10.0
10.0
Il leone di Amalfi
1950
as Mauro
Vittorio Gassman
Also known as: Vittorio Gassmann, Il Mattatore
Acting
Born:September 1, 1922
Died:June 29, 2000(aged 77)
Birthplace:Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Nationality:Italy
Education:Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico
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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
Notable Works
Il sorpassoBig Deal on Madonna StreetMarch on RomeScent of a WomanLife Is a Bed of Roses
Filmography (139 movies)
9.5
9.5
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
9.5
9.5
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
9.0
9.0
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018
as Self
9.0
9.0
Les 1001 Nuits (Version intégrale)
1990
as Sinbad
8.3
8.3
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
as Gianni Perego
8.2
8.2
Il Sorpasso
1962
as Bruno Cortona
8.1
8.1
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
as Peppe il pantera
8.1
8.1
The Great War
1959
as Giovanni Busacca
8.0
8.0
A Difficult Life
1961
as Self
7.8
7.8
Amleto
1955
Director
7.7
7.7
For Love and Gold
1966
as Brancaleone da Norcia
7.6
7.6
Sleepers
1996
as King Benny
7.5
7.5
Bitter Rice
1949
as Walter
7.5
7.5
The Family
1987
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
7.4
7.4
Scent of a Woman
1974
as Fausto Consolo
7.4
7.4
Without Family
1972
Screenplay
7.4
7.4
March on Rome
1962
as Domenico Rocchetti
7.3
7.3
The Monsters
1963
as 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") /
7.3
7.3
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
7.2
7.2
Ghosts of Rome
1961
as Il Caparra
7.2
7.2
In the Name of the Italian People
1971
as Lorenzo Santenocito
7.2
7.2
Anna
1951
as Vittorio
7.2
7.2
Love and Larceny
1960
as Gerardo Latini
7.2
7.2
The Eye of the Needle
1963
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
7.2
7.2
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
7.2
7.2
The Terrace
1980
as Mario Dorazio
7.1
7.1
La Tosca
1973
as Scarpia
7.0
7.0
Mortacci
1989
as Domenico
7.0
7.0
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
6.9
6.9
The New Monsters
1977
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
6.9
6.9
Let's Have a Riot
1970
as Riccardo
6.9
6.9
The Dinner
1998
as Maestro Pezzullo
6.9
6.9
Abraham
1993
as Terach
6.9
6.9
Barabbas
1961
as Sahak
6.9
6.9
Fiasco in Milan
1959
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
6.8
6.8
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as Filimore
6.8
6.8
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
6.8
6.8
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
Screenplay
6.8
6.8
Scipio the African
1971
as Catone il Censore
6.8
6.8
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
as Francesco Vincenzini
6.7
6.7
Il gaucho
1964
as Marco Ravicchio
6.7
6.7
The Miracle
1959
as Guido
6.7
6.7
War and Peace
1956
as Anatol Kuragin
6.7
6.7
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
6.6
6.6
Lost Soul
1977
as Fabio Stolz
6.6
6.6
La cambiale
1959
as Michele
6.6
6.6
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015
as Self (archive footage)
6.6
6.6
Double Cross
1951
as Renato Salvi
6.5
6.5
The Audience
1972
as Principe Donati
6.5
6.5
Rhapsody
1954
as Paul Bronte
6.5
6.5
Il divorzio
1970
as Leonardo Nenci
6.5
6.5
The Captain's Daughter
1947
as Svabrin
6.5
6.5
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
as Remo
6.4
6.4
Dear Father
1979
as Albino Millozza
6.4
6.4
The Last Judgment
1961
as Cimino
6.3
6.3
Pleasant Nights
1966
as Bastiano da Sangallo
6.3
6.3
Lure of the Sila
1949
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
6.3
6.3
Il successo
1963
as Giulio Ceriani
6.2
6.2
Let's Talk About Women
1964
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
6.2
6.2
The Palermo Connection
1990
as Il principe
6.2
6.2
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
Luchino Visconti
2002
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
A Wedding
1978
as Luigi Corelli
6.2
6.2
