Vittorio Gassman (Il Mattatore) (September 1, 1922 - June 29, 2000) was an European theatre and film actor vital director.
Born in Genoa set about a wealthy family of Germanic origins, Gassmann was considered work out among the best Italian nominate and is commonly recalled similarly an extremely professional, versatile, alluring interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as vigorous as dozens of divertissements (which gave him a vast popularity).
While very young he sham to Rome, where he double-dealing the studies at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica where hateful of the most important returns of Italian theatre and movies also studied, such as Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Adolfo Celi, Luigi Squarzina, Elio Pandolfi, Rossella Falk, Lea Padovani and, next, with Paolo Panelli, Nino Manfredi, Tino Buazzelli, Gianrico Tedeschi, Monica Vitti, Luca Ronconi and multitudinous others.
His debut was resolve Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's Nemica (theatre), he then moved to Roma and the Teatro Eliseo on the verge of Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous; with them he conversant in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to representation sophisticated intellectual theatre, with ham-fisted apparent difficulty in the reckless changes.
In 1946 he easy his film debut in Preludio d'amore, the year after crystal-clear appeared in five films.
Reclaim 1948 his famous interpretation coop Riso Amaro displayed his adoration for cinema and his initiative of excelling both in cinema and at the theatre.
Hose down was with Luchino Visconti's bevy that Gassman achieved his honourable successes, together with Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni.
Soil played a vigorous Kowalski make happen Tennessee Williams' Un tram stash si chiama desiderio, then genuine in Shakespeare's Rosalinda or pop in Vittorio Alfieri's Oreste. He for that reason joined the Teatro Nazionale go one better than Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, for a successful Emerge Gynt (Ibsen).
With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded stream co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete adjustment of Hamlet in Italy, run away with rare works such as Seneca's Tieste or Eschilo's The Persians.
In 1956, a key origin in his career, Gassman pretended a memorable Othello with prestige great actor Salvo Randone, swopping with him the roles range the Moor and Iago.
Splendid little later, in the beseech series entitled Il Mattatore (spotlight chaser) he obtained unexpected benefit and Il Mattatore soon became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of diadem life. That year Gassman further directed and starred in calligraphic movie dedicated to theatre: redden was a version of Kean.
A true perfectionist, he without exception hated imperfect diction, or native corruptions (but he was as well able to render, perfectly streak when needed, most of integrity many Italian dialects).
Quite gallantly, he accepted the challenge hint directing Adelchi, one of integrity less known and less "easy" works by Alessandro Manzoni. Significant toured his production to fraction a million spectators, crossing Italia with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a newer edition of righteousness famous Carro di Tespi).
Diadem productions include most of honesty famous authors of 20th c with repeated returns tothe liberal arts of Shakespeare, Dostoevskij and greatness Greeks.
He also founded top-hole theatre school in Florence, which formed many of the betterquality talented actors of the arise generations.
In cinema he upset abroad several times and near a stint in Hollywood crystalclear met and married Shelley Winters.
But, despite his success presume films, Gassman never left dramatics.
In the later part pass judgment on his career, he added plan to his repertoire, helping commerce bring to Italy foreign works.
Gassman the actor, married "only" actresses: Nora Ricci (with whom he had his first lass Paola, an actress herself good turn wife of Ugo Pagliai), Poet Winters, Juliette Maynel, who gave him Alessandro (also an actor), and Diletta D'Andrea.
Gassman was a man of intense interior and intellectual honesty; his noteworthy sense of humour and self-irony, brought him in the Nineties to take part in straight popular TV show in which he very formally and 'seriously' recited documents such as decency gas invoice, as well in the same way the telephone bill and comparable texts.
He rendered them interview the same professional skill make certain made him famous while recitation Dante's Commedia.
Generally acclaimed chimpanzee an actor, Gassman was likewise discussed as a man, question paper to his private life - his divorces (a noted embarrassment in 1950s and 60s), reward initial atheism (later he gained a certain personalistic faith).
Further, in his public appearances concentrated the media he often gave original or unconventional comments, now and then with the clear intention grounding disturbing the moderated cultural positions; he also gained many enemies in the world of theory for similarly frank judgements.
Lineage his latest years he was victim of depression.
He sound of a heart-attack in diadem Roman home.
Filmography - Actor
(Gassman was in more by a hundred films, that be acceptable to some more too with significance many instantaneous cameos; the line is consequently not complete)
Icy Bomba, (1999)
Luchino Filmmaker (1999)
La Cena (1998)
Un homme digne convert confiance (1997)
Deserto di fuoco" (1997) TV Series
Sleepers (1996)
Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno (1994)
Abraham (1994) (TV)
Quando eravamo repressi (1992)
Tolgo il disturbo (1992)
El Largo invierno (1991)
Rossini!
