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Aliases: Vittorio Gassmann , Витторио Гассман , Вітторіо Ґассман , Витторио Гасман
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 78
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
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
Most Famous Work
Sleepers
(1996) King BennyLe Grand Échiquier
(1972) SelfWar and Peace
(1956) Anatol KuraginBarabbas
(1961) SahakBitter Rice
(1949) WalterAbraham
(1993) TerachSharky's Machine
(1981) Victor ScorelliThe Desert of the Tartars
(1976) FilimoreActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
Self (archive footage) | ||
Self (archive footage) | ||
2018 | Self | |
2015 | Self | |
2014 | Self | |
2012 | Self (archive footage) | |
Self (archive footage) | ||
2010 | Self (archive footage) | |
2007 | Self | |
2006 | Self (archive footage) | |
1999 | Don Vito Bracalone | |
Self | ||
1998 | maestro Pezzullo | |
1997 | Tareq | |
Tareq | ||
1996 | King Benny | |
1994 | Giuseppe | |
1993 | Terach | |
1992 | Claudio, El Mayordomo | |
The Sexologist | ||
1991 | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
Augusto Scribani | ||
1990 | Marquis | |
Sinbad | ||
Il principe | ||
1989 | Zio Luca | |
Domenico | ||
1988 | Il padre / Sofocle | |
1987 | Marquis Felipe de Aragona | |
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather | ||
1985 | Peppe | |
Gottfried | ||
Vittorio Gassman | ||
1983 | Livio | |
Walter Guarini | ||
1982 | Prince Torquato Terenzi | |
Alonzo | ||
Self | ||
Self | ||
1981 | Victor Scorelli | |
Ciro Coppa | ||
Achille Mengaroni | ||
1980 | Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani | |
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited) | ||
Mario | ||
1979 | Albino Millozza | |
Saint Christopher | ||
Pippo Mifà | ||
1978 | Luigi Corelli | |
1977 | il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia | |
N/A | ||
Fabio Stolz | ||
1976 | Filimore | |
CIA agent / Tuttumpezzo | ||
Anthony M. Wilson | ||
Franco Denza | ||
N/A | ||
1975 | Self | |
Andrea Sansoni | ||
Self | ||
Self | ||
1974 | Gianni Perego | |
Fausto Consolo | ||
1973 | Scarpia | |
1972 | Guido Guidi | |
Principe Donati | ||
Armando Zavanatti | ||
Self | ||
1971 | Lorenzo Santenocito | |
Catone il Censore | ||
Self | ||
1970 | Brancaleone Da Norcia | |
Leonardo Nenci | ||
Riccardo | ||
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca | ||
1969 | Mario Beretti | |
Rufus Conforti | ||
Furio Bertuccia | ||
Vittorio | ||
1968 | Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti | |
Pietro Breccia | ||
1967 | Pasquale Lojacono | |
Bob Chiaramonte | ||
Cenci | ||
Francesco Vincenzini | ||
1966 | Belfagor | |
Bastiano da Sangallo | ||
Brancaleone da Norcia | ||
1965 | Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga | ||
Lucio Ridolfi | ||
Perego / Ferrari | ||
1964 | Giuliano | |
Marco Ravicchio | ||
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero | ||
Cap. Nardoni | ||
1963 | 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") | |
Giulio Ceriani | ||
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer | ||
1962 | L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro") | |
Domenico Rocchetti | ||
Bruno Cortona | ||
Self | ||
Self | ||
Adriano Zucchelli | ||
1961 | Sahak | |
Self (uncredited) | ||
O Caporale | ||
Cimino | ||
Il Caparra | ||
1960 | Remo | |
Gerardo Latini | ||
1959 | Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi | |
Michele | ||
Guido | ||
Giovanni Busacca | ||
1958 | Prosecutor | |
Peppe il pantera | ||
1957 | Piero di Montalcino | |
Edmund Kean | ||
1956 | Giovanni De Medici | |
Giovanni Marchi | ||
Anatol Kuragin | ||
1955 | Prince Sergei | |
Amleto | ||
1954 | Mario Rossi | |
Paul Bronte | ||
1953 | Jory | |
Alejandro Castillo | ||
Peter Kuban | ||
1952 | Michele | |
Don Juan Antonio | ||
1951 | Vittorio | |
Mauricio | ||
Renato Salvi | ||
1950 | N/A | |
Yussuf | ||
Turi | ||
Giorgio | ||
1949 | Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann) | |
Walter | ||
1948 | Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt | |
Mathieu Blumenthal | ||
1947 | Svabrin | |
Daniele Cortis | ||
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde | ||
1946 | N/A | |
1945 | N/A | |
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1988 | Director | |
1982 | Director | |
1977 | Director | |
1972 | Director | |
1969 | Director | |
1957 | Director | |
1955 | Director | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1988 | Writer | |
1982 | Writer | |
1972 | Story | |
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1969 | Story | |
Screenplay | ||
1957 | Screenplay | |
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