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Vittorio Gassman
Actor, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Died June 29, 2000 (77 years)
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.
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | Johnny's Inferno · as V.o. |
| 2024 | L'Inferno (Remastered) · as Dante |
| 2015 | |
| 2008 | |
| 2005 | Robert Altman on 'A Wedding' · as Luigi Corelli |
| 1999 | La bomba · as Don Vito Bracalone |
| 1998 | The Dinner · as Maestro Pezzullo |
| 1997 | Il deserto di fuoco (TV Series) · as Tareq |
| 1996 | Sleepers · as King Benny |
| 1993 | Abraham · as Terach |
| 1993 | Abraham (TV Series) · as Terah |
| 1992 | The Long Winter · as Claudio, El Mayordomo |
| 1992 | Quando eravamo repressi · as The Sexologist |
| 1991 | Rossini! Rossini! · as Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| 1990 | The Amusements of Private Life · as Marquis |
| 1990 | Les 1001 nuits · as Sinbad |
| 1990 | Tolgo il disturbo · as Augusto Scribani |
| 1990 | The Palermo Connection · as Il Principe |
| 1989 | The Sleazy Uncle · as Zio Luca |
| 1989 | Mortacci · as Domenico |
| 1987 | The Rogues · as Marquis Felipe De Aragona |
| 1987 | The Family · as Carlo As A Man / Carlo's Grandfather |
| 1985 | Big Deal After 20 Years · as Peppe |
| 1985 | Paradigma · as Gottfried |
| 1983 | Benvenuta · as Livio |
| 1983 | Life Is a Bed of Roses · as Walter Guarini |
| 1982 | Count Tacchia · as Prince Torquato Terenzi |
| 1982 | Tempest · as Alonzo |
| 1981 | Sharky's Machine · as Victor Scorelli |
| 1981 | Il turno · as Ciro Coppa |
| 1981 | Camera d'albergo · as Achille Mengaroni |
| 1980 | The Nude Bomb · as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani |
| 1980 | I'm Photogenic · as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited) |
| 1980 | La terrazza · as Mario |
| 1979 | Two Pieces of Bread · as Pippo Mifà |
| 1979 | Quintet · as Saint Christopher |
| 1979 | Dear Father · as Albino Millozza |
| 1978 | A Wedding · as Luigi Corelli |
| 1977 | Viva Italia! · as Il Cardinale/il Cameriere/il Marito/il Commissario/il Padre Di Famiglia |
| 1977 | The Forbidden Room · as Fabio Stolz |
| 1976 | The Desert of the Tartars · as Filimore |
| 1976 | Signore e signori, buonanotte · as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo |
| 1976 | Pure as a Lily · as Anthony M. Wilson |
| 1976 | The Career of a Chambermaid · as Franco Denza |
| 1976 | Babau (TV Series) |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | The Immortal Bachelor · as Andrea Sansoni |
| 1974 | We All Loved Each Other So Much · as Gianni Perego |
| 1974 | Scent of a Woman · as Fausto Consolo |
| 1973 | La Tosca · as Scarpia |
| 1972 | What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution? · as Guido Guidi |
| 1972 | L'udienza · as Principe Donati |
| 1972 | Without Family · as Armando Zavanatti |
| 1971 | In the Name of the Italian People · as Lorenzo Santenocito |
| 1971 | Scipio the African (1971) · as Catone Il Censore |
| 1970 | Brancaleone at the Crusades · as Brancaleone Da Norcia |
| 1970 | L'uomo dal fiore in bocca · as L'uomo Dal Fiore In Bocca |
| 1970 | The Divorce · as Leonardo Nenci |
| 1970 | Let's Have a Riot · as Riccardo |
| 1969 | 12 + 1 · as Mario Beretti |
| 1969 | Dove vai tutta nuda? · as Rufus Conforti |
| 1969 | The Archangel · as Furio Bertuccia |
| 1969 | Alibi · as Vittorio |
