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