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Vittorio Gassman (1922–2000)

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Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball player. He debuted on stage in 1943 and soon felt home in all classical theatre works. Since 1946 he also worked at the movies and his first big role there was the criminal in Bitter Rice. This fixed him to his main parts: The ambigous gentleman inflicting pain and pleasure at the same time... See full bio »

Born:

Vittorio Gassmann
in Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Died:

(age 77) in Rome, Lazio, Italy
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1999 La bomba
Don Vito Bracalone
 
1998 The Dinner
Maestro Pezzullo
 
1997 Un homme digne de confiance (TV movie)
Adriano Venturi
 
1997 Deserto di fuoco (TV mini-series)
Tarek
 
1996 Sleepers
King Benny
 
1994 Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno
Giuseppe
 
1993 Abraham (TV movie)
Terah
 
1992 El largo invierno
Claudio
 
1992 Ulisse e la balena bianca (TV movie)
Achab
 
1992 Quando eravamo repressi
The Sexologist
 
1991 Rossini! Rossini!
Ludwig van Beethoven (uncredited)
 
1990 The Amusements of Private Life
Marquis
 
1990 Il giudice istruttore (TV series)
Consigliere Istruttore
– Il caso Corderi (1990) … Consigliere Istruttore
– Un caso di sequestro (1990) … Consigliere Istruttore
– La confessione (1990) … Consigliere Istruttore
– Suicidio d'amore (1990) … Consigliere Istruttore
– Simulazione di reato (1990) … Consigliere Istruttore
 