| 1968 | La pecora nera · as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti |
| 1968 | The Prophet · as Pietro Breccia |
| 1967 | Ghosts, Italian Style · as Pasquale Lojacono |
| 1967 | Catch As Catch Can · as Bob Chiaramonte |
| 1967 | Woman Times Seven · as Cenci |
| 1967 | The Tiger and the Pussycat · as Francesco Vincenzini |
| 1966 | The Devil in Love · as Belfagor |
| 1966 | Pleasant Nights · as Bastiano Da Sangallo |
| 1966 | For Love and Gold · as Brancaleone Da Norcia |
| 1965 | I Knew Her Well · as Vittorio Gassman - In Film Clip (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1965 | A Maiden for the Prince · as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga |
| 1965 | Slalom · as Lucio Ridolfi |
| 1965 | The Secret Agents · as Perego / Ferrari |
| 1965 | La congiuntura · as Giuliano |
| 1964 | Il gaucho · as Marco Ravicchio |
| 1964 | Risate all'italiana · as Cast |
| 1964 | Let's Talk About Women · as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante Impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello Timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero |
| 1964 | Summer Frenzy · as Cap. Nardoni |
| 1963 | The Monsters · 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") |
| 1963 | Il successo · as Giulio Ceriani |
| 1963 | The Eye of the Needle · as Giorgio Mazzanò, Lawyer |
| 1962 | Of Wayward Love · as L'avvocato (segment "l'avaro") |
| 1962 | La marcia su Roma · as Domenico Rocchetti |
| 1962 | The Easy Life · as Bruno Cortona |
| 1962 | Anima nera · as Adriano Zucchelli |
| 1961 | Barabbas · as Sahak |
| 1961 | I briganti italiani · as O Caporale |
| 1961 | The Last Judgment · as Cimino |
| 1961 | Ghosts of Rome · as Il Caparra |
| 1961 | Adelchi · as Cast |
| 1960 | ...And Suddenly It's Murder! · as Remo |
| 1960 | Love and Larceny · as Gerardo Latini |
| 1959 | Fiasco in Milan · as Giuseppe "peppe Er Pantera" Baiocchi |
| 1959 | Le sorprese dell'amore · as The Schoolteacher |
| 1959 | La cambiale · as Michele |
| 1959 | The Miracle · as Guido |
| 1959 | The Great War · as Giovanni Busacca |
| 1958 | Tempest · as Prosecutor |
| 1958 | Big Deal on Madonna Street · as Peppe Il Pantera |
| 1957 | The Love Specialist · as Piero Di Montalcino |
| 1957 | Kean: Genius or Scoundrel · as Edmund Kean |
| 1956 | The Violent Patriot · as Giovanni De Medici |
| 1956 | Defend My Love · as Giovanni Marchi |
| 1956 | War and Peace · as Anatol Kuragin |
| 1955 | Beautiful But Dangerous · as Prince Sergei |
| 1954 | Mambo · as Mario Rossi |
| 1954 | Rhapsody · as Paul Bronte |
| 1953 | Sombrero · as Alejandro Castillo |
| 1953 | The Glass Wall · as Peter Kuban |
| 1953 | Cry of the Hunted · as Jory |
| 1952 | La tratta delle bianche · as Michele |
| 1952 | The Dream of Zorro · as Don Juan Antonio |
| 1951 | Black Crown · as Mauricio |
| 1951 | Anna · as Vittorio |
| 1951 | Double Cross · as Renato Salvi |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | Lo sparviero del Nilo · as Yussuf |
| 1950 | Streets of Sorrow · as Giorgio |
| 1949 | Lure of the Sila · as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann) |
| 1949 | Bitter Rice · as Walter |
| 1948 | The Mysterious Rider · as Giacomo Casanova, Cavaliere Di Seingalt |
| 1948 | L'ebreo errante · as Mathieu Blumenthal |
| 1947 | Shamed · as Davide |
| 1947 | La figlia del capitano · as Svabrin |
| 1947 | The Adventures of Pinocchio · as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore Verde |