Vittorio Gassman

Acting · 1.5 popularity

Age

103

Movies

149

Born: September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000
From: Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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

Works

149 films

Sleepers

19967.6

We All Loved Each Other So Much

19748.3

War and Peace

19566.6

Barabbas

19616.9

Il Sorpasso

19628.2

Big Deal on Madonna Street

19588.1

Scent of a Woman

19747.4

1001 Nights

19905.2

The Nude Bomb

19805.3

Sharky's Machine

19816.2

To Be Hamlet

1985

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

19766.7

Woman Times Seven

19676.3

Abraham

19937.1

Seduction Of The South

19615.3

The Desert of the Tartars

19766.8

For Love and Gold

19667.7

Streets of Sorrow

19507.0

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

19606.5

The Amusements of Private Life

19904.0

I Knew Her Well

19657.4

Double Cross

19516.7

The Great War

19598.1

Life Is a Bed of Roses

19835.8

Brancaleone at the Crusades

19707.2

Mambo

19545.4

I picari

19875.5

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

19855.3

The Monsters

19637.4

Bitter Rice

19497.5

A Wedding

19786.3

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

20217.0

La bomba

19995.7

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

20106.2

Dear Father

19796.5

Trintignant by Trintignant

20216.8

Close Up

20129.5

Quintet

19795.1

A Difficult Life

19618.0

The Tiger and the Pussycat

19676.8

The Last Judgment

19616.5

Rossini! Rossini!

19916.2

Tempest

19825.9

The Family

19877.5

The Devil in Love

19665.8

Beautiful But Dangerous

19555.9

In the Name of the Italian People

19717.2

The Dinner

19986.9

Sombrero

19534.3

Lost Soul

19776.7

Love and Larceny

19607.2

The Dirty Game

19656.0

The Terrace

19807.2

The Miracle

19596.7

The Glass Wall

19535.3

Midnight Pleasures

19755.7

The Divorce

19706.8

Ghosts of Rome

19617.3

March on Rome

19627.5

I'm Photogenic

19805.3

Let's Have a Riot

19707.1

Summer Frenzy

19645.9

The New Monsters

19777.0

Fiasco in Milan

19596.9

In morte di Federico Fellini

1994

I'll Be Going Now

19916.2

We Are Cinema

20219.5

Cry of the Hunted

19536.1

Hotel Room

19815.8

Mortacci

19896.8

Twelve Plus One

19695.3

The Career of a Chambermaid

19765.0

Lure of the Sila

19496.1

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

20125.5

Pure as a Lily

19764.0

Anna

19517.3

Deneuve, la reine Catherine

20227.8

Rhapsody

19546.6

Tempest

19586.5

Defend My Love

19569.0

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

2015

Let's Talk About Women

19646.3

The Audience

19726.5

Pleasant Nights

19666.6

The Archangel

19697.0

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

19577.3

Ghosts, Italian Style

19676.2

Without Family

19727.3

The Prophet

19685.4

The Captain's Daughter

19477.7

The Black Sheep

19686.2

The Sleazy Uncle

19896.0

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian

20156.6

Scipio the African

19716.8

The Love Specialist

19576.3

The Mysterious Rider

19484.7

The Eye of the Needle

19637.5

A Maiden for the Prince

19656.1

Benvenuta

19836.2

The Long Winter

19925.4

The Palermo Connection

19906.2

La cambiale

19596.6

André Delvaux directs Benvenuta

1983

Il gaucho

19646.8

Count Tacchia

19826.1

Il turno

198110.0

Girls Marked Danger

19525.7

The Dream of Zorro

19526.8

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

20067.0

La Tosca

19737.2

Desert of Fire

19978.4

Power Of Evil

19855.2

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?

19725.5

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

20217.3

Lo sparviero del Nilo

19504.8

Sex Can Be Difficult

19626.3

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

20189.0

Luchino Visconti

20027.0

Il successo

19636.4

Catch As Catch Can

19676.2

Dark Soul

19625.4

L'ebreo errante

194810.0

The Violent Patriot

19566.0

Incontro con Laura

194510.0

The Adventures of Pinocchio

19476.0

Snow Job

19656.3

Alibi

19696.0

One Million Dollars

19646.1

Where Are You Going All Naked?

19695.0

Black Crown

19515.4

Shakespeare secondo Gassman

1964

Il leone di Amalfi

19509.0

Two Pieces of Bread

19796.5

Once a Year, Every Year

19949.0

Edipo Re

1977

Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

1955

E il Casanova di Fellini?

197510.0

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

1970

Daniele Cortis

19479.0

Amleto

19557.8

The Outlaws

19506.5

Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne

2007

L'altro enigma

19889.0

The Apple of My Eye

1976

Shamed

1947

Speaking with Gassman

2005

Di padre in figlio

19826.0

Quando eravamo repressi

19927.0