Lino Ventura
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Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
The Great Spy Chase (1964)
as Francis Lagneau
Army of Shadows (1969)
as Philippe Gerbier
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
as Le Commissaire Cherrier
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
as Commissaire Le Goff
Marie-Octobre (1959)
as Carlo Bernardi
The Cage (1975)
as Julien
Razzia (1955)
as Roger le Catalan
At the End of the Day (2024)
as Lino (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
as Brunel
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
as Inspector Amerigo Rogas
The Threepenny Opera (1963)
as Brown, Polizeichef von London
The Wise Guys (1965)
as Laurent Dannecker
Spy, Stand Up (1982)
as Sébastien Grenier
Greed in the Sun (1964)
as Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
Cloportes (1965)
as Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin'
The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
as Géo Paquet, Le Gorille
The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
as Garigny
The Big Risk (1960)
as Abel Davos
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
as Self - Interviewee
Last Known Address (1970)
as Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
as Inspecteur Torrence
The Beast Is Loose (1959)
as Paul Lamiani
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
as Morel
The Seventh Target (1984)
as Bastien Grimaldi
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
as Angelo Fraiser
Way of Youth (1959)
as M. Tiercelin, restaurateur et as du marché noir
Twelve Hours by the Clock (1959)
as Fourbieux
The Valachi Papers (1972)
as Vito Genovese
Les Misérables (1982)
as Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
as le brigadier Théo Dumas
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero (2022)
as Self (archive footage) - actor
Happy New Year (1973)
as Simon
The Dictator's Guns (1965)
as Jacques Cournot
The French Detective (1975)
as Commissioner Verjeat
The Last Adventure (1967)
as Roland
Far West (1973)
as Prisoner
The Slap (1974)
as Jean Douléan
Crooks in Clover (1963)
as Fernand Naudin
The Inquisitor (1981)
as Inspector Antoine Gallien
Three Days to Live (1958)
as Lino Ferrari
Bacri, comme un air de famille (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Sunday Lovers (1980)
as François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')
A Pain in the Ass (1973)
as Ralf Milan
Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
as Antoine Beretto
Witness in the City (1959)
as Ancelin
Money Money Money (1972)
as Lino Massaro
Fantasia Among the Squares (1971)
as Sagamore Noonan
Rum Runners (1971)
as Cornelius von Zeelinga
Speaking of Murder (1957)
as Pepito
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
as Gustave "Gu" Minda
The Silent One (1973)
as Clément Tibère
Mistress of the World - Part I (1960)
as Biamonte
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Emile's Boat (1962)
as Émile Bouet
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Aznavour by Charles (2019)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
To Skin a Spy (1966)
as Pascal Fabre
Three Tough Guys (1974)
as Father Charlie
The Last Judgment (1961)
as Giovanna's father
Jig-Saw (1979)
as Romain Dupre
One Hundred Days in Palermo (1984)
as General Carlo Dalla Chiesa
Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Black City (1961)
as Il bandito
Burning Fuse (1957)
as Legentil
The Ruffian (1983)
as Aldo
Law of the Streets (1956)
as Mario
Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
as Roland Fériaud
125 rue Montmartre (1959)
as Pascal
Sword of Gideon (1986)
as Papa
Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
as "El lutos"
Crime and Punishment (1956)
as Gustave Messonnier
De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Girl in the Window (1961)
as Federico
Code Name: Melville (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
The Right of the Maddest (1973)
as Le gendarme motorisé instructeur
The Lions Are Loose (1961)
as le docteur André Challenberg
Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)
as Biamonte
Deux Romains en Gaule (1967)
as Un client du bar
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Dishonorable Discharge (1957)
as Paulo, Claire's lover
Birds of Prey (1968)
as Le rapace / Le rital
The Monocle's Sour Laugh (1964)
as Elie's Client (uncredited)
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
The French (1982)
as Self
The Strange Mr. Steve (1957)
as Denis
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
To Catch a Spy (1957)
as Bérès
Hitch-Hike (1962)
as Paul, le chauffeur de car
Pensione Edelweiss (1959)
as Borcher
Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
as Vincenzo, le caïd
Lino, il n'était que lui-même (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
La Rumba (1987)
as un caïd