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