Vittorio Gassman
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Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈɡazman]; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements. Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's La Nemica (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, while only one year later he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in Riso amaro. It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio (A Streetcar Named Desire), as well as in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Shakespeare and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri). He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen). With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, followed by rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians. In cinema, he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger. When Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre. On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77. He was buried at Campo Verano. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittorio Gassman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Credits
Sleepers (1996)
as King Benny
1001 Nights (1990)
as Sinbad
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
as Gianni Perego
War and Peace (1956)
as Anatol Kuragin
Woman Times Seven (1967)
as Cenci
Mambo (1954)
as Mario Rossi
...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
as Remo
Dear Father (1979)
as Albino Millozza
Streets of Sorrow (1950)
as Giorgio Cantoni
Twelve Plus One (1969)
as Mario Beretti
Il Sorpasso (1962)
as Bruno Cortona
Double Cross (1951)
as Renato Salvi
Sharky's Machine (1981)
as Victor Scorelli
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
as Peppe il pantera
Scent of a Woman (1974)
as Fausto Consolo
Barabbas (1961)
as Sahak
The Great War (1959)
as Giovanni Busacca
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
The Monsters (1963)
as The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")
I Knew Her Well (1965)
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
as Walter Guarini
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)
as Peppe
I picari (1987)
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
La bomba (1999)
as Don Vito Bracalone
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Abraham (1993)
as Terach
The Nude Bomb (1980)
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Bitter Rice (1949)
as Walter
Rhapsody (1954)
as Paul Bronte
In morte di Federico Fellini (1994)
Actor
The Last Judgment (1961)
as Cimino
The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
as Marquis
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)
as Prince Sergei
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
as Francesco Vincenzini
Love and Larceny (1960)
as Gerardo Latini
Defend My Love (1956)
as Giovanni Marchi
The New Monsters (1977)
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
as Lorenzo Santenocito
Let's Talk About Women (1964)
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Tempest (1982)
as Alonzo
The Palermo Connection (1990)
as Il principe
The Miracle (1959)
as Guido
A Difficult Life (1961)
as Self
The Family (1987)
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Sex Can Be Difficult (1962)
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Anna (1951)
as Vittorio
Hotel Room (1981)
as Achille Mengaroni
The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
as Franco Denza
The Terrace (1980)
as Mario Dorazio
The Audience (1972)
as Principe Donati
The Dinner (1998)
as Maestro Pezzullo
Seduction Of The South (1961)
as O Caporale
Fiasco in Milan (1959)
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Ghosts of Rome (1961)
as Il Caparra
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
as Jory
The Dirty Game (1965)
as Perego / Ferrari
Midnight Pleasures (1975)
as Andrea Sansoni
Quintet (1979)
as Saint Christopher
To Be Hamlet (1985)
as Self
The Love Specialist (1957)
as Piero di Montalcino
Trintignant by Trintignant (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Wedding (1978)
as Luigi Corelli
The Glass Wall (1953)
as Peter Kuban
Let's Have a Riot (1970)
as Riccardo
March on Rome (1962)
as Domenico Rocchetti
Summer Frenzy (1964)
as Cap. Nardoni
Desert of Fire (1997)
as Tareq
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Pure as a Lily (1976)
as Anthony M. Wilson
Count Tacchia (1982)
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
I'm Photogenic (1980)
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
La cambiale (1959)
as Michele
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
as Pasquale Lojacono
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as Filimore
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant (2015)
as Self
L'ebreo errante (1948)
as Mathieu Blumenthal
The Prophet (1968)
as Pietro Breccia
Lost Soul (1977)
as Fabio Stolz
Lure of the Sila (1949)
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil in Love (1966)
as Belfagor
Sombrero (1953)
as Alejandro Castillo
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)
as Edmund Kean
One Million Dollars (1964)
as Giuliano
The Black Sheep (1968)
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
The Divorce (1970)
as Leonardo Nenci
Luchino Visconti (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Tempest (1958)
as Prosecutor
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta (1983)
as Self
The Dream of Zorro (1952)
as Don Juan Antonio
The Captain's Daughter (1947)
as Svabrin
Girls Marked Danger (1952)
as Michele
Snow Job (1965)
as Lucio Ridolfi
The Long Winter (1992)
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Speaking with Gassman (2005)
Actor
Where Are You Going All Naked? (1969)
as Rufus Conforti
Pleasant Nights (1966)
as Bastiano da Sangallo
Il turno (1981)
as Ciro Coppa
Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Benvenuta (1983)
as Livio
Il successo (1963)
as Giulio Ceriani
Shakespeare secondo Gassman (1964)
Actor
The Mysterious Rider (1948)
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
Il gaucho (1964)
as Marco Ravicchio
Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
La Tosca (1973)
as Scarpia
The Outlaws (1950)
as Turi
Scipio the African (1971)
as Catone il Censore
Without Family (1972)
as Armando Zavanatti
Mortacci (1989)
as Domenico
The Eye of the Needle (1963)
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
The Archangel (1969)
as Furio Bertuccia
Alibi (1969)
as Vittorio
Catch As Catch Can (1967)
as Bob Chiaramonte
Once a Year, Every Year (1994)
as Giuseppe
The Sleazy Uncle (1989)
as Zio Luca
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)
as Guido Guidi
I'll Be Going Now (1991)
as Augusto Scribani
Lo sparviero del Nilo (1950)
as Yussuf
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1947)
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Incontro con Laura (1945)
as Franco
Black Crown (1951)
as Mauricio
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1970)
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Power Of Evil (1985)
as Gottfried
Shamed (1947)
as Davide
The Violent Patriot (1956)
as Giovanni De Medici
The Apple of My Eye (1976)
as film festival participant
E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
as Self
L'altro enigma (1988)
as Il padre / Sofocle
Dark Soul (1962)
as Adriano Zucchelli
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia (2018)
as Self
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Il leone di Amalfi (1950)
as Mauro
Di padre in figlio (1982)
as Self
Daniele Cortis (1947)
as Daniele Cortis
Two Pieces of Bread (1979)
as Pippo Mifà
Edipo Re (1977)
as Edipo
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza (1955)
as Edmund Kean
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne (2007)
as Self
Amleto (1955)
as Amleto
Quando eravamo repressi (1992)
as The Sexologist