
Vittorio Gassman
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
162 acting credits · 7 directing credits
Acting · 162

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Champs-Elysées
1982

Apostrophes
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Spécial cinéma
1974

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Sleepers
1996
Samedi soir
1971

We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974

War and Peace
1956

Còmics
2015

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021

Barabbas
1961

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006

Abraham
1994

Desert of Fire
1997

Il Sorpasso
1962

Close Up
2012

Sharky's Machine
1981

The Nude Bomb
1980

Bitter Rice
1949

We Are Cinema
2021

1001 Nights
1990

Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985

Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958

Tempest
1982

Abraham
1993

Woman Times Seven
1967

Scent of a Woman
1974

The Family
1987

Midnight Pleasures
1975

The Desert of the Tartars
1976

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976

Count Tacchia
1982

A Wedding
1978

The Great War
1959

For Love and Gold
1966

Lost Soul
1977

The Terrace
1980

Desert of Fire
1997

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972

Babau
1976

I Knew Her Well
1965

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021

March on Rome
1962

Sex Can Be Difficult
1962

Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970

Love and Larceny
1960

The Divorce
1970

Beautiful But Dangerous
1955

In the Name of the Italian People
1971

The Miracle
1959

Summer Frenzy
1964

I'll Be Going Now
1991

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015

The Dinner
1998

Fiasco in Milan
1959

La Tosca
1973

Without Family
1972

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Let's Talk About Women
1964

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010

The Captain's Daughter
1947

Twelve Plus One
1969

Ghosts, Italian Style
1967

Rhapsody
1954

Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983

Quintet
1979

The Career of a Chambermaid
1976

The New Monsters
1977

Ghosts of Rome
1961

The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967

Anna
1951

La cambiale
1959

Pure as a Lily
1976

A Difficult Life
1961

The Mysterious Rider
1948

Pleasant Nights
1966

The Dream of Zorro
1952

Mortacci
1989

Il successo
1963

To Be Hamlet
1985

The Monsters
1963

Rossini! Rossini!
1991

Snow Job
1965

Tempest
1958

The Glass Wall
1953

Dear Father
1979

Girls Marked Danger
1952

The Prophet
1968

The Dirty Game
1965

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985

Sombrero
1953

The Outlaws
1950

The Sleazy Uncle
1989

The Last Judgment
1961

The Devil in Love
1966

I picari
1987

I'm Photogenic
1980

Power Of Evil
1985

Lure of the Sila
1949

Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969

Scipio the African
1971

One Million Dollars
1964

The Palermo Connection
1990

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018

Mambo
1954

The Black Sheep
1968

Catch As Catch Can
1967

Trintignant by Trintignant
2021

Benvenuta
1983

Let's Have a Riot
1970

Il gaucho
1964

Black Crown
1951

The Violent Patriot
1956
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
2007

Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012

Once a Year, Every Year
1994

Dark Soul
1962

The Archangel
1969

Hotel Room
1981

The Long Winter
1992

Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022

A Maiden for the Prince
1965

Seduction Of The South
1961

Cry of the Hunted
1953

Double Cross
1951

Amleto
1955

Il turno
1981

Alibi
1969

Defend My Love
1956

Two Pieces of Bread
1979

Il leone di Amalfi
1950

...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960

Preludio d'amore
1946

The Audience
1972

Il mattatore
1959

La bomba
1999

The Love Specialist
1957

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1947

Luchino Visconti
2002

Streets of Sorrow
1950

Di padre in figlio
1982

Daniele Cortis
1947

In morte di Federico Fellini
1994

E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975

The Apple of My Eye
1976

The Amusements of Private Life
1990

L'ebreo errante
1948

The Eye of the Needle
1963

Quando eravamo repressi
1992

André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
1983

Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955

L'altro enigma
1988

Speaking with Gassman
2005

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015

Edipo Re
1977

Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970
Incontro con Laura
1945