Vittorio Gassman

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

Known For: Acting

Born: Genoa, Liguria, Italy, 1922-09-01

Died: 2000-06-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	Incontro con Laura		0
2	1946	Preludio d'amore		0
3	1947	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde	58
4	1947	Daniele Cortis	Daniele Cortis	0
5	1947	The Captain's Daughter	Svabrin	65
6	1948	L'ebreo errante	Mathieu Blumenthal	0
7	1948	The Mysterious Rider	Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt	46
8	1949	Bitter Rice	Walter	75
9	1949	Lure of the Sila	Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)	63
10	1950	Streets of Sorrow	Giorgio	0
11	1950	The Outlaws	Turi	60
12	1950	Lo sparviero del Nilo	Yussuf	33
13	1950	Il leone di Amalfi	Mauro	100
14	1951	Double Cross	Renato Salvi	66
15	1951	Black Crown	Mauricio	52
16	1951	Anna	Vittorio	73
17	1952	The Dream of Zorro	Don Juan Antonio	60
18	1952	Girls Marked Danger	Michele	67
19	1953	The Glass Wall	Peter Kuban	53
20	1953	Sombrero	Alejandro Castillo	42
21	1953	Cry of the Hunted	Jory	58
22	1954	Rhapsody	Paul Bronte	67
23	1954	Mambo	Mario Rossi	55
24	1955	Kean - Genio e sregolatezza	Edmund Kean	0
25	1955	Amleto	Amleto	78
26	1955	Beautiful But Dangerous	Prince Sergei	60
27	1956	War and Peace	Anatol Kuragin	67
28	1956	Defend My Love	Giovanni Marchi	0
29	1956	The Violent Patriot	Giovanni De Medici	47
30	1957	Kean: Genius or Scoundrel	Edmund Kean	68
31	1957	The Love Specialist	Piero di Montalcino	58
32	1958	Big Deal on Madonna Street	Peppe il pantera	81
33	1958	Tempest	Prosecutor	60
34	1959	The Great War	Giovanni Busacca	81
35	1959	The Miracle	Guido	67
36	1959	La cambiale	Michele	66
37	1959	Fiasco in Milan	Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi	69
38	1960	Love and Larceny	Gerardo Latini	72
39	1960	...And Suddenly It's Murder!	Remo	65
40	1961	Ghosts of Rome	Il Caparra	72
41	1961	The Last Judgment	Cimino	64
42	1961	Seduction Of The South	O Caporale	45
43	1961	A Difficult Life	Self (uncredited)	81
44	1961	Barabbas	Sahak	69
45	1962	Dark Soul	Adriano Zucchelli	56
46	1962	Il Sorpasso	Bruno Cortona	82
47	1962	March on Rome	Domenico Rocchetti	74
48	1962	Sex Can Be Difficult	L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")	60
49	1963	The Eye of the Needle	Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer	72
50	1963	Il successo	Giulio Ceriani	63
51	1963	The Monsters	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")	74
52	1964	Summer Frenzy	Cap. Nardoni	54
53	1964	Let's Talk About Women	Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero	62
54	1964	Il gaucho	Marco Ravicchio	67
55	1964	One Million Dollars	Giuliano	60
56	1965	The Dirty Game	Perego / Ferrari	58
57	1965	Snow Job	Lucio Ridolfi	60
58	1965	A Maiden for the Prince	Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga	51
59	1965	I Knew Her Well	Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)	74
60	1966	For Love and Gold	Brancaleone da Norcia	77
61	1966	Pleasant Nights	Bastiano da Sangallo	63
62	1966	The Devil in Love	Belfagor	56
63	1967	The Tiger and the Pussycat	Francesco Vincenzini	70
64	1967	Woman Times Seven	Cenci	63
65	1967	Catch As Catch Can	Bob Chiaramonte	58
66	1967	Ghosts, Italian Style	Pasquale Lojacono	63
67	1968	The Prophet	Pietro Breccia	53
68	1968	The Black Sheep	Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti	60
69	1969	Alibi	Vittorio	50
70	1969	The Archangel	Furio Bertuccia	60
71	1969	Where Are You Going All Naked?	Rufus Conforti	50
72	1969	Twelve Plus One	Mario Beretti	53
73	1970	The Man with the Flower in His Mouth	L'uomo dal fiore in bocca	0
74	1970	Let's Have a Riot	Riccardo	69
75	1970	Il divorzio	Leonardo Nenci	65
76	1970	Brancaleone at the Crusades	Brancaleone Da Norcia	72
77	1971	Scipio the African	Catone il Censore	68
78	1971	In the Name of the Italian People	Lorenzo Santenocito	73
79	1972	Without Family	Armando Zavanatti	73
80	1972	The Audience	Principe Donati	67
