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Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Acted in 102
2020s
- 2022
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie
1990s
- 1990
Dark Illness
Psicanalista
1980s
- 1988
Taste of Life
Riccardo
- 1987
Stuff for the Rich
il monsignore (2° episodio)
Cinderella '87
Harry Cardone · 4 episodes
- 1984
Uno scandalo perbene
Renzo
Cinderella '80
Harry Cardone
- 1983
Petomaniac
Pitalugue
- 1982
Più bello di così si muore
conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Le rose et le blanc
Luigi Martini
- 1981
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Maresciallo Angrisani
Before It's Too Early
Il professore
- 1980
Café Express
Carmelo Improta
A Leap in the Dark
Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
1970s
- 1979
Hypochondriac
Vincenzo
- 1978
Blood and Diamonds
Commissario Russo
- 1977
La Presidentessa
Mazzone
Grazie tante arrivederci
Proprietario bisca
The Rip-Off
Benjamin Bronchi
Latin Male Wanted
don Carmine
- 1976
The Groper
Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
- 1975
The Barons
Padre
Catherine & Co.
Moretti
The Messiah
Herod the Great
L'ammazzatina
Commissario Pafuso
- 1974
Erotomania
il ministro
I'm Losing My Temper
Le metteur en scène
Shoot First, Die Later
Esposito
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Professor Goffredo
The Governess
Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
- 1973
The Sensual Man
Salvatore
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Il Ciancia
Io e lui
Cutica
La colonna infame
Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
A Full Day's Work
Le Juré Mangiavacca
- 1972
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Nero
When Women Were Called Virgins
Ser Cecco
Tout Va Bien
Factory Manager
Hector the Mighty
Menalao
- 1971
Trastevere
Father Ernesto
The Automobile
Giggetto
Roma bene
Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Gran Profe
- 1970
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Luis (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
Messer Anticoli
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Bambola di Pechino
1960s
- 1968
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Spinelli
- 1967
Death on the Run
Billy 'Pizza'
Anyone Can Play
Dieb
Soldier's Girl
Settimo
Assicurasi vergine
Don Pippo Matara
- 1966
Adultery Italian Style
Silvio Sasselli
Ischia operazione amore
Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Finizio, Politician
- 1965
A Maiden for the Prince
Marchese Liginio
Violence and Love
Il poeta
- 1964
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Easy Love
Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
White Voices
Matteuccio
The Maniacs
The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
- 1963
- 1962
Paris, My Love
Avallone
His Days Are Numbered
Professor
- 1961
Leoni al sole
Giugiú
A porte chiuse
commissario
- 1960
Recourse in Grace
Sergio
1950s
- 1959
General Della Rovere
Aristide Banchelli
You're on Your Own
Pino Calamari
The Law
Attilio
Il borghese gentiluomo
Jourdain
- 1955
Good night… lawyer!
Vittorio
- 1954
The Anatomy of Love
Raffaele
- 1953
It Happened in the Park
Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
Aida
Uncredited
Eager to Live
Pierra
- 1952
Times Gone By
il marito di Mariantonia
Totó in color
Il tenore balbuziente
- 1951
Paris Is Always Paris
Tour guide (uncredited)
- 1950
Wrote 7
1980s
- 1983
Neapolitan Story
Screenplay, Story
1970s
- 1975
Vieni, vieni amore mio
Writer
- 1973
1960s
- 1968
- 1963
I cuori infranti
Story, Screenplay
- 1962
Paris, My Love
Story, Screenplay
- 1961
Leoni al sole
Writer
Directed 7
1980s
- 1983
Neapolitan Story
Director
1970s
- 1975
Vieni, vieni amore mio
Director
- 1970
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Director
1960s
- 1968
- 1963
I cuori infranti
Director
- 1962
Paris, My Love
Director
- 1961
Leoni al sole
Director
Appearances1
2010s
- 2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self – Italian actor (archive footage)