Vittorio Gassman
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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Fotos
Filme (149)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022 · Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Django & Django
2021 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Trintignant über Trintignant
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018 · Self
Marcello Mastroianni, Italiener par excellence
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015 · Self
Close Up
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
2007 · Self
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Speaking with Gassman
2005
Luchino Visconti
2002 · Self (archive footage)
La bomba
1999 · Don Vito Bracalone
The Dinner
1998 · Maestro Pezzullo
Prinzessin Amina
1997 · Tareq
Los hijos de la calle
1996 · King Benny
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994
Once a Year, Every Year
1994 · Giuseppe
Die Bibel - Abraham
1993 · Terach
The Long Winter
1992 · Claudio, El Mayordomo
Quando eravamo repressi
1992 · The Sexologist
Rossini! Rossini!
1991 · Ludwig van Beethoven
Opa spielt verrückt
1991 · Augusto Scribani
The Amusements of Private Life
1990 · Marquis
Sheherazade - Mit 1001 PS ins Abenteuer
1990 · Sinbad
Palermo vergessen
1990 · Il principe
The Sleazy Uncle
1989 · Zio Luca
Mortacci
1989 · Domenico
L'altro enigma
1988 · Il padre / Sofocle, Director, Writer
I picari
1987 · Marquis Felipe de Aragona
The Family
1987 · Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985 · Peppe
Power Of Evil
1985 · Gottfried
To Be Hamlet
1985 · Self
Benvenuta
1983 · Livio
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983 · Walter Guarini
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
1983 · Self
Count Tacchia
1982 · Prince Torquato Terenzi
Tempest
1982 · Alonzo
Di padre in figlio
1982 · Self, Director, Writer
Sharky's Machine
1981 · Victor Scorelli
Il turno
1981 · Ciro Coppa
Hotel Room
1981 · Achille Mengaroni
The Nude Bomb
1980 · Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
I'm Photogenic
1980 · Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
The Terrace
1980 · Mario Dorazio
Dear Father
1979 · Albino Millozza
Quintet
1979 · Saint Christopher
Two Pieces of Bread
1979 · Pippo Mifà
A Wedding
1978 · Luigi Corelli
The New Monsters
1977 · il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
Edipo Re
1977 · Edipo, Director
Lost Soul
1977 · Fabio Stolz
The Desert of the Tartars
1976 · Filimore
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976 · Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Pure as a Lily
1976 · Anthony M. Wilson
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976 · Franco Denza
The Apple of My Eye
1976 · film festival participant
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975 · Self
Midnight Pleasures
1975 · Andrea Sansoni
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974 · Gianni Perego
Scent of a Woman
1974 · Fausto Consolo
La Tosca
1973 · Scarpia
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972 · Guido Guidi
The Audience
1972 · Principe Donati
Without Family
1972 · Armando Zavanatti, Director, Story, Screenplay
In the Name of the Italian People
1971 · Lorenzo Santenocito
Scipio the African
1971 · Cato the Censor
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970 · Brancaleone Da Norcia
The Divorce
1970 · Leonardo Nenci
Let's Have a Riot
1970 · Riccardo
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970 · L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Twelve Plus One
1969 · Mario Beretti
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969 · Rufus Conforti
The Archangel
1969 · Furio Bertuccia
Alibi
1969 · Vittorio, Director, Story, Screenplay
The Black Sheep
1968 · Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
The Prophet
1968 · Pietro Breccia
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967 · Pasquale Lojacono
Catch As Catch Can
1967 · Bob Chiaramonte
Woman Times Seven
1967 · Cenci
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967 · Francesco Vincenzini
The Devil in Love
1966 · Belfagor
Pleasant Nights
1966 · Bastiano da Sangallo
For Love and Gold
1966 · Brancaleone da Norcia
I Knew Her Well
1965 · Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Maiden for the Prince
1965 · Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Snow Job
1965 · Lucio Ridolfi
The Dirty Game
1965 · Perego / Ferrari
One Million Dollars
1964 · Giuliano
Il gaucho
1964 · Marco Ravicchio
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
1964
Let's Talk About Women
1964 · Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Summer Frenzy
1964 · Cap. Nardoni
The Monsters
1963 · 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")
Il successo
1963 · Giulio Ceriani
The Eye of the Needle
1963 · Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962 · L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
March on Rome
1962 · Domenico Rocchetti
Il Sorpasso
1962 · Bruno Cortona
Dark Soul
1962 · Adriano Zucchelli
Barabbas
1961 · Sahak
A Difficult Life
1961 · Self
Seduction Of The South
1961 · O Caporale
The Last Judgment
1961 · Cimino
Ghosts of Rome
1961 · Il Caparra
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960 · Remo
Love and Larceny
1960 · Gerardo Latini
Fiasco in Milan
1959 · Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
La cambiale
1959 · Michele
The Miracle
1959 · Guido
The Great War
1959 · Giovanni Busacca
Tempest
1958 · Prosecutor
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · Peppe il pantera
The Love Specialist
1957 · Piero di Montalcino
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957 · Edmund Kean, Director, Screenplay
The Violent Patriot
1956 · Giovanni De Medici
Defend My Love
1956 · Giovanni Marchi
War and Peace
1956 · Anatol Kuragin
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955 · Prince Sergei
Amleto
1955 · Amleto, Director
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955 · Edmund Kean
Mambo
1954 · Mario Rossi
Rhapsody
1954 · Paul Bronte
Cry of the Hunted
1953 · Jory
Sombrero
1953 · Alejandro Castillo
The Glass Wall
1953 · Peter Kuban
Girls Marked Danger
1952 · Michele
The Dream of Zorro
1952 · Don Juan Antonio
Anna
1951 · Vittorio
Black Crown
1951 · Mauricio
Double Cross
1951 · Renato Salvi
Il leone di Amalfi
1950 · Mauro
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950 · Yussuf
The Outlaws
1950 · Turi
Streets of Sorrow
1950 · Giorgio Cantoni
Lure of the Sila
1949 · Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Bitter Rice
1949 · Walter
The Mysterious Rider
1948 · Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
L'ebreo errante
1948 · Mathieu Blumenthal
The Captain's Daughter
1947 · Svabrin
Shamed
1947 · Davide
Daniele Cortis
1947 · Daniele Cortis
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1947 · Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Incontro con Laura
1945 · Franco
Serien (15)
Còmics
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Desert of Fire
1997 · Tareq
Abraham
1993 · Terah
Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985 · Various
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Babau
1976
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Apostrophes
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Il mattatore
1959