Vittorio Gassman
Biography
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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-09-01
Place of birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Cast
Twelve Plus One
1969
5.33
Sleepers
1996
7.60
To Be Hamlet
1985
0.00
Abraham
1993
7.00
Bitter Rice
1949
7.46
For Love and Gold
1966
7.71
War and Peace
1956
6.67
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
0.00
Il Sorpasso
1962
8.22
Barabbas
1961
6.89
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
8.10
Cry of the Hunted
1953
5.80
The Nude Bomb
1980
5.42
Luchino Visconti
2002
6.20
The Glass Wall
1953
5.30
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
8.28
The Family
1987
7.46
Sharky's Machine
1981
6.10
Lost Soul
1977
6.60
Ghosts of Rome
1961
7.20
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967
6.30
Quintet
1979
5.10
The New Monsters
1977
6.92
The Monsters
1963
7.34
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
5.70
A Wedding
1978
6.26
Benvenuta
1983
5.70
Close Up
2012
9.00
Scent of a Woman
1974
7.50
Dear Father
1979
6.41
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
6.80
Tempest
1982
6.00
The Love Specialist
1957
5.80
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
7.20
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015
0.00
The Audience
1972
6.70
Love and Larceny
1960
7.22
Woman Times Seven
1967
6.30
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
6.00
Preludio d'amore
1946
0.00
A Difficult Life
1961
8.10
A Maiden for the Prince
1965
5.10
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967
7.00
Let's Talk About Women
1964
6.21
The Great War
1959
8.10
La cambiale
1959
6.60
March on Rome
1962
7.40
One Million Dollars
1964
6.00
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
6.80
The Last Judgment
1961
6.41
The Terrace
1980
7.20
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
5.50
Let's Have a Riot
1970
6.90
I Knew Her Well
1965
7.43
I picari
1987
5.50
Midnight Pleasures
1975
5.70
Rhapsody
1954
6.70
Count Tacchia
1982
6.10
La bomba
1999
5.68
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976
4.97
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
6.50
The Miracle
1959
6.70
Anna
1951
7.25
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
6.00
Mortacci
1989
7.00
Pleasant Nights
1966
6.30
Il successo
1963
6.30
Il divorzio
1970
6.50
The Devil in Love
1966
5.57
The Prophet
1968
5.34
Il gaucho
1964
6.70
Catch As Catch Can
1967
5.79
The Dirty Game
1965
5.80
Hotel Room
1981
5.60
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
5.00
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
5.00
The Dream of Zorro
1952
6.00
The Eye of the Needle
1963
7.20
Summer Frenzy
1964
5.40
Dark Soul
1962
5.60
The Mysterious Rider
1948
4.60
Lure of the Sila
1949
6.30
Tempest
1958
6.00
La Tosca
1973
7.10
Sombrero
1953
4.20
Black Crown
1951
5.20
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
6.80
Scipio the African
1971
6.80
1001 Nights
1990
5.06
Amleto
1955
7.80
The Archangel
1969
6.00
Alibi
1969
5.00
Snow Job
1965
6.00
Quando eravamo repressi
1992
0.00
Edipo Re
1977
0.00
The Black Sheep
1968
6.00
Desert of Fire
1997
9.30
Seduction Of The South
1961
4.50
L'ebreo errante
1948
0.00
The Violent Patriot
1956
4.70
Girls Marked Danger
1952
6.70
The Captain's Daughter
1947
7.00
L'altro enigma
1988
0.00
The Long Winter
1992
5.20
Mambo
1954
5.50
Power Of Evil
1985
5.00
The Dinner
1998
6.90
We Are Cinema
2021
9.50
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
6.70
Defend My Love
1956
0.00
Il turno
1981
0.00
Pure as a Lily
1976
2.00
Double Cross
1951
6.60
The Palermo Connection
1990
6.16
The Outlaws
1950
6.00
I'm Photogenic
1980
5.40
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
4.00
Fiasco in Milan
1959
6.90
Two Pieces of Bread
1979
4.00
Di padre in figlio
1982
4.00
Streets of Sorrow
1950
0.00
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
6.00
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1947
5.83
Daniele Cortis
1947
0.00
Without Family
1972
7.30
Incontro con Laura
1945
0.00
Il leone di Amalfi
1950
10.00
I'll Be Going Now
1991
6.10
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950
3.30
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
0.00
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955
0.00