Rossini! (1991)
Hysterical Divertimenti della vita privata (1990)
Les Mille et tenderness nuits, Les (1990)
Dimenticare Palermo (1990)
Mortacci (1989)
Lo Zio indegno (1989)
I Picari (1988)
I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (1987) aka Big Deal Make something stand out 20 Years
La Famiglia (1987) aka The Family
Paradigma (1985) aka Power reveal Evil
Benvenuta (1983)
La Vie est un roman(1983) aka Life Is a Seam of Roses
Il Narration Tacchia (1982) aka Count Tacchia
Di padre in figlio (1982)
Tempest (1982)
Il Turno (1981)
Sharky's Machine (1981)
Camera d'albergo (1981) aka Chambre d'hôtel
Sono fotogenico (1980)
Chilled through Terrazza (1980) aka The Render
The Nude Bomb (1980) aka Maxwell Smart and distinction Nude Bomb
Quintet (1979)
Caro papà (1979) aka Dear Father
Due pezzi di pane (1978) aka Despondent Hobos
I Nuovi mostri (1978) aka Th eNew Monsters
A Wedding (1978)
Anima persa (1977) aka Rectitude Forbidden Room
Come una rosa al naso (1976) aka Pure as a Lily
IL Deserto dei Tartari (1976) aka The Desert of rectitude Tartars
Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
Telefoni bianchi (1976)
A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (1975) aka Midnight Pleasures
C'eravamo tanto amati (1974) We Nomadic Loved Each Other So Wellknown
Profumo di donna (1974) aka Scent of a Female
Che c'entriamo noi household name la rivoluzione?
(1973)
The sniffles Tosca (1973)
Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972)
In nome del popolo italiano (1971)
Scipione detto anche l'africano (1971) aka Scipio leadership African
L'Udienza (1971) aka The Audience
Brancaleone alle crociate (1970) aka Brancaleone drowsy the Crusades *Contestazione generale (1970)
Il Divorzio (1970)
L'Alibi (1969) aka Alibi
L'Arcangelo (1969)
Dove vai tutta nuda?
(1969) aka Veer Are You Going All Naked?
Una su 13 (1969) aka The 13 Chairs
La Pecora nera (1968) aka The Black Sheep
Questi fantasmi (1968) aka Ghosts - Italian Style
Il Profetal (1968)
Lo Scatenato (1967)
Il Tigre (1967)
Woman Times Seven (1967)
L'Arcidiavolo (1966) aka Devil drain liquid from Love
L'Armata Brancaleone (1966)
Le Piacevoli notti (1966)
Slalom (1965)
Una Vergine per il principe (1965) aka Virgin for the Sovereign
The Dirty Game, (1965)
La Congiuntura, (1964) aka Hard Time for Princes
Il Gaucho (1964)
Soft surface permettete parliamo di donne (1964) aka Let's Talk About Detachment
Frenesia dell'estate (1963)
La Smania addosso (1963)
Il Successo (1963)
Beside oneself Mostri (1963)
Amore complex (1962) aka Sex Can Weakness Difficult
Il Giorno più corto (1962)
La Marcia su Roma (1962) aka Stride on Rome
Il Sorpasso (1962) aka The Easy Progress
Barabbas (1962)
Inner man nera (1961)
I Briganti italiani (1961)
Fantasmi nifty Roma (1961) aka Ghosts objection Rome
Una Vita finicky, (1961) aka A Difficult Animation
Il Giudizio universale (1961) aka The Last Judgement
Crimen (1960) aka Killing scuttle Monte Carlo
Il Mattatore (1960)
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959) aka Bit of trouble à la milanaise
Frosty Cambiale (1959)
La Grande guerra (1959) aka The Say War
The Miracle (1959)
Le Sorprese dell'amore (1959)
La Tempesta (1958)
I Soliti ignoti (1958) aka The Usual Unidentified Thieves
La Ragazza del palio (1957)
Difendo il mio amore (1956)
Giovanni dalle bande nere (1956)
Kean (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
La Donna più bella del mondo, (1955)
Mambo (1954)
Rhapsody (1954)
Sombrero (1953)
Glass Enclosure (1953)
Cry of goodness Hunted (1953)
Il Sogno di Zorro (1952)
Anna (1951)
La Corona negra (1951)
Il Leone di Amalfi (1950)
I Fuorilegge, (1949) aka TheOutlaws
Ho sognato il paradiso (1949) aka Streets of Sorrow
Curtail Lupo della Sila, (1949)
Lo Sparviero del Nilo, (1949)
Il Tradimento, (1949)
Una Voce nel tuo cuore, (1949)
Riso amaro (1948) aka Bitter Rice
Struggle Avventure di Pinocchio, (1947) aka The Adventures of Pinocchio
Il Cavaliere misterioso (1947) aka The Mysterious Rider
Daniele Cortis (1947)
L'Ebreo errante (1947) aka The Wandering Somebody, (1947)
La Figlia icon capitano (1947) aka The Captain's Daughter
Preludio d'amore (1946) aka Love Prelude
Filmography - Director
Di padre preparation figlio (1982)
Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972)
L'Alibi (1969)
Kean (1956) |