Vittorio Gassman

Actor · 1922–2000 · Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974

Biography

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

Acted in 133

2020s

2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Movie

2000s

2005
Speaking with Gassman
Movie

1990s

1999
La bomba
Don Vito Bracalone
1998
The Dinner
Maestro Pezzullo
1997
Desert of Fire
Tareq · 3 episodes
Desert of Fire
Tareq
1996
Sleepers
King Benny
70
1994
In morte di Federico Fellini
Movie
Once a Year, Every Year
Giuseppe
1993
Abraham
Terach
Abraham
Terah · 2 episodes
1992
The Long Winter
Claudio, El Mayordomo
Quando eravamo repressi
The Sexologist
1991
Rossini! Rossini!
Ludwig van Beethoven
I'll Be Going Now
Augusto Scribani
1990
The Amusements of Private Life
Marquis
1001 Nights
Sinbad
53
The Palermo Connection
Il principe

1980s

1989
The Sleazy Uncle
Zio Luca
Mortacci
Domenico
1988
L'altro enigma
Il padre / Sofocle
1987
I picari
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
61
The Family
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
73
1985
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Peppe
Power Of Evil
Gottfried
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Various · 5 episodes
1983
Benvenuta
Livio
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Walter Guarini
65
1982
Count Tacchia
Prince Torquato Terenzi
Tempest
Alonzo
1981
Sharky's Machine
Victor Scorelli
66
Il turno
Ciro Coppa
Hotel Room
Achille Mengaroni
1980
The Nude Bomb
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
I'm Photogenic
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
The Terrace
Mario Dorazio

1970s

1979
Dear Father
Albino Millozza
62
Quintet
Saint Christopher
44
Two Pieces of Bread
Pippo Mifà
1978
A Wedding
Luigi Corelli
1977
The New Monsters
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
70
Edipo Re
Edipo
Lost Soul
Fabio Stolz
1976
The Desert of the Tartars
Filimore
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
66
Pure as a Lily
Anthony M. Wilson
The Career of a Chambermaid
Franco Denza
The Apple of My Eye
film festival participant
Babau
TV
1975
Midnight Pleasures
Andrea Sansoni
1974
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Gianni Perego
81
Scent of a Woman
Fausto Consolo
75
1973
La Tosca
Scarpia
1972
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Guido Guidi
The Audience
Principe Donati
Without Family
Armando Zavanatti
1971
In the Name of the Italian People
Lorenzo Santenocito
Scipio the African
Cato the Censor
1970
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Divorce
Leonardo Nenci
Let's Have a Riot
Riccardo
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca

1960s

1969
Twelve Plus One
Mario Beretti
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Rufus Conforti
The Archangel
Furio Bertuccia
Alibi
Vittorio
1968
The Black Sheep
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
The Prophet
Pietro Breccia
1967
Ghosts, Italian Style
Pasquale Lojacono
Catch As Catch Can
Bob Chiaramonte
Woman Times Seven
Cenci
The Tiger and the Pussycat
Francesco Vincenzini
64
1966
The Devil in Love
Belfagor
Pleasant Nights
Bastiano da Sangallo
For Love and Gold
Brancaleone da Norcia
1965
I Knew Her Well
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Maiden for the Prince
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Snow Job
Lucio Ridolfi
The Dirty Game
Perego / Ferrari
1964
One Million Dollars
Giuliano
Il gaucho
Marco Ravicchio
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
Movie
Let's Talk About Women
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Summer Frenzy
Cap. Nardoni
1963
The Monsters
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")
74
Il successo
Giulio Ceriani
The Eye of the Needle
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
1962
Sex Can Be Difficult
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
March on Rome
Domenico Rocchetti
Il Sorpasso
Bruno Cortona
82
Dark Soul
Adriano Zucchelli
1961
Barabbas
Sahak
74
Seduction Of The South
O Caporale
The Last Judgment
Cimino
Ghosts of Rome
Il Caparra
1960
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Remo
69
Love and Larceny
Gerardo Latini