Vittorio Gassman
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
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- 2021 · We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Trintignant by Trintignant as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia as Self
- 2015 · Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant as Self
- 2012 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Monicelli: La versione di Mario as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne as Self
- 2006 · Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 · La bomba as Don Vito Bracalone
- 1999 · Luchino Visconti as Self
- 1998 · The Dinner as maestro Pezzullo
- 1997 · Desert of Fire as Tareq
- 1997 · Desert of Fire as Tareq
- 1996 · Sleepers as King Benny
- 1994 · Once a Year, Every Year as Giuseppe
- 1994 · Abraham as Terah
- 1993 · Abraham as Terach
- 1992 · The Long Winter as Claudio, El Mayordomo
- 1992 · Quando eravamo repressi as The Sexologist
- 1991 · Rossini ! Rossini ! as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1991 · I'll Be Going Now as Augusto Scribani
- 1990 · The Amusements of Private Life as Marquis
- 1990 · 1001 Nights as Sinbad
- 1990 · Les 1001 Nuits : Version Intégrale as Sinbad
- 1990 · The Palermo Connection as Il principe
- 1989 · The Sleazy Uncle as Zio Luca
- 1989 · Mortacci as Domenico
- 1988 · L'altro enigma as Il padre / Sofocle
- 1987 · I picari as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
- 1987 · The Family as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
- 1985 · Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later as Peppe
- 1985 · Power Of Evil as Gottfried
- 1985 · To Be Hamlet as Self
- 1983 · Benvenuta as Livio
- 1983 · Life Is a Bed of Roses as Walter Guarini
- 1982 · Count Tacchia as Prince Torquato Terenzi
- 1982 · Tempest as Alonzo
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · Di padre in figlio as Self
- 1981 · Sharky's Machine as Victor Scorelli
- 1981 · Il turno as Ciro Coppa
- 1981 · Hotel Room as Achille Mengaroni
- 1980 · The Nude Bomb as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
- 1980 · I'm Photogenic as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
- 1980 · The Terrace as Mario
- 1979 · Dear Father as Albino Millozza
- 1979 · Quintet as Saint Christopher
- 1979 · Two Pieces of Bread as Pippo Mifà
- 1978 · A Wedding as Luigi Corelli
- 1977 · The New Monsters as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
- 1977 · Edipo Re as Edipo
- 1977 · Lost Soul as Fabio Stolz
- 1976 · The Desert of the Tartars as Filimore
- 1976 · Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
- 1976 · Pure as a Lily as Anthony M. Wilson
- 1976 · The Career of a Chambermaid as Franco Denza
- 1976 · Babau as
- 1975 · E il Casanova di Fellini? as Self
- 1975 · Midnight Pleasures as Andrea Sansoni
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Apostrophes as Self
- 1974 · We All Loved Each Other So Much as Gianni Perego
- 1974 · Scent of a Woman as Fausto Consolo
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1973 · La Tosca as Scarpia
- 1972 · What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? as Guido Guidi
- 1972 · The Audience as Principe Donati
- 1972 · Without Family as Armando Zavanatti
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · In the Name of the Italian People as Lorenzo Santenocito
- 1971 · Scipio the African as Catone il Censore
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1970 · Brancaleone at the Crusades as Brancaleone Da Norcia
- 1970 · Il divorzio as Leonardo Nenci
- 1970 · Let's Have a Riot as Riccardo
- 1970 · The Man with the Flower in His Mouth as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
- 1969 · Twelve Plus One as Mario Beretti
- 1969 · Where Are You Going All Naked? as Rufus Conforti
- 1969 · The Archangel as Furio Bertuccia
- 1969 · Alibi as Vittorio
- 1968 · The Black Sheep as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
- 1968 · The Prophet as Pietro Breccia
- 1967 · Ghosts, Italian Style as Pasquale Lojacono
- 1967 · Catch As Catch Can as Bob Chiaramonte
- 1967 · Woman Times Seven as Cenci
- 1967 · The Tiger and the Pussycat as Francesco Vincenzini
- 1966 · The Devil in Love as Belfagor
- 1966 · Pleasant Nights as Bastiano da Sangallo
- 1966 · For Love and Gold as Brancaleone da Norcia
- 1965 · I Knew Her Well as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1965 · A Maiden for the Prince as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
- 1965 · Snow Job as Lucio Ridolfi
- 1965 · The Dirty Game as Perego / Ferrari
- 1964 · One Million Dollars as Giuliano
- 1964 · Il gaucho as Marco Ravicchio
- 1964 · Let's Talk About Women as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
- 1964 · Summer Frenzy as Cap. Nardoni
- 1963 · The Monsters 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")
- 1963 · Il successo as Giulio Ceriani
- 1963 · The Eye of the Needle as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
- 1962 · Sex Can Be Difficult as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
- 1962 · March on Rome as Domenico Rocchetti
- 1962 · Il Sorpasso as Bruno Cortona
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1962 · Dark Soul as Adriano Zucchelli
- 1961 · Barabbas as Sahak
- 1961 · A Difficult Life as Self (uncredited)
- 1961 · Seduction Of The South as O Caporale
- 1961 · The Last Judgment as Cimino
- 1961 · Ghosts of Rome as Il Caparra
- 1960 · ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Remo
- 1960 · Love and Larceny as Gerardo Latini
- 1959 · Fiasco in Milan as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
- 1959 · La cambiale as Michele
- 1959 · The Miracle as Guido
- 1959 · The Great War as Giovanni Busacca
- 1958 · Tempest as Prosecutor
- 1958 · Big Deal on Madonna Street as Peppe il pantera
- 1957 · The Love Specialist as Piero di Montalcino
- 1957 · Kean: Genius or Scoundrel as Edmund Kean
- 1956 · The Violent Patriot as Giovanni De Medici
- 1956 · Defend My Love as Giovanni Marchi
- 1956 · War and Peace as Anatol Kuragin
- 1955 · Beautiful But Dangerous as Prince Sergei
- 1955 · Amleto as Amleto
- 1954 · Mambo as Mario Rossi
- 1954 · Rhapsody as Paul Bronte
- 1953 · Cry of the Hunted as Jory
- 1953 · Sombrero as Alejandro Castillo
- 1953 · The Glass Wall as Peter Kuban
- 1952 · Girls Marked Danger as Michele
- 1952 · The Dream of Zorro as Don Juan Antonio
- 1951 · Anna as Vittorio
- 1951 · Black Crown as Mauricio
- 1951 · Double Cross as Renato Salvi
- 1950 · Il leone di Amalfi as
- 1950 · Lo sparviero del Nilo as Yussuf
- 1950 · The Outlaws as Turi
- 1950 · Streets of Sorrow as Giorgio
- 1949 · Lure of the Sila as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
- 1949 · Bitter Rice as Walter
- 1948 · The Mysterious Rider as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
- 1948 · L'ebreo errante as Mathieu Blumenthal
- 1947 · The Captain's Daughter as Svabrin
- 1947 · Daniele Cortis as Daniele Cortis
- 1947 · The Adventures of Pinocchio as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
- 1946 · Preludio d'amore as
- 1945 · Incontro con Laura as