Vittorio Caprioli
Acting • Born 1921-08-15 – Died 1989-10-02
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.
Filmography
104 credits
Times Gone By
Movie • 1952
il marito di Mariantonia
Anyone Can Play
Movie • 1967
Dieb
Zazie dans le Métro
Movie • 1960
Trouscaillon
Catherine & Co.
Movie • 1975
Moretti
Tout Va Bien
Movie • 1972
Factory Manager
Blackmail Chase
Movie • 1976
Barbone
Il borghese gentiluomo
Movie • 1959
Jourdain
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Movie • 1981
Maresciallo Angrisani
You're on Your Own
Movie • 1959
Pino Calamari
His Days are Numbered
Movie • 1962
Professor
Petomaniac
Movie • 1983
Pitalugue
Adieu Philippine
Movie • 1962
Pachala
Totó in color
Movie • 1952
Il tenore balbuziente
The Anatomy of Love
Movie • 1954
Raffaele
Rulers of the City
Movie • 1976
Vinchenzo Napoli
The Sensual Man
Movie • 1973
Salvatore
The Law
Movie • 1959
Attilio
The Magnificent One
Movie • 1973
Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
Cinderella '80
Movie • 1984
Harry Cardone
Hypochondriac
Movie • 1979
Vincenzo
The Story of Romance and Knife
Movie • 1971
Er Cinese
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Movie • 1971
Gran Profe
Stuff for the Rich
Movie • 1987
il monsignore (2° episodio)
Robinson Crusoeland
Movie • 1951
Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Good night… lawyer!
Movie • 1955
Vittorio
A Leap in the Dark
Movie • 1980
Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
I picari
Movie • 1987
mozzafiato
I'm Losing My Temper
Movie • 1974
Le metteur en scène
The School Teacher
Movie • 1975
Fefe Mottola
Blood and Diamonds
Movie • 1978
Commissario Russo
Roma bene
Movie • 1971
Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Movie • 1970
Bambola di Pechino
Eager to Live
Movie • 1953
Pierra
Adultery Italian Style
Movie • 1966
Silvio Sasselli
L'ultima scena
Movie • 1988
Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
Dark Illness
Movie • 1990
Psicanalista
Violence and Love
Movie • 1965
Il poeta
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Movie • 1974
Professor Goffredo
Messalina, Messalina!
Movie • 1977
Claudius
Più bello di così si muore
Movie • 1982
conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Death on the Run
Movie • 1967
Billy 'Pizza'
Leoni al sole
Movie • 1961
Giugiú
How I Learned to Love Women
Movie • 1966
Playboy
Neapolitan Carousel
Movie • 1954
paroliere amico di Luigino
Ischia operazione amore
Movie • 1966
Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
The Automobile
Movie • 1971
Giggetto
Soldier's Girl
Movie • 1967
Settimo
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Movie • 1964
Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Movie • 1972
Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Hector the Mighty
Movie • 1972
Menalao
A Maiden for the Prince
Movie • 1965
Marchese Liginio
Innocence and Desire
Movie • 1974
Vincenzo Niscemi
White Voices
Movie • 1964
Matteuccio
Paris, My Love
Movie • 1962
Avallone
The Governess
Movie • 1974
Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Movie • 1968
Spinelli
The Groper
Movie • 1976
Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
Café Express
Movie • 1980
Carmelo Improta
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Movie • 1972
Nero
The Landlord
Movie • 1976
Onorevole Vincenzi
Uno scandalo perbene
Movie • 1984
Renzo
Variety Lights
Movie • 1950
Night Club Comic
Kidnap Syndicate
Movie • 1975
Commissar Magrini
The Messiah
Movie • 1975
Herod the Great
Latin Male Wanted
Movie • 1977
don Carmine
Love & Passion
Movie • 1987
Don Vincenzo
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Movie • 1973
Onorevole Pedicò
To Be Twenty
Movie • 1978
Nazariota
When Women Were Called Virgins
Movie • 1972
Ser Cecco
Paris Is Always Paris
Movie • 1951
Tour guide (uncredited)
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Movie • 1970
Luis (uncredited)
Taste of Life
Movie • 1988
Riccardo
La Presidentessa
Movie • 1977
Mazzone
Assicurasi vergine
Movie • 1967
Don Pippo Matara
The Rip-Off
Movie • 1977
Benjamin Bronchi
La colonna infame
Movie • 1973
Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
A porte chiuse
Movie • 1961
commissario
Erotomania
Movie • 1974
il ministro
The Libertine
Movie • 1968
Il Libraio
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Movie • 1973
Il Ciancia
Umbrella Coup
Movie • 1980
Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Recourse in Grace
Movie • 1960
Sergio
Before It's Too Early
Movie • 1981
Il professore
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Movie • 1966
Finizio, Politician
L'ammazzatina
Movie • 1975
Commissario Pafuso
On the Day of the Lord
Movie • 1970
Messer Anticoli
The Barons
Movie • 1975
Padre
Easy Love
Movie • 1964
Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Shoot First, Die Later
Movie • 1974
Esposito
The Wing or the Thigh?
Movie • 1976
Vittorio
General Della Rovere
Movie • 1959
Aristide Banchelli
Trastevere
Movie • 1971
Father Ernesto
It Happened in the Park
Movie • 1953
The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
The Maniacs
Movie • 1964
The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
The Boss
Movie • 1973
Questore
Io e lui
Movie • 1973
Cutica
The Shortest Day
Movie • 1963
Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
A Full Day's Work
Movie • 1973
Le Juré Mangiavacca
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie • 2017
Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Grazie tante arrivederci
Movie • 1977
Proprietario bisca
Aida
Movie • 1953
Uncredited
Le rose et le blanc
Movie • 1982
Luigi Martini
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie • 2022
Cinderella '87
TV • 1987
Harry Cardone