Vittorio Gassman
Known for Acting · 164 credits
- Born
- 1922-09-01
- Died
- 2000-06-29
- Place of birth
- Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- Also known as
- Vittorio Gassmann · Витторио Гассман · Вітторіо Ґассман · Витторио Гасман
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.
Known For
TV Shows (15)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
as Various
Abraham
1994
as Terah
Còmics
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Desert of Fire
1997
as Tareq
Il mattatore
1959
Babau
1976
Movies (149)
Sleepers
1996
as King Benny
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
as Gianni Perego
War and Peace
1956
as Anatol Kuragin
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Mario Beretti
Woman Times Seven
1967
as Cenci
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Dear Father
1979
as Albino Millozza
Streets of Sorrow
1950
as Giorgio Cantoni
Mambo
1954
as Mario Rossi
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
as Remo
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
as Peppe
Double Cross
1951
as Renato Salvi
The Great War
1959
as Giovanni Busacca
1001 Nights
1990
as Sinbad
I Knew Her Well
1965
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
I picari
1987
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
as Marquis
The Miracle
1959
as Guido
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
as Peppe il pantera
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Ludwig van Beethoven
The Monsters
1963
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")
Scent of a Woman
1974
as Fausto Consolo
The Last Judgment
1961
as Cimino
Barabbas
1961
as Sahak
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994
The Terrace
1980
as Mario Dorazio
For Love and Gold
1966
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Sharky's Machine
1981
as Victor Scorelli
The Dirty Game
1965
as Perego / Ferrari
Il Sorpasso
1962
as Bruno Cortona
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
as Walter Guarini
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
as Prince Sergei
Hotel Room
1981
as Achille Mengaroni
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
In the Name of the Italian People
1971
as Lorenzo Santenocito
Rhapsody
1954
as Paul Bronte
The Palermo Connection
1990
as Il principe
Fiasco in Milan
1959
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Abraham
1993
as Terach
La Tosca
1973
as Scarpia
Summer Frenzy
1964
as Cap. Nardoni
I'm Photogenic
1980
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Let's Talk About Women
1964
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
as Edmund Kean
Defend My Love
1956
as Giovanni Marchi
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as Filimore
A Difficult Life
1961
as Self
Let's Have a Riot
1970
as Riccardo
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
as Francesco Vincenzini
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
as Rufus Conforti
The Devil in Love
1966
as Belfagor
One Million Dollars
1964
as Giuliano
Count Tacchia
1982
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
March on Rome
1962
as Domenico Rocchetti
Love and Larceny
1960
as Gerardo Latini
La bomba
1999
as Don Vito Bracalone
The Dinner
1998
as Maestro Pezzullo
The Love Specialist
1957
as Piero di Montalcino
The Family
1987
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
The Long Winter
1992
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
Ghosts of Rome
1961
as Il Caparra
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976
as Franco Denza
The Audience
1972
as Principe Donati
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967
as Pasquale Lojacono
Girls Marked Danger
1952
as Michele
Tempest
1958
as Prosecutor
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
I'll Be Going Now
1991
as Augusto Scribani
The Prophet
1968
as Pietro Breccia
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The New Monsters
1977
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
Anna
1951
as Vittorio
Lure of the Sila
1949
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Bitter Rice
1949
as Walter
Pure as a Lily
1976
as Anthony M. Wilson
Il turno
1981
as Ciro Coppa
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
as Zio Luca
Midnight Pleasures
1975
as Andrea Sansoni
Alibi
1969
as Vittorio
Pleasant Nights
1966
as Bastiano da Sangallo
La cambiale
1959
as Michele
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Mortacci
1989
as Domenico
The Nude Bomb
1980
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Luchino Visconti
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
1964
Seduction Of The South
1961
as O Caporale
Black Crown
1951
as Mauricio
A Wedding
1978
as Luigi Corelli
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
as Self (archive footage)
The Eye of the Needle
1963
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Tempest
1982
as Alonzo
The Divorce
1970
as Leonardo Nenci
The Dream of Zorro
1952
as Don Juan Antonio
Cry of the Hunted
1953
as Jory
The Mysterious Rider
1948
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
Il gaucho
1964
as Marco Ravicchio
Desert of Fire
1997
as Tareq
Dark Soul
1962
as Adriano Zucchelli
Snow Job
1965
as Lucio Ridolfi
The Captain's Daughter
1947
as Svabrin
Incontro con Laura
1945
as Franco
Sombrero
1953
as Alejandro Castillo
Il successo
1963
as Giulio Ceriani
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Speaking with Gassman
2005
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972
as Guido Guidi
Scipio the African
1971
as Catone il Censore
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015
as Self
L'ebreo errante
1948
as Mathieu Blumenthal
The Archangel
1969
as Furio Bertuccia
Quintet
1979
as Saint Christopher
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950
as Yussuf
Di padre in figlio
1982
as Self
Catch As Catch Can
1967
as Bob Chiaramonte
Daniele Cortis
1947
as Daniele Cortis
About Vittorio Gassman
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… With 164 credits spanning from 1945 to 2022, Vittorio Gassman has appeared in 149 films and 15 TV shows.
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Most Popular Vittorio Gassman Movies
- Sleepers (1996) — as King Benny
- We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) — as Gianni Perego
- War and Peace (1956) — as Anatol Kuragin
- Twelve Plus One (1969) — as Mario Beretti
- Woman Times Seven (1967) — as Cenci
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