Vittorio Gassman
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1922-09-01
Deathday 2000-06-29 (77 years old)
Place of Birth Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Also Known As Vittorio Gassmann , Витторио Гассман, Вітторіо Ґассман, Витторио Гасман
Vittorio Gassman
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
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Don Vito Bracalone
as Self
as maestro Pezzullo
as Tareq
as Tareq
as King Benny
as Giuseppe
as Terah
as Terach
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
as The Sexologist
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Augusto Scribani
as Marquis
as Sinbad
as Sinbad
as Il principe
as Zio Luca
as Domenico
as Il padre / Sofocle
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
as Gottfried
as Self
as Livio
as Walter Guarini
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
as Alonzo
as Self
as Self
as Victor Scorelli
as Ciro Coppa
as Achille Mengaroni
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
as Mario
as Albino Millozza
as Saint Christopher
as Pippo Mifà
as Luigi Corelli
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
as Edipo
as Fabio Stolz
as Filimore
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
as Anthony M. Wilson
as Franco Denza
as Self
as Andrea Sansoni
as Self
as Self
as Gianni Perego
as Fausto Consolo
as Self
as Scarpia
as Guido Guidi
as Principe Donati
as Armando Zavanatti
as Self
as Lorenzo Santenocito
as Catone il Censore
as Self
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
as Leonardo Nenci
as Riccardo
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
as Mario Beretti
as Rufus Conforti
as Furio Bertuccia
as Vittorio
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
as Pietro Breccia
as Pasquale Lojacono
as Bob Chiaramonte
as Cenci
as Francesco Vincenzini
as Belfagor
as Bastiano da Sangallo
as Brancaleone da Norcia
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
as Lucio Ridolfi
as Perego / Ferrari
as Giuliano
as Marco Ravicchio
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
as Cap. Nardoni
as 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")
as Giulio Ceriani
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
as Domenico Rocchetti
as Bruno Cortona
as Adriano Zucchelli
as Self
as Sahak
as Self (uncredited)
as O Caporale
as Cimino
as Il Caparra
as Remo
as Gerardo Latini
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
as Michele
as Guido
as Giovanni Busacca
as Prosecutor
as Peppe il pantera
as Piero di Montalcino
as Edmund Kean
as Giovanni De Medici
as Giovanni Marchi
as Anatol Kuragin
as Prince Sergei
as Amleto
as Mario Rossi
as Paul Bronte
as Jory
as Alejandro Castillo
as Peter Kuban
as Michele
as Don Juan Antonio
as Vittorio
as Mauricio
as Renato Salvi
as Mauro
as Yussuf
as Turi
as Giorgio
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
as Walter
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
as Mathieu Blumenthal
as Svabrin
as Daniele Cortis
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Director
as Director
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as Director
Writer
as Writer
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as Story
as Screenplay
as Story
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