Vittorio Gassman
Known for Acting · 162 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 (14)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Còmics
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
as Various
Desert of Fire
1997
as Tareq
Abraham
1994
as Terah
Babau
1976
Il mattatore
1959
Movies (148)
Sleepers
1996
as King Benny
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
as Gianni Perego
War and Peace
1956
as Anatol Kuragin
Barabbas
1961
as Sahak
Il Sorpasso
1962
as Bruno Cortona
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
as Self (archive footage)
A Wedding
1978
as Luigi Corelli
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Sharky's Machine
1981
as Victor Scorelli
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as Filimore
1001 Nights
1990
as Sinbad
The Nude Bomb
1980
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Divorce
1970
as Leonardo Nenci
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
as Peppe il pantera
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Bitter Rice
1949
as Walter
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Terrace
1980
as Mario Dorazio
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")
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Abraham
1993
as Terach
Tempest
1982
as Alonzo
The Great War
1959
as Giovanni Busacca
Snow Job
1965
as Lucio Ridolfi
Woman Times Seven
1967
as Cenci
I'm Photogenic
1980
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
I Knew Her Well
1965
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Captain's Daughter
1947
as Svabrin
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015
as Self (archive footage)
The Miracle
1959
as Guido
Scent of a Woman
1974
as Fausto Consolo
Count Tacchia
1982
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
The Dinner
1998
as Maestro Pezzullo
For Love and Gold
1966
as Brancaleone da Norcia
Lost Soul
1977
as Fabio Stolz
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Mario Beretti
Midnight Pleasures
1975
as Andrea Sansoni
The Family
1987
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Summer Frenzy
1964
as Cap. Nardoni
Love and Larceny
1960
as Gerardo Latini
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
as Prince Sergei
I'll Be Going Now
1991
as Augusto Scribani
Catch As Catch Can
1967
as Bob Chiaramonte
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
as Walter Guarini
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
as Francesco Vincenzini
Let's Have a Riot
1970
as Riccardo
The Palermo Connection
1990
as Il principe
Ghosts of Rome
1961
as Il Caparra
In the Name of the Italian People
1971
as Lorenzo Santenocito
The Last Judgment
1961
as Cimino
Anna
1951
as Vittorio
Mortacci
1989
as Domenico
I picari
1987
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972
as Guido Guidi
Fiasco in Milan
1959
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
as Marquis
The Dirty Game
1965
as Perego / Ferrari
A Difficult Life
1961
as Self
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
as Self (archive footage)
La Tosca
1973
as Scarpia
Desert of Fire
1997
as Tareq
The Black Sheep
1968
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
La cambiale
1959
as Michele
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
as Remo
Quintet
1979
as Saint Christopher
March on Rome
1962
as Domenico Rocchetti
The Violent Patriot
1956
as Giovanni De Medici
Scipio the African
1971
as Catone il Censore
Pure as a Lily
1976
as Anthony M. Wilson
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967
as Pasquale Lojacono
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
as Peppe
Sombrero
1953
as Alejandro Castillo
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Rhapsody
1954
as Paul Bronte
The Dream of Zorro
1952
as Don Juan Antonio
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Prophet
1968
as Pietro Breccia
Il gaucho
1964
as Marco Ravicchio
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
as Edmund Kean
Il successo
1963
as Giulio Ceriani
Without Family
1972
as Armando Zavanatti
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976
as Franco Denza
Lure of the Sila
1949
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
The Glass Wall
1953
as Peter Kuban
Luchino Visconti
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Love Specialist
1957
as Piero di Montalcino
Double Cross
1951
as Renato Salvi
Let's Talk About Women
1964
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
The Mysterious Rider
1948
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
The Outlaws
1950
as Turi
A Maiden for the Prince
1965
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Pleasant Nights
1966
as Bastiano da Sangallo
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Benvenuta
1983
as Livio
Dear Father
1979
as Albino Millozza
Mambo
1954
as Mario Rossi
One Million Dollars
1964
as Giuliano
The New Monsters
1977
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
The Archangel
1969
as Furio Bertuccia
Streets of Sorrow
1950
as Giorgio
Dark Soul
1962
as Adriano Zucchelli
Two Pieces of Bread
1979
as Pippo Mifà
La bomba
1999
as Don Vito Bracalone
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
as Zio Luca
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
as Rufus Conforti
Tempest
1958
as Prosecutor
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
as Giuseppe
Power Of Evil
1985
as Gottfried
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
The Devil in Love
1966
as Belfagor
The Long Winter
1992
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
Girls Marked Danger
1952
as Michele
Daniele Cortis
1947
as Daniele Cortis
Cry of the Hunted
1953
as Jory
Seduction Of The South
1961
as O Caporale
Il leone di Amalfi
1950
as Mauro
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 162 credits spanning from 1945 to 2022, Vittorio Gassman has appeared in 148 films and 14 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
- Barabbas (1961) — as Sahak
- Il Sorpasso (1962) — as Bruno Cortona
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