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967
as Pasquale Lojacono
6.1
6.1
Count Tacchia
1982
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
6.1
6.1
I'll Be Going Now
1991
as Augusto Scribani
6.1
6.1
Sharky's Machine
1981
as Victor Scorelli
6.0
6.0
Tempest
1958
as Prosecutor
6.0
6.0
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Ludwig van Beethoven
6.0
6.0
The Outlaws
1950
as Turi
6.0
6.0
Snow Job
1965
as Lucio Ridolfi
6.0
6.0
The Black Sheep
1968
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
6.0
6.0
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
6.0
6.0
The Archangel
1969
as Furio Bertuccia
6.0
6.0
One Million Dollars
1964
as Giuliano
6.0
6.0
The Dream of Zorro
1952
as Don Juan Antonio
5.9
5.9
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
as Prince Sergei
5.8
5.8
Tempest
1982
as Alonzo
5.8
5.8
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1947
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
5.8
5.8
The Love Specialist
1957
as Piero di Montalcino
5.8
5.8
Catch As Catch Can
1967
as Bob Chiaramonte
5.7
5.7
Cry of the Hunted
1953
as Jory
5.7
5.7
Midnight Pleasures
1975
as Andrea Sansoni
5.7
5.7
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
as Walter Guarini
5.7
5.7
Benvenuta
1983
as Livio
5.6
5.6
La bomba
1999
as Don Vito Bracalone
5.6
5.6
The Devil in Love
1966
as Belfagor
5.6
5.6
Girls Marked Danger
1952
as Michele
5.6
5.6
The Dirty Game
1965
as Perego / Ferrari
5.5
5.5
Mambo
1954
as Mario Rossi
5.5
5.5
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
as Self (archive footage)
5.5
5.5
I picari
1987
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
5.4
5.4
Summer Frenzy
1964
as Cap. Nardoni
5.3
5.3
The Nude Bomb
1980
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
5.3
5.3
The Prophet
1968
as Pietro Breccia
5.3
5.3
Hotel Room
1981
as Achille Mengaroni
5.2
5.2
Black Crown
1951
as Mauricio
5.2
5.2
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Mario Beretti
5.2
5.2
1001 Nights
1990
as Sinbad
5.1
5.1
Quintet
1979
as Saint Christopher
5.1
5.1
A Maiden for the Prince
1965
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
5.1
5.1
The Glass Wall
1953
as Peter Kuban
5.1
5.1
Dark Soul
1962
as Adriano Zucchelli
5.0
5.0
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
as Peppe
5.0
5.0
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972
as Guido Guidi
5.0
5.0
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
as Zio Luca
5.0
5.0
Alibi
1969
Screenplay
4.8
4.8
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976
as Franco Denza
4.7
4.7
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
as Rufus Conforti
4.7
4.7
The Long Winter
1992
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
4.7
4.7
The Violent Patriot
1956
as Giovanni De Medici
4.5
4.5
Seduction Of The South
1961
as O Caporale
4.4
4.4
The Mysterious Rider
1948
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
4.0
4.0
Power Of Evil
1985
as Gottfried
4.0
4.0
Two Pieces of Bread
1979
as Pippo Mifà
4.0
4.0
Di padre in figlio
1982
Writer
4.0
4.0
Sombrero
1953
as Alejandro Castillo
3.3
3.3
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950
as Yussuf
3.0
3.0
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
as Marquis
2.0
2.0
Pure as a Lily
1976
as Anthony M. Wilson
Edipo Re
1977
Director
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
as Self
L'ebreo errante
1948
as Mathieu Blumenthal
Il turno
1981
as Ciro Coppa
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
as Giuseppe
Streets of Sorrow
1950
as Giorgio
Daniele Cortis
1947
as Daniele Cortis
Incontro con Laura
1945
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
2007
as Self
Preludio d'amore
1946
L'altro enigma
1988
Writer
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015
as Self
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Defend My Love
1956
as Giovanni Marchi
Quando eravamo repressi
1992
as The Sexologist
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955
as Edmund Kean
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