Vittorio Caprioli

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

104

Movies

103

Born: August 15, 1921 – October 2, 1989
From: Napoli, Campania, Italia

Biography

Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

103 films

To Be Twenty

19785.8

The School Teacher

19755.5

Cinderella '80

19847.0

The Wing or the Thigh?

19767.2

The Magnificent One

19737.0

How I Learned to Love Women

19664.8

Adieu Philippine

19626.9

Love & Passion

19875.2

Innocence and Desire

19744.7

Giovannona Long-Thigh

19735.9

The Libertine

19685.3

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

20228.2

It Happened in the Park

19536.5

Zazie dans le Métro

19606.6

I picari

19875.5

Messalina, Messalina!

19774.2

Umbrella Coup

19806.9

I'm Losing My Temper

19746.0

General Della Rovere

19597.5

The Shortest Day

19636.4

The Sensual Man

19735.9

Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell

19704.7

White Voices

19644.8

A porte chiuse

19616.5

Rulers of the City

19766.4

Times Gone By

19525.2

The Boss

19736.8

Tout Va Bien

19726.6

Variety Lights

19506.9

Le rose et le blanc

198210.0

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

19666.2

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?

19726.4

When Women Were Called Virgins

19725.6

Recourse in Grace

19604.5

Blood and Diamonds

19786.6

The Messiah

19756.6

Paris, My Love

19625.9

Grazie tante arrivederci

197710.0

The Story of Romance and Knife

19715.7

Stuff for the Rich

19875.2

Robinson Crusoeland

19515.6

Neapolitan Carousel

19546.5

Roma bene

19716.0

The Law

19595.9

Aida

19535.4

His Days Are Numbered

19627.1

The Maniacs

19645.0

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

The Anatomy of Love

19546.4

Adultery Italian Style

19666.2

Uno scandalo perbene

19845.6

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

19816.5

The Landlord

19765.4

Blackmail Chase

19769.0

Woman Is a Wonderful Thing

19647.6

A Full Day's Work

19736.8

Kidnap Syndicate

19756.7

Catherine & Co.

19753.3

Petomaniac

19835.9

Anyone Can Play

19674.6

Shoot First, Die Later

19746.8

The Governess

19744.9

Dark Illness

19905.3

Di mamma non ce n'è una sola

19743.8

A Leap in the Dark

19806.3

Hypochondriac

19796.1

Hector the Mighty

19726.0

Erotomania

19744.0

Leoni al sole

19615.1

Società a responsabilità molto limitata

1973

Latin Male Wanted

19774.1

A Maiden for the Prince

19656.1

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong

19712.8

Totó in color

19527.3

Good night… lawyer!

19556.7

Café Express

19807.1

Paris Is Always Paris

19515.2

On the Day of the Lord

19704.4

La colonna infame

19737.0

The Rip-Off

19774.5

Death on the Run

19677.0

Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor

19724.0

Easy Love

19645.0

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

19687.5

The Groper

19763.5

Trastevere

19716.8

Più bello di così si muore

19823.8

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

19705.6

You're on Your Own

19597.2

Io e lui

19736.0

Soldier's Girl

196710.0

Assicurasi vergine

19677.5

Taste of Life

19885.6

Violence and Love

196510.0

Before It's Too Early

198110.0

La Presidentessa

19775.6

Eager to Live

19537.0

Il borghese gentiluomo

1959

Ischia operazione amore

19666.3

The Automobile

19715.6

The Barons

19759.0

L'ultima scena

1988

L'ammazzatina

19758.0