Vittorio Gassman

Acting · 1.7 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

1001 Nights

19905.2

Big Deal on Madonna Street

19588.1

Il Sorpasso

19628.2

Abraham

19937.1

Sharky's Machine

19816.2

Scent of a Woman

19747.4

Streets of Sorrow

19507.0

Seduction Of The South

19615.3

The Nude Bomb

19805.3

Woman Times Seven

19676.3

For Love and Gold

19667.7

The Great War

19598.1

The Desert of the Tartars

19766.8

I picari

19875.5

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

19766.7

Rossini! Rossini!

19916.2

To Be Hamlet

1985

I Knew Her Well

19657.4

Mambo

19545.4

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

The Monsters

19637.4

Life Is a Bed of Roses

19835.8

Brancaleone at the Crusades

19707.2

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

20106.2

Trintignant by Trintignant

20216.8

A Wedding

19786.3

Double Cross

19516.7

Dear Father

19796.6

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

20217.0

The Amusements of Private Life

19904.0

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

19606.5

Tempest

19825.9

Quintet

19795.1

The Miracle

19596.7

Bitter Rice

19497.5

La bomba

19995.7

The Family

19877.5

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

19855.3

The Tiger and the Pussycat

19676.8

Beautiful But Dangerous

19555.9

The Last Judgment

19616.5

A Difficult Life

19618.0

The New Monsters

19777.0

The Dinner

19986.9

In the Name of the Italian People

19717.2

Hotel Room

19815.8

The Devil in Love

19665.8

The Dirty Game

19656.0

Close Up

20129.5

Twelve Plus One

19695.3

The Terrace

19807.2

Mortacci

19896.8

I'm Photogenic

19805.3

Lure of the Sila

19496.1

The Glass Wall

19535.3

Let's Have a Riot

19707.1

Midnight Pleasures

19755.7

Love and Larceny

19607.2

March on Rome

19627.5

Summer Frenzy

19645.9

Fiasco in Milan

19596.9

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

20125.5

Anna

19517.3

The Black Sheep

19686.2

We Are Cinema

20219.5

The Career of a Chambermaid

19765.0

Sombrero

19534.3

The Love Specialist

19576.3

The Divorce

19706.8

Lost Soul

19776.7

Ghosts, Italian Style

19676.2

Tempest

19586.5

Let's Talk About Women

19646.3

Deneuve, la reine Catherine

20227.8

Defend My Love

19569.0

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

19577.3

Rhapsody

19546.6

The Prophet

19685.4

The Captain's Daughter

19477.7

Pure as a Lily

19764.0

Ghosts of Rome

19617.3

The Long Winter

19925.4

Desert of Fire

19978.4

The Palermo Connection

19906.2

Pleasant Nights

19666.6

Cry of the Hunted

19536.1

Power Of Evil

19855.2

Count Tacchia

19826.1

The Archangel

19697.0

A Maiden for the Prince

19656.1

The Dream of Zorro

19526.8

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

20067.0

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

2015

Girls Marked Danger

19525.7

Catch As Catch Can

19676.2

Il successo

19636.4

The Sleazy Uncle

19896.0

Il gaucho

19646.8

L'ebreo errante

194810.0

I'll Be Going Now

19916.2

Luchino Visconti

20027.0

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?

19725.5

La cambiale

19596.6

Black Crown

19515.4

In morte di Federico Fellini

1994

The Eye of the Needle

19637.5

Benvenuta

19836.2

Sex Can Be Difficult

19626.3

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian

20156.6

Dark Soul

19625.4

Scipio the African

19716.8

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

20217.3

The Mysterious Rider

19484.7

Without Family

19727.3

Lo sparviero del Nilo

19504.8

The Adventures of Pinocchio

19476.0

The Audience

19726.5

Il turno

198110.0

Incontro con Laura

194510.0

The Violent Patriot

19566.0

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

20189.0

Once a Year, Every Year

19949.0

La Tosca

19737.2

André Delvaux directs Benvenuta

1983

Shakespeare secondo Gassman

1964

Two Pieces of Bread

19796.5

Where Are You Going All Naked?

19695.0

Snow Job

19656.3

Edipo Re

1977

Daniele Cortis

19479.0

Alibi

19696.0

E il Casanova di Fellini?

197510.0

One Million Dollars

19646.1

Il leone di Amalfi

19509.0

The Outlaws

19506.5

Amleto

19557.8

Speaking with Gassman

2005

Di padre in figlio

19826.0

Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

1955

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

1970

Shamed

1947

The Apple of My Eye

1976

Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne

2007

L'altro enigma

19889.0

Quando eravamo repressi

19927.0