Vittorio Gassman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-09-01 (78 years old)

Deathday

2000-06-29

Place of Birth

Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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 co...

Acting

1969

Twelve Plus One

as Mario Beretti

1996

Sleepers

as King Benny

1985

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

1962

Il Sorpasso

as Bruno Cortona

1961

Barabbas

as Sahak

1958

Big Deal on Madonna Street

as Peppe il pantera

2015

1980

The Nude Bomb

as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani

2002

Luchino Visconti

as Self (archive footage)

1953

The Glass Wall

as Peter Kuban

1987

The Family

as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather

1981

Sharky's Machine

as Victor Scorelli

1977

Lost Soul

as Fabio Stolz

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

1982

Tempest

as Alonzo

1957

The Love Specialist

as Piero di Montalcino

1970

Brancaleone at the Crusades

as Brancaleone Da Norcia

1972

The Audience

as Principe Donati

1960

Love and Larceny

as Gerardo Latini

1967

1955

Beautiful But Dangerous

as Prince Sergei

1961

A Difficult Life

as Self (uncredited)

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

2021

Trintignant by Trintignant

as Self (archive footage)

1961

1980

The Terrace

as Mario

2012

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

as Self (archive footage)

1970

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

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

Il divorzio

as Leonardo Nenci

1966

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

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

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

1961

1948

L'ebreo errante

as Mathieu Blumenthal

1956

The Violent Patriot

as Giovanni De Medici

1952

1988

L'altro enigma

as Il padre / Sofocle

1992

The Long Winter

as Claudio, El Mayordomo

1954

Mambo

as Mario Rossi

1985

Power Of Evil

as Gottfried

1998

The Dinner

as maestro Pezzullo

2021

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

1951

Double Cross

as Renato Salvi

1990

1950

1980

I'm Photogenic

as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)

1959

Fiasco in Milan

as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi

1979

Two Pieces of Bread

as Pippo Mifà

1950

1962

Sex Can Be Difficult

as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")

1947

The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde

1947

Daniele Cortis

as Daniele Cortis

1971

In the Name of the Italian People

as Lorenzo Santenocito

1972

Without Family

as Armando Zavanatti

1950

1991

I'll Be Going Now

as Augusto Scribani

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

1976

Зеница ока

as film festival participant

Production

1955

Amleto

as Director

1957

1969

Alibi

as Director

1972

Without Family

as Director

1988

L'altro enigma

as Director

1977

Edipo Re

as Director

1988

1972

1972

Without Family

as Screenplay

1969

Alibi

as Story

1969

Alibi

as Screenplay

1982

1982

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