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Vittorio Gassman

Born · September 1, 1922

Died · June 29, 2000 (77 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Bio

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

Sleepers

Il Sorpasso

Big Deal on Madonna Street

We All Loved Each Other So Much

We Are Cinema

Self (archive footage)

9.5

2021

Trintignant by Trintignant

Self (archive footage)

6.8

2021

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Self (archive footage)

7.3

2021

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

Self

9.0

2018

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian

Self (archive footage)

6.6

2015

Còmics

Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)

0.0

2015

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

Self

0.0

2015

Close Up

Self (archive footage)

9.0

2012

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

Self (archive footage)

5.5

2012

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Self (archive footage)

6.2

2010

Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne

Self

0.0

2007

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Self (archive footage)

7.0

2006

La bomba

Don Vito Bracalone

5.7

1999

Luchino Visconti

Self

6.2

1999

The Dinner

maestro Pezzullo

6.9

1998

Desert of Fire

Tareq · (3 episodes)

10.0

1997

Desert of Fire

Tareq

9.3

1997

Sleepers

King Benny

7.6

1996

Once a Year, Every Year

Giuseppe

0.0

1994

Abraham

Terah · (2 episodes)

8.0

1994

Abraham

Terach

6.9

1993

The Long Winter

Claudio, El Mayordomo

5.2

1992

Quando eravamo repressi

The Sexologist

0.0

1992

Rossini! Rossini!

Ludwig van Beethoven

6.5

1991

I'll Be Going Now

Augusto Scribani

6.0

1991

The Amusements of Private Life

Marquis

4.0

1990

1001 Nights

Sinbad

5.1

1990

Les 1001 Nuits : Version Intégrale

Sinbad

9.0

1990

The Palermo Connection

Il principe

6.2

1990

The Sleazy Uncle

Zio Luca

5.0

1989

Mortacci

Domenico

7.0

1989

L'altro enigma

Il padre / Sofocle

0.0

1988

I picari

Marquis Felipe de Aragona

5.5

1987

The Family

Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather

7.5

1987

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

Peppe

5.3

1985

Power Of Evil

Gottfried

5.0

1985

To Be Hamlet

Self

0.0

1985

Benvenuta

Livio

5.7

1983

Life Is a Bed of Roses

Walter Guarini

5.7

1983

Count Tacchia

Prince Torquato Terenzi

6.1

1982

Tempest

Alonzo

6.0

1982

Champs-Elysées

Self · (2 episodes)

6.2

1982

Di padre in figlio

Self

4.0

1982

Sharky's Machine

Victor Scorelli

6.0

1981

Il turno

Ciro Coppa

0.0

1981

Hotel Room

Achille Mengaroni

5.6

1981

The Nude Bomb

Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani

5.5

1980

I'm Photogenic

Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)

5.4

1980

The Terrace

Mario

7.1

1980

Dear Father

Albino Millozza

6.4

1979

Quintet

Saint Christopher

5.1

1979

Two Pieces of Bread

Pippo Mifà

4.0

1979

A Wedding

Luigi Corelli

6.3

1978

The New Monsters

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

6.9

1977

Edipo Re

Edipo

0.0

1977

Lost Soul

Fabio Stolz

6.6

1977

The Desert of the Tartars

Filimore

6.8

1976

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo

6.7

1976

Pure as a Lily

Anthony M. Wilson

2.0

1976

The Career of a Chambermaid

Franco Denza

4.8

1976

Babau

(1 episode)

0.0

1976

E il Casanova di Fellini?

Self

0.0

1975

Midnight Pleasures

Andrea Sansoni

5.7

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self · (3 episodes)

6.0

1975

Apostrophes

Self · (1 episode)

8.5

1975

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Gianni Perego

8.3

1974

Scent of a Woman

Fausto Consolo

7.5

1974

Spécial cinéma

Self · (2 episodes)

0.0

1974

La Tosca

Scarpia

7.1

1973

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?

Guido Guidi

5.4

1972

The Audience

Principe Donati

6.7

1972

Without Family

Armando Zavanatti

7.3

1972

Le Grand Échiquier

Self · (1 episode)

8.0

1972

In the Name of the Italian People

Lorenzo Santenocito

7.2

1971

Scipio the African

Catone il Censore

6.8

1971

Samedi soir

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1971

Brancaleone at the Crusades

Brancaleone Da Norcia

7.2

1970

Il divorzio

Leonardo Nenci

6.5

1970

Let's Have a Riot

Riccardo

6.9

1970

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

L'uomo dal fiore in bocca

0.0

1970

Twelve Plus One

Mario Beretti

5.3

1969

Where Are You Going All Naked?

Rufus Conforti

5.0

1969

The Archangel

Furio Bertuccia

6.0

1969

Alibi

Vittorio

5.0

1969

The Black Sheep

Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti

6.0

1968

The Prophet

Pietro Breccia

5.6

1968

Ghosts, Italian Style

Pasquale Lojacono

6.3

1967

Catch As Catch Can

Bob Chiaramonte

5.8

1967

Woman Times Seven

Cenci

6.4

1967

The Tiger and the Pussycat

Francesco Vincenzini

7.0

1967

The Devil in Love

Belfagor

5.5

1966

Pleasant Nights

Bastiano da Sangallo

6.3

1966

For Love and Gold

Brancaleone da Norcia

7.7

1966

I Knew Her Well

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

7.4

1965

A Maiden for the Prince

Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga

5.1

1965

Snow Job

Lucio Ridolfi

6.0

1965

The Dirty Game

Perego / Ferrari

5.8

1965

One Million Dollars

Giuliano

6.0

1964

Il gaucho

Marco Ravicchio

6.7

1964

Let's Talk About Women

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

6.2

1964

Summer Frenzy

Cap. Nardoni

5.4

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")

7.4

1963