Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Dark Illness
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Taste of Life
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L'ultima scena
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I picari
1987·5.5
Stuff for the Rich
1987·5.2
Love & Passion
1987·5.2
Uno scandalo perbene
1984·5.6
Cinderella '80
1984·7.0
Petomaniac
1983·5.9
Più bello di così si muore
1982·3.8
Le rose et le blanc
1982·10.0
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981·6.5
Before It's Too Early
1981·10.0
Umbrella Coup
1980·6.9
Café Express
1980·7.1
A Leap in the Dark
1980·6.3
Hypochondriac
1979·6.1
To Be Twenty
1978·5.8
Blood and Diamonds
1978·6.6
La Presidentessa
1977·5.6
Grazie tante arrivederci
1977·10.0
Messalina, Messalina!
1977·4.2
The Rip-Off
1977·4.5
Latin Male Wanted
1977·4.1
Rulers of the City
1976·6.4
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976·7.2
The Groper
1976·3.5
The Landlord
1976·5.4
Blackmail Chase
1976·9.0
The Barons
1975·9.0
Catherine & Co.
1975·3.3
The Messiah
1975·6.6
Kidnap Syndicate
1975·6.7
The School Teacher
1975·5.5
L'ammazzatina
1975·8.0
Erotomania
1974·4.0
I'm Losing My Temper
1974·6.0
Shoot First, Die Later
1974·6.9
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
1974·3.8
Innocence and Desire
1974·4.7
The Governess
1974·4.9
The Magnificent One
1973·7.0
The Sensual Man
1973·5.9
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
1973·0.0
Io e lui
1973·6.0
La colonna infame
1973·7.0
Giovannona Long-Thigh
1973·5.9
A Full Day's Work
1973·6.8
The Boss
1973·6.8
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
1972·4.0
When Women Were Called Virgins
1972·5.6
Tout Va Bien
1972·6.5
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972·6.4
Hector the Mighty
1972·6.0
Trastevere
1971·6.8
The Automobile
1971·5.6
Roma bene
1971·6.0
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
1971·2.8
The Story of Romance and Knife
1971·5.7
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
1970·4.7
On the Day of the Lord
1970·4.4
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
1970·5.6
The Libertine
1968·5.3
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
1968·7.5
Death on the Run
1967·7.0
Anyone Can Play
1967·4.6
Soldier's Girl
1967·10.0
Assicurasi vergine
1967·7.5
How I Learned to Love Women
1966·4.8
Adultery Italian Style
1966·6.2
Ischia operazione amore
1966·6.3
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966·6.2
A Maiden for the Prince
1965·6.1
Violence and Love
1965·10.0
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
1964·7.6
Easy Love
1964·5.0
White Voices
1964·4.8
The Maniacs
1964·5.0
The Shortest Day
1963·6.4
Paris, My Love
1962·5.9
Adieu Philippine
1962·6.9
His Days Are Numbered
1962·7.1
Leoni al sole
1961·5.1
A porte chiuse
1961·6.5
Zazie dans le Métro
1960·6.6
Recourse in Grace
1960·4.5
General Della Rovere
1959·7.5
You're on Your Own
1959·7.2
The Law
1959·5.9
Il borghese gentiluomo
1959·0.0
Good night… lawyer!
1955·6.7
Neapolitan Carousel
1954·6.5
The Anatomy of Love
1954·6.4
It Happened in the Park
1953·6.5
Aida
1953·5.4
Eager to Live
1953·7.0
Times Gone By
1952·5.2
Totó in color
1952·7.3
Paris Is Always Paris
1951·5.2
Robinson Crusoeland
1951·5.6
Variety Lights
1950·6.9