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