Vittorio Caprioli
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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.
Known for
Credits
To Be Twenty (1978)
as Nazariota
The School Teacher (1975)
as Fefe Mottola
Love & Passion (1987)
as Don Vincenzo
Innocence and Desire (1974)
as Vincenzo Niscemi
How I Learned to Love Women (1966)
as Playboy
General Della Rovere (1959)
as Aristide Banchelli
The Libertine (1968)
as Il Libraio
The Magnificent One (1973)
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
as Vittorio
Roma bene (1971)
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)
as Onorevole Pedicò
Messalina, Messalina! (1977)
as Claudius
Umbrella Coup (1980)
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Adieu Philippine (1962)
as Pachala
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
as Trouscaillon
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
as Ser Cecco
Tout Va Bien (1972)
as Factory Manager
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
as Marchese Liginio
Cinderella '80 (1984)
as Harry Cardone
The Law (1959)
as Attilio
Stuff for the Rich (1987)
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
I picari (1987)
as mozzafiato
The Messiah (1975)
as Herod the Great
The Sensual Man (1973)
as Salvatore
It Happened in the Park (1953)
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
Variety Lights (1950)
as Night Club Comic
Taste of Life (1988)
as Riccardo
Robinson Crusoeland (1951)
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
as Finizio, Politician
Rulers of the City (1976)
as Vinchenzo Napoli
The Landlord (1976)
as Onorevole Vincenzi
I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
as Le metteur en scène
Erotomania (1974)
as il ministro
Catherine & Co. (1975)
as Moretti
The Boss (1973)
as Questore
The Story of Romance and Knife (1971)
as Er Cinese
Shoot First, Die Later (1974)
as Esposito
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)
as Maresciallo Angrisani
Café Express (1980)
as Carmelo Improta
Neapolitan Carousel (1954)
as paroliere amico di Luigino
A Leap in the Dark (1980)
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
The Maniacs (1964)
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
Dark Illness (1990)
as Psicanalista
Petomaniac (1983)
as Pitalugue
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971)
as Gran Profe
A porte chiuse (1961)
as commissario
Latin Male Wanted (1977)
as don Carmine
Before It's Too Early (1981)
as Il professore
Adultery Italian Style (1966)
as Silvio Sasselli
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do? (1972)
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Aida (1953)
as Uncredited
Hypochondriac (1979)
as Vincenzo
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor (1972)
as Nero
Blood and Diamonds (1978)
as Commissario Russo
Recourse in Grace (1960)
as Sergio
The Rip-Off (1977)
as Benjamin Bronchi
Totó in color (1952)
as Il tenore balbuziente
The Governess (1974)
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
The Automobile (1971)
as Giggetto
Io e lui (1973)
as Cutica
L'ammazzatina (1975)
as Commissario Pafuso
Hector the Mighty (1972)
as Menalao
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing (1964)
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
A Full Day's Work (1973)
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
La colonna infame (1973)
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Paris Is Always Paris (1951)
as Tour guide (uncredited)
Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
as Commissar Magrini
Paris, My Love (1962)
as Avallone
The Barons (1975)
as Padre
Uno scandalo perbene (1984)
as Renzo
Le rose et le blanc (1982)
as Luigi Martini
Trastevere (1971)
as Father Ernesto
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell (1970)
as Luis (uncredited)
You're on Your Own (1959)
as Pino Calamari
The Anatomy of Love (1954)
as Raffaele
Soldier's Girl (1967)
as Settimo
Più bello di così si muore (1982)
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Times Gone By (1952)
as il marito di Mariantonia
Leoni al sole (1961)
as Giugiú
Anyone Can Play (1967)
as Dieb
Assicurasi vergine (1967)
as Don Pippo Matara
Death on the Run (1967)
as Billy 'Pizza'
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
On the Day of the Lord (1970)
as Messer Anticoli
Blackmail Chase (1976)
as Barbone
Eager to Live (1953)
as Pierra
La Presidentessa (1977)
as Mazzone
The Groper (1976)
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
Good night… lawyer! (1955)
as Vittorio
L'ultima scena (1988)
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1968)
as Spinelli
His Days Are Numbered (1962)
as Professor
Grazie tante arrivederci (1977)
as Proprietario bisca
White Voices (1964)
as Matteuccio
Ischia operazione amore (1966)
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Easy Love (1964)
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Violence and Love (1965)
as Il poeta
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
as Bambola di Pechino
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola (1974)
as Professor Goffredo
Società a responsabilità molto limitata (1973)
as Il Ciancia
Il borghese gentiluomo (1959)
as Jourdain