Vittorio Gassman
Born September 01, 1922 (Age: 103)
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittorio Gassman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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
Close Up
2012
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 90
Speaking with Gassman
2005
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as
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Age: 82
Sleepers
1996
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as King Benny
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Age: 74
Quando eravamo repressi
1992
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as The Sexologist
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Age: 69
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
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as Marquis
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Age: 68
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
1983
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as Self
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Age: 60
Sharky's Machine
1981
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as Victor Scorelli
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Age: 59
Edipo Re
1977
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as Edipo
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Age: 55
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
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as Self
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Age: 52
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970
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as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
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Age: 47
The Archangel
1969
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as Furio Bertuccia
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Age: 46
Alibi
1969
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as Vittorio
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Age: 46
For Love and Gold
1966
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as Brancaleone da Norcia
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Age: 43
Barabbas
1961
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as Sahak
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Age: 39
Seduction Of The South
1961
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as O Caporale
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Age: 39
The Last Judgment
1961
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as Cimino
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Age: 39
Ghosts of Rome
1961
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as Il Caparra
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Age: 38
Fiasco in Milan
1959
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as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
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Age: 37
La cambiale
1959
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as Michele
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Age: 37
The Miracle
1959
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as Guido
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Age: 37
The Great War
1959
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as Giovanni Busacca
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Age: 37
The Violent Patriot
1956
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as Giovanni De Medici
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Age: 34
Defend My Love
1956
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as Giovanni Marchi
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Age: 34
War and Peace
1956
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as Anatol Kuragin
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Age: 33
Amleto
1955
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as Amleto
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Age: 32
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955
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as Edmund Kean
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Age: 32
No Image
Incontro con Laura
1945
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as Franco
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Age: 22