Lino Ventura

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian actor. Born in Italy, he was raised in Paris by his mother. After a first career as a professional wrestler was ended by injury, he was offered a part as a gang boss in the Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 1919-07-13

Died: 1987-10-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Touchez Pas au Grisbi	Angelo Fraiser	72
2	1955	Razzia	Roger le Catalan	68
3	1956	Law of the Streets	Mario	70
4	1956	Crime and Punishment	Gustave Messonnier	70
5	1957	Burning Fuse		46
6	1957	To Catch a Spy	Bérès	50
7	1957	Speaking of Murder	Pepito	63
8	1957	The Strange Mr. Steve	Denis	50
9	1958	Dishonorable Discharge	Paulo	54
10	1958	Elevator to the Gallows	Le Commissaire Cherrier	76
11	1958	Maigret Sets a Trap	Inspecteur Torrence	70
12	1958	Three Days to Live	Lino Ferrari	54
13	1958	The Lovers of Montparnasse	Morel	70
14	1958	The Mask of the Gorilla	Géo Paquet, Le Gorille	61
15	1959	The Tiger Attacks	Paul Lamiani	63
16	1959	Pensione Edelweiss	Borcher	51
17	1959	Twelve Hours by the Clock	Fourbieux	42
18	1959	Marie-Octobre	Carlo Bernardi	73
19	1959	Witness in the City	Ancelin	63
20	1959	125 rue Montmartre	Pascal	76
21	1959	Way of Youth	Tiercelin	60
22	1960	The Big Risk	Abel Davos	71
23	1960	Mistress of the World - Part I	Biamonte	62
24	1960	Mistress of the World - Part II	Biamonte	50
25	1961	Girl in the Window	Federico	62
26	1961	Taxi for Tobruk	le brigadier Théo Dumas	71
27	1961	Black City	Il bandito	75
28	1961	The Lions Are Loose	le docteur André Challenberg	57
29	1961	The Last Judgment	Giovanna's father	64
30	1962	Emile's Boat	Émile Bouet	64
31	1962	Hitch-Hike	Paul, le chauffeur de car	55
32	1962	The Devil and the Ten Commandments	Garigny	57
33	1962	Carmen di Trastevere	Vincenzo, le caïd	90
34	1963	The Threepenny Opera	Brown, Polizeichef von London	50
35	1963	Crooks in Clover	Fernand Naudin	77
36	1964	Greed in the Sun	Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'	71
37	1964	Weeping for a Bandit	"El lutos"	51
38	1964	The Monocle's Sour Laugh		53
39	1964	The Great Spy Chase	Francis Lagneau	68
40	1965	The Dictator's Guns	Jacques Cournot	60
41	1965	Cloportes	Alphonse Maréchal	63
42	1965	The Wise Guys	Laurent Dannecker	80
43	1966	Let's Not Get Angry	Antoine Beretto	76
44	1966	Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle	Self - Interviewee	0
45	1966	To Skin a Spy	Pascal Fabre	57
46	1966	Le Deuxième Souffle	Gustave 'Gu' Minda	76
47	1967	Deux Romains en Gaule	Un client du bar	65
48	1967	The Last Adventure	Roland	69
49	1968	Birds of Prey	Le rapace / Le rital	66
50	1969	Army of Shadows	Philippe Gerbier	79
51	1969	The Sicilian Clan	Commissaire Le Goff	76
52	1970	Last Known Address	Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti	73
53	1971	Fantasia chez les ploucs	Sagamore Noonan	50
54	1971	Rum Runners	Cornelius von Zeelinga	45
55	1972	The Valachi Papers	Vito Genovese	65
56	1972	Money Money Money	Lino Massaro	67
57	1973	The Silent One	Clément Tibère	72
58	1973	The Right of the Maddest	Le gendarme motorisé instructeur	58
59	1973	Happy New Year	Simon	72
60	1973	Far West		62
61	1973	A Pain in the Ass	Ralf Milan	71
62	1974	Three Tough Guys	Father Charlie	50
63	1974	The Slap	Jean Douléan	67
64	1975	The Cage	Julien	59
65	1975	The French Detective	Commissioner Verjeat	68
66	1976	Illustrious Corpses	Inspector Amerigo Rogas	68
67	1978	The Medusa Touch	Brunel	68
68	1978	Butterfly on the Shoulder	Roland Fériaud	60
69	1979	The Angry Man	Romain Dupre	56
70	1980	Sunday Lovers	François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')	60
71	1981	The Inquisitor	Inspector Antoine Gallien	75
72	1982	Spy, Stand Up	Sébastien Grenier	73
73	1982	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean	69
74	1983	The Ruffian	Aldo	63
75	1984	One Hundred Days in Palermo	General Carlo Dalla Chiesa	69
76	1984	The Seventh Target	Bastien Grimaldi	58
77	1986	Sword of Gideon	Papa	68
78	1987	La Rumba	un caïd	48
79	2008	Code Name: Melville	Self	67
80	2010	Il était une fois... « Les Tontons flingueurs »	Self	73
81	2011	D'un film à l'autre	Self (archive footage)	80
82	2011	Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres	Self (archive footage)	0
83	2012	Lino, il n'était que lui-même	Self (archive footage)	60
84	2017	De Gaulle, the Last King of France	Self (archive footage)	80
85	2017	Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme		0
86	2018	Lino Ventura, la part intime	Self (archive footage)	78
87	2019	Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress	Self (archive footage)	77
88	2019	Aznavour by Charles	Self - Actor (archive footage)	69
89	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72
90	2022	Bacri, comme un air de famille	Self (archive footage)	76
91	2022	Patrick Dewaere, My Hero	Self (archive footage) - actor	90
92	2024	At The End Of The Day	(archive footage)	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
2	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
3	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self - Main guest	80
4	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
5	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
6	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
7	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
8	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
9	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
10	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self (archive footage)	0