Vittorio Gassman

Acting

🎂 1922-09-01

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

Cast credits(157)

Self

1962

Self

1975

Self

1982

Self

1962

Self

1974

Self

1972

King Benny

1996

Self

1971

Self

1975

Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)

1965

Anatol Kuragin

1956

Self (archive footage)

2021

Sahak

1961

Vittorio

1951

Bruno Cortona

1962

Paul Bronte

1954

film festival participant

1976

Walter

1949

Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani

1980

Gianni Perego

1974

Sinbad

1990

Domenico

1989

Pasquale Lojacono

1967

Anthony M. Wilson

1976

Prince Sergei

1955

maestro Pezzullo

1998

Don Juan Antonio

1952

Luigi Corelli

1978

Terah

1994

Pietro Breccia

1968

Self (archive footage)

2012

Filimore

1976

Victor Scorelli

1981

Ciro Coppa

1981

Self (archive footage)

2021

Self (archive footage)

2021

Brancaleone da Norcia

1966

Mario Rossi

1954

Francesco Vincenzini

1967

Giuseppe

1994

Guido

1959

Gottfried

1985

Various

1985

Brancaleone Da Norcia

1970

Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti

1968

Bastiano da Sangallo

1966

Marquis Felipe de Aragona

1987

Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi

1959

Michele

1959

Michele

1952

Ludwig van Beethoven

1991

Self (archive footage)

2015

Cenci

1967

Il principe

1990

Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero

1964

Leonardo Nenci

1970

Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo

1976

Mario Beretti

1969

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