81	1972	What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?	Guido Guidi	54
82	1973	La Tosca	Scarpia	71
83	1974	Scent of a Woman	Fausto Consolo	75
84	1974	We All Loved Each Other So Much	Gianni Perego	83
85	1975	Midnight Pleasures	Andrea Sansoni	57
86	1975	E il Casanova di Fellini?	Self	0
87	1976	Зеница ока	film festival participant	0
88	1976	The Career of a Chambermaid	Franco Denza	50
89	1976	Pure as a Lily	Anthony M. Wilson	20
90	1976	Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen	Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo	67
91	1976	The Desert of the Tartars	Filimore	68
92	1977	Lost Soul	Fabio Stolz	66
93	1977	Edipo Re	Edipo	0
94	1977	The New Monsters	il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia	69
95	1978	A Wedding	Luigi Corelli	63
96	1979	Two Pieces of Bread	Pippo Mifà	40
97	1979	Quintet	Saint Christopher	51
98	1979	Dear Father	Albino Millozza	64
99	1980	The Terrace	Mario	72
100	1980	I'm Photogenic	Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)	54
101	1980	The Nude Bomb	Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani	54
102	1981	Hotel Room	Achille Mengaroni	56
103	1981	Il turno	Ciro Coppa	0
104	1981	Sharky's Machine	Victor Scorelli	61
105	1982	Di padre in figlio	Self	40
106	1982	Tempest	Alonzo	60
107	1982	Count Tacchia	Prince Torquato Terenzi	61
108	1983	Life Is a Bed of Roses	Walter Guarini	57
109	1983	Benvenuta	Livio	57
110	1985	To Be Hamlet	Self	0
111	1985	Power Of Evil	Gottfried	50
112	1985	Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later	Peppe	53
113	1987	The Family	Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather	75
114	1987	I picari	Marquis Felipe de Aragona	55
115	1988	L'altro enigma	Il padre / Sofocle	0
116	1989	Mortacci	Domenico	70
117	1989	The Sleazy Uncle	Zio Luca	50
118	1990	The Palermo Connection	Il principe	62
119	1990	1001 Nights	Sinbad	51
120	1990	Les 1001 Nuits (Version intégrale)	Sinbad	90
121	1990	The Amusements of Private Life	Marquis	40
122	1991	I'll Be Going Now	Augusto Scribani	61
123	1991	Rossini! Rossini!	Ludwig van Beethoven	60
124	1992	Quando eravamo repressi	The Sexologist	0
125	1992	The Long Winter	Claudio, El Mayordomo	52
126	1993	Abraham	Terach	70
127	1994	Once a Year, Every Year	Giuseppe	0
128	1996	Sleepers	King Benny	76
129	1997	Desert of Fire	Tareq	93
130	1998	The Dinner	maestro Pezzullo	69
131	1999	La bomba	Don Vito Bracalone	57
132	2002	Luchino Visconti	Self (archive footage)	62
133	2006	Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds	Self (archive footage)	70
134	2007	Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne	Self	0
135	2010	Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore	Self (archive footage)	62
136	2012	Monicelli: La versione di Mario	Self (archive footage)	55
137	2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)	95
138	2015	Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant	Self	0
139	2015	Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian	Self (archive footage)	66
140	2018	Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia	Self	90
141	2021	Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita	Self (archive footage)	73
142	2021	Trintignant by Trintignant	Self (archive footage)	68
143	2021	Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained	Self - Actor (archive footage)	70
144	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
3	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
4	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
5	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
6	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
7	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
8	1976	Babau		0
9	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
10	1994	Abraham	Terah	80
11	1997	Desert of Fire	Tareq	100
12	2015	Còmics	Self (archive footage)	0

Vittorio Gassman

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