. The actress was under the
investigation for reckless endangerment of the youth by supplying him
the motorcycle in question.
Patrizio Sandrelli dedicated a song, 'Brother in Love', to Alessandro
Momo in his memory.
He is buried in Verano cemetery together with his father, Gabriel, who
died in 2000.