Vittorio Gassman

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

9/1/1922

Place of Birth

Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Also Known As

Vittorio Gassmann Витторио ГассманВітторіо Ґассман

Vittorio Gassman

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 t...

Known For

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

as Self (archive footage)

Barabbas

Barabbas

as Sahak

Sleepers

Sleepers

as King Benny

Abraham

Abraham

as Terach

Snow Job

Snow Job

as Lucio Ridolfi

Amleto

Amleto

as Amleto

Edipo Re

Edipo Re

as Edipo

The Audience

The Audience

as Principe Donati

The Outlaws

The Outlaws

as Turi

Rhapsody

Rhapsody

as Paul Bronte

The Monsters

The Monsters

as The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")

The Miracle

The Miracle

as Guido

Di padre in figlio

Di padre in figlio

as Self

The Tiger and the Pussycat

The Tiger and the Pussycat

as Francesco Vincenzini

Il Sorpasso

Il Sorpasso

as Bruno Cortona

The Career of a Chambermaid

The Career of a Chambermaid

as Franco Denza

A Wedding

A Wedding

as Luigi Corelli

The Family

The Family

as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather

War and Peace

War and Peace

as Anatol Kuragin

The Prophet

The Prophet

as Pietro Breccia

Career Timeline

2021

We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Trintignant by Trintignant

as Self (archive footage)

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

as Self

2015

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian

as Self (archive footage)

Còmics

as Self (archive footage)

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

as Self

2012

Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

as Self (archive footage)

2010

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

as Self (archive footage)

2007

Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne

as Self

2006

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Luchino Visconti

as Self (archive footage)

1999

La bomba

as Don Vito Bracalone

1998

The Dinner

as Maestro Pezzullo

1997

Desert of Fire

as Tareq

Desert of Fire

as Tareq

1996

Sleepers

as King Benny

1994

Once a Year, Every Year

as Giuseppe

Abraham

as Terah

1993

Abraham

as Terach

1992

The Long Winter

as Claudio, El Mayordomo

Quando eravamo repressi

as The Sexologist

1991

Rossini! Rossini!

as Ludwig van Beethoven

I'll Be Going Now

as Augusto Scribani

1990

The Amusements of Private Life

as Marquis

1001 Nights

as Sinbad

Les 1001 Nuits (Version intégrale)

as Sinbad

The Palermo Connection

as Il principe

1989

The Sleazy Uncle

as Zio Luca

Mortacci

as Domenico

1988

L'altro enigma

as Il padre / Sofocle

1987

I picari

as Marquis Felipe de Aragona

The Family

as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather

1985

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

as Peppe

Power Of Evil

as Gottfried

To Be Hamlet

as Self

Cinecittà Cinecittà

as Various

1983

Benvenuta

as Livio

Life Is a Bed of Roses

as Walter Guarini

André Delvaux directs Benvenuta

as Self

1982

Count Tacchia

as Prince Torquato Terenzi

Tempest

as Alonzo

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Di padre in figlio

as Self

1981

Sharky's Machine

as Victor Scorelli

Il turno

as Ciro Coppa

Hotel Room

as Achille Mengaroni

1980

The Nude Bomb

as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani

I'm Photogenic

as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)

The Terrace

as Mario Dorazio

1979

Dear Father

as Albino Millozza

Quintet

as Saint Christopher

Two Pieces of Bread

as Pippo Mifà

1978

A Wedding

as Luigi Corelli

1977

The New Monsters

as il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia

Edipo Re

as Edipo

Lost Soul

as Fabio Stolz

1976

The Desert of the Tartars

as Filimore

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

as Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo

Pure as a Lily

as Anthony M. Wilson

The Career of a Chambermaid

as Franco Denza

The Apple of My Eye

as film festival participant

Babau

Role unknown

1975

E il Casanova di Fellini?

as Self

Midnight Pleasures

as Andrea Sansoni

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Apostrophes

as Self

1974

We All Loved Each Other So Much

as Gianni Perego

Scent of a Woman

as Fausto Consolo

Spécial cinéma

as Self

1973

La Tosca

as Scarpia

1972

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?

as Guido Guidi

The Audience

as Principe Donati

Without Family

as Armando Zavanatti

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

1971

In the Name of the Italian People

as Lorenzo Santenocito

Scipio the African

as Catone il Censore

Samedi soir

as Self

1970

Brancaleone at the Crusades

as Brancaleone Da Norcia

Il divorzio

as Leonardo Nenci

Let's Have a Riot

as Riccardo

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca

1969

Twelve Plus One

as Mario Beretti

Where Are You Going All Naked?

as Rufus Conforti

The Archangel

as Furio Bertuccia

Alibi

as Vittorio

1968

The Black Sheep

as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti

The Prophet

as Pietro Breccia

1967

Ghosts, Italian Style

as Pasquale Lojacono

Catch As Catch Can

as Bob Chiaramonte

Woman Times Seven

as Cenci

The Tiger and the Pussycat

as Francesco Vincenzini

1966

The Devil in Love

as Belfagor

Pleasant Nights

as Bastiano da Sangallo

For Love and Gold

as Brancaleone da Norcia

1965

I Knew Her Well

as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)

A Maiden for the Prince

as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga

Snow Job

as Lucio Ridolfi

The Dirty Game

as Perego / Ferrari

1964

One Million Dollars

as Giuliano

Il gaucho

as Marco Ravicchio

Let's Talk About Women

as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero

Summer Frenzy

as Cap. Nardoni

1963

The Monsters

as The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")

Il successo

as Giulio Ceriani

The Eye of the Needle

as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer

1962

Sex Can Be Difficult

as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")

March on Rome

as Domenico Rocchetti

Il Sorpasso

as Bruno Cortona

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Dark Soul

as Adriano Zucchelli

1961

Barabbas

as Sahak

A Difficult Life

as Self

Seduction Of The South

as O Caporale

The Last Judgment

as Cimino

Ghosts of Rome

as Il Caparra

1960

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

as Remo

Love and Larceny

as Gerardo Latini

1959

Fiasco in Milan

as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi

La cambiale

as Michele

The Miracle

as Guido

The Great War

as Giovanni Busacca

1958

Tempest

as Prosecutor

Big Deal on Madonna Street

as Peppe il pantera

1957

The Love Specialist

as Piero di Montalcino

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

as Edmund Kean

1956

The Violent Patriot

as Giovanni De Medici

Defend My Love

as Giovanni Marchi

War and Peace

as Anatol Kuragin

1955

Beautiful But Dangerous

as Prince Sergei

Amleto

as Amleto

Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

as Edmund Kean

1954

Mambo

as Mario Rossi

Rhapsody

as Paul Bronte

1953

Cry of the Hunted

as Jory

Sombrero

as Alejandro Castillo

The Glass Wall

as Peter Kuban

1952

Girls Marked Danger

as Michele

The Dream of Zorro

as Don Juan Antonio

1951

Anna

as Vittorio

Black Crown

as Mauricio

Double Cross

as Renato Salvi

1950

Il leone di Amalfi

as Mauro

Lo sparviero del Nilo

as Yussuf

The Outlaws

as Turi

Streets of Sorrow

as Giorgio

1949

Lure of the Sila

as Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)

Bitter Rice

as Walter

1948

The Mysterious Rider

as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt

L'ebreo errante

as Mathieu Blumenthal

1947

The Captain's Daughter

as Svabrin

Daniele Cortis

as Daniele Cortis

The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde

1946

Preludio d'amore

Role unknown

1945

Incontro con Laura

as Franco