Vittorio Gassman
Acting • Born 1922-09-01 – Died 2000-06-29
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
Filmography
160 credits
Twelve Plus One
Movie • 1969
Mario Beretti
Sleepers
Movie • 1996
King Benny
To Be Hamlet
Movie • 1985
Self
Abraham
Movie • 1993
Terach
Bitter Rice
Movie • 1949
Walter
For Love and Gold
Movie • 1966
Brancaleone da Norcia
War and Peace
Movie • 1956
Anatol Kuragin
Once a Year, Every Year
Movie • 1994
Giuseppe
Il Sorpasso
Movie • 1962
Bruno Cortona
Barabbas
Movie • 1961
Sahak
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Movie • 1958
Peppe il pantera
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Cry of the Hunted
Movie • 1953
Jory
The Nude Bomb
Movie • 1980
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Luchino Visconti
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
The Glass Wall
Movie • 1953
Peter Kuban
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Movie • 1974
Gianni Perego
The Family
Movie • 1987
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Sharky's Machine
Movie • 1981
Victor Scorelli
Lost Soul
Movie • 1977
Fabio Stolz
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Movie • 1985
Peppe
Ghosts of Rome
Movie • 1961
Il Caparra
Ghosts, Italian Style
Movie • 1967
Pasquale Lojacono
Quintet
Movie • 1979
Saint Christopher
The New Monsters
Movie • 1977
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
The Monsters
Movie • 1963
The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Movie • 1983
Walter Guarini
A Wedding
Movie • 1978
Luigi Corelli
Benvenuta
Movie • 1983
Livio
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Scent of a Woman
Movie • 1974
Fausto Consolo
Dear Father
Movie • 1979
Albino Millozza
The Desert of the Tartars
Movie • 1976
Filimore
Tempest
Movie • 1982
Alonzo
The Love Specialist
Movie • 1957
Piero di Montalcino
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Movie • 1970
Brancaleone Da Norcia
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
Movie • 2015
Self
The Audience
Movie • 1972
Principe Donati
Love and Larceny
Movie • 1960
Gerardo Latini
Woman Times Seven
Movie • 1967
Cenci
Beautiful But Dangerous
Movie • 1955
Prince Sergei
Preludio d'amore
Movie • 1946
A Difficult Life
Movie • 1961
Self
A Maiden for the Prince
Movie • 1965
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
The Tiger and the Pussycat
Movie • 1967
Francesco Vincenzini
Let's Talk About Women
Movie • 1964
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
The Great War
Movie • 1959
Giovanni Busacca
La cambiale
Movie • 1959
Michele
March on Rome
Movie • 1962
Domenico Rocchetti
One Million Dollars
Movie • 1964
Giuliano
Trintignant by Trintignant
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Last Judgment
Movie • 1961
Cimino
The Terrace
Movie • 1980
Mario Dorazio
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Let's Have a Riot
Movie • 1970
Riccardo
I Knew Her Well
Movie • 1965
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
I picari
Movie • 1987
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Midnight Pleasures
Movie • 1975
Andrea Sansoni
Rhapsody
Movie • 1954
Paul Bronte
Count Tacchia
Movie • 1982
Prince Torquato Terenzi
La bomba
Movie • 1999
Don Vito Bracalone
The Career of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1976
Franco Denza
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Movie • 1960
Remo
The Miracle
Movie • 1959
Guido
Anna
Movie • 1951
Vittorio
Rossini! Rossini!
