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.
To Be Twenty
as Nazariota
The School Teacher
as Fefe Mottola
Love & Passion
as Don Vincenzo
Innocence and Desire
as Vincenzo Niscemi
Messalina, Messalina!
as Claudius
The Magnificent One
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
The Wing or the Thigh?
as Vittorio
Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Onorevole Pedicò
General Della Rovere
as Aristide Banchelli
The Libertine
as Il Libraio
How I Learned to Love Women
as Playboy
La Presidentessa
as Mazzone
L'ammazzatina
as Commissario Pafuso
The Law
as Attilio
Variety Lights
as Night Club Comic
The Boss
as Questore
Stuff for the Rich
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
Cinderella '80
as Harry Cardone
Umbrella Coup
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Latin Male Wanted
as don Carmine
Adieu Philippine
as Pachala
Kidnap Syndicate
as Commissar Magrini
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Robinson Crusoeland
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Trastevere
as Father Ernesto
Roma bene
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
The Messiah
as Herod the Great
The Shortest Day
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
The Maniacs
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
The Story of Romance and Knife
as Er Cinese
Anyone Can Play
as Dieb
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Finizio, Politician
A Full Day's Work
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
Zazie dans le Métro
as Trouscaillon
I picari
as mozzafiato
The Governess
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Times Gone By
as il marito di Mariantonia
On the Day of the Lord
as Messer Anticoli
When Women Were Called Virgins
as Ser Cecco
Rulers of the City
as Vinchenzo Napoli
Neapolitan Carousel
as paroliere amico di Luigino
The Sensual Man
as Salvatore
Catherine & Co.
as Moretti
You're on Your Own
as Pino Calamari
I'm Losing My Temper
as Le metteur en scène
Recourse in Grace
as Sergio
Dark Illness
as Psicanalista
Shoot First, Die Later
as Esposito
Tout Va Bien
as Factory Manager
The Barons
as Padre
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
as Maresciallo Angrisani
A Maiden for the Prince
as Marchese Liginio
The Rip-Off
as Benjamin Bronchi
Totó in color
as Il tenore balbuziente
It Happened in the Park
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
His Days Are Numbered
as Professor
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
as Professor Goffredo
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
as Gran Profe
The Landlord
as Onorevole Vincenzi
Soldier's Girl
as Settimo
A Leap in the Dark
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Petomaniac
as Pitalugue
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Taste of Life
as Riccardo
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
as Spinelli
Aida
as Uncredited
Hector the Mighty
as Menalao
Erotomania
as il ministro
Adultery Italian Style
as Silvio Sasselli
Blood and Diamonds
as Commissario Russo
Leoni al sole
as Giugiú
The Anatomy of Love
as Raffaele
Paris, My Love
as Avallone
Grazie tante arrivederci
as Proprietario bisca
Hypochondriac
as Vincenzo
Café Express
as Carmelo Improta
Eager to Live
as Pierra
White Voices
as Matteuccio
Assicurasi vergine
as Don Pippo Matara
The Groper
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
as Nero
Io e lui
as Cutica
Good night… lawyer!
as Vittorio
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
as Bambola di Pechino
Easy Love
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
A porte chiuse
as commissario
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Uno scandalo perbene
as Renzo
Paris Is Always Paris
as Tour guide (uncredited)
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
as Luis (uncredited)
Blackmail Chase
as Barbone
Ischia operazione amore
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Più bello di così si muore
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
La colonna infame
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Le rose et le blanc
as Luigi Martini
Death on the Run
as Billy 'Pizza'
The Automobile
as Giggetto
Before It's Too Early
as Il professore
Violence and Love
as Il poeta
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
as Il Ciancia
Il borghese gentiluomo
as Jourdain
L'ultima scena
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia