Vittorio Caprioli
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 15, 1921
- Died
- October 2, 1989
- Birthplace
- Napoli, Campania, Italia
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. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Belmondo: The Incorrigible 2022
Actor
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard 2017
as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Dark Illness 1990
as Psicanalista
Taste of Life 1988
as Riccardo
- L'ultima scena
L'ultima scena 1988
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
I picari 1987
as mozzafiato
Stuff for the Rich 1987
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
Love & Passion 1987
as Don Vincenzo
Uno scandalo perbene 1984
as Renzo
Cinderella '80 1984
as Harry Cardone
Petomaniac 1983
as Pitalugue
Neapolitan Story 1983
Director, Story, Screenplay
Più bello di così si muore 1982
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Le rose et le blanc 1982
as Luigi Martini
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man 1981
as Maresciallo Angrisani
Before It's Too Early 1981
as Il professore
Umbrella Coup 1980
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Café Express 1980
as Carmelo Improta
A Leap in the Dark 1980
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Hypochondriac 1979
as Vincenzo
To Be Twenty 1978
as Nazariota
Blood and Diamonds 1978
as Commissario Russo
La Presidentessa 1977
as Mazzone
Grazie tante arrivederci 1977
as Proprietario bisca
Messalina, Messalina! 1977
as Claudius
The Rip-Off 1977
as Benjamin Bronchi
Latin Male Wanted 1977
as don Carmine
Rulers of the City 1976
as Vinchenzo Napoli
The Wing or the Thigh? 1976
as Vittorio
The Groper 1976
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
The Landlord 1976
as Onorevole Vincenzi
Blackmail Chase 1976
as Barbone
The Barons 1975
as Padre
Catherine & Co. 1975
as Moretti
The Messiah 1975
as Herod the Great
Kidnap Syndicate 1975
as Commissar Magrini
The School Teacher 1975
as Fefe Mottola
L'ammazzatina 1975
as Commissario Pafuso
Vieni, vieni amore mio 1975
Director, Writer
Erotomania 1974
as il ministro
I'm Losing My Temper 1974
as Le metteur en scène
Shoot First, Die Later 1974
as Esposito
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola 1974
as Professor Goffredo
Innocence and Desire 1974
as Vincenzo Niscemi
The Governess 1974
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
The Magnificent One 1973
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov, Writer
The Sensual Man 1973
as Salvatore
Società a responsabilità molto limitata 1973
as Il Ciancia
Io e lui 1973
as Cutica
La colonna infame 1973
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Giovannona Long-Thigh 1973
as Onorevole Pedicò
A Full Day's Work 1973
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
The Boss 1973
as Questore
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor 1972
as Nero
When Women Were Called Virgins 1972
as Ser Cecco
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do? 1972
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Tout Va Bien 1972
as Factory Manager
Hector the Mighty 1972
as Menalao
Trastevere 1971
as Father Ernesto
The Automobile 1971
as Giggetto
Roma bene 1971
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong 1971
as Gran Profe
The Story of Romance and Knife 1971
as Er Cinese
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell 1970
as Luis (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord 1970
as Messer Anticoli
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale 1970
as Bambola di Pechino, Director
The Libertine 1968
as Il Libraio
Listen, Let's Make Love 1968
Director, Story, Screenplay
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare 1968
as Spinelli
Death on the Run 1967
as Billy 'Pizza'
Anyone Can Play 1967
as Dieb
Soldier's Girl 1967
as Settimo
Assicurasi vergine 1967
as Don Pippo Matara
How I Learned to Love Women 1966
as Playboy
Adultery Italian Style 1966
as Silvio Sasselli
Ischia operazione amore 1966
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others 1966
as Finizio, Politician
A Maiden for the Prince 1965
as Marchese Liginio
Violence and Love 1965
as Il poeta
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing 1964
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Easy Love 1964
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
White Voices 1964
as Matteuccio
The Maniacs 1964
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
I cuori infranti 1963
Screenplay, Story, Director
The Shortest Day 1963
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
Paris, My Love 1962
as Avallone, Director, Screenplay, Story
Adieu Philippine 1962
as Pachala
His Days Are Numbered 1962
as Professor
Leoni al sole 1961
as Giugiú, Director, Writer
A porte chiuse 1961
as commissario
Zazie dans le Métro 1960
as Trouscaillon
Recourse in Grace 1960
as Sergio
General Della Rovere 1959
as Aristide Banchelli
You're on Your Own 1959
as Pino Calamari
The Law 1959
as Attilio
Il borghese gentiluomo 1959
as Jourdain
Good night… lawyer! 1955
as Vittorio
Neapolitan Carousel 1954
as paroliere amico di Luigino
The Anatomy of Love 1954
as Raffaele
It Happened in the Park 1953
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
Aida 1953
as Uncredited
Eager to Live 1953
as Pierra
Times Gone By 1952
as il marito di Mariantonia
Totó in color 1952
as Il tenore balbuziente
Paris Is Always Paris 1951
as Tour guide (uncredited)
Robinson Crusoeland 1951
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Variety Lights 1950
as Night Club Comic
Credits from TMDB.