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
1001 Nights (1990)
as Sinbad
Il Sorpasso (1962)
as Bruno Cortona
War and Peace (1956)
as Anatol Kuragin
Barabbas (1961)
as Sahak
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
as Peppe il pantera
Sharky's Machine (1981)
as Victor Scorelli
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
A Wedding (1978)
as Luigi Corelli
Bitter Rice (1949)
as Walter
The Great War (1959)
as Giovanni Busacca
The Nude Bomb (1980)
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as Filimore
Woman Times Seven (1967)
as Cenci
Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
Scent of a Woman (1974)
as Fausto Consolo
The Long Winter (1992)
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
as Walter Guarini
I Knew Her Well (1965)
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Abraham (1993)
as Terach
For Love and Gold (1966)
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Tempest (1982)
as Alonzo
The Dinner (1998)
as Maestro Pezzullo
Twelve Plus One (1969)
as Mario Beretti
To Be Hamlet (1985)
as Self
The Terrace (1980)
as Mario Dorazio
The Miracle (1959)
as Guido
I'm Photogenic (1980)
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Rhapsody (1954)
as Paul Bronte
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
March on Rome (1962)
as Domenico Rocchetti
A Maiden for the Prince (1965)
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
The New Monsters (1977)
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
Dear Father (1979)
as Albino Millozza
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
The Prophet (1968)
as Pietro Breccia
The Audience (1972)
as Principe Donati
Mambo (1954)
as Mario Rossi
The Family (1987)
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
I picari (1987)
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Quintet (1979)
as Saint Christopher
La Tosca (1973)
as Scarpia
Lost Soul (1977)
as Fabio Stolz
The Glass Wall (1953)
as Peter Kuban
La bomba (1999)
as Don Vito Bracalone
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")
Fiasco in Milan (1959)
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Sex Can Be Difficult (1962)
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Il successo (1963)
as Giulio Ceriani
Midnight Pleasures (1975)
as Andrea Sansoni
Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)
as Prince Sergei
One Million Dollars (1964)
as Giuliano
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
as Francesco Vincenzini
Tempest (1958)
as Prosecutor
Lure of the Sila (1949)
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Sombrero (1953)
as Alejandro Castillo
In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
as Lorenzo Santenocito
The Love Specialist (1957)
as Piero di Montalcino
...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
as Remo
The Dirty Game (1965)
as Perego / Ferrari
Defend My Love (1956)
as Giovanni Marchi
The Palermo Connection (1990)
as Il principe
Desert of Fire (1997)
as Tareq
The Divorce (1970)
as Leonardo Nenci
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Seduction Of The South (1961)
as O Caporale
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Mortacci (1989)
as Domenico
Alibi (1969)
as Vittorio
The Devil in Love (1966)
as Belfagor
The Dream of Zorro (1952)
as Don Juan Antonio
Streets of Sorrow (1950)
as Giorgio Cantoni
La cambiale (1959)
as Michele
I'll Be Going Now (1991)
as Augusto Scribani
The Last Judgment (1961)
as Cimino
Trintignant by Trintignant (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Ghosts of Rome (1961)
as Il Caparra
Double Cross (1951)
as Renato Salvi
Anna (1951)
as Vittorio
Snow Job (1965)
as Lucio Ridolfi
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)
as Peppe
Girls Marked Danger (1952)
as Michele
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
as Jory
The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
as Franco Denza
Count Tacchia (1982)
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
as Marquis
Love and Larceny (1960)
as Gerardo Latini
The Archangel (1969)
as Furio Bertuccia
Pure as a Lily (1976)
as Anthony M. Wilson
Let's Talk About Women (1964)
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Scipio the African (1971)
as Catone il Censore
A Difficult Life (1961)
as Self
The Violent Patriot (1956)
as Giovanni De Medici
Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Two Pieces of Bread (1979)
as Pippo Mifà
Where Are You Going All Naked? (1969)
as Rufus Conforti
Pleasant Nights (1966)
as Bastiano da Sangallo
Il gaucho (1964)
as Marco Ravicchio
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)
as Edmund Kean
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
The Black Sheep (1968)
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
as Pasquale Lojacono
Let's Have a Riot (1970)
as Riccardo
Summer Frenzy (1964)
as Cap. Nardoni
Catch As Catch Can (1967)
as Bob Chiaramonte
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
L'ebreo errante (1948)
as Mathieu Blumenthal
Hotel Room (1981)
as Achille Mengaroni
Benvenuta (1983)
as Livio
Dark Soul (1962)
as Adriano Zucchelli
Il turno (1981)
as Ciro Coppa
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant (2015)
as Self
Luchino Visconti (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
The Captain's Daughter (1947)
as Svabrin
Without Family (1972)
as Armando Zavanatti
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)
as Guido Guidi
Black Crown (1951)
as Mauricio
In morte di Federico Fellini (1994)
Actor
Daniele Cortis (1947)
as Daniele Cortis
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza (1955)
as Edmund Kean
The Sleazy Uncle (1989)
as Zio Luca
Edipo Re (1977)
as Edipo
E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)
as Self
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta (1983)
as Self
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1947)
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Once a Year, Every Year (1994)
as Giuseppe
Di padre in figlio (1982)
as Self
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia (2018)
as Self
The Outlaws (1950)
as Turi
The Apple of My Eye (1976)
as film festival participant
Il leone di Amalfi (1950)
as Mauro
The Mysterious Rider (1948)
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
Power Of Evil (1985)
as Gottfried
Lo sparviero del Nilo (1950)
as Yussuf
Speaking with Gassman (2005)
Actor
L'altro enigma (1988)
as Il padre / Sofocle
The Eye of the Needle (1963)
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Amleto (1955)
as Amleto
Shakespeare secondo Gassman (1964)
Actor
Incontro con Laura (1945)
as Franco
Preludio d'amore (1946)
as Davide
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1970)
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne (2007)
as Self
Quando eravamo repressi (1992)
as The Sexologist