Vittorio Gassman

Acting · Born 1922-09-01 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Biography

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.…

Filmography

• Sleepers as King Benny
• Bitter Rice as Walter
• For Love and Gold as Brancaleone da Norcia
• Il Sorpasso as Bruno Cortona
• Big Deal on Madonna Street as Peppe il pantera
• We All Loved Each Other So Much as Gianni Perego
• The New Monsters as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
• Scent of a Woman as Fausto Consolo
• The Great War as Giovanni Busacca
• Twelve Plus One as Mario Beretti

TV

• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• Desert of Fire as Tareq
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• Le Grand Échiquier as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Champs-Elysées as Self
• Apostrophes as Self
• Abraham as Terah
• Samedi soir as Self