Sleepers1996
As King Benny
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Vittorio Gassman
Born
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 (149)
We All Loved Each Other So Much1974
As Gianni Perego
TMDb 8.3 / 10
War and Peace1956
As Anatol Kuragin
TMDb 6.6 / 10
1001 Nights1990
As Sinbad
TMDb 5.2 / 10
La bomba1999
As Don Vito Bracalone
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Monsters1963
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")
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Woman Times Seven1967
As Cenci
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Sharky's Machine1981
As Victor Scorelli
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Il Sorpasso1962
As Bruno Cortona
TMDb 8.2 / 10
Life Is a Bed of Roses1983
As Walter Guarini
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Big Deal on Madonna Street1958
As Peppe il pantera
TMDb 8.1 / 10
Dear Father1979
As Albino Millozza
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Barabbas1961
As Sahak
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Nude Bomb1980
As Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Scent of a Woman1974
As Fausto Consolo
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Abraham1993
As Terach
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Great War1959
As Giovanni Busacca
TMDb 8.1 / 10
Double Cross1951
As Renato Salvi
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Bitter Rice1949
As Walter
TMDb 7.5 / 10
I picari1987
As Marquis Felipe de Aragona
TMDb 5.5 / 10
For Love and Gold1966
As Brancaleone da Norcia
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Love and Larceny1960
As Gerardo Latini
TMDb 7.2 / 10
...And Suddenly It's Murder!1960
As Remo
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Terrace1980
As Mario Dorazio
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel1957
As Edmund Kean
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained2021
As Self - Actor (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The New Monsters1977
As il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Streets of Sorrow1950
As Giorgio Cantoni
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Dinner1998
As Maestro Pezzullo
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Lost Soul1977
As Fabio Stolz
TMDb 6.7 / 10
I Knew Her Well1965
As Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Mambo1954
As Mario Rossi
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Desert of the Tartars1976
As Filimore
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen1976
As Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Tempest1982
As Alonzo
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Quintet1979
As Saint Christopher
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The Tiger and the Pussycat1967
As Francesco Vincenzini
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later1985
As Peppe
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Let's Talk About Women1964
As Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Seduction Of The South1961
As O Caporale
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Morceaux de Cannes2021
TMDb 2.0 / 10
Beautiful But Dangerous1955
As Prince Sergei
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Dirty Game1965
As Perego / Ferrari
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Ghosts, Italian Style1967
As Pasquale Lojacono
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza1955
As Edmund Kean
I'm Photogenic1980
As Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Trintignant by Trintignant2021
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Family1987
As Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
TMDb 7.5 / 10
A Wedding1978
As Luigi Corelli
TMDb 6.3 / 10
We Are Cinema2021
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 9.5 / 10
Brancaleone at the Crusades1970
As Brancaleone Da Norcia
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Tempest1958
As Prosecutor
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Sombrero1953
As Alejandro Castillo
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Let's Have a Riot1970
As Riccardo
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Rossini! Rossini!1991
As Ludwig van Beethoven
TMDb 6.2 / 10
A Difficult Life1961
As Self
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Cry of the Hunted1953
As Jory
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Career of a Chambermaid1976
As Franco Denza
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Miracle1959
As Guido
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Devil in Love1966
As Belfagor
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Twelve Plus One1969
As Mario Beretti
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Summer Frenzy1964
As Cap. Nardoni
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Divorce1970
As Leonardo Nenci
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Mortacci1989
As Domenico
TMDb 6.8 / 10
In morte di Federico Fellini1994
In the Name of the Italian People1971
As Lorenzo Santenocito
TMDb 7.2 / 10
One Million Dollars1964
As Giuliano
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Palermo Connection1990
As Il principe
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Benvenuta1983
As Livio
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Desert of Fire1997
As Tareq
TMDb 8.4 / 10
Rhapsody1954
As Paul Bronte
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Audience1972
As Principe Donati
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Anna1951
As Vittorio
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Close Up2012
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 9.5 / 10
The Love Specialist1957
As Piero di Montalcino
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Dream of Zorro1952
As Don Juan Antonio
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Hotel Room1981
As Achille Mengaroni
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant2015
As Self
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta1983
As Self
Dark Soul1962
As Adriano Zucchelli
TMDb 5.4 / 10
La Tosca1973
As Scarpia
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Without Family1972
As Armando Zavanatti
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Ghosts of Rome1961
As Il Caparra
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Il gaucho1964
As Marco Ravicchio
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds2006
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Last Judgment1961
As Cimino
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Catch As Catch Can1967
As Bob Chiaramonte
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Captain's Daughter1947
As Svabrin
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Fiasco in Milan1959
As Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Prophet1968
As Pietro Breccia
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Pleasant Nights1966
As Bastiano da Sangallo
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Long Winter1992
As Claudio, El Mayordomo
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Archangel1969
As Furio Bertuccia
TMDb 7.0 / 10
I'll Be Going Now1991
As Augusto Scribani
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Amusements of Private Life1990
As Marquis
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Black Sheep1968
As Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Pure as a Lily1976
As Anthony M. Wilson
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Quando eravamo repressi1992
As The Sexologist
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Sleazy Uncle1989
As Zio Luca
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Midnight Pleasures1975
As Andrea Sansoni
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore2010
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Lure of the Sila1949
As Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
To Be Hamlet1985
As Self
The Glass Wall1953
As Peter Kuban
TMDb 5.3 / 10
March on Rome1962
As Domenico Rocchetti
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Deneuve, la reine Catherine2022
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Luchino Visconti2002
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Girls Marked Danger1952
As Michele
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Count Tacchia1982
As Prince Torquato Terenzi
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Alibi1969
As Vittorio
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia2018
As Self
TMDb 8.3 / 10
L'ebreo errante1948
As Mathieu Blumenthal
TMDb 10.0 / 10
A Maiden for the Prince1965
As Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Snow Job1965
As Lucio Ridolfi
TMDb 6.3 / 10
La cambiale1959
As Michele
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Two Pieces of Bread1979
As Pippo Mifà
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Violent Patriot1956
As Giovanni De Medici
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Defend My Love1956
As Giovanni Marchi
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Sex Can Be Difficult1962
As L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Outlaws1950
As Turi
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Power Of Evil1985
As Gottfried
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Il leone di Amalfi1950
As Mauro
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian2015
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Once a Year, Every Year1994
As Giuseppe
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Scipio the African1971
As Catone il Censore
TMDb 6.8 / 10
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?1972
As Guido Guidi
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth1970
As L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
The Apple of My Eye1976
As film festival participant
Black Crown1951
As Mauricio
TMDb 5.4 / 10
L'altro enigma1988
As Il padre / Sofocle
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Monicelli: La versione di Mario2012
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 5.5 / 10
E il Casanova di Fellini?1975
As Self
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Daniele Cortis1947
As Daniele Cortis
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Il successo1963
As Giulio Ceriani
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Shamed1947
As Davide
Il turno1981
As Ciro Coppa
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Where Are You Going All Naked?1969
As Rufus Conforti
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Lo sparviero del Nilo1950
As Yussuf
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Shakespeare secondo Gassman1964
The Adventures of Pinocchio1947
As Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Mysterious Rider1948
As Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Di padre in figlio1982
As Self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita2021
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Speaking with Gassman2005
The Eye of the Needle1963
As Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Incontro con Laura
Incontro con Laura1945
As Franco
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Edipo Re1977
As Edipo
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne2007
As Self
Amleto1955
As Amleto
TMDb 7.8 / 10
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