Vittorio Gassman
Acting
- Born:
- 1922-09-01
- Died:
- 2000-06-29
- Place of birth:
- 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
Known For
Filmography
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
We Are Cinema
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Trintignant by Trintignant
Morceaux de Cannes
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Còmics
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
Close Up
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Speaking with Gassman
Luchino Visconti
La bomba
The Dinner
Desert of Fire
Desert of Fire
Sleepers
In morte di Federico Fellini
Once a Year, Every Year
Abraham
Abraham
The Long Winter
Quando eravamo repressi
Rossini! Rossini!
I'll Be Going Now
The Amusements of Private Life
1001 Nights
The Palermo Connection
The Sleazy Uncle
Mortacci
L'altro enigma
I picari
The Family
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Power Of Evil
To Be Hamlet
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Benvenuta
Life Is a Bed of Roses
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
Count Tacchia
Tempest
Champs-Elysées
Di padre in figlio
Sharky's Machine
Il turno
Hotel Room
The Nude Bomb
I'm Photogenic
The Terrace
Dear Father
Quintet
Two Pieces of Bread
A Wedding
Ciné regards
The New Monsters
Edipo Re
Lost Soul
The Desert of the Tartars
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Pure as a Lily
The Career of a Chambermaid
The Apple of My Eye
Babau
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Midnight Pleasures
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Apostrophes
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Scent of a Woman
Spécial cinéma
La Tosca
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
The Audience
Without Family
Le Grand Échiquier
In the Name of the Italian People
Scipio the African
Samedi soir
Brancaleone at the Crusades
The Divorce
Let's Have a Riot
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
Twelve Plus One
Where Are You Going All Naked?
The Archangel
Alibi
The Black Sheep
The Prophet
Ghosts, Italian Style
Catch As Catch Can
Woman Times Seven
The Tiger and the Pussycat
The Devil in Love
Pleasant Nights
For Love and Gold
I Knew Her Well
A Maiden for the Prince
Snow Job
The Dirty Game
One Million Dollars
Il gaucho
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
Let's Talk About Women
Summer Frenzy
The Monsters
Il successo
The Eye of the Needle
Sex Can Be Difficult
March on Rome
Il Sorpasso
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Dark Soul
Barabbas
A Difficult Life
Seduction Of The South
The Last Judgment
Ghosts of Rome
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Love and Larceny
Fiasco in Milan
La cambiale
The Miracle
The Great War
Il mattatore
Tempest
Big Deal on Madonna Street
The Love Specialist
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
The Violent Patriot
Defend My Love
War and Peace
Beautiful But Dangerous
Amleto
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
Mambo
Rhapsody
Cry of the Hunted
Sombrero
The Glass Wall
Girls Marked Danger
The Dream of Zorro
Anna
Black Crown
Double Cross
Il leone di Amalfi
Lo sparviero del Nilo
The Outlaws
Streets of Sorrow
Lure of the Sila
Bitter Rice
The Mysterious Rider
L'ebreo errante
The Captain's Daughter
Shamed
Daniele Cortis
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Incontro con Laura