Vittorio Gassman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 1, 1922
- Died
- June 29, 2000
- Birthplace
- Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittorio Gassman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Deneuve, la reine Catherine 2022
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema 2021
as Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained 2021
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Trintignant by Trintignant 2021
as Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes 2021
Actor
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita 2021
as Self (archive footage)
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia 2018
as Self
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian 2015
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant 2015
as Self
Close Up 2012
as Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario 2012
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore 2010
as Self (archive footage)
- Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne 2007
as Self
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds 2006
as Self (archive footage)
Speaking with Gassman 2005
Actor
Luchino Visconti 2002
as Self (archive footage)
La bomba 1999
as Don Vito Bracalone
The Dinner 1998
as Maestro Pezzullo
Desert of Fire 1997
as Tareq
Sleepers 1996
as King Benny
In morte di Federico Fellini 1994
Actor
Once a Year, Every Year 1994
as Giuseppe
Abraham 1993
as Terach
The Long Winter 1992
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
Quando eravamo repressi 1992
as The Sexologist
Rossini! Rossini! 1991
as Ludwig van Beethoven
I'll Be Going Now 1991
as Augusto Scribani
The Amusements of Private Life 1990
as Marquis
1001 Nights 1990
as Sinbad
The Palermo Connection 1990
as Il principe
The Sleazy Uncle 1989
as Zio Luca
Mortacci 1989
as Domenico
L'altro enigma 1988
as Il padre / Sofocle, Director, Writer
I picari 1987
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
The Family 1987
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later 1985
as Peppe
Power Of Evil 1985
as Gottfried
To Be Hamlet 1985
as Self
Benvenuta 1983
as Livio
Life Is a Bed of Roses 1983
as Walter Guarini
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta 1983
as Self
Count Tacchia 1982
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
Tempest 1982
as Alonzo
Di padre in figlio 1982
as Self, Director, Writer
Sharky's Machine 1981
as Victor Scorelli
Il turno 1981
as Ciro Coppa
Hotel Room 1981
as Achille Mengaroni
The Nude Bomb 1980
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
I'm Photogenic 1980
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
The Terrace 1980
as Mario Dorazio
Dear Father 1979
as Albino Millozza
Quintet 1979
as Saint Christopher
Two Pieces of Bread 1979
as Pippo Mifà
A Wedding 1978
as Luigi Corelli
The New Monsters 1977
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
Edipo Re 1977
as Edipo, Director
Lost Soul 1977
as Fabio Stolz
The Desert of the Tartars 1976
as Filimore
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen 1976
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Pure as a Lily 1976
as Anthony M. Wilson
The Career of a Chambermaid 1976
as Franco Denza
The Apple of My Eye 1976
as film festival participant
E il Casanova di Fellini? 1975
as Self
Midnight Pleasures 1975
as Andrea Sansoni
We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974
as Gianni Perego
Scent of a Woman 1974
as Fausto Consolo
La Tosca 1973
as Scarpia
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? 1972
as Guido Guidi
The Audience 1972
as Principe Donati
Without Family 1972
as Armando Zavanatti, Director, Story, Screenplay
In the Name of the Italian People 1971
as Lorenzo Santenocito
Scipio the African 1971
as Cato the Censor
Brancaleone at the Crusades 1970
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Divorce 1970
as Leonardo Nenci
Let's Have a Riot 1970
as Riccardo
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth 1970
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Twelve Plus One 1969
as Mario Beretti
Where Are You Going All Naked? 1969
as Rufus Conforti
The Archangel 1969
as Furio Bertuccia
Alibi 1969
as Vittorio, Director, Story, Screenplay
The Black Sheep 1968
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
The Prophet 1968
as Pietro Breccia
Ghosts, Italian Style 1967
as Pasquale Lojacono
Catch As Catch Can 1967
as Bob Chiaramonte
Woman Times Seven 1967
as Cenci
The Tiger and the Pussycat 1967
as Francesco Vincenzini
The Devil in Love 1966
as Belfagor
Pleasant Nights 1966
as Bastiano da Sangallo
For Love and Gold 1966
as Brancaleone da Norcia
I Knew Her Well 1965
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Maiden for the Prince 1965
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Snow Job 1965
as Lucio Ridolfi
The Dirty Game 1965
as Perego / Ferrari
One Million Dollars 1964
as Giuliano
Il gaucho 1964
as Marco Ravicchio
Shakespeare secondo Gassman 1964
Actor
Let's Talk About Women 1964
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Summer Frenzy 1964
as Cap. Nardoni
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")
Il successo 1963
as Giulio Ceriani
The Eye of the Needle 1963
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Sex Can Be Difficult 1962
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
March on Rome 1962
as Domenico Rocchetti
Il Sorpasso 1962
as Bruno Cortona
Dark Soul 1962
as Adriano Zucchelli
Barabbas 1961
as Sahak
A Difficult Life 1961
as Self
Seduction Of The South 1961
as O Caporale
The Last Judgment 1961
as Cimino
Ghosts of Rome 1961
as Il Caparra
...And Suddenly It's Murder! 1960
as Remo
Love and Larceny 1960
as Gerardo Latini
Fiasco in Milan 1959
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
La cambiale 1959
as Michele
The Miracle 1959
as Guido
The Great War 1959
as Giovanni Busacca
Tempest 1958
as Prosecutor
Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958
as Peppe il pantera
The Love Specialist 1957
as Piero di Montalcino
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel 1957
as Edmund Kean, Director, Screenplay
The Violent Patriot 1956
as Giovanni De Medici
Defend My Love 1956
as Giovanni Marchi
War and Peace 1956
as Anatol Kuragin
Beautiful But Dangerous 1955
as Prince Sergei
Amleto 1955
as Amleto, Director
- Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza 1955
as Edmund Kean
Mambo 1954
as Mario Rossi
Rhapsody 1954
as Paul Bronte
Cry of the Hunted 1953
as Jory
Sombrero 1953
as Alejandro Castillo
The Glass Wall 1953
as Peter Kuban
Girls Marked Danger 1952
as Michele
The Dream of Zorro 1952
as Don Juan Antonio
Anna 1951
as Vittorio
Black Crown 1951
as Mauricio
Double Cross 1951
as Renato Salvi
Il leone di Amalfi 1950
as Mauro
Lo sparviero del Nilo 1950
as Yussuf
The Outlaws 1950
as Turi
Streets of Sorrow 1950
as Giorgio Cantoni
Lure of the Sila 1949
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Bitter Rice 1949
as Walter
The Mysterious Rider 1948
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
L'ebreo errante 1948
as Mathieu Blumenthal
The Captain's Daughter 1947
as Svabrin
Shamed 1947
as Davide
Daniele Cortis 1947
as Daniele Cortis
The Adventures of Pinocchio 1947
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
- Incontro con Laura
Incontro con Laura 1945
as Franco
Credits from TMDB.