Vittorio Gassman
Acting
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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Filmography of
Vittorio Gassman
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
Self - Actor (archive footage)
... 2021
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
... 2018
Self (archive footage)
... 2015
... 2015
Self (archive footage)
... 2012
Self (archive footage)
... 2012
Self (archive footage)
... 2010
... 2007
Self (archive footage)
... 2006
Self (archive footage)
... 2002
Don Vito Bracalone
... 1999
maestro Pezzullo
... 1998
Tareq
... 1997
King Benny
... 1996
Giuseppe
... 1994
Terach
... 1993
Claudio, El Mayordomo
... 1992
The Sexologist
... 1992
Ludwig van Beethoven
... 1991
Augusto Scribani
... 1991
Marquis
... 1990
Sinbad
... 1990
... 1990
Il principe
... 1990
Zio Luca
... 1989
Domenico
... 1989
Il padre / Sofocle
... 1988
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
... 1987
Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
... 1987
... 1985
Gottfried
... 1985
Self
... 1985
Livio
... 1983
Walter Guarini
... 1983
Prince Torquato Terenzi
... 1982
Alonzo
... 1982
Self
... 1982
Victor Scorelli
... 1981
Ciro Coppa
... 1981
Achille Mengaroni
... 1981
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
... 1980
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
... 1980
Mario Dorazio
... 1980
Albino Millozza
... 1979
Saint Christopher
... 1979
Pippo Mifà
... 1979
Luigi Corelli
... 1978
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
... 1977
Edipo
... 1977
Fabio Stolz
... 1977
Filimore
... 1976
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
... 1976
Anthony M. Wilson
... 1976
Franco Denza
... 1976
film festival participant
... 1976
... 1975
Andrea Sansoni
... 1975
Gianni Perego
... 1974
Fausto Consolo
... 1974
Scarpia
... 1973
Guido Guidi
... 1972
Principe Donati
... 1972
Armando Zavanatti
... 1972
Lorenzo Santenocito
... 1971
Catone il Censore
... 1971
Brancaleone Da Norcia
... 1970
Leonardo Nenci
... 1970
Riccardo
... 1970
L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
... 1970
Mario Beretti
... 1969
Rufus Conforti
... 1969
Furio Bertuccia
... 1969
Vittorio
... 1969
Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
... 1968
Pietro Breccia
... 1968
Pasquale Lojacono
... 1967
Bob Chiaramonte
... 1967
Cenci
... 1967
Francesco Vincenzini
... 1967
Belfagor
... 1966
Bastiano da Sangallo
... 1966
Brancaleone da Norcia
... 1966
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1965
Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
... 1965
Lucio Ridolfi
... 1965
Perego / Ferrari
... 1965
Giuliano
... 1964
Marco Ravicchio
... 1964
Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
... 1964
Cap. Nardoni
... 1964
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")
... 1963
Giulio Ceriani
... 1963
Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
... 1963
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
... 1962
Domenico Rocchetti
... 1962
Bruno Cortona
... 1962
Adriano Zucchelli
... 1962
Sahak
... 1961
Self
... 1961
O Caporale
... 1961
Cimino
... 1961
Il Caparra
... 1961
... 1960
Gerardo Latini
... 1960
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
... 1959
Michele
... 1959
Guido
... 1959
Giovanni Busacca
... 1959
Prosecutor
... 1958
Peppe il pantera
... 1958
Piero di Montalcino
... 1957
Edmund Kean
... 1957
Giovanni De Medici
... 1956
Giovanni Marchi
... 1956
Anatol Kuragin
... 1956
Prince Sergei
... 1955
Amleto
... 1955
Edmund Kean
... 1955
Mario Rossi
... 1954
Paul Bronte
... 1954
Jory
... 1953
Alejandro Castillo
... 1953
Peter Kuban
... 1953
Michele
... 1952
Don Juan Antonio
... 1952
Vittorio
... 1951
Mauricio
... 1951
Renato Salvi
... 1951
Mauro
... 1950
Yussuf
... 1950
Turi
... 1950
Giorgio
... 1950
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
... 1949
Walter
... 1949
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
... 1948
Mathieu Blumenthal
... 1948
Svabrin
... 1947
Daniele Cortis
... 1947
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
... 1947
... 1946
... 1945