Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

  • Birthday: 1922-09-01
  • Deathday: 2000-06-29
  • Place of birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
  • Also know as: Vittorio Gassmann

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. 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

Filmography

Bitter Rice

1949

As Walter

For Love and Gold

1966

As Brancaleone da Norcia

Il Sorpasso

1962

As Bruno Cortona

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

As Peppe il pantera

Cry of the Hunted

1953

As Jory

The Glass Wall

1953

As Peter Kuban

The Family

1987

As Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather

Lost Soul

1977

As Fabio Stolz

Life Is a Bed of Roses

1983

As Walter Guarini

Dear Father

1979

As Albino Millozza

Scent of a Woman

1974

As Fausto Consolo

The Love Specialist

1957

As Piero di Montalcino

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970

As Brancaleone Da Norcia

Love and Larceny

1960

As Gerardo Latini

The Great War

1959

As Giovanni Busacca

A Maiden for the Prince

1965

As Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga

The Tiger and the Pussycat

1967

As Francesco Vincenzini

Let's Talk About Women

1964

As Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero

La cambiale

1959

As Michele

March on Rome

1962

As Domenico Rocchetti

One Million Dollars

1964

As Giuliano

The Terrace

1980

As Mario

Mortacci

1989

As Domenico

Il successo

1963

As Giulio Ceriani

The Prophet

1968

As Pietro Breccia

Il gaucho

1964

As Marco Ravicchio

Il divorzio

1970

As Leonardo Nenci

The Devil in Love

1966

As Belfagor

Hotel Room

1981

As Achille Mengaroni

The Sleazy Uncle

1989

As Zio Luca

Summer Frenzy

1964

As Cap. Nardoni

Dark Soul

1962

As Adriano Zucchelli

The Mysterious Rider

1948

As Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

1957

As Edmund Kean

Snow Job

1965

As Lucio Ridolfi

The Archangel

1969

As Furio Bertuccia

Alibi

1969

As Vittorio

The Black Sheep

1968

As Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti

Seduction Of The South

1961

As O Caporale

L'ebreo errante

1948

As Mathieu Blumenthal

The Violent Patriot

1956

As Giovanni De Medici

The Long Winter

1992

As Claudio, El Mayordomo

Power Of Evil

1985

As Gottfried

Pleasant Nights

1966

As Bastiano da Sangallo

Il turno

1981

As Ciro Coppa

Catch As Catch Can

1967

As Bob Chiaramonte

The Outlaws

1950

As Turi

Fiasco in Milan

1959

As Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi

Two Pieces of Bread

1979

As Pippo Mifà

Di padre in figlio

1982

As Self

Daniele Cortis

1947

As Daniele Cortis

Without Family

1972

As Armando Zavanatti

I'll Be Going Now

1991

As Augusto Scribani

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

1970

As L'uomo dal fiore in bocca

Amleto

1955

As Amleto

L'altro enigma

1988

As Il padre / Sofocle

Edipo Re

1977

As Edipo

Twelve Plus One

1969

As Mario Beretti

We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974

As Gianni Perego

Ghosts, Italian Style

1967

As Pasquale Lojacono

The Monsters

1963

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")

The New Monsters

1977

As il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia

Quintet

1979

As Saint Christopher

Benvenuta

1983

As Livio

The Desert of the Tartars

1976

As Filimore

Beautiful But Dangerous

1955

As Prince Sergei

The Last Judgment

1961

As Cimino

The Immortal Bachelor

1975

As Andrea Sansoni

Rhapsody

1954

As Paul Bronte

La Tosca

1973

As Scarpia

Pure as a Lily

1976

As Anthony M. Wilson

Streets of Sorrow

1950

As Giorgio

In the Name of the Italian People

1971

As Lorenzo Santenocito

Lo sparviero del Nilo

1950

As Yussuf

Luchino Visconti

1999

As Self

Let's Have a Riot

1970

As Riccardo

I picari

1987

As Marquis Felipe de Aragona

The Dirty Game

1965

As Perego / Ferrari

Sombrero

1953

As Alejandro Castillo

Black Crown

1951

As Mauricio

Mambo

1954

As Mario Rossi

Anna

1951

As Vittorio

The Dream of Zorro

1952

As Don Juan Antonio

The Captain's Daughter

1947

As Svabrin

Defend My Love

1956

As Giovanni Marchi

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1947

As Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976

As Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo

Abraham

1993

As Terach

War and Peace

1956

As Anatol Kuragin

Tempest

1982

As Alonzo

La bomba

1999

As Don Vito Bracalone

The Miracle

1959

As Guido

The Eye of the Needle

1963

As Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer

Double Cross

1951

As Renato Salvi

Sex Can Be Difficult

1962

As L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")

Sharky's Machine

1981

As Victor Scorelli

The Audience

1972

As Principe Donati

1001 Nights

1990

As Sinbad

Girls Marked Danger

1952

As Michele

The Palermo Connection

1990

As Il principe

Lure of the Sila

1949

As Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)

Once a Year, Every Year

1994

As Giuseppe

Quando eravamo repressi

1992

As The Sexologist

Barabbas

1961

As Sahak

A Wedding

1978

As Luigi Corelli

The Career of a Chambermaid

1976

As Franco Denza

Where Are You Going All Naked?

1969

As Rufus Conforti

Scipio the African

1971

As Catone il Censore

Rossini ! Rossini !

1991

As Ludwig van Beethoven

The Dinner

1998

As maestro Pezzullo

Tempest

1958

As Prosecutor

To Be Hamlet

1985

As Vittorio Gassman

Close Up

2012

As Self (archive footage)

The Nude Bomb

1980

As Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani

Sleepers

1996

As King Benny

A Difficult Life

1961

As Self (uncredited)

Count Tacchia

1982

As Prince Torquato Terenzi

Trintignant by Trintignant

2021

As Self (archive footage)

Ghosts of Rome

1961

As Il Caparra

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

2006

As Self (archive footage)

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

2012

As Self (archive footage)

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

2021

As Self (archive footage)

We Are Cinema

2021

As Self (archive footage)

I'm Photogenic

1980

As Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)

Woman Times Seven

1967

As Cenci

Desert of Fire

1997

As Tareq

I Knew Her Well

1965

As Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)

Production

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

1957

As Director

Alibi

1969

As Director

Without Family

1972

As Director

Di padre in figlio

1982

As Director

L'altro enigma

1988

As Director

Amleto

1955

As Director

Edipo Re

1977

As Director

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

1957

As Screenplay

Di padre in figlio

1982

As Writer

L'altro enigma

1988

As Writer

Without Family

1972

As Story

Without Family

1972

As Screenplay

Alibi

1969

As Story

Alibi

1969

As Screenplay

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