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Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

Actor · 1922 – 2000 · 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

Movies24

  • Movie7.6

    Sleepers

    1996 · 4K votes

  • Movie6.6

    War and Peace

    1956 · 281 votes

  • Movie8.3

    C'eravamo tanto amati

    We All Loved Each Other So Much

    1974 · 666 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Les 1001 nuits

    1001 Nights

    1990 · 68 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Barabbas

    1961 · 188 votes

  • Movie5.7

    La vie est un roman

    Life Is a Bed of Roses

    1983 · 37 votes

  • Movie8.1

    La grande guerra

    The Great War

    1959 · 377 votes

  • Movie8.1

    I soliti ignoti

    Big Deal on Madonna Street

    1958 · 805 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Io la conoscevo bene

    I Knew Her Well

    1965 · 188 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Nude Bomb

    1980 · 91 votes

  • Movie8.2

    Il sorpasso

    1962 · 868 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Profumo di donna

    Scent of a Woman

    1974 · 268 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Sharky's Machine

    1981 · 117 votes

  • Movie7.4

    I mostri

    The Monsters

    1963 · 214 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Woman Times Seven

    1967 · 59 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Il deserto dei Tartari

    The Desert of the Tartars

    1976 · 96 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Abraham

    1993 · 56 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Tempest

    1982 · 48 votes

  • Movie6.3

    A Wedding

    1978 · 63 votes

  • Movie9.5

    Close Up

    2012 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.0

    I nuovi mostri

    The New Monsters

    1977 · 235 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.7

    Signore e signori, buonanotte

    Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

    1976 · 96 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Riso amaro

    Bitter Rice

    1949 · 233 votes

Series13

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV8.5

    Apostrophes

    1975 · 4 votes

  • TV9.5

    Spécial cinéma

    1974 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV6.0

    Samedi soir

    1971 · 1 votes

  • TV7.2

    Abraham

    1993 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    Deserto di fuoco

    Desert of Fire

    1997 · 2 votes

  • TV
  • TV

    Babau

    1976