Lino Ventura
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Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Army of Shadows (1969)
as Philippe Gerbier
Bacri, comme un air de famille (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
as Le Commissaire Cherrier
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
as Commissaire Le Goff
The Great Spy Chase (1964)
as Francis Lagneau
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
as Angelo Fraiser
The Medusa Touch (1978)
as Brunel
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
as Morel
The Valachi Papers (1972)
as Vito Genovese
The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
as Garigny
Razzia (1955)
as Roger le Catalan
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
as Inspecteur Torrence
Spy, Stand Up (1982)
as Sébastien Grenier
Way of Youth (1959)
as M. Tiercelin, restaurateur et as du marché noir
Marie-Octobre (1959)
as Carlo Bernardi
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
as le brigadier Théo Dumas
Greed in the Sun (1964)
as Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
Money Money Money (1972)
as Lino Massaro
Les Misérables (1982)
as Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu
The Threepenny Opera (1963)
as Brown, Polizeichef von London
The Big Risk (1960)
as Abel Davos
Cloportes (1965)
as Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin'
The French (1982)
as Self
At the End of the Day (2024)
as Lino (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dictator's Guns (1965)
as Jacques Cournot
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Witness in the City (1959)
as Ancelin
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
The French Detective (1975)
as Commissioner Verjeat
L'Homme en colère (1979)
as Romain Dupre
Sunday Lovers (1980)
as François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')
Twelve Hours by the Clock (1959)
as Fourbieux
Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
as Roland Fériaud
Fantasia Among the Squares (1971)
as Sagamore Noonan
Crooks in Clover (1963)
as Fernand Naudin
The Last Adventure (1967)
as Roland
The Cage (1975)
as Julien
The Inquisitor (1981)
as Inspector Antoine Gallien
Rum Runners (1971)
as Cornelius von Zeelinga
The Right of the Maddest (1973)
as Le gendarme motorisé instructeur
The Beast Is Loose (1959)
as Paul Lamiani
Speaking of Murder (1957)
as Pepito
Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
as Antoine Beretto
A Pain in the Ass (1973)
as Ralf Milan
The Slap (1974)
as Jean Douléan
Aznavour by Charles (2019)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Last Known Address (1970)
as Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti
Happy New Year (1973)
as Simon
The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
as Géo Paquet, Le Gorille
Sword of Gideon (1986)
as Papa
Emile's Boat (1962)
as Émile Bouet
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
as Inspector Amerigo Rogas
Law of the Streets (1956)
as Mario
The Seventh Target (1984)
as Bastien Grimaldi
Three Days to Live (1958)
as Lino Ferrari
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero (2022)
as Self (archive footage) - actor
Deux Romains en Gaule (1967)
as Un client du bar
One Hundred Days in Palermo (1984)
as General Carlo Dalla Chiesa
Three Tough Guys (1974)
as Father Charlie
Mistress of the World - Part I (1960)
as Biamonte
Girl in the Window (1961)
as Federico
Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)
as Biamonte
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
as Gustave "Gu" Minda
The Monocle's Sour Laugh (1964)
as Elie's Client (uncredited)
To Skin a Spy (1966)
as Pascal Fabre
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
as Self - Interviewee
Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
as "El lutos"
The Silent One (1973)
as Clément Tibère
De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Judgment (1961)
as Giovanna's father
The Wise Guys (1965)
as Laurent Dannecker
Burning Fuse (1957)
as Legentil
The Lions Are Loose (1961)
as le docteur André Challenberg
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
The Ruffian (1983)
as Aldo
Dishonorable Discharge (1957)
as Paulo, Claire's lover
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
125 rue Montmartre (1959)
as Pascal
Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Hitch-Hike (1962)
as Paul, le chauffeur de car
Lino, il n'était que lui-même (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Crime and Punishment (1956)
as Gustave Messonnier
The Strange Mr. Steve (1957)
as Denis
Far West (1973)
as Prisoner
Black City (1961)
as Il bandito
Birds of Prey (1968)
as Le rapace / Le rital
La Rumba (1987)
as un caïd
Pensione Edelweiss (1959)
as Borcher
Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
as Vincenzo, le caïd
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
To Catch a Spy (1957)
as Bérès