Person Details

Birthday: 1921-08-15 04:11:01

Death: 1989-10-02 04:11:01

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Napoli, Campania, Italia

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Movie Involvements: 43

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. 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.

Most Famous Work

Love & Passion
Average
5

Love & Passion

(1987) Don Vincenzo
General Della Rovere
Average
8

General Della Rovere

(1959) Aristide Banchelli
The Boss
Average
7

The Boss

(1973) Questore
Cinderella '80
Average
7

Cinderella '80

(1984) Harry Cardone
Tout Va Bien
Average
7

Tout Va Bien

(1972) Factory Manager
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Average
7

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

(1981) Maresciallo Angrisani
Kidnap Syndicate
Average
7

Kidnap Syndicate

(1975) Commissar Magrini
Shoot First, Die Later
Average
7

Shoot First, Die Later

(1974) Esposito

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1990 Psicanalista
1988 Il cuoco
Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
1987 mozzafiato
il monsignore (2° episodio)
Don Vincenzo
1984 Renzo
Harry Cardone
1983 Pitalugue
1982 conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
1981 Maresciallo Angrisani
Il professore
1980 Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Improta, un borsaiolo
Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
1979 Vincenzo
1978 Nazariota
Commissario Russo
1977 Mazzone
Claudius
Benjamin Bronchi
don Carmine
1976 Vinchenzo Napoli
Vittorio, aubergiste (Relais de la Cigalle, déchu par Duchemin)
Onorevole Vincenzi
Barbone
1975 Moretti
Herod the Great
Commissar Magrini
Fefe Mottola
Commissario Pafuso
Padre
1974 Le metteur en scène
Esposito
N/A
Vincenzo Niscemi
Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
il ministro
1973 Georges Charron / Karpof
Il Ciancia
Cutica
Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Onorevole Pedicò
Le Juré Mangiavacca
Questore
Salvatore
1972 Nero
Ser Cecco
Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Factory Manager
Menalao
1971 Father Ernesto
Giggetto
Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
Gran Profe
Er Cinese
1970 Luis (uncredited)
Messer Anticoli
Bambola di Pechino
1968 Il Libraio
Spinelli
1967 Billy 'Pizza'
Dieb
Settimo
Don Pippo Matara
1966 Playboy
Silvio Sasselli
Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Finizio, Politician
1965 Marchese Liginio
Il poeta
1964 Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Matteuccio
The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
1963 Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
1962 Avallone
Pachala
Il Professore
1961 Giugiú
commissario
1960 Trouscaillon
Sergio
1959 Aristide Banchelli
Pino Calamari
Attilio
Jourdain
1955 Vittorio
1954 paroliere amico di Luigino
Raffaele
1953 The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
Pierra
1952 il marito di Mariantonia
Il tenore balbuziente
1951 (uncredited)
Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
1950 Night Club Comic
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing


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