Vittorio Gassman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 1, 1922, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- Died
- June 29, 2000
- Movies
- 156
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Deneuve, la reine Catherine | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Trintignant by Trintignant | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Morceaux de Cannes | |
| 2021 | Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia | Self |
| 2015 | Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant | Self |
| 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Monicelli: La versione di Mario | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne | Self |
| 2006 | Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Speaking with Gassman | |
| 2002 | Luchino Visconti | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | La bomba | Don Vito Bracalone |
| 1998 | The Dinner | Maestro Pezzullo |
| 1997 | Desert of Fire | Tareq |
| 1996 | Sleepers | King Benny |
| 1994 | In morte di Federico Fellini | |
| 1994 | Once a Year, Every Year | Giuseppe |
| 1993 | Abraham | Terach |
| 1992 | The Long Winter | Claudio, El Mayordomo |
| 1992 | Quando eravamo repressi | The Sexologist |
| 1991 | Rossini! Rossini! | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| 1991 | I'll Be Going Now | Augusto Scribani |
| 1990 | The Amusements of Private Life | Marquis |
| 1990 | 1001 Nights | Sinbad |
| 1990 | The Palermo Connection | Il principe |
| 1989 | The Sleazy Uncle | Zio Luca |
| 1989 | Mortacci | Domenico |
| 1988 | L'altro enigma | Il padre / Sofocle |
| 1987 | I picari | Marquis Felipe de Aragona |
| 1987 | The Family | Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather |
| 1985 | Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later | Peppe |
| 1985 | Power Of Evil | Gottfried |
| 1985 | To Be Hamlet | Self |
| 1983 | Benvenuta | Livio |
| 1983 | Life Is a Bed of Roses | Walter Guarini |
| 1983 | André Delvaux directs Benvenuta | Self |
| 1982 | Count Tacchia | Prince Torquato Terenzi |
| 1982 | Tempest | Alonzo |
| 1982 | Di padre in figlio | Self |
| 1981 | Sharky's Machine | Victor Scorelli |
| 1981 | Il turno | Ciro Coppa |
| 1981 | Hotel Room | Achille Mengaroni |
| 1980 | The Nude Bomb | Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani |
| 1980 | I'm Photogenic | Vittorio Gassman (uncredited) |
| 1980 | The Terrace | Mario Dorazio |
| 1979 | Dear Father | Albino Millozza |
| 1979 | Quintet | Saint Christopher |
| 1979 | Two Pieces of Bread | Pippo Mifà |
| 1978 | A Wedding | Luigi Corelli |
| 1977 | The New Monsters | il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia |
| 1977 | Edipo Re | Edipo |
| 1977 | Lost Soul | Fabio Stolz |
| 1976 | The Desert of the Tartars | Filimore |
| 1976 | Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen | Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo |
| 1976 | Pure as a Lily | Anthony M. Wilson |
| 1976 | The Career of a Chambermaid | Franco Denza |
| 1976 | The Apple of My Eye | film festival participant |
| 1975 | E il Casanova di Fellini? | Self |
| 1975 | Midnight Pleasures | Andrea Sansoni |
| 1974 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | Gianni Perego |
| 1974 | Scent of a Woman | Fausto Consolo |
| 1973 | La Tosca | Scarpia |
| 1972 | What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? | Guido Guidi |
| 1972 | The Audience | Principe Donati |
| 1972 | Without Family | Armando Zavanatti |
| 1971 | In the Name of the Italian People | Lorenzo Santenocito |
| 1971 | Scipio the African | Cato the Censor |
| 1970 | Brancaleone at the Crusades | Brancaleone Da Norcia |
| 1970 | The Divorce | Leonardo Nenci |
| 1970 | Let's Have a Riot | Riccardo |
| 1970 | The Man with the Flower in His Mouth | L'uomo dal fiore in bocca |
| 1969 | Twelve Plus One | Mario Beretti |
