Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).

Filmography

• Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore — 'O Professore di Vesuviano
• Pupetta, Woman of Honor — Don Otello Di Bella
• 2012Ristabbanna
• 2011Chez Gino — Oncle Giovanni
• 201013 — Schlondorff
• 2010Christopher Roth — Paul Andersen
• 2010Il Volo
• 2009Holy Money — Vatican's Banker
• 2008Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
• 2008Empire State Building Murders — Paulie Genovese
• 2008Eve — Joe
• 2008Looking for Palladin — Jack Palladin
• 2007Donne sbagliate — Franco Maresco
• L'onore e il rispetto — Don Fred Di Venanzio
• 2006Paris Je T'aime — Ben (Quartier Latin)
• 2006Quiet Flows The Don — Secretov
• Quiet Flows the Don — General Secretov
• 2005Bonjour Michel — michele Terranova
• Pope John Paul II — Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
• 2005The Shore — Mr. Bob Harris
• 2003Dogville — Jack McKay
• 2003L'ospite segreto — Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
• 2002Hysterical Blindness — Nick
• 2001Brian's Song — Coach Halas
• 2001Home Sweet Hoboken
• 2000Believe
• 2000Blue Moon — Frank Cavallo
• 2000Jack of Hearts — Batossa
• 2000Nella terra di nessuno — L'avvocato Scalzi
• 2000Piovuto dal cielo
• 2000Poor Liza — The Narrator
• 2000Shark in a Bottle — The Arranger
• 2000The List — D.A. Bernard Salman
• 2000Undertaker's Paradise — Jim
• 2000Very Mean Men — Gino Minetti
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — E.A.D.A.
• 1999Paradise Cove — Duke Mantee
• 1999Summer of Sam — Luigi
• 1999The Thomas Crown Affair — Andrew Wallace
• 1998Angelo Nero — Padre Guelfi
• 1998Buffalo '66 — Jimmy Brown
• 1998Happiness — Lenny Jordan
• 1998Il tesoro di Damasco — Gregorio Kos
• 1998Illuminata — Old Flavio
• 1998The Big Lebowski — Jackie Treehorn
• 1998Too Tired to Die — John Sage
• 1998Valentine's Day — Joe Buddha
• 1997Farmer & Chase — Farmer
• 1997Shadow Conspiracy — Vicepresident Saxon
• 1997Stag — Frank Grieco
• 1997The Spanish Prisoner — Mr. Klein
• 1997Vicious Circles — March
• 1996Ladykiller — Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
• Strangers — Doctor
• 1995Bandits — Amos
• 1995Convict Cowboy — Warden Ferguson
• 1995The Zone — Dick Althorp
• 1994Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun — Amenophis III
• 1994Parallel Lives — Charlie Duke
• 1994Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem — Moshe
• 1993Blindsided — Ira Gold
• 1993Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage — Joseph Bonanno
• 1993The Window Over the Way
• 1991Forever — Marcelo
• 1991Lies Before Kisses — Grant Sanders
• 1990Beyond the Ocean — John Tana, Writer, Director
• 1990People Like Us — Gus Bailey
• 1989Quicker Than the Eye — Ben Norell
• 1989Road House — Brad Wesley
• 1988Don Bosco — Don Giovanni Bosco
• 1987Control — Mike Zella
• 1987Downpayment on Murder — Harry Cardell
• 1987Police Story: The Freeway Killings — Capt. Tom Wright
• 1986Bitter Champagne — Paul Rivière
• 1986The Professor — 'O Professore di Vesuviano
• 1985A Letter to Three Wives — Porter Holloway
• 1985An Early Frost — Nick Pierson
• 1985My Dearest Son — Antonio Morelli
• 1985Woman of Wonders — Alberto
• 1984Uno scandalo perbene — The man with no memory
• 1982A Question of Honor — Detective Joe DeFalco
• 1982The Girl from Trieste — Dino Romani
• 1981Inchon — Maj. Frank Hallsworth
• 1981Tales of Ordinary Madness — Charles Serking
• 1981They All Laughed — John Russo
• 1979Bloodline — Rhys Williams
• 1979Saint Jack — Jack Flowers
• 1977Opening Night — Manny Victor
• 1977The Death of Richie — George Werner
• The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald — Anson 'Kip' Roberts
• 1976High Velocity — Clifford Baumgartner
• 1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie — Cosmo Vittelli
• 1976Voyage of the Damned — Morris Troper
• 1975Capone — Al Capone
• QB VII — Abe Cady
• 1973Maneater — Nick Baron
• 1973The Neptune Factor — Cmdr. Adrian Blake
• 1972Fireball Forward — Maj. Gen Joe Barrett
• 1972Pursuit — Steven Graves
• 1972The Family Rico — Eddie Rico
• 1972The Sicilian Connection — Joseph Coppola
• 1972When Michael Calls — Doremus Connelly
• Columbo — Director
• 1970Husbands — Harry
• 1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium — Card Player
• 1969The Bridge at Remagen — Sgt. Angelo
• The Name of the Game — Director
• 1965A Rage to Live — Roger Bannon
• Run for Your Life — Paul Bryan, Director
• 1964Carol for Another Christmas — Fred
• Arrest and Trial — Nick Anderson
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Sidney
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Paul Bryan
• 1962Conquered City — Captain George Stubbs
• 1962Convicts 4 — John Resko
• 1961The Young Doctors — Dr. David Coleman
• 1960The Passionate Thief — Lello
• 1959Anatomy of a Murder — Lt. Frederick Manion
• 1959You'll Never See Me Again — Jim Mason
• 1958Three Plays by Tennessee Williams — Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
• 1957The Strange One — Jocko de Paris
• 1957The Troublemakers — Stanley Carr
• Armchair Theatre — Jim Mason

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2014Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima — Self
• 2014One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film — Self
• 2009The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes — Self
• 2007A Prince Called Toto — Self
• 2004Dogville Confessions — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 2000A Constant Forge — Self
• 1998Marilyn in Manhattan — Self
• 1996John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All — Self
• 1993Anything for John — Self
• 1989Arena - John Cassavetes — Self
• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)
• 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
• Ninho da Serpente — Self
• 1982Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! — Self (archive footage)
• 1981Droit de Réponse — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1971The Making of 'Husbands' — Self
• 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self, Self - Co-Host
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
• What's My Line? — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee / Presenter