Vittorio Caprioli
106 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 15, 1921
- Died
- Oct 2, 1989 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Napoli, Campania, Italia
Biography
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.
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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.
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Vittorio Caprioli: movies and TV shows
Acting (103)
- 2022
- 1990 Dark Illness
as Psicanalista
- 1988 Taste of Life
as Riccardo
- 1988 L'ultima scena
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
- 1987 I picari
as mozzafiato
- 1987 Stuff for the Rich
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
- 1987 Love & Passion
as Don Vincenzo
- 1987
- 1984 Uno scandalo perbene
as Renzo
- 1984 Cinderella '80
as Harry Cardone
- 1983 Petomaniac
as Pitalugue
- 1982 Più bello di così si muore
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
- 1982 Le rose et le blanc
as Luigi Martini
- 1981 Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
as Maresciallo Angrisani
- 1981 Before It's Too Early
as Il professore
- 1980 Umbrella Coup
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
- 1980 Café Express
as Carmelo Improta
- 1980 A Leap in the Dark
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
- 1979 Hypochondriac
as Vincenzo
- 1978 To Be Twenty
as Nazariota
- 1978 Blood and Diamonds
as Commissario Russo
- 1977 La Presidentessa
as Mazzone
- 1977 Grazie tante arrivederci
as Proprietario bisca
- 1977 Messalina, Messalina!
as Claudius
- 1977 The Rip-Off
as Benjamin Bronchi
- 1977 Latin Male Wanted
as don Carmine
- 1976 Rulers of the City
as Vinchenzo Napoli
- 1976 The Wing or the Thigh?
as Vittorio
- 1976 The Groper
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
- 1976 The Landlord
as Onorevole Vincenzi
- 1976 Blackmail Chase
as Barbone
- 1975 The Barons
as Padre
- 1975 Catherine & Co.
as Moretti
- 1975 The Messiah
as Herod the Great
- 1975 Kidnap Syndicate
as Commissar Magrini
- 1975 The School Teacher
as Fefe Mottola
- 1975 L'ammazzatina
as Commissario Pafuso
- 1974 Erotomania
as il ministro
- 1974 I'm Losing My Temper
as Le metteur en scène
- 1974 Shoot First, Die Later
as Esposito
- 1974 Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
as Professor Goffredo
- 1974 Innocence and Desire
as Vincenzo Niscemi
- 1974 The Governess
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
- 1973 The Magnificent One
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
- 1973 The Sensual Man
as Salvatore
- 1973 Società a responsabilità molto limitata
as Il Ciancia
- 1973 Io e lui
as Cutica
- 1973 La colonna infame
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
- 1973 Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Onorevole Pedicò
- 1973 A Full Day's Work
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
- 1973 The Boss
as Questore
- 1972
- 1972 When Women Were Called Virgins
as Ser Cecco
- 1972 Tout Va Bien
as Factory Manager
- 1972 Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
- 1972 Hector the Mighty
as Menalao
- 1971 Trastevere
as Father Ernesto
- 1971 The Automobile
as Giggetto
- 1971 Roma bene
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
- 1971 When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
as Gran Profe
- 1971 The Story of Romance and Knife
as Er Cinese
- 1970 Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
as Luis (uncredited)
- 1970 On the Day of the Lord
as Messer Anticoli
- 1970 Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
as Bambola di Pechino
- 1968 The Libertine
as Il Libraio
- 1968 Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
as Spinelli
- 1967 Death on the Run
as Billy 'Pizza'
- 1967 Anyone Can Play
as Dieb
- 1967 Soldier's Girl
as Settimo
- 1967 Assicurasi vergine
as Don Pippo Matara
- 1966 How I Learned to Love Women
as Playboy
- 1966 Adultery Italian Style
as Silvio Sasselli
- 1966 Ischia operazione amore
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
- 1966 Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Finizio, Politician
- 1965 A Maiden for the Prince
as Marchese Liginio
- 1965 Violence and Love
as Il poeta
- 1964 Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
- 1964 Easy Love
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
- 1964 White Voices
as Matteuccio
- 1964 The Maniacs
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
- 1963 The Shortest Day
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
- 1962 Paris, My Love
as Avallone
- 1962 Adieu Philippine
as Pachala
- 1962 His Days Are Numbered
as Professor
- 1961 Leoni al sole
as Giugiú
- 1961 A porte chiuse
as commissario
- 1960 Zazie dans le Métro
as Trouscaillon
- 1960 Recourse in Grace
as Sergio
- 1959 General Della Rovere
as Aristide Banchelli
- 1959 You're on Your Own
as Pino Calamari
- 1959 The Law
as Attilio
- 1959 Il borghese gentiluomo
as Jourdain
- 1955 Good night… lawyer!
as Vittorio
- 1954 Neapolitan Carousel
as paroliere amico di Luigino
- 1954 The Anatomy of Love
as Raffaele
- 1953 It Happened in the Park
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
- 1953 Aida
as Uncredited
- 1953 Eager to Live
as Pierra
- 1952 Times Gone By
as il marito di Mariantonia
- 1952 Totó in color
as Il tenore balbuziente
- 1951 Paris Is Always Paris
as Tour guide (uncredited)
- 1951 Robinson Crusoeland
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
- 1950 Variety Lights
as Night Club Comic
Behind the camera (8)
- 1983 Neapolitan Story
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1975 Vieni, vieni amore mio
Director, Writer
- 1973 The Magnificent One
Writer
- 1970 Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Director
- 1968 Listen, Let's Make Love
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1963 I cuori infranti
Screenplay, Story, Director
- 1962 Paris, My Love
Director, Screenplay, Story
- 1961 Leoni al sole
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2017