Acting
Vittorio Gassman
FR, IT, EN, ES cinema · 149 credits
Born
1 September 1922
Died
29 June 2000 (aged 77)
Birthplace
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Also known as Vittorio Gassmann · Витторио Гассман · Вітторіо Ґассман · Витторио Гасман
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
Filmography
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
as Self (archive footage)
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
as Self (archive footage)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self (archive footage)
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
as Self (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)
La bomba
as Don Vito Bracalone
The Dinner
as Maestro Pezzullo
Desert of Fire
as Tareq
Sleepers
as King Benny
Once a Year, Every Year
as Giuseppe
Abraham
as Terach
Quando eravamo repressi
as The Sexologist
The Long Winter
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
Rossini! Rossini!
as Ludwig van Beethoven
I'll Be Going Now
as Augusto Scribani
1001 Nights
as Sinbad
The Palermo Connection
as Il principe
Mortacci
as Domenico
The Sleazy Uncle
as Zio Luca
L'altro enigma
as Il padre / Sofocle, Director, Writer
The Family
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
I picari
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Power Of Evil
as Gottfried
Life Is a Bed of Roses
as Walter Guarini
Benvenuta
as Livio
Tempest
as Alonzo
Count Tacchia
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
Di padre in figlio
as Self, Director, Writer
Sharky's Machine
as Victor Scorelli
Hotel Room
as Achille Mengaroni
Il turno
as Ciro Coppa
The Nude Bomb
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
The Terrace
as Mario Dorazio
I'm Photogenic
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Quintet
as Saint Christopher
Dear Father
as Albino Millozza
Two Pieces of Bread
as Pippo Mifà
A Wedding
as Luigi Corelli
Lost Soul
as Fabio Stolz
The New Monsters
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
Edipo Re
as Edipo, Director
The Desert of the Tartars
as Filimore
The Career of a Chambermaid
as Franco Denza
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Pure as a Lily
as Anthony M. Wilson
The Apple of My Eye
as film festival participant
Midnight Pleasures
as Andrea Sansoni
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Gianni Perego
Scent of a Woman
as Fausto Consolo
La Tosca
as Scarpia
The Audience
as Principe Donati
Without Family
as Armando Zavanatti, Director, Story, Screenplay
Scipio the African
as Cato the Censor
In the Name of the Italian People
as Lorenzo Santenocito
Brancaleone at the Crusades
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
Let's Have a Riot
as Riccardo
The Divorce
as Leonardo Nenci
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Twelve Plus One
as Mario Beretti
Where Are You Going All Naked?
as Rufus Conforti
The Archangel
as Furio Bertuccia
Alibi
as Vittorio, Director, Story, Screenplay
The Prophet
as Pietro Breccia
The Black Sheep
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Ghosts, Italian Style
as Pasquale Lojacono
Woman Times Seven
as Cenci
The Tiger and the Pussycat
as Francesco Vincenzini
Catch As Catch Can
as Bob Chiaramonte
For Love and Gold
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Pleasant Nights
as Bastiano da Sangallo
The Devil in Love
as Belfagor
A Maiden for the Prince
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
I Knew Her Well
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dirty Game
as Perego / Ferrari
Snow Job
as Lucio Ridolfi
Let's Talk About Women
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
One Million Dollars
as Giuliano
Il gaucho
as Marco Ravicchio
Summer Frenzy
as Cap. Nardoni
The Monsters
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")
Il successo
as Giulio Ceriani
The Eye of the Needle
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Il Sorpasso
as Bruno Cortona
March on Rome
as Domenico Rocchetti
Dark Soul
as Adriano Zucchelli
Sex Can Be Difficult
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Barabbas
as Sahak
Ghosts of Rome
as Il Caparra
A Difficult Life
as Self
The Last Judgment
as Cimino
Seduction Of The South
as O Caporale
Love and Larceny
as Gerardo Latini
The Great War
as Giovanni Busacca
La cambiale
as Michele
The Miracle
as Guido
Fiasco in Milan
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Big Deal on Madonna Street
as Peppe il pantera
Tempest
as Prosecutor
The Love Specialist
as Piero di Montalcino
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
as Edmund Kean, Director, Screenplay
War and Peace
as Anatol Kuragin
The Violent Patriot
as Giovanni De Medici
Defend My Love
as Giovanni Marchi
Beautiful But Dangerous
as Prince Sergei
Amleto
as Amleto, Director
Rhapsody
as Paul Bronte
Mambo
as Mario Rossi
The Glass Wall
as Peter Kuban
Sombrero
as Alejandro Castillo
The Dream of Zorro
as Don Juan Antonio
Girls Marked Danger
as Michele
Anna
as Vittorio
Black Crown
as Mauricio
Double Cross
as Renato Salvi
The Outlaws
as Turi
Streets of Sorrow
as Giorgio Cantoni
Il leone di Amalfi
as Mauro
Lo sparviero del Nilo
as Yussuf
Bitter Rice
as Walter
Lure of the Sila
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
The Mysterious Rider
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
L'ebreo errante
as Mathieu Blumenthal
Shamed
as Davide
The Captain's Daughter
as Svabrin
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Daniele Cortis
as Daniele Cortis