Vittorio Gassman
Acting
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
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movieDeneuve, la reine Catherine
2022
Self (archive footage)
movieWe Are Cinema
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieDjango & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
Self - Actor (archive footage)
movieTrintignant by Trintignant
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieMarcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015
Self (archive footage)
tvCòmics
2015
Self (archive footage)
movieClose Up
2012
Self (archive footage)
movieMonicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
Self (archive footage)
movieVittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
Self (archive footage)
movieAdolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
Self (archive footage)
movieLuchino Visconti
2002
Self (archive footage)
movieLa bomba
1999
Don Vito Bracalone
movieThe Dinner
1998
Maestro Pezzullo
tvDesert of Fire
1997
Tareq
movieSleepers
1996
King Benny
movieOnce a Year, Every Year
1994
Giuseppe
tvAbraham
1994
Terah
movieAbraham
1993
Terach
movieThe Long Winter
1992
Claudio, El Mayordomo
movieQuando eravamo repressi
1992
The Sexologist
movieRossini! Rossini!
1991
Ludwig van Beethoven
movieI'll Be Going Now
1991
Augusto Scribani
movie1001 Nights
1990
Sinbad
movieThe Palermo Connection
1990
Il principe
movieThe Sleazy Uncle
1989
Zio Luca
movieMortacci
1989
Domenico
movieL'altro enigma
1988
Il padre / Sofocle
movieI picari
1987
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
movieThe Family
1987
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
moviePower Of Evil
1985
Gottfried
tvCinecittà Cinecittà
1985
Various
movieBenvenuta
1983
Livio
movieLife Is a Bed of Roses
1983
Walter Guarini
movieCount Tacchia
1982
Prince Torquato Terenzi
movieTempest
1982
Alonzo
movieSharky's Machine
1981
Victor Scorelli
movieIl turno
1981
Ciro Coppa
movieHotel Room
1981
Achille Mengaroni
movieThe Nude Bomb
1980
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
movieI'm Photogenic
1980
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
movieThe Terrace
1980
Mario Dorazio
movieDear Father
1979
Albino Millozza
movieQuintet
1979
Saint Christopher
movieTwo Pieces of Bread
1979
Pippo Mifà
movieA Wedding
1978
Luigi Corelli
movieThe New Monsters
1977
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
movieEdipo Re
1977
Edipo
movieLost Soul
1977
Fabio Stolz
movieGoodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
moviePure as a Lily
1976
Anthony M. Wilson
movieThe Career of a Chambermaid
1976
Franco Denza
movieThe Apple of My Eye
1976
film festival participant
movieMidnight Pleasures
1975
Andrea Sansoni
movieWe All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
Gianni Perego
movieScent of a Woman
1974
Fausto Consolo
movieLa Tosca
1973
Scarpia
movieThe Audience
1972
Principe Donati
movieWithout Family
1972
Armando Zavanatti
movieIn the Name of the Italian People
1971
Lorenzo Santenocito
movieScipio the African
1971
Catone il Censore
movieBrancaleone at the Crusades
1970
Brancaleone Da Norcia
movieThe Divorce
1970
Leonardo Nenci
movieLet's Have a Riot
1970
Riccardo
movieThe Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
movieTwelve Plus One
1969
Mario Beretti
movieWhere Are You Going All Naked?
1969
Rufus Conforti
movieThe Archangel
1969
Furio Bertuccia
movieAlibi
1969
Vittorio
movieThe Black Sheep
1968
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
movieThe Prophet
1968
Pietro Breccia
movieGhosts, Italian Style
1967
Pasquale Lojacono
movieCatch As Catch Can
1967
Bob Chiaramonte
movieThe Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
Francesco Vincenzini
movieThe Devil in Love
1966
Belfagor
moviePleasant Nights
1966
Bastiano da Sangallo
movieFor Love and Gold
1966
Brancaleone da Norcia
movieI Knew Her Well
1965
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieA Maiden for the Prince
1965
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
movieSnow Job
1965
Lucio Ridolfi
movieThe Dirty Game
1965
Perego / Ferrari
movieOne Million Dollars
1964
Giuliano
movieIl gaucho
1964
Marco Ravicchio
movieLet's Talk About Women
1964
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
movieSummer Frenzy
1964
Cap. Nardoni
movieThe Monsters
1963
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")
movieIl successo
1963
Giulio Ceriani
movieThe Eye of the Needle
1963
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
movieSex Can Be Difficult
1962
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
movieMarch on Rome
1962
Domenico Rocchetti
movieIl Sorpasso
1962
Bruno Cortona
movieDark Soul
1962
Adriano Zucchelli
movieBarabbas
1961
Sahak
movieSeduction Of The South
1961
O Caporale
movieGhosts of Rome
1961
Il Caparra
movieLove and Larceny
1960
Gerardo Latini
movieFiasco in Milan
1959
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
movieLa cambiale
1959
Michele
movieThe Miracle
1959
Guido
movieThe Great War
1959
Giovanni Busacca
movieTempest
1958
Prosecutor
movieBig Deal on Madonna Street
1958
Peppe il pantera
movieThe Love Specialist
1957
Piero di Montalcino
movieKean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
Edmund Kean
movieThe Violent Patriot
1956
Giovanni De Medici
movieDefend My Love
1956
Giovanni Marchi
movieWar and Peace
1956
Anatol Kuragin
movieBeautiful But Dangerous
1955
Prince Sergei
movieAmleto
1955
Amleto
movieKean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955
Edmund Kean
movieMambo
1954
Mario Rossi
movieRhapsody
1954
Paul Bronte
movieSombrero
1953
Alejandro Castillo
movieThe Glass Wall
1953
Peter Kuban
movieGirls Marked Danger
1952
Michele
movieThe Dream of Zorro
1952
Don Juan Antonio
movieAnna
1951
Vittorio
movieBlack Crown
1951
Mauricio
movieDouble Cross
1951
Renato Salvi
movieStreets of Sorrow
1950
Giorgio Cantoni
movieLure of the Sila
1949
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
movieBitter Rice
1949
Walter
movieThe Mysterious Rider
1948
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
movieL'ebreo errante
1948
Mathieu Blumenthal
movieShamed
1947
Davide
movieDaniele Cortis
1947
Daniele Cortis
movieThe Adventures of Pinocchio
1947
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Directing7
movieL'altro enigma
1988
Director
movieDi padre in figlio
1982
Director
movieEdipo Re
1977
Director
movieWithout Family
1972
Director
movieAlibi
1969
Director
movieAmleto
1955
Director
Writing5
movieL'altro enigma
1988
Writer
movieWithout Family
1972
Story, Screenplay
movieAlibi
1969
Story, Screenplay
movieKean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
Screenplay