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
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
as Gianni Perego
1001 Nights (1990)
as Sinbad
War and Peace (1956)
as Anatol Kuragin
The New Monsters (1977)
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
The Nude Bomb (1980)
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Sharky's Machine (1981)
as Victor Scorelli
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
as Walter Guarini
Barabbas (1961)
as Sahak
Luchino Visconti (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Il Sorpasso (1962)
as Bruno Cortona
Woman Times Seven (1967)
as Cenci
I Knew Her Well (1965)
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Family (1987)
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
The Great War (1959)
as Giovanni Busacca
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
as Peppe il pantera
Abraham (1993)
as Terach
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
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")
Scent of a Woman (1974)
as Fausto Consolo
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as Filimore
Mambo (1954)
as Mario Rossi
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)
as Peppe
In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
as Lorenzo Santenocito
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Wedding (1978)
as Luigi Corelli
Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)
as Prince Sergei
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Brancaleone da Norcia
...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
as Remo
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
as Jory
I picari (1987)
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
The Dirty Game (1965)
as Perego / Ferrari
Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
as Marquis
I'm Photogenic (1980)
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Fiasco in Milan (1959)
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)
as Edmund Kean
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Dear Father (1979)
as Albino Millozza
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
as Pasquale Lojacono
Let's Talk About Women (1964)
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Bitter Rice (1949)
as Walter
In morte di Federico Fellini (1994)
Actor
Tempest (1982)
as Alonzo
A Difficult Life (1961)
as Self
Love and Larceny (1960)
as Gerardo Latini
Girls Marked Danger (1952)
as Michele
Streets of Sorrow (1950)
as Giorgio Cantoni
Trintignant by Trintignant (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Power Of Evil (1985)
as Gottfried
The Violent Patriot (1956)
as Giovanni De Medici
Rhapsody (1954)
as Paul Bronte
Midnight Pleasures (1975)
as Andrea Sansoni
Pure as a Lily (1976)
as Anthony M. Wilson
Where Are You Going All Naked? (1969)
as Rufus Conforti
The Love Specialist (1957)
as Piero di Montalcino
The Miracle (1959)
as Guido
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Double Cross (1951)
as Renato Salvi
Tempest (1958)
as Prosecutor
The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
as Franco Denza
The Dream of Zorro (1952)
as Don Juan Antonio
Seduction Of The South (1961)
as O Caporale
The Dinner (1998)
as Maestro Pezzullo
Twelve Plus One (1969)
as Mario Beretti
Count Tacchia (1982)
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
To Be Hamlet (1985)
as Self
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)
as Guido Guidi
Two Pieces of Bread (1979)
as Pippo Mifà
Lost Soul (1977)
as Fabio Stolz
Scipio the African (1971)
as Cato the Censor
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
The Captain's Daughter (1947)
as Svabrin
March on Rome (1962)
as Domenico Rocchetti
Anna (1951)
as Vittorio
Quintet (1979)
as Saint Christopher
Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Lure of the Sila (1949)
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
The Last Judgment (1961)
as Cimino
Without Family (1972)
as Armando Zavanatti
The Terrace (1980)
as Mario Dorazio
The Palermo Connection (1990)
as Il principe
The Divorce (1970)
as Leonardo Nenci
Desert of Fire (1997)
as Tareq
The Long Winter (1992)
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta (1983)
as Self
Mortacci (1989)
as Domenico
Il leone di Amalfi (1950)
as Mauro
Hotel Room (1981)
as Achille Mengaroni
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant (2015)
as Self
Defend My Love (1956)
as Giovanni Marchi
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Summer Frenzy (1964)
as Cap. Nardoni
La bomba (1999)
as Don Vito Bracalone
The Devil in Love (1966)
as Belfagor
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1947)
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
The Glass Wall (1953)
as Peter Kuban
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
as Francesco Vincenzini
Di padre in figlio (1982)
as Self
I'll Be Going Now (1991)
as Augusto Scribani
Il successo (1963)
as Giulio Ceriani
Ghosts of Rome (1961)
as Il Caparra
E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
as Self
Il gaucho (1964)
as Marco Ravicchio
Sombrero (1953)
as Alejandro Castillo
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza (1955)
as Edmund Kean
Once a Year, Every Year (1994)
as Giuseppe
Sex Can Be Difficult (1962)
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Lo sparviero del Nilo (1950)
as Yussuf
One Million Dollars (1964)
as Giuliano
Snow Job (1965)
as Lucio Ridolfi
Edipo Re (1977)
as Edipo
The Prophet (1968)
as Pietro Breccia
Let's Have a Riot (1970)
as Riccardo
The Black Sheep (1968)
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne (2007)
as Self
The Audience (1972)
as Principe Donati
La cambiale (1959)
as Michele
Pleasant Nights (1966)
as Bastiano da Sangallo
The Archangel (1969)
as Furio Bertuccia
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia (2018)
as Self
The Sleazy Uncle (1989)
as Zio Luca
The Eye of the Needle (1963)
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
La Tosca (1973)
as Scarpia
Dark Soul (1962)
as Adriano Zucchelli
Shakespeare secondo Gassman (1964)
Actor
Catch As Catch Can (1967)
as Bob Chiaramonte
The Mysterious Rider (1948)
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
L'ebreo errante (1948)
as Mathieu Blumenthal
Speaking with Gassman (2005)
Actor
Quando eravamo repressi (1992)
as The Sexologist
Alibi (1969)
as Vittorio
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1970)
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Shamed (1947)
as Davide
Black Crown (1951)
as Mauricio
L'altro enigma (1988)
as Il padre / Sofocle
Benvenuta (1983)
as Livio
Il turno (1981)
as Ciro Coppa
The Outlaws (1950)
as Turi
Incontro con Laura (1945)
as Franco
The Apple of My Eye (1976)
as film festival participant
Amleto (1955)
as Amleto
Daniele Cortis (1947)
as Daniele Cortis