Vittorio Gassman
1922-09-01 ( 102 years old ) in 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

Movies

We Are Cinema 2021-12-16
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained 2021-11-15
Trintignant by Trintignant 2021-10-11
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita 2021-05-16
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia 2018-10-21
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian 2015-05-25
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant 2015-01-14
Close Up 2012-09-30
Monicelli: La versione di Mario 2012-01-30
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore 2010-09-01
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne 2007-05-03
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds 2006-02-19
Luchino Visconti 2002-06-23
La bomba 1999-10-22
The Dinner 1998-09-03
Desert of Fire 1997-01-01
Sleepers 1996-10-18
Once a Year, Every Year 1994-10-13
Abraham 1993-12-12
The Long Winter 1992-02-15
Quando eravamo repressi 1992-01-24
Rossini! Rossini! 1991-09-12
I'll Be Going Now 1991-02-08
The Amusements of Private Life 1990-11-09
1001 Nights 1990-04-11
Les 1001 Nuits : Version Intégrale 1990-04-11
The Palermo Connection 1990-02-02
The Sleazy Uncle 1989-10-27
Mortacci 1989-02-24
L'altro enigma 1988-01-01
I picari 1987-12-18
The Family 1987-01-20
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later 1985-12-25
Power Of Evil 1985-08-01
To Be Hamlet 1985-01-19
Benvenuta 1983-09-07
Life Is a Bed of Roses 1983-04-20
Count Tacchia 1982-12-23
Tempest 1982-08-13
Di padre in figlio 1982-01-01
Sharky's Machine 1981-12-18
Il turno 1981-09-18
Hotel Room 1981-02-12
The Nude Bomb 1980-05-09
I'm Photogenic 1980-03-21
The Terrace 1980-02-08
Dear Father 1979-04-11
Quintet 1979-02-09
Two Pieces of Bread 1979-01-26
A Wedding 1978-08-29
The New Monsters 1977-12-15
Edipo Re 1977-12-11
Lost Soul 1977-01-20
The Desert of the Tartars 1976-10-29
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen 1976-10-28
Pure as a Lily 1976-03-11
The Career of a Chambermaid 1976-02-06
E il Casanova di Fellini? 1975-05-06
Midnight Pleasures 1975-02-19
We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974-12-21
Scent of a Woman 1974-12-20
La Tosca 1973-03-23
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? 1972-12-19
The Audience 1972-03-31
Without Family 1972-03-30
In the Name of the Italian People 1971-12-18
Scipio the African 1971-03-03
Brancaleone at the Crusades 1970-12-24
Il divorzio 1970-04-20
Let's Have a Riot 1970-03-19
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth 1970-03-06
Twelve Plus One 1969-10-07
Where Are You Going All Naked? 1969-09-12
The Archangel 1969-07-02
Alibi 1969-02-13
The Black Sheep 1968-11-09
The Prophet 1968-02-15
Ghosts, Italian Style 1967-12-23
Catch As Catch Can 1967-10-26
Woman Times Seven 1967-09-29
The Tiger and the Pussycat 1967-04-29
The Devil in Love 1966-12-21
Pleasant Nights 1966-09-23
For Love and Gold 1966-04-07
I Knew Her Well 1965-12-01
A Maiden for the Prince 1965-10-26
Snow Job 1965-09-24
The Dirty Game 1965-06-23
One Million Dollars 1964-12-29
Il gaucho 1964-09-18
Let's Talk About Women 1964-03-28
Summer Frenzy 1964-02-04
The Monsters 1963-10-30
Il successo 1963-09-24
The Eye of the Needle 1963-09-14
Sex Can Be Difficult 1962-12-24
March on Rome 1962-12-20
Il Sorpasso 1962-12-05
Dark Soul 1962-08-12
Barabbas 1961-12-23
A Difficult Life 1961-12-19
Seduction Of The South 1961-12-16
The Last Judgment 1961-10-26
Ghosts of Rome 1961-04-01
...And Suddenly It's Murder! 1960-12-13
Love and Larceny 1960-02-11
Fiasco in Milan 1959-12-19
La cambiale 1959-11-19
The Miracle 1959-11-12
The Great War 1959-10-28
Tempest 1958-12-01
Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958-07-26
The Love Specialist 1957-12-20
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel 1957-03-04
The Violent Patriot 1956-09-14
Defend My Love 1956-09-12
War and Peace 1956-08-21
Beautiful But Dangerous 1955-10-21
Amleto 1955-07-19
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza 1955-04-29
Mambo 1954-09-18
Rhapsody 1954-04-16
Cry of the Hunted 1953-05-08
Sombrero 1953-04-22
The Glass Wall 1953-03-19
Girls Marked Danger 1952-09-25
The Dream of Zorro 1952-03-26
Anna 1951-12-20
Black Crown 1951-05-23
Double Cross 1951-04-10
Il leone di Amalfi 1950-10-11
Lo sparviero del Nilo 1950-09-01
The Outlaws 1950-06-09
Streets of Sorrow 1950-01-19
Lure of the Sila 1949-12-27
Bitter Rice 1949-09-30
The Mysterious Rider 1948-11-01
L'ebreo errante 1948-01-24
The Captain's Daughter 1947-10-08
Daniele Cortis 1947-05-06
The Adventures of Pinocchio 1947-04-17
Preludio d'amore 1946-01-01
Incontro con Laura 1945-01-01

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