Vittorio Caprioli

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-08-15

Deathday 1989-10-02 (68 years old)

Place of Birth Napoli, Campania, Italia

Vittorio Caprioli

Biography

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

Known For

Actor

1990
Dark Illness

as Psicanalista

1988
Taste of Life

as Il cuoco

1988
L'ultima scena

as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia

1987
I picari

as mozzafiato

1987
Stuff for the Rich

as il monsignore (2° episodio)

1987
Love & Passion

as Don Vincenzo

1984
Cinderella '80

as Harry Cardone

1983
Petomaniac

as Pitalugue

1982
Più bello di così si muore

as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo

1981
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

as Maresciallo Angrisani

1981
Before It's Too Early

as Il professore

1980
Umbrella Coup

as Don Barberini, mafioso italien

1980
Cafè Express

as Carmelo Improta

1980
Leap Into the Void

as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)

1979
Hypochondriac

as Vincenzo

1978
To Be Twenty

as Nazariota

1978
Blood and Diamonds

as Commissario Russo

1977
La Presidentessa

as Mazzone

1977
1977
The Rip-Off

as Benjamin Bronchi

1977
Latin Male Wanted

as don Carmine

1976
Rulers of the City

as Vinchenzo Napoli

1976
The Wing or the Thigh?

as Vittorio, aubergiste (Relais de la Cigalle, déchu par Duchemin)

1976
The Groper

as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli

1976
The Landlords

as Onorevole Vincenzi

1976
Blackmail Chase

as Barbone

1975
The Barons

as Padre

1975
Catherine & Co.

as Moretti

1975
The Messiah

as Herod the Great

1975
Kidnap Syndicate

as Commissar Magrini

1975
The School Teacher

as Fefe Mottola

1975
L'ammazzatina

as Commissario Pafuso

1974
Erotomania

as il ministro

1974
I'm Losing My Temper

as Le metteur en scène

1974
1974
Innocence and Desire

as Vincenzo Niscemi

1974
The Governess

as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore

1973
The Magnificent One

as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov

1973
The Sensual Man

as Salvatore

1973
Io e lui

as Cutica

1973
La colonna infame

as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza

1973
Giovannona Long-Thigh

as Onorevole Pedicò

1973
A Full Day's Work

as Le Juré Mangiavacca

1973
The Boss

as Questore

1972
Tout Va Bien

as Factory Manager

1972
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?

as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre

1972
1971
Trastevere

as Father Ernesto

1971
The Automobile

as Giggetto

1971
Roma bene

as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis

1970
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell

as Luis (uncredited)

1970
On the Day of the Lord

as Messer Anticoli

1970
1968
The Libertine

as Il Libraio

1967
Death on the Run

as Billy 'Pizza'

1967
1967
Soldier's Girl

as Settimo

1967
Assicurasi vergine

as Don Pippo Matara

1966
Adultery Italian Style

as Silvio Sasselli

1966
Ischia operazione amore

as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo

1966
Me, Me, Me... and the Others

as Finizio, Politician

1965
A Maiden for the Prince

as Marchese Liginio

1965
1964
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing

as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")

1964
Easy Love

as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")

1964
White Voices

as Matteuccio

1964
The Maniacs

as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")

1963
The Shortest Day

as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)

1962
Paris, My Love

as Avallone

1962
Adieu Philippine

as Pachala

1962
1961
Leoni al sole

as Giugiú

1961
A porte chiuse

as commissario

1960
Zazie dans le Métro

as Trouscaillon

1960
1959
General Della Rovere

as Aristide Banchelli

1959
You're on Your Own

as Pino Calamari

1959
The Law

as Attilio

1959
1955
1954
Neapolitan Carousel

as paroliere amico di Luigino

1954
1953
It Happened in the Park

as The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)

1953
Eager to Live

as Pierra

1952
Times Gone By

as il marito di Mariantonia

1952
Totó in color

as Il tenore balbuziente

1951
Paris Is Always Paris

as (uncredited)

1951
Utopia

as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien

1950
Variety Lights

as Night Club Comic

Writer

1983
1983
Neapolitan Story

as Screenplay

1973
1968
1963
I cuori infranti

as Screenplay

1963
1962
Paris, My Love

as Screenplay

1962
1961
Leoni al sole

as Writer

Director

1983
Neapolitan Story

as Director

1975
1968
1963
I cuori infranti

as Director

1962
Paris, My Love

as Director

1961
Leoni al sole

as Director