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
149 movies · 15 shows
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022·7.8
We Are Cinema
2021·9.5
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021·7.0
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021·6.8
Morceaux de Cannes
2021·2.0
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021·7.3
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018·9.0
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015·6.6
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015·0.0
Close Up
2012·9.5
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012·5.5
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010·6.2
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
2007·0.0
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006·7.0
Speaking with Gassman
2005·0.0
Luchino Visconti
2002·7.0
La bomba
1999·5.7
The Dinner
1998·6.9
Desert of Fire
1997·8.4
Sleepers
1996·7.6
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994·0.0
Once a Year, Every Year
1994·9.0
Abraham
1993·7.1
The Long Winter
1992·5.4
Quando eravamo repressi
1992·7.0
Rossini! Rossini!
1991·6.2
I'll Be Going Now
1991·6.2
The Amusements of Private Life
1990·4.0
1001 Nights
1990·5.2
The Palermo Connection
1990·6.2
The Sleazy Uncle
1989·6.0
Mortacci
1989·6.8
L'altro enigma
1988·9.0
I picari
1987·5.5
The Family
1987·7.5
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985·5.3
Power Of Evil
1985·5.2
To Be Hamlet
1985·0.0
Benvenuta
1983·6.2
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983·5.8
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
1983·0.0
Count Tacchia
1982·6.1
Tempest
1982·6.0
Di padre in figlio
1982·6.0
Sharky's Machine
1981·6.2
Il turno
1981·10.0
Hotel Room
1981·5.8
The Nude Bomb
1980·5.3
I'm Photogenic
1980·5.3
The Terrace
1980·7.2
Dear Father
1979·6.6
Quintet
1979·5.1
Two Pieces of Bread
1979·6.5
A Wedding
1978·6.3
The New Monsters
1977·7.0
Edipo Re
1977·0.0
Lost Soul
1977·6.7
The Desert of the Tartars
1976·6.8
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976·6.7
Pure as a Lily
1976·4.0
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976·5.0
The Apple of My Eye
1976·0.0
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975·10.0
Midnight Pleasures
1975·5.7
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974·8.3
Scent of a Woman
1974·7.4
La Tosca
1973·7.2
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972·5.5
The Audience
1972·6.5
Without Family
1972·7.3
In the Name of the Italian People
1971·7.2
Scipio the African
1971·6.8
Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970·7.2
The Divorce
1970·6.8
Let's Have a Riot
1970·7.1
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970·0.0
Twelve Plus One
1969·5.3
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969·5.0
The Archangel
1969·7.0
Alibi
1969·6.0
The Black Sheep
1968·6.2
The Prophet
1968·5.4
Ghosts, Italian Style
1967·6.2
Catch As Catch Can
1967·6.2
Woman Times Seven
1967·6.3
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967·6.9
The Devil in Love
1966·5.8
Pleasant Nights
1966·6.6
For Love and Gold
1966·7.7
I Knew Her Well
1965·7.4
A Maiden for the Prince
1965·6.1
Snow Job
1965·6.3
The Dirty Game
1965·6.0
One Million Dollars
1964·6.1
Il gaucho
1964·6.8
Shakespeare secondo Gassman
1964·0.0
Let's Talk About Women
1964·6.3
Summer Frenzy
1964·5.9
The Monsters
1963·7.4
Il successo
1963·6.4
The Eye of the Needle
1963·7.5
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962·6.3
March on Rome
1962·7.5
Il Sorpasso
1962·8.2
Dark Soul
1962·5.4
Barabbas
1961·6.9
A Difficult Life
1961·8.0
Seduction Of The South
1961·5.3
The Last Judgment
1961·6.5
Ghosts of Rome
1961·7.3
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960·6.5
Love and Larceny
1960·7.2
Fiasco in Milan
1959·6.9
La cambiale
1959·6.6
The Miracle
1959·6.7
The Great War
1959·8.1
Tempest
1958·6.5
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958·8.1
The Love Specialist
1957·6.3
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957·7.3
The Violent Patriot
1956·6.0
Defend My Love
1956·9.0
War and Peace
1956·6.6
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955·5.9
Amleto
1955·7.8
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955·0.0
Mambo
1954·5.4
Rhapsody
1954·6.6
Cry of the Hunted
1953·6.1
Sombrero
1953·4.3
The Glass Wall
1953·5.3
Girls Marked Danger
1952·5.7
The Dream of Zorro
1952·6.8
Anna
1951·7.3
Black Crown
1951·5.4
Double Cross
1951·6.7
Il leone di Amalfi
1950·9.0
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950·4.8
The Outlaws
1950·6.5
Streets of Sorrow
1950·7.0
Lure of the Sila
1949·6.1
Bitter Rice
1949·7.5
The Mysterious Rider
1948·4.7
L'ebreo errante
1948·10.0
The Captain's Daughter
1947·7.7
Shamed
1947·0.0
Daniele Cortis
1947·9.0
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1947·6.0
Incontro con Laura
1945·10.0