Vittorio Gassman
Acting
🎂 1922-09-01
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
Cast credits(156)
Self
1962
Self
1962
Self
1982
Self
1972
Self
1975
Self
1974
Self
1975
Self
1971
King Benny
1996
Francesco Vincenzini
1967
1976
Sahak
1961
Anatol Kuragin
1956
Peppe il pantera
1958
Victor Scorelli
1981
Gianni Perego
1974
Terach
1993
Bruno Cortona
1962
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
1980
Luigi Corelli
1978
Giovanni Busacca
1959
Walter
1949
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
Self (archive footage)
2015
Sinbad
1990
Tareq
1997
Terah
1994
Lorenzo Santenocito
1971
Filimore
1976
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
1987
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
1959
Brancaleone da Norcia
1966
Fausto Consolo
1974
Vittorio
1951
Prince Sergei
1955
Michele
1959
maestro Pezzullo
1998
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
Alonzo
1982
Brancaleone Da Norcia
1970
Mario
1980
Franco Denza
1976
Walter Guarini
1983
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2021
Domenico
1989
Cimino
1961
Il Caparra
1961
Bob Chiaramonte
1967
Peter Kuban
1953
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
1987
Mario Beretti
1969
Andrea Sansoni
1975
Prince Torquato Terenzi
1982
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
1977
Paul Bronte
1954
Perego / Ferrari
1965
Prosecutor
1958
Self (archive footage)
2012
Furio Bertuccia
1969
Cenci
1967
Alejandro Castillo
1953
Saint Christopher
1979
Il principe
1990
Giovanni Marchi
1956
Scarpia
1973
Fabio Stolz
1977
Achille Mengaroni
1981
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
1965
Self (archive footage)
2002
Domenico Rocchetti
1962
Self (uncredited)
1961
Marquis
1990
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
1980
Turi
1950
Peppe
1985
Zio Luca
1989
Guido
1959
Claudio, El Mayordomo
1992
Piero di Montalcino
1957
Marco Ravicchio
1964
Self (archive footage)
2021
Bastiano da Sangallo
1966
Rufus Conforti
1969
Pietro Breccia
1968
Guido Guidi
1972
O Caporale
1961
Anthony M. Wilson
1976
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
1976
Vittorio
1969
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
1964
Principe Donati
1972
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
1949
Adriano Zucchelli
1962
Pasquale Lojacono
1967
Don Vito Bracalone
1999
Gerardo Latini
1960
Self (archive footage)
2021
Belfagor
1966
Mario Rossi
1954
film festival participant
1976
Jory
1953
Ludwig van Beethoven
1991
Michele
1952
Edmund Kean
1957
Remo
1960
Giulio Ceriani
1963
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
1947
Tareq
1997
Livio
1983
Leonardo Nenci
1970
Renato Salvi
1951
Augusto Scribani
1991
Cap. Nardoni
1964
Giovanni De Medici
1956
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
1963
Self (archive footage)
2006
Self
1985
Riccardo
1970
Self (archive footage)
2021
Don Juan Antonio
1952
Lucio Ridolfi
1965
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
1968
Catone il Censore
1971
Svabrin
1947
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
1962
1945
Giuliano
1964
Albino Millozza
1979
Il padre / Sofocle
1988
Mauricio
1951
Self (archive footage)
2010
Ciro Coppa
1981
Armando Zavanatti
1972
Gottfried
1985
Edipo
1977
Self (archive footage)
2012
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
1948
Mathieu Blumenthal
1948
Mauro
1950
Self
1975
Sinbad
1990
Daniele Cortis
1947
Yussuf
1950
Self (archive footage)
2015
Pippo Mifà
1979
Giuseppe
1994
The Sexologist
1992
Giorgio
1950
Self
2018
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
1970
Self
2007
Self
1982
Amleto
1955
Self
2015
Edmund Kean
1955
1946