Ben Gazzara
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).
150 acting credits · 4 directing credits
Acting · 150
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Tony Awards
1956
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Run for Your Life
1965
What's My Line?
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Dinah!
1974
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Big Lebowski
1998
Dogville
2003
L'onore e il rispetto
2006
Buffalo '66
1998
The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
Road House
1989
Happiness
1998
13
2010
Paris Je T'aime
2006
The Bridge at Remagen
1969
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Summer of Sam
1999
Ninho da Serpente
1982
QB VII
1974
Quiet Flows the Don
2006
Armchair Theatre
1956
Capone
1975
The Spanish Prisoner
1997
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Strangers
1996
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Pope John Paul II
2005
Opening Night
1977
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Dogville Confessions
2004
Voyage of the Damned
1976
People Like Us
1990
Bloodline
1979
Tales of Ordinary Madness
1981
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
Inchon
1981
The Girl from Trieste
1982
Quiet Flows The Don
2006
Too Tired to Die
1998
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976
Vicious Circles
1997
An Early Frost
1985
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
2014
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
The Professor
1986
The Neptune Factor
1973
Convict Cowboy
1995
Don Bosco
1988
Stag
1997
Pursuit
1972
Pupetta, Woman of Honor
2013
Saint Jack
1979
The Shore
2005
Hysterical Blindness
2002
Carol for Another Christmas
1964
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
1993
The Death of Richie
1977
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1977
Illuminata
1998
Droit de Réponse
1981
The List
2000
Forever
1991
They All Laughed
1981
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987
Husbands
1970
Downpayment on Murder
1987
Brian's Song
2001
Fireball Forward
1972
The Strange One
1957
Woman of Wonders
1985
A Question of Honor
1982
Valentine's Day
1998
The Passionate Thief
1960
A Letter to Three Wives
1985
High Velocity
1976
Blue Moon
2000
A Rage to Live
1965
A Constant Forge
2000
Convicts 4
1962
The Family Rico
1972
Eve
2008
Parallel Lives
1994
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
2023
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996
The Sicilian Connection
1972
Shark in a Bottle
2000
Beyond the Ocean
1990
Blindsided
1993
Jack of Hearts
2000
Looking for Palladin
2008
Believe
2000
When Michael Calls
1972
Very Mean Men
2000
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014
Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
1994
Control
1987
Ladykiller
1996
Quicker Than the Eye
1989
The Young Doctors
1961
Conquered City
1962
Marilyn in Manhattan
1998
Poor Liza
2000
Holy Money
2009
Anything for John
1993
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958
Christopher Roth
2010
Empire State Building Murders
2008
The Window Over the Way
1993
Maneater
1973
Farmer & Chase
1997
Lies Before Kisses
1991
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
1994
My Dearest Son
1985
The Zone
1995
Angelo Nero
1998
Il Volo
2010
Chez Gino
2011
Uno scandalo perbene
1984
Donne sbagliate
2007
A Prince Called Toto
2007
You'll Never See Me Again
1959
Paradise Cove
1999
Piovuto dal cielo
2000
Bandits
1995
The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
2009
Bitter Champagne
1986
Home Sweet Hoboken
2001
Pope John Paul II
2005
Il tesoro di Damasco
1998
Undertaker's Paradise
2000
The Making of 'Husbands'
1971
Ristabbanna
2012
Nella terra di nessuno
2000
L'ospite segreto
2003
Bonjour Michel
2005
