Vittorio Gassman
Born
September 1, 1922
Died
June 29, 2000 (77 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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.
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Known For
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
Self (archive footage)
2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
2021
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Self
2018
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Self (archive footage)
2015
Còmics
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2015
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
Self
2015
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self (archive footage)
2012
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self (archive footage)
2010
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Self
2007
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self (archive footage)
2006
Luchino Visconti
Self (archive footage)
2002
La bomba
Don Vito Bracalone
1999
The Dinner
maestro Pezzullo
1998
Desert of Fire
Tareq · (3 episodes)
1997
Desert of Fire
Tareq
1997
Sleepers
King Benny
1996
Once a Year, Every Year
Giuseppe
1994
Abraham
Terah · (2 episodes)
1994
Abraham
Terach
1993
The Long Winter
Claudio, El Mayordomo
1992
Quando eravamo repressi
The Sexologist
1992
Rossini! Rossini!
Ludwig van Beethoven
1991
I'll Be Going Now
Augusto Scribani
1991
The Amusements of Private Life
Marquis
1990
1001 Nights
Sinbad
1990
Les 1001 Nuits (Version intégrale)
Sinbad
1990
The Palermo Connection
Il principe
1990
The Sleazy Uncle
Zio Luca
1989
Mortacci
Domenico
1989
L'altro enigma
Il padre / Sofocle
1988
I picari
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
1987
The Family
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
1987
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Peppe
1985
Power Of Evil
Gottfried
1985
To Be Hamlet
Self
1985
Benvenuta
Livio
1983
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Walter Guarini
1983
Count Tacchia
Prince Torquato Terenzi
1982
Tempest
Alonzo
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self · (2 episodes)
1982
Di padre in figlio
Self
1982
Sharky's Machine
Victor Scorelli
1981
Il turno
Ciro Coppa
1981
Hotel Room
Achille Mengaroni
1981
The Nude Bomb
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
1980
I'm Photogenic
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
1980
The Terrace
Mario
1980
Dear Father
Albino Millozza
1979
Quintet
Saint Christopher
1979
Two Pieces of Bread
Pippo Mifà
1979
A Wedding
Luigi Corelli
1978
The New Monsters
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
1977
Edipo Re
Edipo
1977
Lost Soul
Fabio Stolz
1977
The Desert of the Tartars
Filimore
1976
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
1976
Pure as a Lily
Anthony M. Wilson
1976
The Career of a Chambermaid
Franco Denza
1976
Зеница ока
film festival participant
1976
Babau
(1 episode)
1976
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
1975
Midnight Pleasures
Andrea Sansoni
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (3 episodes)
1975
Apostrophes
Self · (1 episode)
1975
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Gianni Perego
1974
Scent of a Woman
Fausto Consolo
1974
Spécial cinéma
Self · (2 episodes)
1974
La Tosca
Scarpia
1973
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Guido Guidi
1972
The Audience
Principe Donati
1972
Without Family
Armando Zavanatti
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · (1 episode)
1972
In the Name of the Italian People
Lorenzo Santenocito
1971
Scipio the African
Catone il Censore
1971
Samedi soir
Self · (1 episode)
1971
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Brancaleone Da Norcia
1970
Il divorzio
Leonardo Nenci
1970
Let's Have a Riot
Riccardo
1970
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
1970
Twelve Plus One
Mario Beretti
1969
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Rufus Conforti
1969
The Archangel
Furio Bertuccia
1969
Alibi
Vittorio
1969
The Black Sheep
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
1968
The Prophet
Pietro Breccia
1968
Ghosts, Italian Style
Pasquale Lojacono
1967
Catch As Catch Can
Bob Chiaramonte
1967
Woman Times Seven
Cenci
1967
The Tiger and the Pussycat
Francesco Vincenzini
1967
The Devil in Love
Belfagor
1966
Pleasant Nights
Bastiano da Sangallo
1966
For Love and Gold
Brancaleone da Norcia
1966
I Knew Her Well
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
A Maiden for the Prince
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
1965
Snow Job
Lucio Ridolfi
1965
The Dirty Game
Perego / Ferrari
1965
One Million Dollars
Giuliano
1964
Il gaucho
Marco Ravicchio
1964
Let's Talk About Women
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
1964
Summer Frenzy
Cap. Nardoni
1964
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")
1963
Il successo
Giulio Ceriani
1963
The Eye of the Needle
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
1963
Sex Can Be Difficult
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
1962
March on Rome
Domenico Rocchetti
1962
Il Sorpasso
Bruno Cortona
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · (1 episode)
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962
Dark Soul
Adriano Zucchelli
1962
Barabbas
Sahak
1961
A Difficult Life
Self (uncredited)
1961
Seduction Of The South
O Caporale
1961
The Last Judgment
Cimino
1961
Ghosts of Rome
Il Caparra
1961
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Remo
1960
Love and Larceny
Gerardo Latini
1960
Fiasco in Milan
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
1959
La cambiale
Michele
1959
The Miracle
Guido
1959
The Great War
Giovanni Busacca
1959
Tempest
Prosecutor
1958
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Peppe il pantera
1958
The Love Specialist
Piero di Montalcino
1957
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Edmund Kean
1957
The Violent Patriot
Giovanni De Medici
1956
Defend My Love
Giovanni Marchi
1956
War and Peace
Anatol Kuragin
1956
Beautiful But Dangerous
Prince Sergei
1955
Amleto
Amleto
1955
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
Edmund Kean
1955
Mambo
Mario Rossi
1954
Rhapsody
Paul Bronte
1954
Cry of the Hunted
Jory
1953
Sombrero
Alejandro Castillo
1953
The Glass Wall
Peter Kuban
1953
Girls Marked Danger
Michele
1952
The Dream of Zorro
Don Juan Antonio
1952
Anna
Vittorio
1951
Black Crown
Mauricio
1951
Double Cross
Renato Salvi
1951
Il leone di Amalfi
Mauro
1950
Lo sparviero del Nilo
Yussuf
1950
The Outlaws
Turi
1950
Streets of Sorrow
Giorgio
1950
Lure of the Sila
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
1949
Bitter Rice
Walter
1949
The Mysterious Rider
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
1948
L'ebreo errante
Mathieu Blumenthal
1948
The Captain's Daughter
Svabrin
1947
Daniele Cortis
Daniele Cortis
1947
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
1947
Preludio d'amore
1946
Incontro con Laura
1945