Lino Ventura
Biography
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas.
Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables.
After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ...
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-07-13
Place of birth
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Images
Cast
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
7.60
The Sicilian Clan
1969
7.60
Les Misérables
1982
6.93
The Inquisitor
1981
7.54
The Last Adventure
1967
6.90
The Medusa Touch
1978
6.79
The Great Spy Chase
1964
6.80
A Pain in the Ass
1973
7.07
Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
7.64
Crooks in Clover
1963
7.74
Taxi for Tobruk
1961
7.10
Greed in the Sun
1964
7.08
Way of Youth
1959
6.00
Let's Not Get Angry
1966
7.53
The Valachi Papers
1972
6.50
The Big Risk
1960
7.00
Money Money Money
1972
6.70
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954
7.20
Emile's Boat
1962
6.40
Army of Shadows
1969
7.90
Spy, Stand Up
1982
7.24
Illustrious Corpses
1976
6.80
Razzia
1955
6.70
Dishonorable Discharge
1957
5.40
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984
6.90
Fantasia Among the Squares
1971
5.00
125 rue Montmartre
1959
7.50
The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958
6.84
La Rumba
1987
4.60
To Skin a Spy
1966
5.70
The Ruffian
1983
6.23
To Catch a Spy
1957
5.00
The Seventh Target
1984
5.85
The Silent One
1973
7.21
Last Known Address
1970
7.30
Cloportes
1965
6.23
The Wise Guys
1965
7.92
Girl in the Window
1961
5.90
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
5.90
Rum Runners
1971
4.60
The Dictator's Guns
1965
6.00
The Slap
1974
6.60
The Lions Are Loose
1961
5.80
Marie-Octobre
1959
7.30
Happy New Year
1973
7.19
The Last Judgment
1961
6.40
Carmen di Trastevere
1962
9.00
The French Detective
1975
6.70
Three Tough Guys
1974
4.60
Speaking of Murder
1957
6.30
Hitch-Hike
1962
5.50
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958
5.90
The Beast Is Loose
1959
6.20
Witness in the City
1959
6.20
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
5.10
Three Days to Live
1958
5.40
Burning Fuse
1957
4.60
Code Name: Melville
2010
6.70
Black City
1961
7.50
Birds of Prey
1968
6.50
Sunday Lovers
1980
5.70
L'Homme en colère
1979
5.39
Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959
3.90
The Threepenny Opera
1963
5.00
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
6.20
The Cage
1975
5.90
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
5.10
Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
7.60
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958
7.00
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
5.00
Crime and Punishment
1956
7.00
Far West
1973
6.20
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022
9.00
The Strange Mr. Steve
1957
5.00
Sword of Gideon
1986
6.80
Law of the Streets
1956
7.00
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018
7.90
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
5.33
Aznavour by Charles
2019
6.90
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
2012
6.00
The Right of the Maddest
1973
5.80
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
6.50
At the End of the Day
2024
6.10
