Ben Gazzara

Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Gazzara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, 1930-08-28

Died: 2012-02-03

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	The Strange One	Jocko de Paris	64
2	1958	Three Plays by Tennessee Williams	Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")	50
3	1959	Anatomy of a Murder	Lt. Frederick Manion	79
4	1960	The Passionate Thief	Lello	69
5	1961	The Young Doctors	Dr. David Coleman	56
6	1962	Convicts 4	John Resko	48
7	1962	Conquered City	Captain George Stubbs	43
8	1964	Carol for Another Christmas	Fred	56
9	1965	A Rage to Live	Roger Bannon	47
10	1969	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	Card Player	58
11	1969	The Bridge at Remagen	Sgt. Angelo	68
12	1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	71
13	1970	Husbands	Harry	68
14	1971	The Making of 'Husbands'	Self	0
15	1972	When Michael Calls	Doremus Connelly	55
16	1972	Fireball Forward	Maj. Gen Joe Barrett	50
17	1972	The Family Rico	Eddie Rico	100
18	1972	Pursuit	Steven Graves	52
19	1972	The Sicilian Connection	Joseph Coppola	60
20	1973	The Neptune Factor	Cmdr. Adrian Blake	50
21	1973	Maneater	Nick Baron	0
22	1975	Capone	Al Capone	59
23	1976	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie	Cosmo Vittelli	71
24	1976	High Velocity		0
25	1976	Voyage of the Damned	Morris Troper	59
26	1977	The Death of Richie	George Werner	68
27	1977	The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald	Anson 'Kip' Roberts	68
28	1977	Opening Night	Manny Victor	76
29	1979	Saint Jack	Jack Flowers	66
30	1979	Bloodline	Rhys Williams	49
31	1981	Inchon	Maj. Frank Hallsworth	34
32	1981	Tales of Ordinary Madness	Charles Serking	61
33	1981	They All Laughed	John Russo	59
34	1981	Droit de Réponse	Self	100
35	1982	Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!	Self (archive footage)	60
36	1982	A Question of Honor	Detective Joe DeFalco	70
37	1982	The Girl from Trieste	Dino Romani	48
38	1984	Uno scandalo perbene	The man with no memory	59
39	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
40	1985	An Early Frost	Nick Pierson	60
41	1985	Woman of Wonders	Alberto	65
42	1985	My Dearest Son	Antonio Morelli	43
43	1985	A Letter to Three Wives	Porter Holloway	20
44	1986	Bitter Champagne	Paul Rivière	0
45	1986	The Professor	'O Professore di Vesuviano	71
46	1987	Downpayment on Murder	Harry Cardell	60
47	1987	Control	Mike Zella	55
48	1987	Police Story: The Freeway Killings	Capt. Tom Wright	53
49	1988	Don Bosco	Don Giovanni Bosco	60
50	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
51	1989	Arena - John Cassavetes	Self	0
52	1989	Road House	Brad Wesley	67
53	1989	Quicker Than the Eye	Ben Norell	35
54	1990	Beyond the Ocean	John Tana	30
55	1990	People Like Us	Gus Bailey	43
56	1991	Lies Before Kisses	Grant Sanders	0
57	1991	Forever	Marcelo	38
58	1993	The Window Over the Way		0
59	1993	Blindsided	Ira Gold	35
60	1993	Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage	Joseph Bonanno	40
61	1993	Anything for John	Self	60
62	1994	Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun	Amenophis III	43
63	1994	Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem	Moshe	0
64	1994	Parallel Lives	Charlie Duke	50
65	1995	Bandits	Amos	10
66	1995	Convict Cowboy	Warden Ferguson	61
67	1995	The Zone	Dick Althorp	50
68	1996	John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All	Self	0
69	1996	Ladykiller	Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky	37
70	1997	Vicious Circles	March	41
71	1997	Farmer & Chase	Farmer	0
72	1997	Shadow Conspiracy	Vicepresident Saxon	50
73	1997	Stag	Frank Grieco	46
74	1997	The Spanish Prisoner	Mr. Klein	68
75	1998	Valentine's Day	Joe Buddha	38
76	1998	Buffalo '66	Jimmy Brown	71
77	1998	Too Tired to Die	John Sage	45
78	1998	The Big Lebowski	Jackie Treehorn	78
79	1998	Illuminata	Old Flavio	55
80	1998	Angelo Nero	Padre Guelfi	0
81	1998	Marilyn in Manhattan	Self	75
82	1998	Il tesoro di Damasco	Gregorio Kos	0
83	1998	Happiness	Lenny Jordan	75
84	1999	Paradise Cove	Duke Mantee	60
85	1999	Summer of Sam	Luigi	65
86	1999	The Thomas Crown Affair	Andrew Wallace	67
87	2000	Poor Liza	The Narrator	0
88	2000	A Constant Forge	Self	66
89	2000	Blue Moon	Frank Cavallo	50
90	2000	Believe		53
91	2000	Very Mean Men	Gino Minetti	58
92	2000	Shark in a Bottle	The Arranger	62
93	2000	Undertaker's Paradise	Jim	50
94	2000	Piovuto dal cielo		0
95	2000	Nella terra di nessuno	L'avvocato Scalzi	0
96	2000	The List	D.A. Bernard Salman	44
97	2000	Jack of Hearts	Batossa	15
98	2001	Brian's Song	Coach Halas	62
99	2001	Home Sweet Hoboken		0
100	2002	Hysterical Blindness	Nick	60
101	2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self	70
102	2003	L'ospite segreto	Ispettore di Polizia Solomos	0
103	2003	Dogville	Jack McKay	78
104	2004	Dogville Confessions	Self	68
105	2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)	76
106	2005	Bonjour Michel	michele Terranova	0
107	2005	The Shore	Mr. Bob Harris	20
108	2006	Paris Je T'aime	Ben (Quartier Latin)	68
109	2006	Quiet Flows The Don	Secretov	38
110	2007	Donne sbagliate	Franco Maresco	40
111	2007	A Prince Called Toto	Self	50
112	2008	Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies		70
113	2008	Looking for Palladin	Jack Palladin	37
114	2008	Empire State Building Murders	Paulie Genovese	0
115	2008	Eve	Joe	62
116	2009	The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes	Self	0
117	2009	Holy Money	Vatican's Banker	0
118	2010	13	Schlondorff	58
119	2010	Il Volo		0
120	2010	Christopher Roth	Paul Andersen	47
121	2011	Chez Gino	Oncle Giovanni	44
122	2012	Ristabbanna		60
123	2014	One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film	Self	67
124	2014	Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima	Self	90
125	2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Self	0
126	2023	to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour	Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee / Presenter	72
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	69
4	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
5	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
6	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	54
7	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
8	1963	Arrest and Trial	Detective Sergeant Nick Anderson	77
9	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Sidney	57
10	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Paul Bryan	53
11	1965	Run for Your Life	Paul Bryan	72
12	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
13	1974	QB VII	Abe Cady	77
14	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
15	1982	Ninho da Serpente	Self	0
16	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	E.A.D.A.	79
17	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest	61
18	2005	Pope John Paul II	Kardinal Agostino Casaroli	60
19	2006	L'onore e il rispetto	Don Fred Di Venanzio	71
20	2006	Quiet Flows the Don	Secretov tábornok	90
21	2013	Pupetta, Woman of Honor	Don Otello Di Bella	55
22	2025	Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore	'O Professore di Vesuviano	55

Ben Gazzara

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