Lino Ventura
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. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
104 acting credits
Acting · 104
Champs-Elysées
1982
Sacrée soirée
1987
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Le monde est à vous
1987
Numéro un
1975
Midi trente
1972
Cinépanorama
1956
Cérémonie des César
1976
Auf los geht's los
1977
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
Army of Shadows
1969
The Sicilian Clan
1969
The Medusa Touch
1978
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954
Razzia
1955
Les Misérables
1982
Crooks in Clover
1963
The Valachi Papers
1972
Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
Rum Runners
1971
The Inquisitor
1981
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958
The Slap
1974
Illustrious Corpses
1976
Last Known Address
1970
The Last Adventure
1967
Code Name: Melville
2010
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
Cloportes
1965
The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958
The Big Risk
1960
Spy, Stand Up
1982
The French Detective
1975
Money Money Money
1972
Girl in the Window
1961
Sunday Lovers
1980
Three Tough Guys
1974
A Pain in the Ass
1973
Speaking of Murder
1957
The Great Spy Chase
1964
125 rue Montmartre
1959
Taxi for Tobruk
1961
The Wise Guys
1965
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022
The Right of the Maddest
1973
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019
The Threepenny Opera
1963
Sword of Gideon
1986
Dishonorable Discharge
1957
Birds of Prey
1968
The Seventh Target
1984
Aznavour by Charles
2019
Crime and Punishment
1956
At the End of the Day
2024
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984
Three Days to Live
1958
Greed in the Sun
1964
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958
The Silent One
1973
Witness in the City
1959
Marie-Octobre
1959
Far West
1973
Way of Youth
1959
Black City
1961
The Last Judgment
1961
Happy New Year
1973
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
Law of the Streets
1956
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
L'Homme en colère
1979
Let's Not Get Angry
1966
The Beast Is Loose
1959
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
To Skin a Spy
1966
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
The Ruffian
1983
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
2010
The Strange Mr. Steve
1957
Hitch-Hike
1962
La Rumba
1987
Emile's Boat
1962
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
2011
The Lions Are Loose
1961
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018
Fantasia Among the Squares
1971
The Dictator's Guns
1965
The Cage
1975
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
To Catch a Spy
1957
Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
2012
Carmen di Trastevere
1962
Burning Fuse
1957
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
The French
1982
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
2017