Movie • 1991
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mortacci
Movie • 1989
Domenico
Pleasant Nights
Movie • 1966
Bastiano da Sangallo
Il successo
Movie • 1963
Giulio Ceriani
Il divorzio
Movie • 1970
Leonardo Nenci
The Devil in Love
Movie • 1966
Belfagor
The Prophet
Movie • 1968
Pietro Breccia
Il gaucho
Movie • 1964
Marco Ravicchio
Catch As Catch Can
Movie • 1967
Bob Chiaramonte
The Dirty Game
Movie • 1965
Perego / Ferrari
Hotel Room
Movie • 1981
Achille Mengaroni
The Sleazy Uncle
Movie • 1989
Zio Luca
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Movie • 1969
Rufus Conforti
The Dream of Zorro
Movie • 1952
Don Juan Antonio
The Eye of the Needle
Movie • 1963
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Summer Frenzy
Movie • 1964
Cap. Nardoni
Dark Soul
Movie • 1962
Adriano Zucchelli
The Mysterious Rider
Movie • 1948
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
Lure of the Sila
Movie • 1949
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Tempest
Movie • 1958
Prosecutor
La Tosca
Movie • 1973
Scarpia
Sombrero
Movie • 1953
Alejandro Castillo
Black Crown
Movie • 1951
Mauricio
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Movie • 1957
Edmund Kean
Scipio the African
Movie • 1971
Catone il Censore
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
1001 Nights
Movie • 1990
Sinbad
Amleto
Movie • 1955
Amleto
The Archangel
Movie • 1969
Furio Bertuccia
Alibi
Movie • 1969
Vittorio
Snow Job
Movie • 1965
Lucio Ridolfi
Quando eravamo repressi
Movie • 1992
The Sexologist
Edipo Re
Movie • 1977
Edipo
The Black Sheep
Movie • 1968
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
Desert of Fire
Movie • 1997
Tareq
Seduction Of The South
Movie • 1961
O Caporale
L'ebreo errante
Movie • 1948
Mathieu Blumenthal
The Violent Patriot
Movie • 1956
Giovanni De Medici
Girls Marked Danger
Movie • 1952
Michele
The Captain's Daughter
Movie • 1947
Svabrin
L'altro enigma
Movie • 1988
Il padre / Sofocle
The Long Winter
Movie • 1992
Claudio, El Mayordomo
Mambo
Movie • 1954
Mario Rossi
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Power Of Evil
Movie • 1985
Gottfried
The Dinner
Movie • 1998
Maestro Pezzullo
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 1976
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Defend My Love
Movie • 1956
Giovanni Marchi
Il turno
Movie • 1981
Ciro Coppa
Pure as a Lily
Movie • 1976
Anthony M. Wilson
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Movie • 1972
Guido Guidi
Double Cross
Movie • 1951
Renato Salvi
The Palermo Connection
Movie • 1990
Il principe
The Outlaws
Movie • 1950
Turi
I'm Photogenic
Movie • 1980
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
The Amusements of Private Life
Movie • 1990
Marquis
Fiasco in Milan
Movie • 1959
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Two Pieces of Bread
Movie • 1979
Pippo Mifà
Di padre in figlio
Movie • 1982
Self
Streets of Sorrow
Movie • 1950
Giorgio
Sex Can Be Difficult
Movie • 1962
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie • 1947
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Movie • 2018
Self
Daniele Cortis
Movie • 1947
Daniele Cortis
In the Name of the Italian People
Movie • 1971
Lorenzo Santenocito
Without Family
Movie • 1972
Armando Zavanatti
Incontro con Laura
Movie • 1945
Franco
Il leone di Amalfi
Movie • 1950
Mauro
I'll Be Going Now
Movie • 1991
Augusto Scribani
Lo sparviero del Nilo
Movie • 1950
Yussuf
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Movie • 2007
Self
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie • 1975
Self
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
Movie • 1970
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Movie • 2021
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
Movie • 1955
Edmund Kean
The Apple of My Eye
Movie • 1976
film festival participant
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
Movie • 1983
Self
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Speaking with Gassman
Movie • 2005
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Desert of Fire
TV • 1997
Tareq
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Apostrophes
TV • 1975
Self
Babau
TV • 1976
Abraham
TV • 1994
Terah
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Còmics
TV • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà Cinecittà
TV • 1985
Various
Il mattatore
TV • 1959