| 1969 | Where Are You Going All Naked? | Rufus Conforti |
| 1969 | The Archangel | Furio Bertuccia |
| 1969 | Alibi | Vittorio |
| 1968 | The Black Sheep | Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti |
| 1968 | The Prophet | Pietro Breccia |
| 1967 | Ghosts, Italian Style | Pasquale Lojacono |
| 1967 | Catch As Catch Can | Bob Chiaramonte |
| 1967 | Woman Times Seven | Cenci |
| 1967 | The Tiger and the Pussycat | Francesco Vincenzini |
| 1966 | The Devil in Love | Belfagor |
| 1966 | Pleasant Nights | Bastiano da Sangallo |
| 1966 | For Love and Gold | Brancaleone da Norcia |
| 1965 | I Knew Her Well | Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1965 | A Maiden for the Prince | Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga |
| 1965 | Snow Job | Lucio Ridolfi |
| 1965 | The Dirty Game | Perego / Ferrari |
| 1964 | One Million Dollars | Giuliano |
| 1964 | Il gaucho | Marco Ravicchio |
| 1964 | Shakespeare secondo Gassman | |
| 1964 | Let's Talk About Women | Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero |
| 1964 | Summer Frenzy | Cap. Nardoni |
| 1963 | The Monsters | 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") |
| 1963 | Il successo | Giulio Ceriani |
| 1963 | The Eye of the Needle | Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer |
| 1962 | Sex Can Be Difficult | L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro") |
| 1962 | March on Rome | Domenico Rocchetti |
| 1962 | Il Sorpasso | Bruno Cortona |
| 1962 | Dark Soul | Adriano Zucchelli |
| 1961 | Barabbas | Sahak |
| 1961 | A Difficult Life | Self |
| 1961 | Seduction Of The South | O Caporale |
| 1961 | The Last Judgment | Cimino |
| 1961 | Ghosts of Rome | Il Caparra |
| 1960 | ...And Suddenly It's Murder! | Remo |
| 1960 | Love and Larceny | Gerardo Latini |
| 1959 | Fiasco in Milan | Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi |
| 1959 | La cambiale | Michele |
| 1959 | The Miracle | Guido |
| 1959 | The Great War | Giovanni Busacca |
| 1958 | Tempest | Prosecutor |
| 1958 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | Peppe il pantera |
| 1957 | The Love Specialist | Piero di Montalcino |
| 1957 | Kean: Genius or Scoundrel | Edmund Kean |
| 1956 | The Violent Patriot | Giovanni De Medici |
| 1956 | Defend My Love | Giovanni Marchi |
| 1956 | War and Peace | Anatol Kuragin |
| 1955 | Beautiful But Dangerous | Prince Sergei |
| 1955 | Amleto | Amleto |
| 1955 | Kean - Genio e sregolatezza | Edmund Kean |
| 1954 | Mambo | Mario Rossi |
| 1954 | Rhapsody | Paul Bronte |
| 1953 | Cry of the Hunted | Jory |
| 1953 | Sombrero | Alejandro Castillo |
| 1953 | The Glass Wall | Peter Kuban |
| 1952 | Girls Marked Danger | Michele |
| 1952 | The Dream of Zorro | Don Juan Antonio |
| 1951 | Anna | Vittorio |
| 1951 | Black Crown | Mauricio |
| 1951 | Double Cross | Renato Salvi |
| 1950 | Il leone di Amalfi | Mauro |
| 1950 | Lo sparviero del Nilo | Yussuf |
| 1950 | The Outlaws | Turi |
| 1950 | Streets of Sorrow | Giorgio Cantoni |
| 1949 | Lure of the Sila | Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann) |
| 1949 | Bitter Rice | Walter |
| 1948 | The Mysterious Rider | Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt |
| 1948 | L'ebreo errante | Mathieu Blumenthal |
| 1947 | The Captain's Daughter | Svabrin |
| 1947 | Shamed | Davide |
| 1947 | Daniele Cortis | Daniele Cortis |
| 1947 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde |
| 1945 | Incontro con Laura | Franco |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1988 | L'altro enigma | Director, Writer |
| 1982 | Di padre in figlio | Director, Writer |
| 1977 | Edipo Re | Director |
| 1972 | Without Family | Director, Screenplay |
| 1969 | Alibi | Director, Screenplay |
| 1957 | Kean: Genius or Scoundrel | Director, Screenplay |
| 1955 | Amleto | Director |
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