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  • BIRTH 01/09/1922
  • DEATH 29/06/2000
  • Country Italy
  • MOVIES 55

Vittorio Gassman

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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Vittorio Gassman

Movies (55)

Sleepers
Sleepers
King Benny
War and Peace
War and Peace
Anatol Kuragin
Les 1001 nuits
Les 1001 nuits
Sinbad
La terrazza
La terrazza
Mario
Barabbas
Barabbas
Sahak
Il deserto dei Tartari
Il deserto dei Tartari
Filimore
C'eravamo tanto amati
C'eravamo tanto amati
Gianni Perego
In nome del popolo italiano
In nome del popolo italiano
Lorenzo Santenocito
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Sono fotogenico
Sono fotogenico
Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Il sorpasso
Il sorpasso
Bruno Cortona
I soliti ignoti
I soliti ignoti
Peppe il pantera
Il mattatore
Il mattatore
Gerardo Latini
Riso amaro
Riso amaro
Walter
Io la conoscevo bene
Io la conoscevo bene
Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dirty Game
The Dirty Game
Perego / Ferrari
Profumo di donna
Profumo di donna
Fausto Consolo
Sharky's Machine
Sharky's Machine
Victor Scorelli
La donna più bella del mondo
La donna più bella del mondo
Prince Sergei
Il successo
Il successo
Giulio Ceriani
Una vita difficile
Una vita difficile
Self (uncredited)
Marcello Mastroianni, l'Italien idéal
Marcello Mastroianni, l'Italien idéal
Self (archive footage)
Quintet
Quintet
Saint Christopher
I picari
I picari
Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Paul Bronte
The Nude Bomb
The Nude Bomb
Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
Andrea Sansoni
I mostri
I mostri
The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "I
La vie est un roman
La vie est un roman
Walter Guarini
Due pezzi di pane
Due pezzi di pane
Pippo Mifà
Fantasmi a Roma
Fantasmi a Roma
Il Caparra
Anima Persa
Anima Persa
Fabio Stolz
L'armata Brancaleone
L'armata Brancaleone
Brancaleone da Norcia
Cry of the Hunted
Cry of the Hunted
Jory
Dove vai tutta nuda?
Dove vai tutta nuda?
Rufus Conforti
Le pouvoir du mal
Le pouvoir du mal
Gottfried
Trintignant par Trintignant
Trintignant par Trintignant
Self (archive footage)
Signore e signori, buonanotte
Signore e signori, buonanotte
Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Il Tigre
Il Tigre
Francesco Vincenzini
Lo scatenato
Lo scatenato
Bob Chiaramonte
Woman Times Seven
Woman Times Seven
Cenci
Il lupo della Sila
Il lupo della Sila
Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Caro papà
Caro papà
Albino Millozza
La grande guerra
La grande guerra
Giovanni Busacca
12 + 1
12 + 1
Mario Beretti
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
A Wedding
A Wedding
Luigi Corelli
I nuovi mostri
I nuovi mostri
il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di f
Dimenticare Palermo
Dimenticare Palermo
Il principe
La cena
La cena
maestro Pezzullo
Il Profeta
Il Profeta
Pietro Breccia
Slalom
Slalom
Lucio Ridolfi
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Anna
Anna
Vittorio
La marcia su Roma
La marcia su Roma
Domenico Rocchetti