Ben Gazzara

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-08-28

Deathday 2012-02-03 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Бен Газзара, Biagio Anthony Gazzarra

Ben Gazzara

Biography

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.    

Known For

Actor

2023
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour

as Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)

2013
PUPETTA, WOMAN OF HONOR

as Don Otello Di Bella

2011
Chez Gino

as Oncle Giovanni

2010
Christopher Roth

as Paul Andersen

2010
13

as Schlondorff

2009
Holy Money

as Vatican's Banker

2008
Eve

as Joe

2008
2008
Looking for Palladin

as Jack Palladin

2007
Donne sbagliate

as Franco Maresco

2006
2006
Paris Je T'aime

as Ben (Quartier Latin)

2006
Quiet Flows the Don

as Secretov tábornok

2006
L'onore e il rispetto

as Don Fred Di Venanzio

2005
Pope John Paul II

as Card. Agostino Casaroli

2005
Bonjour Michel

as michele Terranova

2005
Pope John Paul II

as Kardinal Agostino Casaroli

2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)

2004
The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

2003
Dogville

as Jack McKay

2003
L'ospite segreto

as Ispettore di Polizia Solomos

2001
Brian's Song

as Coach Halas

2000
Jack of Hearts

as Batossa

2000
The List

as D.A. Bernard Salman

2000
Nella terra di nessuno

as L'avvocato Scalzi

2000
Shark in a Bottle

as The Arranger

2000
Very Mean Men

as Gino Minetti

2000
Blue Moon

as Frank Cavallo

2000
Poor Liza

as The Narrator

2000
1999
The Thomas Crown Affair

as Andrew Wallace

1999
Summer of Sam

as Luigi

1999
Paradise Cove

as Duke Mantee

1998
Happiness

as Lenny Jordan

1998
Il tesoro di Damasco

as Gregorio Kos

1998
Angelo Nero

as Padre Guelfi

1998
Illuminata

as Old Flavio

1998
The Big Lebowski

as Jackie Treehorn

1998
Buffalo '66

as Jimmy Brown

1998
Too Tired to Die

as John Sage

1998
Valentine's Day

as Joe Buddha

1997
1997
Stag

as Frank Grieco

1997
Shadow Conspiracy

as Vicepresident Saxon

1997
Farmer & Chase

as Farmer

1997
1996
Ladykiller

as Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky

1995
The Zone

as Dick Althorp

1995
Convict Cowboy

as Warden Ferguson

1995
Bandits

as Amos

1994
Parallel Lives

as Charlie Duke

1994
1993
1993
Blindsided

as Ira Gold

1991
Forever

as Marcelo

1991
Lies Before Kisses

as Grant Sanders

1990
People Like Us

as Gus Bailey

1990
Beyond the Ocean

as John Tana

1989
Quicker Than the Eye

as Ben Norell

1989
Road House

as Brad Wesley

1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1988
Don Bosco

as Don Giovanni Bosco

1987
1987
Control

as Mike Zella

1987
Downpayment on Murder

as Harry Cardell

1986
The Professor

as Il Professore

1986
Bitter Champagne

as Paul Rivière

1985
A Letter to Three Wives

as Porter Holloway

1985
My Dearest Son

as Antonio Morelli

1985
Woman of Wonders

as Alberto

1985
An Early Frost

as Nick Pierson

1984
Uno scandalo perbene

as The man with no memory

1982
The Girl from Trieste

as Dino Romani

1982
A Question of Honor

as Detective Joe DeFalco

1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1981
1981
They All Laughed

as John Russo

1981
Tales of Ordinary Madness

as Charles Serking

1981
Inchon

as Maj. Frank Hallsworth

1979
Bloodline

as Rhys Williams

1979
Saint Jack

as Jack Flowers

1977
Opening Night

as Manny Victor

1977
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

as Anson 'Kip' Roberts

1977
The Death of Richie

as George Werner

1976
Voyage of the Damned

as Morris Troper

1976
1975
Capone

as Al Capone

1974
QB VII

as Abe Cady

1973
Maneater

as Nick Baron

1973
The Neptune Factor

as Cmdr. Adrian Blake

1972
The Sicilian Connection

as Joseph Coppola

1972
Pursuit

as Steven Graves

1972
The Family Rico

as Eddie Rico

1972
Fireball Forward

as Maj. Gen Joe Barrett

1972
When Michael Calls

as Doremus Connelly

1970
Husbands

as Harry

1969
The Bridge at Remagen

as Sgt. Angelo

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1965
A Rage to Live

as Roger Bannon

1965
Run for Your Life

as Paul Bryan

1963
1963
Arrest and Trial

as Detective Sergeant Nick Anderson

1962
Conquered City

as Captain George Stubbs

1962
Convicts 4

as John Resko

1961
The Young Doctors

as Dr. David Coleman

1961
The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

1959
Anatomy of a Murder

as Lt. Frederick Manion

1958
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

as Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")

1957
The Strange One

as Jocko de Paris

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

Director

1990
Beyond the Ocean

as Director

1971
Columbo

as Director

1968
1965
Run for Your Life

as Director

Writer

1990