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Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

Acting

Born September 1, 1922, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (28)
  • 2022Deneuve, la reine Catherine — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained — Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • 2021Trintignant by Trintignant — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia — Self
  • Còmics — Self (archive footage)
  • 2015Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian — Self (archive footage)
  • 2015Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant — Self
  • 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
  • 2012Monicelli: La versione di Mario — Self (archive footage)
  • 2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne — Self
  • 2006Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds — Self (archive footage)
  • 2002Luchino Visconti — Self (archive footage)
  • 1985To Be Hamlet — Self
  • 1983André Delvaux directs Benvenuta — Self
  • Champs-Elysées — Self
  • Ciné regards — Self
  • Apostrophes — Self
  • 1975E il Casanova di Fellini? — Self
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • Le Grand Échiquier — Self
  • Samedi soir — Self
  • The Merv Griffin Show — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • 1961A Difficult Life — Self
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