Vittorio Gassman
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PERSONAL DATA OF VITTORIO GASSMAN
Born in: Genoa, Italy
Born on: 01/09/1922
He dies at: Rome Italy
He dies on: 29/06/2000
BIOGRAPHY OF VITTORIO GASSMAN
Actor. Son of a German construction engineer, Heinrich, and a Tuscan mother passionate about theater, Luisa Ambron, he grew up in Rome where he attended the “Tasso” high school. As a boy he was a promise of basketball (he was called up in Serie A and in the national team) but after school, together with classmates Luigi Squarzina and Carlo Mazzarella, he enrolled in the National Academy of Dramatic Art. From there begins the career of one of the greatest Italian actors of the post-war period. Even before finishing the Academy, Gassman was hired in the company of Lida Borrelli and made his debut in ‘La nemica’ by Dario Niccodemi. In the meantime he marries Nora Ricci, his classmate, daughter of Renzo Ricci and Margherita Bagni (at times daughter of Ermete Zacconi) both famous actors. On June 29, 1945 he has his first daughter, Paola, who is also destined for a career as an actress. In the two-year period 1947-48, Gassman founded his own company with Evi Maltagliati and, in 1949, starred alongside Paolo Stoppa in the one directed by Luchino Visconti in Alfieri’s ‘Oreste’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Troilo e Cressida’. The friend and former partner Squarzina then directs him in ‘Hamlet’. A very eclectic theatrical actor, capable of passing indifferently from Miller to Shakespeare, from Seneca to Manzoni, Gassman made his debut in the cinema with ‘Preludio d’amore’ in 1947 and attended Hollywood for a certain period. He remarries with actress Shelley Winters who gives him a daughter, Vittoria, but the marriage is short-lived. It is in Italy that, at theater and cinema, Gassman gives the best proof of himself: on the stage in ‘Kean genius and recklessness’ by Dumas-Sartre, and in a memorable ‘Otello’ in which he alternates every evening with Salvo Randone also in the role of Iago; on the big screen in films that have made the history of Italian cinema. From ‘Riso amaro’ by Giuseppe De Santis (in which he is Walter, a cynical thief who unscrupulously enters the world of the mondine), to the film that gives him the real success, ‘I soliti ignoti’ by Mario Monicelli (1958) , in which Gassman is the stammering thief “Peppe er pantera”, his first comic role. A year later, Monicelli again directs him in ‘La grande guerra’ which wins the Golden Lion in Venice, in which he plays alongside Alberto Sordi. In 1962 Gassman is, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, the protagonist of ‘Il sorpasso’ by Dino Risi, in which he plays the role of Bruno, a boastful and uninhibited young man who drags the shy Roberto (Trintignant) in his car raids. The collaboration with Risi continues in ’63 with ‘I mostri’. It is impossible to forget ‘L’armata Brancaleone’ and ‘Brancaleone alle crusades’ both by Monicelli (1965 and 1969), or ‘Profumo di donna’, again by Risi (1974), a film that had years later a Hollywood remake starring by Al Pacino. And it is impossible not to remember the long collaboration with Ettore Scola, the director who, with Monicelli and Risi, has signed some of the most beautiful films interpreted by Gassman: ‘We loved each other so much’ (1974), a bitter and at the same time ironic story of the journey of Italy from the post-war period to the seventies, reconstructed through the parallel stories of three friends (Gassman, Manfredi and Satta Flores) united by the common memory of the Resistance, but divided by antithetical life choices. ‘The family’ (1986), in which a family of the Roman bourgeoisie, through four generations, mirrors the events of Italy in this century. In 1996 at the Venice International Film Festival he obtained the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Finally, we get to ‘La cena’, a 1998 film destined, now we know, to remain one of Vittorio Gassman’s last. The last, however, is another: ‘La bomba’, a film directed by Giulio Base in which Gassman stars together with his son Alessandro, had in 1965 by Juliette Maynel, five years before marrying Diletta D’Andrea, who was next to him. until his death and with whom he had his son Jacopo. In his mature years, Gassman experienced the dark evil of depression.
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THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY VITTORIO GASSMAN
FROM FATHER TO SON
Role: Film director
Year: 1982
Without a family, people with no property seek affection
Role: Film director
Year: 1972
The alibi
Role: Film director
Year: 1968
Kean: Genius and recklessness (Kean)
Role: Film director
Year: 1956 Go to the Complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF VITTORIO GASSMAN
Comedy: 42% Drama: 22% Comedy: 7% Biography: 5%
THE STATISTICS OF VITTORIO GASSMAN ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES INTERPRETED BY VITTORIO GASSMAN
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Gasmaniadi | Himself |
Luchino Visconti | Himself |
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