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Vittorio Caprioli
Actor, Writer, Director, Additional Credits
Born August 15, 1921Died October 2, 1989 (68 years)
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.
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2022 | Belmondo L'Incorrigible · as Karpof |
| 1990 | Dark Illness · as Psicanalista |
| 1988 | Taste of Life · as Il Cuoco |
| 1988 | La posta in gioco · as Antonio Soriano |
| 1987 | The Rogues · as Mozzafiato |
| 1987 | Roba da ricchi · as Il Monsignore (2° Episodio) |
| 1987 | Capriccio · as Don Vincenzo |
| 1986 | Laurel & Hardy (TV Series) · as Pietro Poltroni (1986) |
| 1984 | A Proper Scandal · as Renzo |
| 1984 | Cindy - Cinderella '80 · as Harry Cardone |
| 1983 | Petomaniac · as Pitalugue |
| 1982 | Più bello di così si muore · as Conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo |
| 1982 | Le rose et le blanc · as Luigi Martini |
| 1981 | Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man · as Maresciallo Angrisani |
| 1981 | Histoires extraordinaires (TV Series) · as M. Ulysse |
| 1980 | The Umbrella Coup · as Don Barberini, Mafioso Italien |
| 1980 | Café Express · as Carmelo Improta |
| 1980 | A Leap in the Dark · as Mauro Ponticelli (voice) |
| 1980 | The Charm of the Unusual (TV Series) · as Sbirro |
| 1979 | Hypochondriac · as Vincenzo |
| 1978 | To Be Twenty · as Nazariota |
| 1977 | Messalina, Messalina · as Claudius |
| 1977 | The Rip-Off · as Benjamin Bronchi |
| 1977 | Maschio latino cercasi · as Don Carmine |
| 1977 | Blood and Diamonds · as Commissario Russo |
| 1976 | Rulers of the City · as Vinchenzo Napoli |
| 1976 | The Wing or The Thigh? · as Vittorio |
| 1976 | The Groper · as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli |
| 1976 | L'affittacamere · as Onorevole Vincenzi |
| 1976 | As of Tomorrow · as Barbone |
| 1975 | Catherine & Co. · as Moretti |
| 1975 | The Messiah · as Herod The Great |
| 1975 | Kidnap Syndicate · as Commissar Magrini |
| 1975 | The School Teacher · as Fefe Mottola |
| 1975 | L'ammazzatina · as Commissario Pafuso |
| 1974 | Erotomania · as Il Ministro |
| 1974 | I'm Losing My Temper · as Le Metteur En Scène |
| 1974 | Di mamma non ce n'è una sola · as Professor Goffredo |
| 1974 | Shoot First, Die Later · as Esposito |
| 1974 | Innocence and Desire · as Vincenzo Niscemi |
| 1974 | The Governess · as Alessandro Bonivaglia, Lo Scrittore |
| 1973 | Le Magnifique · as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov |
| 1973 | The Sensual Man · as Salvatore |
| 1973 | Io e lui · as Cutica |
| 1973 | Giovannona Long-Thigh · as Onorevole Pedicò |
| 1973 | A Full Day's Work · as Le Juré Mangiavacca |
| 1973 | |
| 1972 | |
| 1972 | When Women Were Called Virgins · as Ser Cecco |
| 1972 | Tout va bien · as Factory Manager |
| 1972 | Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? · as Nereo Tinelli Aka Due Novembre |
| 1972 | Hector the Mighty · as Menalao |
| 1971 | Trastevere · as Father Ernesto |
| 1971 | The Automobile · as Giggetto |
| 1971 | Roma bene · as Il Barone Maurizio Di Vittis |
| 1971 | When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong · as Gran Profe |
| 1971 | Er più: storia d'amore e di coltello · as Er Cinese |
| 1970 | Summer Love · as Luis (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Nel giorno del signore · as Messer Anticoli |
| 1970 | Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale · as Bambola Di Pechino |
| 1968 | The Libertine · as Il Libraio |
| 1968 | Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare · as Spinelli |
| 1967 | Death on the Run · as Billy 'pizza' |
| 1967 | Anyone Can Play · as Dieb |
| 1966 | Come imparai ad amare le donne · as Playboy |
| 1966 | Adulterio all'italiana · as Silvio Sasselli |
| 1966 | Ischia operazione amore · as Baron Domenico 'mimì' Lo Russo |
| 1966 | Me, Me, Me... and the Others · as Finizio, Politician |
| 1965 | A Maiden for the Prince · as Marchese Liginio |
| 1964 | Woman Is a Wonderful Thing · as Carlo (segment "una Donna Dolce, Dolce") |
| 1964 | Amore facile · as Mauri (segment "il Vedovo Bianco") |
| 1964 | White Voices · as Matteuccio |
| 1964 | I maniaci · as The Husband (segment "il Pezzo Antico") |
| 1963 | I cuori infranti · as Passer-By In White Suit (segment "la Manina Di Fatma") |
| 1963 | The Shortest Day · as Bersagliere Alla Stazione (uncredited) |
| 1962 | Parigi o cara · as Avallone |
| 1962 | His Days Are Numbered · as Professor |
| 1962 | Adieu Philippine · as Pachala |
| 1961 | Leoni al sole · as Giugiú |
| 1961 | A porte chiuse · as Commissario |
| 1960 | Zazie in the Metro · as Trouscaillon |
| 1960 | Recourse in Grace · as Sergio |
| 1959 | General Della Rovere · as Aristide Banchelli |
| 1959 | You're on Your Own · as Pino Calamari |
| 1959 | The Law · as Attilio |
| 1955 | Buonanotte... avvocato! · as Vittorio |
| 1954 | Neapolitan Carousel · as Paroliere Amico Di Luigino |
| 1954 | The Anatomy of Love · as Raffaele |
| 1953 | It Happened in the Park · as The Commissioner Of Morality (segment: Concorso Di Bellezza) |
| 1953 | Aida · as Cast |
| 1953 | Eager to Live · as Pierra |
| 1952 | Times Gone By · as Il Marito Di Mariantonia |
| 1952 | Toto in Color · as Il Tenore Balbuziente |
| 1951 | Paris Is Always Paris · as (uncredited) |
| 1951 | |
| 1950 | Variety Lights · as Night Club Comic |
| 1946 | O sole mio · as Cast |