Acting
Vittorio Gassman
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
Movies with Vittorio Gassman
Sleepers
1996
1001 Nights
1990
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
War and Peace
1956
Il Sorpasso
1962
Woman Times Seven
1967
Barabbas
1961
Sharky's Machine
1981
The New Monsters
1977
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The Monsters
1963
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
For Love and Gold
1966
The Great War
1959
Abraham
1993
Scent of a Woman
1974
I picari
1987
The Nude Bomb
1980
Close Up
2012
Double Cross
1951
I Knew Her Well
1965
To Be Hamlet
1985
Tempest
1982
Streets of Sorrow
1950
Mambo
1954
Bitter Rice
1949
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
The Dirty Game
1965
La bomba
1999
A Wedding
1978
We Are Cinema
2021
Dear Father
1979
The Divorce
1970
The Miracle
1959
I'm Photogenic
1980
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
Summer Frenzy
1964
The Devil in Love
1966
The Terrace
1980
The Family
1987
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
Hotel Room
1981
Seduction Of The South
1961
In the Name of the Italian People
1971
Cry of the Hunted
1953
The Prophet
1968
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
Quintet
1979
The Dinner
1998
March on Rome
1962
Fiasco in Milan
1959
A Difficult Life
1961
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
The Love Specialist
1957
Love and Larceny
1960
Ghosts of Rome
1961
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967
Count Tacchia
1982
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
Let's Have a Riot
1970
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
The Palermo Connection
1990
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
The Long Winter
1992
Luchino Visconti
2002
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
Tempest
1958
Midnight Pleasures
1975
The Last Judgment
1961
One Million Dollars
1964
Lost Soul
1977
The Audience
1972
La cambiale
1959
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
1983
The Archangel
1969
Anna
1951
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
Two Pieces of Bread
1979
The Dream of Zorro
1952
The Black Sheep
1968
Desert of Fire
1997
Pure as a Lily
1976
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976
Catch As Catch Can
1967
Pleasant Nights
1966
The Glass Wall
1953
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
Mortacci
1989
Girls Marked Danger
1952
Without Family
1972
Il successo
1963
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
Snow Job
1965
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022
Power Of Evil
1985
Defend My Love
1956
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015
La Tosca
1973
Rhapsody
1954
Twelve Plus One
1969
Let's Talk About Women
1964
L'altro enigma
1988
A Maiden for the Prince
1965
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
Lure of the Sila
1949
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
Alibi
1969
Sombrero
1953
The Violent Patriot
1956
The Apple of My Eye
1976
L'ebreo errante
1948
Benvenuta
1983
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
The Captain's Daughter
1947
Black Crown
1951
Il gaucho
1964
Il turno
1981
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955
Dark Soul
1962
Di padre in figlio
1982
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015
Scipio the African
1971
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1947
The Mysterious Rider
1948
The Eye of the Needle
1963
I'll Be Going Now
1991
Il leone di Amalfi
1950
Speaking with Gassman
2005
Edipo Re
1977
Amleto
1955
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
The Outlaws
1950
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970
Daniele Cortis
1947
Incontro con Laura
1945
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
1964
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
Quando eravamo repressi
1992
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950
Shamed
1947
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
2007
TV Shows with Vittorio Gassman
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Spécial cinéma
1974
Champs-Elysées
1982
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Apostrophes
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Samedi soir
1971
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
Abraham
1994
Còmics
2015
Il mattatore
1959
Babau
1976
Desert of Fire
1997