Vittorio Gassman
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-09-01
Day of Death
2000-06-29 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Vittorio Gassman
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2021)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2021)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
(2015)
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
(2012)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
(2006)
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
as Self (archive footage)
(2002)
Luchino Visconti
as Self (archive footage)
(1999)
La bomba
as Don Vito Bracalone
(1998)
The Dinner
as maestro Pezzullo
(1997)
Desert of Fire
as Tareq
(1996)
Sleepers
as King Benny
(1994)
Once a Year, Every Year
as Giuseppe
(1993)
Abraham
as Terach
(1992)
The Long Winter
as Claudio, El Mayordomo
(1992)
Quando eravamo repressi
as The Sexologist
(1991)
Rossini! Rossini!
as Ludwig van Beethoven
(1991)
I'll Be Going Now
as Augusto Scribani
(1990)
1001 Nights
as Sinbad
(1990)
The Palermo Connection
as Il principe
(1990)
The Amusements of Private Life
as Marquis
(1990)
Les 1001 Nuits : Version Intégrale
as Sinbad
(1989)
Mortacci
as Domenico
(1989)
The Sleazy Uncle
as Zio Luca
(1988)
L'altro enigma
as Il padre / Sofocle
(1987)
The Family
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
(1987)
I picari
as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
(1985)
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1985)
Power Of Evil
as Gottfried
(1983)
Life Is a Bed of Roses
as Walter Guarini
(1983)
Benvenuta
as Livio
(1982)
Tempest
as Alonzo
(1982)
Count Tacchia
as Prince Torquato Terenzi
(1982)
Di padre in figlio
as Self
(1981)
Sharky's Machine
as Victor Scorelli
(1981)
Hotel Room
as Achille Mengaroni
(1981)
Il turno
as Ciro Coppa
(1980)
The Nude Bomb
as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
(1980)
The Terrace
as Mario
(1980)
I'm Photogenic
as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
(1979)
Quintet
as Saint Christopher
(1979)
Dear Father
as Albino Millozza
(1979)
Two Pieces of Bread
as Pippo Mifà
(1978)
A Wedding
as Luigi Corelli
(1977)
The New Monsters
as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
(1977)
Lost Soul
as Fabio Stolz
(1977)
Edipo Re
as Edipo
(1976)
The Desert of the Tartars
as Filimore
(1976)
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
(1976)
The Career of a Chambermaid
as Franco Denza
(1976)
Pure as a Lily
as Anthony M. Wilson
(1975)
Midnight Pleasures
as Andrea Sansoni
(1975)
E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
(1974)
Scent of a Woman
as Fausto Consolo
(1974)
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Gianni Perego
(1973)
La Tosca
as Scarpia
(1972)
The Audience
as Principe Donati
(1972)
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
as Guido Guidi
(1972)
Without Family
as Armando Zavanatti
(1971)
In the Name of the Italian People
as Lorenzo Santenocito
(1971)
Scipio the African
as Catone il Censore
(1970)
Brancaleone at the Crusades
as Brancaleone Da Norcia
(1970)
Let's Have a Riot
as Riccardo
(1970)
Il divorzio
as Leonardo Nenci
(1970)
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
(1969)
Alibi
as Vittorio
(1969)
The Archangel
as Furio Bertuccia
(1969)
Twelve Plus One
as Mario Beretti
(1969)
Where Are You Going All Naked?
as Rufus Conforti
(1968)
The Prophet
as Pietro Breccia
(1968)
The Black Sheep
as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
(1967)
Woman Times Seven
as Cenci
(1967)
The Tiger and the Pussycat
as Francesco Vincenzini
(1967)
Ghosts, Italian Style
as Pasquale Lojacono
(1967)
Catch As Catch Can
as Bob Chiaramonte
(1966)
For Love and Gold
as Brancaleone da Norcia
(1966)
Pleasant Nights
as Bastiano da Sangallo
(1966)
The Devil in Love
as Belfagor
(1965)
I Knew Her Well
as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1965)
The Dirty Game
as Perego / Ferrari
(1965)
Snow Job
as Lucio Ridolfi
(1965)
A Maiden for the Prince
as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
(1964)
Summer Frenzy
as Cap. Nardoni
(1964)
Il gaucho
as Marco Ravicchio
(1964)
Let's Talk About Women
as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
(1964)
One Million Dollars
as Giuliano
(1963)
The Monsters
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") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")
(1963)
Il successo
as Giulio Ceriani
(1963)
The Eye of the Needle
as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
(1962)
Il Sorpasso
as Bruno Cortona
(1962)
Sex Can Be Difficult
as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
(1962)
Dark Soul
as Adriano Zucchelli
(1962)
March on Rome
as Domenico Rocchetti
(1961)
Barabbas
as Sahak
(1961)
The Last Judgment
as Cimino
(1961)
Ghosts of Rome
as Il Caparra
(1961)
A Difficult Life
as Self (uncredited)
(1961)
Seduction Of The South
as O Caporale
(1960)
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
as Remo
(1960)
Love and Larceny
as Gerardo Latini
(1959)
The Great War
as Giovanni Busacca
(1959)
The Miracle
as Guido
(1959)
Fiasco in Milan
as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
(1959)
La cambiale
as Michele
(1958)
Big Deal on Madonna Street
as Peppe il pantera
(1958)
Tempest
as Prosecutor
(1957)
The Love Specialist
as Piero di Montalcino
(1957)
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
as Edmund Kean
(1956)
War and Peace
as Anatol Kuragin
(1956)
The Violent Patriot
as Giovanni De Medici
(1956)
Defend My Love
as Giovanni Marchi
(1955)
Beautiful But Dangerous
as Prince Sergei
(1955)
Amleto
as Amleto
(1955)
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
as Edmund Kean
(1954)
Mambo
as Mario Rossi
(1954)
Rhapsody
as Paul Bronte
(1953)
Sombrero
as Alejandro Castillo
(1953)
The Glass Wall
as Peter Kuban
(1953)
Cry of the Hunted
as Jory
(1952)
Girls Marked Danger
as Michele
(1952)
The Dream of Zorro
as Don Juan Antonio
(1951)
Anna
as Vittorio
(1951)
Black Crown
as Mauricio
(1951)
Double Cross
as Renato Salvi
(1950)
Il leone di Amalfi
as Mauro
(1950)
The Outlaws
as Turi
(1950)
Streets of Sorrow
as Giorgio
(1950)
Lo sparviero del Nilo
as Yussuf
(1949)
Bitter Rice
as Walter
(1949)
Lure of the Sila
as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
(1948)
The Mysterious Rider
as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
(1948)
L'ebreo errante
as Mathieu Blumenthal
(1947)
The Captain's Daughter
as Svabrin
(1947)
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
(1947)
Daniele Cortis
as Daniele Cortis
(1946)
(1945)
Crew
(1988)
L'altro enigma
Director, Writer
(1982)
Di padre in figlio
Director, Writer
(1977)
Edipo Re
Director
(1972)
Without Family
Director, Story, Screenplay
(1969)
Alibi
Director, Screenplay, Story
(1957)
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Director, Screenplay
(1955)
Amleto
Director