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
Sleepers
as King Benny
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Gianni Perego
Barabbas
as Sahak
War and Peace
as Anatol Kuragin
1001 Nights
as Sinbad
A Wedding
as Luigi Corelli
Il Sorpasso
as Bruno Cortona
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Sharky's Machine
as Victor Scorelli
Bitter Rice
as Walter
Lost Soul
as Fabio Stolz
I'm Photogenic
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Dear Father
as Albino Millozza
For Love and Gold
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Big Deal on Madonna Street
as Peppe il pantera
Tempest
as Alonzo
Il successo
as Giulio Ceriani
Snow Job
as Lucio Ridolfi
Catch As Catch Can
as Bob Chiaramonte
The Nude Bomb
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Benvenuta
as Livio
Woman Times Seven
as Cenci
Abraham
as Terach
The Terrace
as Mario Dorazio
The Desert of the Tartars
as Filimore
The Archangel
as Furio Bertuccia
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
The Divorce
as Leonardo Nenci
The Great War
as Giovanni Busacca
A Difficult Life
as Self
The Amusements of Private Life
as Marquis
Anna
as Vittorio
Scent of a Woman
as Fausto Consolo
Brancaleone at the Crusades
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Tiger and the Pussycat
as Francesco Vincenzini
Morceaux de Cannes
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
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")
In the Name of the Italian People
as Lorenzo Santenocito
The Miracle
as Guido
The Last Judgment
as Cimino
I Knew Her Well
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
The Glass Wall
as Peter Kuban
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
La cambiale
as Michele
The New Monsters
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
The Career of a Chambermaid
as Franco Denza
Sex Can Be Difficult
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Ghosts, Italian Style
as Pasquale Lojacono
Pleasant Nights
as Bastiano da Sangallo
The Dinner
as Maestro Pezzullo
The Dirty Game
as Perego / Ferrari
Tempest
as Prosecutor
Rossini! Rossini!
as Ludwig van Beethoven
The Devil in Love
as Belfagor
I'll Be Going Now
as Augusto Scribani
Life Is a Bed of Roses
as Walter Guarini
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
as Remo
The Palermo Connection
as Il principe
Dark Soul
as Adriano Zucchelli
The Family
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Twelve Plus One
as Mario Beretti
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
I picari
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Fiasco in Milan
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Rhapsody
as Paul Bronte
Quintet
as Saint Christopher
Mortacci
as Domenico
To Be Hamlet
as Self
Summer Frenzy
as Cap. Nardoni
La Tosca
as Scarpia
The Love Specialist
as Piero di Montalcino
Let's Talk About Women
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
as Self (archive footage)
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
as Edmund Kean
The Captain's Daughter
as Svabrin
Scipio the African
as Catone il Censore
Love and Larceny
as Gerardo Latini
Midnight Pleasures
as Andrea Sansoni
Mambo
as Mario Rossi
Alibi
as Vittorio
Let's Have a Riot
as Riccardo
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
as Peppe
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
as Self (archive footage)
Count Tacchia
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
A Maiden for the Prince
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Beautiful But Dangerous
as Prince Sergei
Pure as a Lily
as Anthony M. Wilson
March on Rome
as Domenico Rocchetti
Power Of Evil
as Gottfried
Streets of Sorrow
as Giorgio Cantoni
The Outlaws
as Turi
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
as Self (archive footage)
Sombrero
as Alejandro Castillo
The Violent Patriot
as Giovanni De Medici
Il gaucho
as Marco Ravicchio
Girls Marked Danger
as Michele
Lure of the Sila
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Seduction Of The South
as O Caporale
Preludio d'amore
as Davide
Ghosts of Rome
as Il Caparra
The Prophet
as Pietro Breccia
La bomba
as Don Vito Bracalone
One Million Dollars
as Giuliano
The Black Sheep
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Without Family
as Armando Zavanatti
Cry of the Hunted
as Jory
Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)
Double Cross
as Renato Salvi
The Dream of Zorro
as Don Juan Antonio
The Long Winter
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
L'altro enigma
as Il padre / Sofocle
The Audience
as Principe Donati
Where Are You Going All Naked?
as Rufus Conforti
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
as Self (archive footage)
In morte di Federico Fellini
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self (archive footage)
Di padre in figlio
as Self
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
as Edmund Kean
Daniele Cortis
as Daniele Cortis
The Apple of My Eye
as film festival participant
Defend My Love
as Giovanni Marchi
Il turno
as Ciro Coppa
Hotel Room
as Achille Mengaroni
Il leone di Amalfi
as Mauro
E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
as Guido Guidi
Once a Year, Every Year
as Giuseppe
The Sleazy Uncle
as Zio Luca
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Two Pieces of Bread
as Pippo Mifà
Desert of Fire
as Tareq
L'ebreo errante
as Mathieu Blumenthal
The Eye of the Needle
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
as Self
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
as Self
The Mysterious Rider
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
Amleto
as Amleto
Black Crown
as Mauricio
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
as Self
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
as Self
Quando eravamo repressi
as The Sexologist
Edipo Re
as Edipo
Incontro con Laura
as Franco
Lo sparviero del Nilo
as Yussuf
Speaking with Gassman
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca