Cast

Vittorio Gassman

Acting

Cast

Vittorio Gassman

Known for

Acting

Born

1922-09-01

From

Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Died

2000-06-29

Also known as Vittorio Gassmann , Витторио Гассман, Вітторіо Ґассман

Biography

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

★7.6

MOVIE1996

Sleepers

as King Benny

★5.2

MOVIE1990

1001 Nights

as Sinbad

★8.3

MOVIE1974

We All Loved Each Other So Much

as Gianni Perego

★6.6

MOVIE1956

War and Peace

as Anatol Kuragin

★6.4

MOVIE1967

Woman Times Seven

as Cenci

★5.4

MOVIE1954

Mambo

as Mario Rossi

★6.5

MOVIE1960

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

as Remo

★6.6

MOVIE1979

Dear Father

as Albino Millozza

★7.0

MOVIE1950

Streets of Sorrow

as Giorgio Cantoni

★5.3

MOVIE1969

Twelve Plus One

as Mario Beretti

★8.2

MOVIE1962

Il Sorpasso

as Bruno Cortona

★6.7

MOVIE1951

Double Cross

as Renato Salvi

★6.2

MOVIE1981

Sharky's Machine

as Victor Scorelli

★8.1

MOVIE1958

Big Deal on Madonna Street

as Peppe il pantera

★7.4

MOVIE1974

Scent of a Woman

as Fausto Consolo

★6.9

MOVIE1961

Barabbas

as Sahak

★8.1

MOVIE1959

The Great War

as Giovanni Busacca

★6.7

MOVIE1976

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo

★7.4

MOVIE1963

The Monsters

as 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")

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

Biography

Sleepers

1001 Nights

We All Loved Each Other So Much

War and Peace

Woman Times Seven

Mambo

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Dear Father

Streets of Sorrow

Twelve Plus One

Il Sorpasso

Double Cross

Sharky's Machine

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Scent of a Woman

Barabbas

The Great War

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

The Monsters

I Knew Her Well

Life Is a Bed of Roses

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

I picari

La bomba

For Love and Gold

Abraham

The Nude Bomb

Bitter Rice

Rhapsody

In morte di Federico Fellini

The Last Judgment

The Amusements of Private Life

Rossini! Rossini!

Beautiful But Dangerous

Morceaux de Cannes

Brancaleone at the Crusades

The Tiger and the Pussycat

Love and Larceny

Defend My Love

The New Monsters

In the Name of the Italian People

Let's Talk About Women

Tempest

The Palermo Connection

The Miracle

A Difficult Life

The Family

Sex Can Be Difficult

Anna

Hotel Room

The Career of a Chambermaid

The Terrace

The Audience

The Dinner

Seduction Of The South

Fiasco in Milan

Close Up

Ghosts of Rome

Cry of the Hunted

The Dirty Game

Midnight Pleasures

Quintet

To Be Hamlet

The Love Specialist

Trintignant by Trintignant

A Wedding

The Glass Wall

Let's Have a Riot

March on Rome

Summer Frenzy

Desert of Fire

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

Pure as a Lily

Count Tacchia

I'm Photogenic

La cambiale

Ghosts, Italian Style