Person Details

Birthday: 1930-08-28 21:00:52

Death: 2012-02-03 21:00:52

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 102

TV Involvements: 14


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Gazzara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Most Famous Work

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Average
8
What's My Line?
Average
7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Run for Your Life
Average
7

Run for Your Life

(1965) Paul Bryan
The Thomas Crown Affair
Average
7

The Thomas Crown Affair

(1999) Andrew Wallace
Tony Awards
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6

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Nominee
Dogville
Average
8

Dogville

(2003) Jack McKay
Kraft Suspense Theatre
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5

Kraft Suspense Theatre

(1963) Paul Bryan
Anatomy of a Murder
Average
8

Anatomy of a Murder

(1959) Lt. Frederick Manion

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)
2021 Self
2014 Self
Self
2012 N/A
2011 Oncle Giovanni
2010 Paul Andersen
N/A
Schlondorff
2009 Vatican's Banker
Self
2008 Joe
Paulie Genovese
Jack Palladin
N/A
2007 Self
Franco Maresco
2006 Secretov
Secretov tábornok
Don Fred Di Venanzio
Ben (Quartier Latin)
2005 Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
N/A
michele Terranova
2004 Self - Guest
Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)
Himself
2003 Jack McKay
Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
Self
2002 Nick
2001 N/A
Coach Halas
2000 Batossa
D.A. Bernard Salman
L'avvocato Scalzi
N/A
Jim
The Arranger
Gino Minetti
N/A
Frank Cavallo
Self
The Narrator
1999 E.A.D.A.
Andrew Wallace
Luigi
Duke Mantee
1998 Lenny Jordan
Gregorio Kos
Self
Padre Guelfi
Old Flavio
Jackie Treehorn
Jimmy Brown
John Sage
Joe Buddha
1997 Mr. Klein
Frank Grieco
Vicepresident Saxon
Farmer
March
1996 Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
Self
1995 Dick Althorp
Warden Ferguson
1994 Charlie Duke
Moshe
Amenophis III
1993 Self
Joseph Bonanno
Ira Gold
1991 Marcelo
Grant Sanders
1990 Gus Bailey
John Tana
1989 Ben Norell
Brad Wesley
Himself
1988 Self (archive footage)
Don Giovanni Bosco
1987 Capt. Tom Wright
Mike Zella
Harry Cardell
1986 Il Professore
Paul Rivière
1985 Porter Holloway
Antonio Morelli
Alberto
Nick Pierson
Self
1984 The man with no memory
1982 Dino Romani
Maj. Frank Hallsworth
Detective Joe DeFalco
Self (archive footage)
1981 Self
John Russo
Charles Serking
1979 Rhys Williams
Jack Flowers
1977 Manny Victor
Anson 'Kip' Roberts
George Werner
1976 Morris Troper
N/A
Cosmo Vittelli
1975 Al Capone
1974 Abe Cady
1973 Nick Baron
Cmdr. Adrian Blake
1972 Joseph Coppola
Steven Graves
Eddie Rico
Maj. Gen Joe Barrett
Doremus Connelly
1971 Self
1970 Harry
1969 Self (archive footage)
Sgt. Angelo
Card Player
1968 Self - Guest
1965 Roger Bannon
Paul Bryan
1964 Fred
1963 Paul Bryan
Sidney
Detective Sergeant Nick Anderson
1962 Captain George Stubbs
John Resko
1961 Dr. David Coleman
1960 Lello
1959 Lt. Frederick Manion
1958 Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
1957 Jocko de Paris
1956 Self - Nominee
1950 Self - Mystery Guest
Self - Panelist
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1990 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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