Vittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Times Gone By
(il marito di Mariantonia)
Anyone Can Play
(Dieb)
Zazie dans le Métro
(Trouscaillon)
Catherine & Co.
(Moretti)
Tout Va Bien
(Factory Manager)
Blackmail Chase
(Barbone)
Il borghese gentiluomo
(Jourdain)
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
(Maresciallo Angrisani)
You're on Your Own
(Pino Calamari)
His Days Are Numbered
(Professor)
Petomaniac
(Pitalugue)
Adieu Philippine
(Pachala)
Totó in color
(Il tenore balbuziente)
The Anatomy of Love
(Raffaele)
Rulers of the City
(Vinchenzo Napoli)
The Sensual Man
(Salvatore)
The Law
(Attilio)
The Magnificent One
(Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov)
Cinderella '80
(Harry Cardone)
Hypochondriac
(Vincenzo)
The Story of Romance and Knife
(Er Cinese)
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
(Gran Profe)
Stuff for the Rich
(il monsignore (2° episodio))
Utopia
(Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien)
Good night… lawyer!
(Vittorio)
Leap Into the Void
(Mauro Ponticelli (voice))
I picari
(mozzafiato)
I'm Losing My Temper
(Le metteur en scène)
The School Teacher
(Fefe Mottola)
Blood and Diamonds
(Commissario Russo)
Roma bene
(Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis)
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
(Bambola di Pechino)
Eager to Live
(Pierra)
Adultery Italian Style
(Silvio Sasselli)
L'ultima scena
(Don Ferdinando Sbreglia)
Dark Illness
(Psicanalista)
La violenza e l'amore
(Il poeta)
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Messalina, Messalina!
(Claudius)
Più bello di così si muore
(conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo)
Death on the Run
(Billy 'Pizza')
Leoni al sole
(Giugiú)
How I Learned to Love Women
(Playboy)
Neapolitan Carousel
(paroliere amico di Luigino)
Ischia operazione amore
(Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo)
The Automobile
(Giggetto)
Soldier's Girl
(Settimo)
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
(Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce"))
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
(Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre)
Hector the Mighty
(Menalao)
A Maiden for the Prince
(Marchese Liginio)
Innocence and Desire
(Vincenzo Niscemi)
White Voices
(Matteuccio)
Paris, My Love
(Avallone)
The Governess
(Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore)
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
(Spinelli)
The Groper
(Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli)
Cafè Express
(Carmelo Improta)
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
(Nero)
The Landlords
(Onorevole Vincenzi)
Uno scandalo perbene
(Renzo)
Variety Lights
(Night Club Comic)
Kidnap Syndicate
(Commissar Magrini)
Latin Male Wanted
(don Carmine)
The Messiah
(Herod the Great)
Love & Passion
(Don Vincenzo)
Giovannona Long-Thigh
(Onorevole Pedicò)
To Be Twenty
(Nazariota)
When Women Were Called Virgins
(Ser Cecco)
Paris Is Always Paris
((uncredited))
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
(Luis (uncredited))
Taste of Life
(Il cuoco)
La Presidentessa
(Mazzone)
Assicurasi vergine
(Don Pippo Matara)
The Rip-Off
(Benjamin Bronchi)
La colonna infame
(Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza)
A porte chiuse
(commissario)
Erotomania
(il ministro)
The Libertine
(Il Libraio)
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
(Il Ciancia)
Umbrella Coup
(Don Barberini, mafioso italien)
Recourse in Grace
(Sergio)
Before It's Too Early
(Il professore)
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
(Finizio, Politician)
L'ammazzatina
(Commissario Pafuso)
The Barons
(Padre)
On the Day of the Lord
(Messer Anticoli)
Easy Love
(Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco"))
Shoot First, Die Later
(Esposito)
The Wing or the Thigh?
(Vittorio, aubergiste (Relais de la Cigalle, déchu par Duchemin))
General Della Rovere
(Aristide Banchelli)
Trastevere
(Father Ernesto)
It Happened in the Park
(The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza))
The Maniacs
(The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico"))
The Boss
(Questore)
Io e lui
(Cutica)
The Shortest Day
(Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited))
A Full Day's Work
(Le Juré Mangiavacca)
The Magnificent One
(Writer)
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
(Director)
Leoni al sole
(Director)
Leoni al sole
(Writer)
Listen, Let's Make Love
(Director)
Listen, Let's Make Love
(Story)
Listen, Let's Make Love
(Screenplay)
Neapolitan Story
(Director)
Neapolitan Story
(Story)
Neapolitan Story
(Screenplay)
Paris, My Love
(Director)
I cuori infranti
(Screenplay)
I cuori infranti
(Story)
Paris, My Love
(Screenplay)
Paris, My Love
(Story)
Vieni, vieni amore mio
(Director)
Vieni, vieni amore mio
(Writer)
I cuori infranti
(Director)