Name
Vittorio Gassman
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-09-01
Deathday
2000-06-29 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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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- 1969 Twelve Plus One as Mario Beretti
- 1996 Sleepers as King Benny
- 1985 To Be Hamlet as Self
- 1993 Abraham as Terach
- 1949 Bitter Rice as Walter
- 1966 For Love and Gold as Brancaleone da Norcia
- 1956 War and Peace as Anatol Kuragin
- 1994 Once a Year, Every Year as Giuseppe
- 1962 Il Sorpasso as Bruno Cortona
- 1961 Barabbas as Sahak
- 1958 Big Deal on Madonna Street as Peppe il pantera
- 2015 Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian as Self (archive footage)
- 1953 Cry of the Hunted as Jory
- 1980 The Nude Bomb as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
- 2002 Luchino Visconti as Self (archive footage)
- 1953 The Glass Wall as Peter Kuban
- 1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much as Gianni Perego
- 1987 The Family as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
- 1981 Sharky's Machine as Victor Scorelli
- 1977 Lost Soul as Fabio Stolz
- 1985 Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later as Peppe
- 1961 Ghosts of Rome as Il Caparra
- 1967 Ghosts, Italian Style as Pasquale Lojacono
- 1979 Quintet as Saint Christopher
- 1977 The New Monsters as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
- 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")
- 1983 Life Is a Bed of Roses as Walter Guarini
- 1983 Benvenuta as Livio
- 1978 A Wedding as Luigi Corelli
- 2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 Scent of a Woman as Fausto Consolo
- 1979 Dear Father as Albino Millozza
- 1976 The Desert of the Tartars as Filimore
- 1982 Tempest as Alonzo
- 1957 The Love Specialist as Piero di Montalcino
- 1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades as Brancaleone Da Norcia
- 2015 Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant as Self
- 1972 The Audience as Principe Donati
- 1960 Love and Larceny as Gerardo Latini
- 1967 Woman Times Seven as Cenci
- 1955 Beautiful But Dangerous as Prince Sergei
- 1947 Shamed as Davide
- 1961 A Difficult Life as Self
- 1965 A Maiden for the Prince as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
- 1967 The Tiger and the Pussycat as Francesco Vincenzini
- 1964 Let's Talk About Women as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
- 1959 The Great War as Giovanni Busacca
- 1959 La cambiale as Michele
- 1962 March on Rome as Domenico Rocchetti
- 1964 One Million Dollars as Giuliano
- 2021 Trintignant by Trintignant as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 The Last Judgment as Cimino
- 1980 The Terrace as Mario Dorazio
- 2012 Monicelli: La versione di Mario as Self (archive footage)
- 1970 Let's Have a Riot as Riccardo
- 1965 I Knew Her Well as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1987 I picari as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
- 1975 Midnight Pleasures as Andrea Sansoni
- 1954 Rhapsody as Paul Bronte
- 1982 Count Tacchia as Prince Torquato Terenzi
- 1999 La bomba as Don Vito Bracalone
- 1976 The Career of a Chambermaid as Franco Denza
- 1960 ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Remo
- 1959 The Miracle as Guido
- 1951 Anna as Vittorio
- 1991 Rossini! Rossini! as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1989 Mortacci as Domenico
- 1966 Pleasant Nights as Bastiano da Sangallo
- 1963 Il successo as Giulio Ceriani
- 1970 The Divorce as Leonardo Nenci
- 1966 The Devil in Love as Belfagor
- 1968 The Prophet as Pietro Breccia
- 1964 Il gaucho as Marco Ravicchio
- 1967 Catch As Catch Can as Bob Chiaramonte
- 1965 The Dirty Game as Perego / Ferrari
- 1981 Hotel Room as Achille Mengaroni
- 1989 The Sleazy Uncle as Zio Luca
- 1969 Where Are You Going All Naked? as Rufus Conforti
- 1952 The Dream of Zorro as Don Juan Antonio
- 1964 Summer Frenzy as Cap. Nardoni
- 1963 The Eye of the Needle as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
- 1962 Dark Soul as Adriano Zucchelli
- 1948 The Mysterious Rider as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
- 1949 Lure of the Sila as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
- 1958 Tempest as Prosecutor
- 1973 La Tosca as Scarpia
- 1953 Sombrero as Alejandro Castillo
- 1951 Black Crown as Mauricio
- 1957 Kean: Genius or Scoundrel as Edmund Kean
- 1971 Scipio the African as Catone il Censore
- 2006 Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 1001 Nights as Sinbad
- 1955 Amleto as Amleto
- 1969 The Archangel as Furio Bertuccia
- 1969 Alibi as Vittorio
- 1965 Snow Job as Lucio Ridolfi
- 1992 Quando eravamo repressi as The Sexologist
- 1977 Edipo Re as Edipo
- 1968 The Black Sheep as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
- 1997 Desert of Fire as Tareq
- 1961 Seduction Of The South as O Caporale
- 1948 L'ebreo errante as Mathieu Blumenthal
- 1956 The Violent Patriot as Giovanni De Medici
- 1952 Girls Marked Danger as Michele
- 1947 The Captain's Daughter as Svabrin
- 1988 L'altro enigma as Il padre / Sofocle
- 1992 The Long Winter as Claudio, El Mayordomo
- 1954 Mambo as Mario Rossi
- 2010 Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 Power Of Evil as Gottfried
- 1998 The Dinner as Maestro Pezzullo
- 2021 Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
- 1956 Defend My Love as Giovanni Marchi
- 1981 Il turno as Ciro Coppa
- 1976 Pure as a Lily as Anthony M. Wilson
- 1972 What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? as Guido Guidi
- 1951 Double Cross as Renato Salvi
- 1990 The Palermo Connection as Il principe
- 1950 The Outlaws as Turi
- 1980 I'm Photogenic as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
- 1990 The Amusements of Private Life as Marquis
- 1959 Fiasco in Milan as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
- 1979 Two Pieces of Bread as Pippo Mifà
- 1982 Di padre in figlio as Self
- 1950 Streets of Sorrow as Giorgio Cantoni
- 1962 Sex Can Be Difficult as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
- 1947 The Adventures of Pinocchio as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
- 2018 Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia as Self
- 1947 Daniele Cortis as Daniele Cortis
- 1971 In the Name of the Italian People as Lorenzo Santenocito
- 1972 Without Family as Armando Zavanatti
- 1945 Incontro con Laura as Franco
- 1950 Il leone di Amalfi as Mauro
- 1991 I'll Be Going Now as Augusto Scribani
- 1950 Lo sparviero del Nilo as Yussuf
- 2007 Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne as Self
- 1975 E il Casanova di Fellini? as Self
- 1970 The Man with the Flower in His Mouth as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
- 2021 Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- 1955 Kean - Genio e sregolatezza as Edmund Kean
- 1976 The Apple of My Eye as film festival participant
- 1983 André Delvaux directs Benvenuta as Self
- 2022 Deneuve, la reine Catherine as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 Speaking with Gassman
- 2021 Morceaux de Cannes
- 1994 In morte di Federico Fellini
- 1964 Shakespeare secondo Gassman
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Desert of Fire ( 3 episodes ) as Tareq
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1975 Apostrophes ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1976 Babau ( 1 episode )
- 1994 Abraham ( 2 episodes ) as Terah
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 Còmics ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 Cinecittà Cinecittà ( 5 episodes ) as Various
- 1959 Il mattatore ( 9 episodes )
- 1978 Ciné regards ( 2 episodes ) as Self
