Vittorio Gassman
Gender: Male
Born: 1st September 1922
Died: 29th June 2000
Nationality: Italy
Movies: Barabbas, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Brancaleone alle Crociate, L'armata Brancalone, Quintet, The Glass Wall, The Nude Bomb, The Easy Life, The Last Judgement, I nuovi mostri, The Thirteen Chairs, I mostri, Bitter Rice, Tempest, Anna, C'eravamo tanto amati, La Terrazza, Rhapsody, The Great War, Profumo di donna, March on Rome, La famiglia, Una Vergine per il Principe, Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti, Sharky's Machine, Il Mattatore, The Love Specialist, The Desert of the Tartars, Life Is a Bed of Roses, Pure as a Lily, Alibi, Pleasant Nights, The Archangel, Slalom, Let's Have a Riot, Shivers in Summer, Sleepers, Dear Father, La Congiuntura, Woman Times Seven, Benvenuta, War and Peace, Ghosts of Rome, The Tiger and the Pussycat, Abraham, Catch As Catch Can, Big Deal on Madonna Street: 20 Years Later, A Wedding, Mambo, Life Is a Bed of Roses, Cry of the Hunted, The Long Winter, What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?, Amleto, L'amore difficile, Beautiful But Dangerous, Cry of the Hunted, Sombrero, Crimen
Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which made him greatly popular).
He was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann, and a Pisan Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron. While still very young he moved to Rome, where he attended the studies at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica.
Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's Nemica (theatre), he then moved to Rome and the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to the sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, the year after 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
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