Vittorio Gassman
Acting
Born: September 1, 1922 · Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Died: June 29, 2000 (aged 77)
Highest Rated
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
Known for
Sleepers
1996
Il Sorpasso
1962
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
For Love and Gold
1966
The Great War
1959
War and Peace
1956
Scent of a Woman
1974
The New Monsters
1977
Bitter Rice
1949
The Monsters
1963
Barabbas
1961
Photos (3)
Movies (128)
Sleepers
King Benny
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Gianni Perego
War and Peace
Anatol Kuragin
Barabbas
Sahak
Beautiful But Dangerous
Prince Sergei
Sharky's Machine
Victor Scorelli
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Peppe il pantera
Il Sorpasso
Bruno Cortona
Abraham
Terach
1001 Nights
Sinbad
The Great War
Giovanni Busacca
The Nude Bomb
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Woman Times Seven
Cenci
Dear Father
Albino Millozza
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Walter Guarini
For Love and Gold
Brancaleone da Norcia
Tempest
Alonzo
Bitter Rice
Walter
Scent of a Woman
Fausto Consolo
Double Cross
Renato Salvi
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Brancaleone Da Norcia
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Quintet
Saint Christopher
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")
Seduction Of The South
O Caporale
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Remo
I Knew Her Well
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
The New Monsters
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
A Wedding
Luigi Corelli
The Last Judgment
Cimino
The Family
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Love and Larceny
Gerardo Latini
Anna
Vittorio
The Devil in Love
Belfagor
I picari
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Streets of Sorrow
Giorgio Cantoni
The Dinner
Maestro Pezzullo
Mambo
Mario Rossi
Rossini! Rossini!
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Dirty Game
Perego / Ferrari
The Desert of the Tartars
Filimore
I'm Photogenic
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Tempest
Prosecutor
The Tiger and the Pussycat
Francesco Vincenzini
In the Name of the Italian People
Lorenzo Santenocito
Power Of Evil
Gottfried
The Love Specialist
Piero di Montalcino
Ghosts of Rome
Il Caparra
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Peppe
The Amusements of Private Life
Marquis
Fiasco in Milan
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994
The Glass Wall
Peter Kuban
Ghosts, Italian Style
Pasquale Lojacono
Rhapsody
Paul Bronte
The Career of a Chambermaid
Franco Denza
Lure of the Sila
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Desert of Fire
Tareq
The Prophet
Pietro Breccia
The Audience
Principe Donati
The Palermo Connection
Il principe
Pure as a Lily
Anthony M. Wilson
Girls Marked Danger
Michele
The Miracle
Guido
Cry of the Hunted
Jory
Sombrero
Alejandro Castillo
The Sleazy Uncle
Zio Luca
A Maiden for the Prince
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Edmund Kean
Twelve Plus One
Mario Beretti
Midnight Pleasures
Andrea Sansoni
Hotel Room
Achille Mengaroni
Summer Frenzy
Cap. Nardoni
The Archangel
Furio Bertuccia
Let's Have a Riot
Riccardo
Count Tacchia
Prince Torquato Terenzi
The Terrace
Mario Dorazio
The Divorce
Leonardo Nenci
La bomba
Don Vito Bracalone
Mortacci
Domenico
Scipio the African
Catone il Censore
Defend My Love
Giovanni Marchi
Lost Soul
Fabio Stolz
The Black Sheep
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Benvenuta
Livio
Catch As Catch Can
Bob Chiaramonte
March on Rome
Domenico Rocchetti
Il gaucho
Marco Ravicchio
Without Family
Armando Zavanatti
La cambiale
Michele
Let's Talk About Women
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Alibi
Vittorio
Sex Can Be Difficult
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
The Mysterious Rider
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
The Captain's Daughter
Svabrin
Il successo
Giulio Ceriani
Dark Soul
Adriano Zucchelli
One Million Dollars
Giuliano
The Long Winter
Claudio, El Mayordomo
La Tosca
Scarpia
The Violent Patriot
Giovanni De Medici
The Outlaws
Turi
The Dream of Zorro
Don Juan Antonio
Edipo Re
Edipo
L'ebreo errante
Mathieu Blumenthal
Pleasant Nights
Bastiano da Sangallo
Lo sparviero del Nilo
Yussuf
I'll Be Going Now
Augusto Scribani
Shamed
Davide
Daniele Cortis
Daniele Cortis
Snow Job
Lucio Ridolfi
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Black Crown
Mauricio
L'altro enigma
Il padre / Sofocle
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Guido Guidi
The Eye of the Needle
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Il turno
Ciro Coppa
Two Pieces of Bread
Pippo Mifà
The Apple of My Eye
film festival participant
Once a Year, Every Year
Giuseppe
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Rufus Conforti
Amleto
Amleto
Il leone di Amalfi
Mauro
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
1964
Speaking with Gassman
2005
Quando eravamo repressi
The Sexologist
TV Shows (5)
Self / Appearances (27)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 2 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1 eps
Apostrophes
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 2 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 2 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 3 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Trintignant by Trintignant
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Còmics
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
To Be Hamlet
Self
A Difficult Life
Self
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
Self
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self (archive footage)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Self
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
Self
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
Luchino Visconti
Self (archive footage)
Di padre in figlio
Self