Vittorio Gassman
130 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 1, 1922
- Died
- Jun 29, 2000 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- Also known as
- Vittorio Gassmann · Витторио Гассман · Вітторіо Ґассман · Витторио Гасман
Biography
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.
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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.
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Acting (135)
- 2021
- 2005
- 1999 La bomba
as Don Vito Bracalone
- 1998 The Dinner
as Maestro Pezzullo
- 1997
- 1997 Desert of Fire
as Tareq
- 1996 Sleepers
as King Benny
- 1994
- 1994 Once a Year, Every Year
as Giuseppe
- 1993 Abraham
as Terach
- 1993
- 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 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
- 1985 Power Of Evil
as Gottfried
- 1985
- 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
- 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 Dorazio
- 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 The Apple of My Eye
as film festival participant
- 1976
- 1975 Midnight Pleasures
as Andrea Sansoni
- 1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Gianni Perego
- 1974 Scent of a Woman
as Fausto Consolo
- 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
- 1971 In the Name of the Italian People
as Lorenzo Santenocito
- 1971 Scipio the African
as Cato the Censor
- 1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
- 1970 The Divorce
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
- 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 Dark Soul
as Adriano Zucchelli
- 1961 Barabbas
as Sahak
- 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
- 1959
- 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
- 1955 Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
as Edmund Kean
- 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 Mauro
- 1950 Lo sparviero del Nilo
as Yussuf
- 1950 The Outlaws
as Turi
- 1950 Streets of Sorrow
as Giorgio Cantoni
- 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 Shamed
as Davide
- 1947 Daniele Cortis
as Daniele Cortis
- 1947 The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
- 1945 Incontro con Laura
as Franco
Behind the camera (7)
- 1988 L'altro enigma
Director, Writer
- 1982 Di padre in figlio
Director, Writer
- 1977 Edipo Re
Director
- 1972 Without Family
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1969 Alibi
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1957 Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Director, Screenplay
- 1955 Amleto
Director
Talk shows and appearances (28)
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2018
- 2015
- 2015 Còmics
1 episode
- 2015
- 2012
- 2012
- 2010
- 2007
- 2006
- 2002
- 1985
- 1983
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
2 episodes
- 1978 Ciné regards
2 episodes
- 1975
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
3 episodes
- 1975 Apostrophes
1 episode
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
2 episodes
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier
1 episode
- 1971 Samedi soir
1 episode
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode
- 1961