Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

Birthday: 1922-09-01

Deathday: 2000-06-29

Place of birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Also known as: Vittorio Gassmann , Витторио Гассман, Вітторіо Ґассман, Витторио Гасман

imdb_id: nm0002094

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

Played in movies:

Il leone di Amalfi

Score: 10.0

We Are Cinema

Score: 9.5

Close Up

Score: 9.5

Desert of Fire

Score: 9.3

Les 1001 Nuits (Version intégrale)

Score: 9.0

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

Score: 9.0

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Score: 8.3

Il Sorpasso

Score: 8.2

A Difficult Life

Score: 8.1

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Score: 8.1

The Great War

Score: 8.1

Amleto

Score: 7.8

For Love and Gold

Score: 7.7

Sleepers

Score: 7.6

Scent of a Woman

Score: 7.5

Bitter Rice

Score: 7.5

The Family

Score: 7.5

March on Rome

Score: 7.4

I Knew Her Well

Score: 7.4

Without Family

Score: 7.4

The Monsters

Score: 7.4

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Score: 7.3

In the Name of the Italian People

Score: 7.3

Love and Larceny

Score: 7.2

The Eye of the Needle

Score: 7.2

Anna

Score: 7.2

Ghosts of Rome

Score: 7.2

Brancaleone at the Crusades

Score: 7.2

The Terrace

Score: 7.2

La Tosca

Score: 7.1

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

Score: 7.0

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Score: 7.0

Mortacci

Score: 7.0

The Tiger and the Pussycat

Score: 7.0

Abraham

Score: 7.0

The New Monsters

Score: 6.9

Fiasco in Milan

Score: 6.9

Let's Have a Riot

Score: 6.9

Barabbas

Score: 6.9

The Dinner

Score: 6.9

Scipio the African

Score: 6.8

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

Score: 6.8

Trintignant by Trintignant

Score: 6.8

The Desert of the Tartars

Score: 6.8

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Score: 6.7

Il gaucho

Score: 6.7

The Audience

Score: 6.7

Girls Marked Danger

Score: 6.7

The Miracle

Score: 6.7

Rhapsody

Score: 6.7

Lost Soul

Score: 6.7

War and Peace

Score: 6.7

Double Cross

Score: 6.6

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian

Score: 6.6

La cambiale

Score: 6.6

The Captain's Daughter

Score: 6.5

Il divorzio

Score: 6.5

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Score: 6.5

The Last Judgment

Score: 6.4

Dear Father

Score: 6.4

A Wedding

Score: 6.3

Ghosts, Italian Style

Score: 6.3

Lure of the Sila

Score: 6.3

Il successo

Score: 6.3

Pleasant Nights

Score: 6.3

Woman Times Seven

Score: 6.3

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Score: 6.2

Let's Talk About Women

Score: 6.2

Luchino Visconti

Score: 6.2

The Palermo Connection

Score: 6.2

I'll Be Going Now

Score: 6.1

Count Tacchia

Score: 6.1

Sharky's Machine

Score: 6.1

Sex Can Be Difficult

Score: 6.0

The Outlaws

Score: 6.0

The Black Sheep

Score: 6.0

Snow Job

Score: 6.0

The Archangel

Score: 6.0

Tempest

Score: 6.0

The Dream of Zorro

Score: 6.0

Rossini! Rossini!

Score: 6.0

Beautiful But Dangerous

Score: 6.0

One Million Dollars

Score: 6.0

Tempest

Score: 5.9

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Score: 5.8

Catch As Catch Can

Score: 5.8

The Love Specialist

Score: 5.8

Cry of the Hunted

Score: 5.7

Benvenuta

Score: 5.7

Life Is a Bed of Roses

Score: 5.7

La bomba

Score: 5.7

Midnight Pleasures

Score: 5.7

Dark Soul

Score: 5.6

The Devil in Love

Score: 5.6

The Dirty Game

Score: 5.6

Mambo

Score: 5.5

I picari

Score: 5.5

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

Score: 5.5

I'm Photogenic

Score: 5.4

Summer Frenzy

Score: 5.4

The Nude Bomb

Score: 5.4

The Prophet

Score: 5.3

Twelve Plus One

Score: 5.3

Hotel Room

Score: 5.3

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

Score: 5.3

The Glass Wall

Score: 5.3

The Long Winter

Score: 5.2

Black Crown

Score: 5.2

Quintet

Score: 5.1

1001 Nights

Score: 5.1

A Maiden for the Prince

Score: 5.1

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?

Score: 5.1

Power Of Evil

Score: 5.0

Alibi

Score: 5.0

Where Are You Going All Naked?

Score: 5.0

The Sleazy Uncle

Score: 5.0

The Career of a Chambermaid

Score: 5.0

The Violent Patriot

Score: 4.7

The Mysterious Rider

Score: 4.6

Seduction Of The South

Score: 4.5

Sombrero

Score: 4.2

Di padre in figlio

Score: 4.0

Two Pieces of Bread

Score: 4.0

The Amusements of Private Life

Score: 4.0

Lo sparviero del Nilo

Score: 3.3

Pure as a Lily

Score: 2.0

The Apple of My Eye

Score: 0.0

Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

Score: 0.0

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

Score: 0.0

E il Casanova di Fellini?

Score: 0.0

Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne

Score: 0.0

Incontro con Laura

Score: 0.0

Daniele Cortis

Score: 0.0

Streets of Sorrow

Score: 0.0

Il turno

Score: 0.0

Defend My Love

Score: 0.0

L'altro enigma

Score: 0.0

L'ebreo errante

Score: 0.0

Edipo Re

Score: 0.0

Quando eravamo repressi

Score: 0.0

Preludio d'amore

Score: 0.0

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

Score: 0.0

Once a Year, Every Year

Score: 0.0

To Be Hamlet

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Desert of Fire

Score: 10.0

Apostrophes

Score: 8.5

Abraham

Score: 8.0

Le Grand Échiquier

Score: 8.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Samedi soir

Score: 6.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

Cinecittà Cinecittà

Score: 0.0

Còmics

Score: 0.0

Babau

Score: 0.0

Spécial cinéma

Score: 0.0