1990 Les 1001 nuits
Sinbad
 
1990 Tolgo il disturbo
Augusto Scribani
 
1990 Dimenticare Palermo
Il Principe
 
1989 The Sleazy Uncle
Uncle Luca
 
1989 Mortacci
Domenico
 
1988 L'altro enigma (TV movie)
Il padre/Sofocle
 
1987 I picari
Marchese Felipe de Aragona
 
1987 The Family
Carlo, as a man/Carlo's grandfather
 
1985 Big Deal After 20 Years
Peppe il pantera
 
1985 Paradigma
Gottfried
 
1983 Benvenuta
Livio Carpi
 
1983 Life Is a Bed of Roses
Walter Guarini
 
1982 Count Tacchia
Prince Torquato Terenzi
 
1982 Tempest
Alonzo
 
1981 Sharky's Machine
Victor Scorelli
 
1981 Il turno
Ciro Coppa
 
1981 Camera d'albergo
Achille Mengaroni
 
1980 The Nude Bomb
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
 
1980 La terrazza
Mario
 
1979 Two Pieces of Bread
Pippo Mifà
 
1979 Caro papà
Albino Millozza
 
1979 Quintet
Saint Christopher
 
1978 A Wedding
Luigi Corelli
 
1977 Viva Italia!
(segments "Tantum ergo"/"Il sospetto"/"Hostaria"/"Cittadino esemplare"/"Sequestro di persona cara")
 
1977 Anima persa
Fabio Stolz
 
1976 Il deserto dei tartari
Filimore
 
1976 Signore e signori, buonanotte
CIA agent / Tuttumpezzo
 
1976 Come una rosa al naso
Anthony M. Wilson
 
1976 The Career of a Chambermaid
Franco Denza
 
1975 The Immortal Bachelor
Andrea Sansoni
 
1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much
Gianni Perego
 
1974 Scent of a Woman
Il capitano Fausto Consolo
 
1973 La Tosca
Scarpia
 
1972 What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution
Guido Guidi
 
1972 Without Family
Armando Tavanati
 
1972 L'udienza
Principe Donati
 
1971 In the Name of the Italian People
Lorenzo Santenocito
 
1971 Scipio the African
Catone il Censore
 
1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades
Brancaleone da Norcia
 
1970 L'uomo dal fiore in bocca (TV short)
 
1970 The Divorce
Leonardo Nenci
 
1970 Let's Have a Riot
Riccardo
 
1969 The Archangel
Fulvio Bertuccia
 
1969 12 + 1
Mario Beretti
 
1969 Dove vai tutta nuda?
Rufus Conforti
 
1969 Alibi
Vittorio
 
1968 La pecora nera
Mario Agasti/Filippo Agasti
 
1968 Il profeta
Pietro Breccia
 
1968 Catch As Catch Can
Bob Chiaramonte
 
1967 Ghosts - Italian Style
Pasquale Lojacono
 
1967 Woman Times Seven
Cenci - episode 'Two Against One' (uncredited)
 
1967 The Tiger and the Pussycat
Francesco Vincenzini
 
1966 The Devil in Love
Belfagor
 
1966 For Love and Gold
Brancaleone da Norcia
 
1966 A Maiden for a Prince
Principe don vincenzo gonzaga
 
1966 Pleasant Nights
Bastiano da Sangallo
 
1965 Slalom
Lucio Ridolfi
 
1965 The Secret Agents
Perego/Ferrari (French)
 
1965 The Gaucho
Marco Ravicchio
 
1964 Hard Time for Princes
Giuliano
 
1964 Se permettete parliamo di donne
Stranger/Practical Joker/Client/Lover/Impatient Lover/Waiter/Timid Brother/Ragman/Prisoner
 
1964 Summer Frenzy
Captain Mario Nardoni
 
1963 I mostri
The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione")/Policeman (segment "Il Mostro")/Favilla (segment "Presa dalla Vita")/The Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita")/Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!")/Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini")/Avvocato 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 Il successo
Giulio Ceriani
 
1963 The Eye of the Needle
Giorgio Mazzanò - lawyer
 
1962 Of Wayward Love
L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
 
1962 March on Rome
Domenico Rocchetti
 
1962 The Easy Life
Bruno Cortona
 
1962 Anima nera
Adriano Zucchelli
 
1961 Barabbas
Sahak
 
1961 I briganti italiani
O Caporale
 
1961 The Last Judgment
Cimino
 
1961 Fantasmi a Roma
Giovanni Battista Villari, aka 'il Caparra'
 
1961 Adelchi (TV movie)
 
1960 ...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Remo
 
1960 Love and Larceny
Gerardo Latini
 
1959 Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Peppe er pantera
 
1959 Le sorprese dell'amore
Il maestro di scuola (uncredited)
 
1959 The Miracle
Guido
 
1959 The Great War
Giovanni Busacca
 
1959 La cambiale
Michele
 
1958 Tempest
Prosecutor
 
1958 The Love Specialist
Piero di Montalcino
 
1958 Big Deal on Madonna Street
Peppe il pantera
 
1958 The Violent Patriot
Giovanni De Medici
 
1956 Defend My Love
Giovanni Marchi
 
1956 War and Peace
Anatol Kuragin
 
1956 Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Edmund Kean
 
1955 Beautiful But Dangerous
Prince Sergei
 
1955 Amleto (TV movie)
Amleto (Hamlet)
 
1954 Mambo
Mario Rossi
 
1954 Rhapsody
Paul Bronte
 
1953 Cry of the Hunted
Jory
 
1953 Sombrero
Alejandro Castillo
 
1953 The Glass Wall
Peter Kaban
 
1952 La tratta delle bianche
Michele (as Vittorio Gassmann)
 
1952 Il sogno di Zorro
Don Antonio/Juan
 
1951 Anna
Vittorio (as Vittorio Gassmann)
 
1951 Black Crown
Mauricio
 
1951 Double Cross
Renato Salvi
 
1950 The Lion of Amalfi
Mauro
 
1950 Lo sparviero del Nilo
Yussuf (as Vittorio Gassmann)
 
1950 The Outlaws
Turi
 
1950 Streets of Sorrow
Giorgio
 
1949 Lure of the Sila
Pietro Campolo
 
1949 Una voce nel tuo cuore
Paolo Baldini
 
1949 Bitter Rice
Walter (as Vittorio Gassmann)
 
1948 The Mysterious Rider
Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
 
1948 L'ebreo errante
Mathieu Nahum/Mathieu Blumenthal
 
1947 Shamed
Davide
 
1947 La figlia del capitano
Svabrin
 
1947 Daniele Cortis
Daniele Cortis
 
1947 The Adventures of Pinocchio
Il Pescatore Verde
 
1945 Incontro con Laura
 
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1988 L'altro enigma (TV movie)
 
1982 Di padre in figlio
 
1972 Without Family
 
1969 Alibi
 
1961 Adelchi (TV movie)
 
1956 Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
 
Show ShowWriter (5 titles)
1992 Ulisse e la balena bianca (TV movie)
 
1982 Di padre in figlio
 
1972 Without Family (screenplay / story)
 
1969 Alibi (screenplay / story)
 
1956 Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
 
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1955 Amleto (TV movie) (director: stage production)
 
Show ShowSelf (28 titles)
2009 GT Ragazzi (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Natale con Michelle (2009) … Himself
 
2006 Adolfo Celi, un uomo per due culture (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Caro Vittorio (documentary short)
Himself
 
1999 Drôles, tendre et méchants: La comédie à l'italienne de Totò à Roberto Benigni (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1999 Luchino Visconti (documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Caiga quien caiga (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 2 November 1997 (1997) … Himself
 
1994 Cento di questi anni (documentary short)
Se stesso
 
1992 De tú a tú (TV series)
– Episode dated 6 February 1992 (1992)
 
1991 Felicidades, Alberti (TV movie)
Himself
 
1991 La ronda (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 19 June 1991 (1991) … Himself
 
1991 La nuit des Molières (TV series documentary)
Himself
– 5ème nuit des Molières (1991) … Himself
 
1990 Cinema 3 (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 13 June 1990 (1990) … Himself
 
1987 Ahí te quiero ver (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 11 March 1987 (1987) … Himself
 
1986 Galeria oberta (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 16 August 1986 (1986) … Himself (also archive footage)
 
1983 Le grand échiquier (TV series)
Himself
– Cocteau vivant (1983) … Himself
 
1982 Di padre in figlio
Himself
 
1982 Champs-Elysées (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 30 October 1982 (1982) … Himself
 
1982 Vittorio Gassman aux enchères (TV movie)
Himself
 
1982 Apostrophes (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 7 May 1982 (1982) … Himself
 
1981 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Himself - Host
– 6ème nuit des Césars (1981) … Himself - Host
 
1980 I'm Photogenic
Himself (uncredited)
 
1979 Portrait de Vittorio Gassman (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1975 E il Casanova di Fellini? (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1972 Io e... (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Gassman e... il 'palazzo dello sport' (1972) … Himself
 
1969 Rom aktuell (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode #1.1 (1969) … Himself
 
1966 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 22 February 1966 (1966) … Himself
 
1961 A Difficult Life
Himself (uncredited)
 
1960 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode #7.48 (1960) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (16 titles)
2012 Too Young to Die (TV series documentary)
 
2010 1960 (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Volando con Visconti
 
2008 Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV movie)
 
2008 Il falso bugiardo
Himself
 
2008 La mandrágora (TV series)
 
2007 Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (TV documentary short)
Himself
 
2006 Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (TV movie)
Himself
 
2006 Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (TV movie)
Himself
 
2006 Corazón de... (TV series)
 
2005 Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (TV movie)
Himself
 
1988 Cinema Paradiso
Walter (uncredited)
 
1977 Fragrance of Wild Flowers
Himself
 
1975 Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
 
1965 I Knew Her Well
 

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Personal Details

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Dubbed Mufasa (Simba's father) in the Italian version of "The Lion King".

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Alternate Names:

Vittorio Gassmann

Height:

6' 1½" (1.87 m)
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Personal Quote:

Men don't understand anything about women and women don't understand anything about men. And it's better that way. See more »

Trivia:

Founded and ran for years one of the most select acting schools. See more »

Trademark:

Powerful, versatile voice See more »

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Il Mattatore See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo