Lino Ventura

Acting · 1.3 popularity

Age

107

Movies

Born: July 13, 1919 – October 22, 1987
From: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

93 films

Elevator to the Gallows

19587.6

The Mask of the Gorilla

19586.1

The Sicilian Clan

19697.6

Army of Shadows

19697.9

The Great Spy Chase

19646.8

The Slap

19746.6

The Valachi Papers

19726.5

The Medusa Touch

19786.8

The Cage

19756.0

Marie-Octobre

19597.3

Les Misérables

19827.0

The Inquisitor

19817.5

The Big Risk

19607.0

Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle

1966

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

19625.7

Way of Youth

19596.2

Razzia

19556.7

Spy, Stand Up

19827.2

Le Deuxième Souffle

19667.7

The Last Adventure

19676.9

Cloportes

19656.3

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

19547.2

L'Homme en colère

19795.6

At the End of the Day

20245.9

The French Detective

19756.7

A Pain in the Ass

19737.0

Happy New Year

19737.3

Maigret Sets a Trap

19587.0

The Threepenny Opera

19635.8

Crooks in Clover

19637.7

The Silent One

19737.3

Last Known Address

19707.3

The Beast Is Loose

19596.3

Greed in the Sun

19647.1

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

20229.0

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

20227.2

The Wise Guys

19657.9

Far West

19736.5

Taxi for Tobruk

19617.1

The Last Judgment

19616.5

Rum Runners

19714.7

The Seventh Target

19846.0

The Lovers of Montparnasse

19586.9

Illustrious Corpses

19766.7

Money Money Money

19726.7

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

20197.7

The Ruffian

19836.3

Witness in the City

19596.3

Aznavour by Charles

20196.9

Crime and Punishment

19567.0

Sunday Lovers

19805.8

Three Days to Live

19585.4

Butterfly on the Shoulder

19785.9

Speaking of Murder

19576.4

Law of the Streets

19567.5

Let's Not Get Angry

19667.5

125 rue Montmartre

19597.5

The French

19827.2

Sword of Gideon

19866.6

Three Tough Guys

19745.1

One Hundred Days in Palermo

19846.9

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

20177.0

Dishonorable Discharge

19575.7

Girl in the Window

19616.1

Fantasia Among the Squares

19715.0

La Rumba

19875.3

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

20027.7

Twelve Hours by the Clock

19594.4

Birds of Prey

19686.6

The Right of the Maddest

19736.4

Carmen di Trastevere

19628.0

Lino Ventura, la part intime

20187.9

Hitch-Hike

19626.1

To Skin a Spy

19665.8

Bacri, comme un air de famille

20227.6

The Dictator's Guns

19656.1

Burning Fuse

19574.8

Deux Romains en Gaule

19677.0

Black City

19617.7

To Catch a Spy

19576.0

Pensione Edelweiss

19595.3

Mistress of the World - Part II

19605.0

The Lions Are Loose

19616.0

Emile's Boat

19626.6

Weeping for a Bandit

19645.8

Code Name: Melville

20106.7

The Strange Mr. Steve

19575.4

Mistress of the World - Part I

19606.8

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres

2011

Lino, il n'était que lui-même

20126.0

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

19645.4

Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs

20107.3

Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme

2017