Lino Ventura
- Acting
- July 13, 1919 · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- October 22, 1987
Biography
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- At the End of the Day · Lino (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Patrick Dewaere, My Hero · Self
- Bacri, comme un air de famille · Self
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président · Self
- Aznavour by Charles · Self
- Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress · Self
- Lino Ventura, la part intime · Self
- Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme · Self
- De Gaulle, the Last King of France · Self
- Lino, il n'était que lui-même · Self
- Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres · Self
- Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs · Self
- Code Name: Melville · Self
- Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes · Self
- Le monde est à vous · Self
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- La Rumba · un caïd
- Sword of Gideon · Papa
- The Seventh Target · Bastien Grimaldi
- One Hundred Days in Palermo · General Carlo Dalla Chiesa
- The Ruffian · Aldo
- Les Misérables · Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu
- The French · Self
- Spy, Stand Up · Sébastien Grenier
- Champs-Elysées · Self
- The Inquisitor · Inspector Antoine Gallien
- Sunday Lovers · François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')
- Jig-Saw · Romain Dupre
- Butterfly on the Shoulder · Roland Fériaud
- The Medusa Touch · Brunel
- Ciné regards · Self
- Auf los geht's los · Self
- Cérémonie des César · Self
- Illustrious Corpses · Inspector Amerigo Rogas
- The French Detective · Commissioner Verjeat
- The Cage · Julien
- Numéro un · Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- The Slap · Jean Douléan
- Spécial cinéma · Self
- Three Tough Guys · Father Charlie
- A Pain in the Ass · Ralf Milan
- Far West · Prisoner
- Happy New Year · Simon
- The Right of the Maddest · Le gendarme motorisé instructeur
- The Silent One · Clément Tibère
- Money Money Money · Lino Massaro
- Midi trente · Self
- Le Grand Échiquier · Self
- The Valachi Papers · Vito Genovese
- Rum Runners · Cornelius von Zeelinga
- Fantasia Among the Squares · Sagamore Noonan
- Last Known Address · Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti
- The Sicilian Clan · Commissaire Le Goff
- Army of Shadows · Philippe Gerbier
- Birds of Prey · Le rapace / Le rital
- The Last Adventure · Roland
- Deux Romains en Gaule · Un client du bar
- Le Deuxième Souffle · Gustave "Gu" Minda
- To Skin a Spy · Pascal Fabre
- Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle · Self
- Let's Not Get Angry · Antoine Beretto
- The Wise Guys · Laurent Dannecker
- Cloportes · Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin'
- The Dictator's Guns · Jacques Cournot
- The Great Spy Chase · Francis Lagneau
- The Monocle's Sour Laugh · Elie's Client (uncredited)
- Weeping for a Bandit · "El lutos"
- Greed in the Sun · Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
- Crooks in Clover · Fernand Naudin
- The Threepenny Opera · Brown, Polizeichef von London
- Carmen di Trastevere · Vincenzo, le caïd
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments · Garigny
- Hitch-Hike · Paul, le chauffeur de car
- Emile's Boat · Émile Bouet
- The Last Judgment · Giovanna's father
- The Lions Are Loose · le docteur André Challenberg
- Black City · Il bandito
- Taxi for Tobruk · le brigadier Théo Dumas
- Girl in the Window · Federico