Vittorio Gassman
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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
Known for
Credits
Sleepers (1996)
as King Benny
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
as Gianni Perego
Seduction Of The South (1961)
as O Caporale
The Monsters (1963)
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")
Scent of a Woman (1974)
as Fausto Consolo
War and Peace (1956)
as Anatol Kuragin
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Mambo (1954)
as Mario Rossi
Double Cross (1951)
as Renato Salvi
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Woman Times Seven (1967)
as Cenci
Sharky's Machine (1981)
as Victor Scorelli
Dear Father (1979)
as Albino Millozza
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Il Sorpasso (1962)
as Bruno Cortona
Barabbas (1961)
as Sahak
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
I Knew Her Well (1965)
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
I picari (1987)
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
as Peppe il pantera
The New Monsters (1977)
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
as Remo
Summer Frenzy (1964)
as Cap. Nardoni
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as Filimore
In morte di Federico Fellini (1994)
Actor
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
as Walter Guarini
Streets of Sorrow (1950)
as Giorgio Cantoni
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)
as Peppe
The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
as Marquis
The Nude Bomb (1980)
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
as Jory
1001 Nights (1990)
as Sinbad
Bitter Rice (1949)
as Walter
A Difficult Life (1961)
as Self
The Great War (1959)
as Giovanni Busacca
Hotel Room (1981)
as Achille Mengaroni
Abraham (1993)
as Terach
Rhapsody (1954)
as Paul Bronte
La bomba (1999)
as Don Vito Bracalone
To Be Hamlet (1985)
as Self
L'ebreo errante (1948)
as Mathieu Blumenthal
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
as Pasquale Lojacono
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Trintignant by Trintignant (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Fiasco in Milan (1959)
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Scipio the African (1971)
as Cato the Censor
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant (2015)
as Self
Midnight Pleasures (1975)
as Andrea Sansoni
Tempest (1982)
as Alonzo
Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)
as Prince Sergei
Quintet (1979)
as Saint Christopher
Lost Soul (1977)
as Fabio Stolz
Il leone di Amalfi (1950)
as Mauro
A Wedding (1978)
as Luigi Corelli
The Last Judgment (1961)
as Cimino
The Terrace (1980)
as Mario Dorazio
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Family (1987)
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
The Palermo Connection (1990)
as Il principe
In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
as Lorenzo Santenocito
The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
as Franco Denza
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Anna (1951)
as Vittorio
Pure as a Lily (1976)
as Anthony M. Wilson
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta (1983)
as Self
Shakespeare secondo Gassman (1964)
Actor
The Dirty Game (1965)
as Perego / Ferrari
Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
March on Rome (1962)
as Domenico Rocchetti
The Miracle (1959)
as Guido
The Captain's Daughter (1947)
as Svabrin
Tempest (1958)
as Prosecutor
Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Power Of Evil (1985)
as Gottfried
Love and Larceny (1960)
as Gerardo Latini
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
as Francesco Vincenzini
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1970)
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Il gaucho (1964)
as Marco Ravicchio
The Dinner (1998)
as Maestro Pezzullo
Lure of the Sila (1949)
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Let's Have a Riot (1970)
as Riccardo
Mortacci (1989)
as Domenico
Sex Can Be Difficult (1962)
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Di padre in figlio (1982)
as Self
Girls Marked Danger (1952)
as Michele
The Dream of Zorro (1952)
as Don Juan Antonio
Where Are You Going All Naked? (1969)
as Rufus Conforti
The Prophet (1968)
as Pietro Breccia
Twelve Plus One (1969)
as Mario Beretti
I'm Photogenic (1980)
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
The Black Sheep (1968)
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Ghosts of Rome (1961)
as Il Caparra
Let's Talk About Women (1964)
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Benvenuta (1983)
as Livio
The Love Specialist (1957)
as Piero di Montalcino
Defend My Love (1956)
as Giovanni Marchi
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)
as Guido Guidi
The Archangel (1969)
as Furio Bertuccia
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Glass Wall (1953)
as Peter Kuban
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1947)
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Il successo (1963)
as Giulio Ceriani
Count Tacchia (1982)
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
Speaking with Gassman (2005)
Actor
La Tosca (1973)
as Scarpia
The Devil in Love (1966)
as Belfagor
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia (2018)
as Self
Dark Soul (1962)
as Adriano Zucchelli
The Sleazy Uncle (1989)
as Zio Luca
I'll Be Going Now (1991)
as Augusto Scribani
The Violent Patriot (1956)
as Giovanni De Medici
The Divorce (1970)
as Leonardo Nenci
Sombrero (1953)
as Alejandro Castillo
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza (1955)
as Edmund Kean
Without Family (1972)
as Armando Zavanatti
Quando eravamo repressi (1992)
as The Sexologist
The Audience (1972)
as Principe Donati
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)
as Edmund Kean
Snow Job (1965)
as Lucio Ridolfi
Desert of Fire (1997)
as Tareq
Two Pieces of Bread (1979)
as Pippo Mifà
The Long Winter (1992)
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
Luchino Visconti (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Edipo Re (1977)
as Edipo
Pleasant Nights (1966)
as Bastiano da Sangallo
The Mysterious Rider (1948)
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
La cambiale (1959)
as Michele
E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
as Self
The Apple of My Eye (1976)
as film festival participant
The Eye of the Needle (1963)
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Once a Year, Every Year (1994)
as Giuseppe
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne (2007)
as Self
Alibi (1969)
as Vittorio
Incontro con Laura (1945)
as Franco
Lo sparviero del Nilo (1950)
as Yussuf
One Million Dollars (1964)
as Giuliano
Il turno (1981)
as Ciro Coppa
L'altro enigma (1988)
as Il padre / Sofocle
Shamed (1947)
as Davide
The Outlaws (1950)
as Turi
Amleto (1955)
as Amleto
Daniele Cortis (1947)
as Daniele Cortis
Black Crown (1951)
as Mauricio
Catch As Catch Can (1967)
as Bob Chiaramonte