Ben Gazzara
- Acting
- August 28, 1930 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- February 3, 2012
Biography
Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).
Known for
Filmography
- Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore · 'O Professore di Vesuviano
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age · Self
- Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima · Self
- One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film · Self
- Pupetta, Woman of Honor · Don Otello Di Bella
- Ristabbanna
- Chez Gino · Oncle Giovanni
- Christopher Roth · Paul Andersen
- Il Volo
- 13 · Schlondorff
- Holy Money · Vatican's Banker
- The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes · Self
- Eve · Joe
- Empire State Building Murders · Paulie Genovese
- Looking for Palladin · Jack Palladin
- Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
- A Prince Called Toto · Self
- Donne sbagliate · Franco Maresco
- Quiet Flows The Don · Secretov
- Quiet Flows the Don · General Secretov
- L'onore e il rispetto · Don Fred Di Venanzio
- Paris Je T'aime · Ben (Quartier Latin)
- Pope John Paul II · Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
- The Shore · Mr. Bob Harris
- Bonjour Michel · michele Terranova
- The Tony Danza Show · Self
- Dogville Confessions · Self
- Dogville · Jack McKay
- L'ospite segreto · Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · Self
- Hysterical Blindness · Nick
- Home Sweet Hoboken
- Brian's Song · Coach Halas
- Jack of Hearts · Batossa
- A Constant Forge · Self
- The List · D.A. Bernard Salman
- Nella terra di nessuno · L'avvocato Scalzi
- Piovuto dal cielo
- Undertaker's Paradise · Jim
- Shark in a Bottle · The Arranger
- Very Mean Men · Gino Minetti
- Believe
- Blue Moon · Frank Cavallo
- Poor Liza · The Narrator
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · E.A.D.A.
- The Thomas Crown Affair · Andrew Wallace
- Summer of Sam · Luigi
- Paradise Cove · Duke Mantee
- Happiness · Lenny Jordan
- Il tesoro di Damasco · Gregorio Kos
- Marilyn in Manhattan · Self
- Too Tired to Die · John Sage
- Angelo Nero · Padre Guelfi
- Illuminata · Old Flavio
- The Big Lebowski · Jackie Treehorn
- Buffalo '66 · Jimmy Brown
- Valentine's Day · Joe Buddha
- The Spanish Prisoner · Mr. Klein
- Stag · Frank Grieco
- Shadow Conspiracy · Vicepresident Saxon
- Farmer & Chase · Farmer
- Vicious Circles · March
- Ladykiller · Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
- Strangers · Doctor
- John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All · Self
- The Zone · Dick Althorp
- Convict Cowboy · Warden Ferguson
- Bandits · Amos
- Parallel Lives · Charlie Duke
- Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem · Moshe
- Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun · Amenophis III
- Anything for John · Self
- Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage · Joseph Bonanno
- Blindsided · Ira Gold
- The Window Over the Way
- Forever · Marcelo
- Lies Before Kisses · Grant Sanders
- People Like Us · Gus Bailey
- Beyond the Ocean · John Tana, Writer
- Quicker Than the Eye · Ben Norell