Vittorio Caprioli
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Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
The School Teacher (1975)
as Fefe Mottola
The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
as Vittorio
To Be Twenty (1978)
as Nazariota
Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)
as Onorevole Pedicò
Adieu Philippine (1962)
as Pachala
Love & Passion (1987)
as Don Vincenzo
The Libertine (1968)
as Il Libraio
How I Learned to Love Women (1966)
as Playboy
It Happened in the Park (1953)
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
as Trouscaillon
The Magnificent One (1973)
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
Messalina, Messalina! (1977)
as Claudius
When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
as Ser Cecco
Umbrella Coup (1980)
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
General Della Rovere (1959)
as Aristide Banchelli
Shoot First, Die Later (1974)
as Esposito
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
The Anatomy of Love (1954)
as Raffaele
Rulers of the City (1976)
as Vinchenzo Napoli
Cinderella '80 (1984)
as Harry Cardone
Tout Va Bien (1972)
as Factory Manager
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
as Marchese Liginio
Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
as Commissar Magrini
The Story of Romance and Knife (1971)
as Er Cinese
Paris Is Always Paris (1951)
as Tour guide (uncredited)
I picari (1987)
as mozzafiato
Innocence and Desire (1974)
as Vincenzo Niscemi
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
as Le metteur en scène
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)
as Maresciallo Angrisani
Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
as Finizio, Politician
Blackmail Chase (1976)
as Barbone
Variety Lights (1950)
as Night Club Comic
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing (1964)
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Blood and Diamonds (1978)
as Commissario Russo
Catherine & Co. (1975)
as Moretti
Più bello di così si muore (1982)
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Soldier's Girl (1967)
as Settimo
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1968)
as Spinelli
On the Day of the Lord (1970)
as Messer Anticoli
The Maniacs (1964)
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor (1972)
as Nero
The Landlord (1976)
as Onorevole Vincenzi
Times Gone By (1952)
as il marito di Mariantonia
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell (1970)
as Luis (uncredited)
The Boss (1973)
as Questore
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971)
as Gran Profe
Le rose et le blanc (1982)
as Luigi Martini
Aida (1953)
as Uncredited
Robinson Crusoeland (1951)
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Recourse in Grace (1960)
as Sergio
A Full Day's Work (1973)
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
Società a responsabilità molto limitata (1973)
as Il Ciancia
Roma bene (1971)
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
A Leap in the Dark (1980)
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Violence and Love (1965)
as Il poeta
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do? (1972)
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Taste of Life (1988)
as Riccardo
White Voices (1964)
as Matteuccio
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
as Bambola di Pechino
Café Express (1980)
as Carmelo Improta
Petomaniac (1983)
as Pitalugue
A porte chiuse (1961)
as commissario
Paris, My Love (1962)
as Avallone
Hector the Mighty (1972)
as Menalao
You're on Your Own (1959)
as Pino Calamari
The Law (1959)
as Attilio
Trastevere (1971)
as Father Ernesto
The Automobile (1971)
as Giggetto
Ischia operazione amore (1966)
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Stuff for the Rich (1987)
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
His Days Are Numbered (1962)
as Professor
Anyone Can Play (1967)
as Dieb
The Sensual Man (1973)
as Salvatore
The Messiah (1975)
as Herod the Great
Hypochondriac (1979)
as Vincenzo
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola (1974)
as Professor Goffredo
Adultery Italian Style (1966)
as Silvio Sasselli
Neapolitan Carousel (1954)
as paroliere amico di Luigino
Eager to Live (1953)
as Pierra
Uno scandalo perbene (1984)
as Renzo
Totó in color (1952)
as Il tenore balbuziente
Death on the Run (1967)
as Billy 'Pizza'
Dark Illness (1990)
as Psicanalista
The Governess (1974)
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Easy Love (1964)
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
La colonna infame (1973)
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
La Presidentessa (1977)
as Mazzone
Before It's Too Early (1981)
as Il professore
The Groper (1976)
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
Leoni al sole (1961)
as Giugiú
Io e lui (1973)
as Cutica
Grazie tante arrivederci (1977)
as Proprietario bisca
Good night… lawyer! (1955)
as Vittorio
Erotomania (1974)
as il ministro
L'ammazzatina (1975)
as Commissario Pafuso
The Barons (1975)
as Padre
Assicurasi vergine (1967)
as Don Pippo Matara
The Rip-Off (1977)
as Benjamin Bronchi
Latin Male Wanted (1977)
as don Carmine
Il borghese gentiluomo (1959)
as Jourdain
L'ultima scena (1988)
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia