Vittorio Gassman  

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Vittorio Gassman (September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.

Gassman is considered one among the best Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which gave him a vast popularity).

Filmography

Actor

• Incontro con Laura (1945)
• The Captain's Daughter (1947) as Svabrin
• Preludio d'amore (Love Prelude, 1947) as Davide
• Le avventure di Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1947) as The Green Fisherman
• Daniele Cortis (1947) as Daniele Cortis
• L'ebreo errante (The Wandering Jew, 1948) as Mathieu Nahum / Mathieu Blumenthal
• Il cavaliere misterioso (The Mysterious Rider, 1948) as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
• Riso amaro (Bitter Rice, 1949) as Walter
• Una voce nel tuo cuore (1949) as Paolo Baldini
• The Wolf of the Sila (1949) as Pietro Campolo
• Ho sognato il paradiso (Streets of Sorrow, 1950) as Giorgio
• I fuorilegge, (The Outlaws, 1950) as Turi
• Lo sparviero del Nilo (Hawk of the Nile, 1950) as Yussuf
• Il leone di Amalfi (The Lion of Amalfi, 1950) as Mauro
• Il tradimento (Double Cross, 1951) as Renato Salvi
• La corona negra (1951) as Mauricio
• Anna (1951) as Vittorio
• The Dream of Zorro (1952) as Don Antonio / Juan
• Girls Marked Danger (1952) as Michele
• The Glass Wall (1953) as Peter Kaban
• Sombrero (1953) as Alejandro Castillo
• Cry of the Hunted (1953) as Jory
• Rhapsody (1954) as Paul Bronte
• Mambo (1954) as Mario Rossi
• La donna più bella del mondo (1955) as Prince Sergei
• The Violent Patriot (1956) as Giovanni de Medici dalle Bande Nere
• War and Peace (1956) as Anatol Kuragin
• Difendo il mio amore (1956) as Giovanni Marchi
• Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957) as Edmund Kean
• I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) as Peppe il pantera
• La ragazza del palio (1958) as Piero di Montalcino
• La tempesta (1958) as Prosecutor
• The Great War (1959) as Giovanni Busacca
• The Miracle (1959) as Guido
• La cambiale (1959) as Michele
• Le sorprese dell'amore (1959) as The Schoolteacher (uncredited)
• Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (Hold-up à la milanaise, 1959) as Peppe er pantera
• Il Mattatore (1960) as Gerardo Latini
• Crimen (Killing in Monte Carlo, 1960) as Remo Capretti
• Fantasmi a Roma (Ghosts of Rome, 1961) as Giovanni Battista Villari, aka 'il Caparra'
• A Difficult Life (1961) as Himself (uncredited)
• The Last Judgement (1961) as Cimino
• I briganti italiani (1961) as O Caporale
• Barabbas (1961) as Sahak
• Anima nera (1962) as Adriano Zucchelli
• Il giorno più corto (1962)
• Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life, 1962) as Bruno Cortona
• La Marcia su Roma (March on Rome, 1962) as Domenico Rocchetti
• L'amore difficile (Sex Can Be Difficult, 1962) as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
• La Smania addosso (1963) as Giorgio Mazzanò - lawyer
• Il Successo (1963) as Giulio Ceriani
• I Mostri (1963) 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")
• Frenesia dell'estate (1964) as Captain Mario Nardoni
• Se permettete parliamo di donne (Let's Talk About Women, 1964) as Stranger / Practical Joker / Client / Lover / Impatient Lover / Waiter / Timid Brother / Ragman / Prisoner
• Il Gaucho (1964) as Marco Ravicchio
• La Congiuntura (Hard Time for Princes, 1965) as Giuliano
• The Dirty Game (1965) as Perego / Ferrari (French)
• Slalom (1965) as Lucio Ridolfi
• Una Vergine per il Principe (Virgin for the Prince, 1966) as Principe don vincenzo gonzaga
• L'Armata Brancaleone (1966) as Brancaleone da Norcia
• Le piacevoli notti (1966) as Bastiano da Sangallo
• The Devil in Love (L'arcidiavolo, 1966) as Belfagor
• Il Tigre (1967) as Francesco Vincenzini
• Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven, 1967) as Cenci (segment "Two Against One")
• Questi fantasmi (Ghosts – Italian Style, 1968) as Pasquale Lojacono
• Lo scatenato (1968) as Bob Chiaramonte
• Il Profeta (1968) as Pietro Breccia
• La pecora nera (The Black Sheep, 1968) as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
• L'Alibi (Alibi, 1969) as Vittorio
• Dove vai tutta nuda? (Where Are You Going All Naked?, 1969) as Rufus Conforti
• Una su 13 (The 13 Chairs, 1969) as Mario Beretti
• L'Arcangelo (1969) as Furio Bertuccia
• Contestazione generale (1970) as Riccardo
• The Divorce (1970) as Leonardo Nenci
• Brancaleone alle Crociate (Brancaleone at the Crusades, 1970) as Brancaleone da Norcia
• Scipione detto anche l'africano (Scipio the African, 1971) as Catone il Censore
• In nome del popolo italiano (1971) as Lorenzo Santenocito
• Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972) as Armando Zavanatti
• L'udienza (The Audience, 1972) as Principe Donati
• Che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? (1972) as Guido Guidi
• La Tosca (1973) as Scarpia
• Profumo di donna (Scent of a Woman, 1974) as Il capitano Fausto Consolo
• C'eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much, 1974) as Gianni Perego
• A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (Midnight Pleasures, 1975) as Andrea Sansoni
• Telefoni bianchi (1976) as Franco Denza
• Come una rosa al naso (Pure as a Lily, 1976) as Anthony M. Wilson
• Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976) as CIA agent / Tuttumpezzo
• The Desert of the Tartars (The Desert of the Tartars, 1976) as Colonel Giovanbattista Filimore
• Anima persa (The Forbidden Room, 1977) as Fabio Stolz
• I nuovi mostri (Via l'Italia!, 1977) as Il cardinale (segment "Tantum ergo") / Il cameriere (segment "Hostaria") / Il marito (segment "Sequestro di persona cara") / Il commissario (segment "Il sospetto") / Il padre di famiglia (segment "Cittadino esemplare")
• A Wedding (1978) as Luigi Corelli
• Quintet (1979) as St. Christopher
• Caro papà (Dear Father, 1979) as Albino Millozza
• Due pezzi di pane (Happy Hobos, 1979) as Pippo Mifà
• Sono fotogenico (1980) as Himself (uncredited)
• La terrazza (The Terrace, 1980) as Mario
• The Nude Bomb (1980) as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
• Camera d'albergo (Chambre d'hôtel, 1981) as Achille Mengaroni
• Il Turno (1981) as Ciro Coppa
• Sharky's Machine (1981) as Albert Scarelli / Victor D'Anton
• Di padre in figlio (1982) as Himself
• Tempest (1982) as Alonzo
• Il Conte Tacchia (Count Tacchia, 1982) as Prince Torquato Terenzi
• La Vie est un roman (Life Is a Bed of Roses, 1983) as Walter Guarini
• Benvenuta (1983) as Livio Carpi
• Paradigma (Power of Evil, 1985) as Gottfried
• I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (Big Deal After 20 Years, 1985) as Peppe il pantera
• La Famiglia (The Family, 1987) as Carlo, as a man / Carlo's grandfather
• I Picari (1987) as Marchese Felipe de Aragona
• Mortacci (1989) as Domenico
• Lo zio indegno (1989) as Uncle Luca
• Dimenticare Palermo (1990) as Il Principe
• Tolgo il disturbo (1990) as Augusto Scribani
• Les 1001 Nuits (1990) as Sinbad
• I Divertimenti della vita privata (The Amusements of Private Life, 1990) as Marquis
• Rossini! Rossini! (1991) as Ludwig van Beethoven (uncredited)
• El Largo invierno (1992) as Claudio
• When We Were Repressed (1992) as The Sexologist
• Abraham (1993, TV series) as Terah
• Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno (1994) as Giuseppe
• Sleepers (1996) as Benny 'King Benny'
• Deserto di fuoco (1997, TV Series) as Tarek
• Un homme digne de confiance (1997) as Adriano Venturi
• La cena (1998) as Maestro Pezzullo
• La bomba (1999) as Don Vito Bracalone
• Luchino Visconti (1999) as Himself

Director

• Kean (1956)
• L'Alibi (1969)
• Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972)
• Di padre in figlio (1982)