Lino Ventura
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Elevator to the Gallows
(Le Commissaire Cherrier)
The Sicilian Clan
(Commissaire Le Goff)
Les Misérables
(Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu)
The Inquisitor
(Inspector Antoine Gallien)
The Last Adventure
(Roland)
The Medusa Touch
(Brunel)
The Great Spy Chase
(Francis Lagneau)
A Pain in the Ass
(Ralf Milan)
Le Deuxième Souffle
(Gustave 'Gu' Minda)
Crooks in Clover
(Fernand Naudin)
Taxi for Tobruk
(le brigadier Théo Dumas)
Greed in the Sun
(Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc')
Way of Youth
(Tiercelin)
Let's Not Get Angry
(Antoine Beretto)
The Valachi Papers
(Vito Genovese)
The Big Risk
(Abel Davos)
Money Money Money
(Lino Massaro)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
(Angelo Fraiser)
Emile's Boat
(Émile Bouet)
Army of Shadows
(Philippe Gerbier)
Spy, Stand Up
(Sébastien Grenier)
Illustrious Corpses
(Inspector Amerigo Rogas)
Razzia
(Roger le Catalan)
Dishonorable Discharge
(Paulo, Claire's lover)
One Hundred Days in Palermo
(General Carlo Dalla Chiesa)
Fantasia Among the Squares
(Sagamore Noonan)
125 rue Montmartre
(Pascal)
The Lovers of Montparnasse
(Morel)
La Rumba
(un caïd)
To Skin a Spy
(Pascal Fabre)
The Ruffian
(Aldo)
To Catch a Spy
(Bérès)
The Seventh Target
(Bastien Grimaldi)
The Silent One
(Clément Tibère)
Last Known Address
(Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti)
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
(Self (archive footage))
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
(Garigny)
Cloportes
(Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin')
The Wise Guys
(Laurent Dannecker)
Girl in the Window
(Federico)
Butterfly on the Shoulder
(Roland Fériaud)
Rum Runners
(Cornelius von Zeelinga)
The Dictator's Guns
(Jacques Cournot)
The Slap
(Jean Douléan)
The Lions Are Loose
(le docteur André Challenberg)
Marie-Octobre
(Carlo Bernardi)
Happy New Year
(Simon)
The Last Judgment
(Giovanna's father)
Carmen di Trastevere
(Vincenzo, le caïd)
The French Detective
(Commissioner Verjeat)
Three Tough Guys
(Father Charlie)
Speaking of Murder
(Pepito)
Hitch-Hike
(Paul, le chauffeur de car)
The Mask of the Gorilla
(Géo Paquet, Le Gorille)
The Tiger Attacks
(Paul Lamiani)
Witness in the City
(Ancelin)
Pensione Edelweiss
(Borcher)
Three Days to Live
(Lino Ferrari)
Burning Fuse
(Legentil)
Code Name: Melville
(Self (archive footage))
Black City
(Il bandito)
Birds of Prey
(Le rapace / Le rital)
Sunday Lovers
(François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française'))
L'Homme en colère
(Romain Dupre)
Twelve Hours by the Clock
(Fourbieux)
The Threepenny Opera
(Brown, Polizeichef von London)
Mistress of the World - Part I
(Biamonte)
The Cage
(Julien)
Weeping for a Bandit
("El lutos")
Bacri, comme un air de famille
(Self (archive footage))
Maigret Sets a Trap
(Inspecteur Torrence)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
(Self (archive footage))
Mistress of the World - Part II
(Biamonte)
Crime and Punishment
(Gustave Messonnier)
Far West
(Prisoner)
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
(Self (archive footage) - actor)
The Strange Mr. Steve
(Denis)
Sword of Gideon
(Papa)
Law of the Streets
(Mario)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
(Self (archive footage))
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
(Self - Interviewee)
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
(Elie's Client (uncredited))
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
(Self (archive footage))
Aznavour by Charles
(Self - Actor (archive footage))
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
(Self (archive footage))
The Right of the Maddest
(Le gendarme motorisé instructeur)
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
(Self (archive footage))
Deux Romains en Gaule
(Un client du bar)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
(Self (archive footage))
At the End of the Day
(Lino (archive footage) (uncredited))
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
(Self (archive footage))
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
(Self (archive footage))
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self - Main guest)
Auf los geht's los
(Self)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Numéro un
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Le monde est à vous
(Self (archive footage))
Midi trente
(Self)
Sacrée Soirée
(Self (archive footage))