Cast

Vittorio Caprioli

Acting

Cast

Vittorio Caprioli

Known for

Acting

Born

1921-08-15

From

Napoli, Campania, Italia

Died

1989-10-02

Biography

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.

Vittorio Caprioli

Vittorio Caprioli

Biography

Adieu Philippine

The School Teacher

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Giovannona Long-Thigh

Love & Passion

To Be Twenty

I picari

Innocence and Desire

The Shortest Day

Rulers of the City

White Voices

It Happened in the Park

The Wing or the Thigh?

The Magnificent One

Recourse in Grace

The Libertine

How I Learned to Love Women

Zazie dans le Métro

Cinderella '80

General Della Rovere

Umbrella Coup

Roma bene

Messalina, Messalina!

Shoot First, Die Later

Kidnap Syndicate

Robinson Crusoeland

His Days Are Numbered

The Sensual Man

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

The Boss

A Full Day's Work

The Law

Stuff for the Rich

Uno scandalo perbene

Café Express

Tout Va Bien

Grazie tante arrivederci

The Story of Romance and Knife

Totó in color

The Maniacs

A Leap in the Dark

Catherine & Co.

Soldier's Girl

Variety Lights

Taste of Life

Hypochondriac

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong

I'm Losing My Temper

Io e lui

La colonna infame

The Landlord

Le rose et le blanc

Times Gone By

Erotomania

Paris, My Love

Paris Is Always Paris

The Anatomy of Love

A porte chiuse

Trastevere

Di mamma non ce n'è una sola

Anyone Can Play

Dark Illness

The Messiah

Hector the Mighty

Latin Male Wanted

Neapolitan Carousel

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

Società a responsabilità molto limitata

A Maiden for the Prince

Easy Love

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

La Presidentessa

When Women Were Called Virgins

Adultery Italian Style

Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell

Aida