Vittorio Gassman
- Acting
- September 1, 1922 · Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- June 29, 2000
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
Known for
Filmography
- Deneuve, la reine Catherine · Self
- We Are Cinema · Self
- Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained · Self
- Trintignant by Trintignant · Self
- Morceaux de Cannes
- Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita · Self
- Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia · Self
- Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian · Self
- Còmics · Self
- Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant · Self
- Close Up · Self
- Monicelli: La versione di Mario · Self
- Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore · Self
- Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne · Self
- Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds · Self
- Speaking with Gassman
- Luchino Visconti · Self
- La bomba · Don Vito Bracalone
- The Dinner · Maestro Pezzullo
- Desert of Fire · Tareq
- Desert of Fire · Tareq
- Sleepers · King Benny
- In morte di Federico Fellini
- Once a Year, Every Year · Giuseppe
- Abraham · Terach
- Abraham · Terah
- The Long Winter · Claudio, El Mayordomo
- Quando eravamo repressi · The Sexologist
- Rossini! Rossini! · Ludwig van Beethoven
- I'll Be Going Now · Augusto Scribani
- The Amusements of Private Life · Marquis
- 1001 Nights · Sinbad
- The Palermo Connection · Il principe
- The Sleazy Uncle · Zio Luca
- Mortacci · Domenico
- L'altro enigma · Il padre / Sofocle, Director
- I picari · Marquis Felipe de Aragona
- The Family · Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
- Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later · Peppe
- Power Of Evil · Gottfried
- To Be Hamlet · Self
- Cinecittà Cinecittà · Various
- Benvenuta · Livio
- Life Is a Bed of Roses · Walter Guarini
- André Delvaux directs Benvenuta · Self
- Count Tacchia · Prince Torquato Terenzi
- Tempest · Alonzo
- Champs-Elysées · Self
- Di padre in figlio · Self, Director
- Sharky's Machine · Victor Scorelli
- Il turno · Ciro Coppa
- Hotel Room · Achille Mengaroni
- The Nude Bomb · Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
- I'm Photogenic · Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
- The Terrace · Mario Dorazio
- Dear Father · Albino Millozza
- Quintet · Saint Christopher
- Two Pieces of Bread · Pippo Mifà
- A Wedding · Luigi Corelli
- Ciné regards · Self
- The New Monsters · il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
- Edipo Re · Edipo, Director
- Lost Soul · Fabio Stolz
- The Desert of the Tartars · Filimore
- Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen · Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
- Pure as a Lily · Anthony M. Wilson
- The Career of a Chambermaid · Franco Denza
- The Apple of My Eye · film festival participant
- Babau
- E il Casanova di Fellini? · Self
- Midnight Pleasures · Andrea Sansoni
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- Apostrophes · Self
- We All Loved Each Other So Much · Gianni Perego
- Scent of a Woman · Fausto Consolo
- Spécial cinéma · Self
- La Tosca · Scarpia
- What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? · Guido Guidi
- The Audience · Principe Donati
- Without Family · Armando Zavanatti, Director