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Vittorio Gassman is a Actor, Director and Writer Italien born on 1 september 1922 at Genoa (Italie)

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman participated to 121 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 9 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actor

Sleepers
Sleepers (1996)
, 2h27
Directed by Barry Levinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about children, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Rape and revenge films, Buddy films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Joseph Perrino, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric
Roles King Benny
Rating75% 3.7506553.7506553.7506553.7506553.750655
Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Thomas "Tommy" Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell's Kitchen, New York City in the mid-1960s. The local priest, Father Robert "Bobby" Carillo, plays an important part in their lives and keeps an eye on them. However, early on they start running small errands for a local mafia gangster, "King" Benny.
Sharky's Machine, 2h2
Directed by Burt Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Brian Keith, Bernie Casey, Charles Durning
Roles Victor Scorelli
Rating62% 3.1478553.1478553.1478553.1478553.147855
Tagline: Some cops are good at opening cases. Sharky knows how to finish one.
War and Peace, 3h28
Directed by King Vidor, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Oskar Homolka, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg
Roles Anatol Kuragin
Rating66% 3.3494453.3494453.3494453.3494453.349445
En 1805 à Moscou, les défilés militaires, les fêtes et les bals se succèdent à la cour de Russie du Tsar Alexandre Ier de Russie, bien que les 200 000 hommes de la grande armée dominatrice de l'empereur Napoléon Ier aient envahi toute l'Europe et s'approchent chaque jour un peu plus de la capitale.
Tempest
Tempest (1958)
, 2h
Directed by Alberto Lattuada, Michelangelo Antonioni
Genres Adventure, Historical
Actors Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Vittorio Gassman, Geoffrey Horne, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Prosecutor
Rating62% 3.1411853.1411853.1411853.1411853.141185
L'action se situe en 1770 en Russie. Le lieutenant Griniov, que l'impératrice Catherine II a contraint à l'exil, se rend à la forteresse de Bielogorsk. Sur sa route, il croise Pougatchev, un cosaque qu'il sauve de la mort. Parvenu à la forteresse, Griniov se met aux ordres du capitaine Mironov. Mironov a une fille, Macha, dont Griniov tombe amoureux, mais il doit affronter la rivalité du lieutenant Chvabrine.
Bitter Rice, 1h48
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Crime, Italian neorealism
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Nico Pepe, Checco Rissone
Roles Walter
Rating75% 3.7933353.7933353.7933353.7933353.793335
The film begins at the start of the rice-planting season in northern Italy. In an effort to escape the law, two small-time thieves, Francesca (Doris Dowling) and Walter (Vittorio Gassman), hide amongst the crowds of female workers heading to the rice fields of the Po Valley. While attempting to board the train for the fields, the pair runs into Silvana (Silvana Mangano), a peasant rice worker. Francesca boards the train with Silvana, who introduces her to the planter's way of life. Francesca does not have a work permit, and struggles with the other "illegals" to find a place on the rice fields. After initial resistance from documented workers and bosses, the scabs are allowed a place in the fields. At the fields, Silvana and Francesca meet a soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco (Raf Vallone), who unsuccessfully tries to attract Silvana's interest.
Anna
Anna (1951)
, 1h47
Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Jacques Dumesnil, Vittorio Gassman, Bianca Doria
Roles Vittorio
Rating65% 3.2987353.2987353.2987353.2987353.298735
A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer.
Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1h42
Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory
Roles Peppe il pantera
Rating79% 3.953633.953633.953633.953633.95363
A Roman small-time crook, Cosimo, is arrested for the attempted theft of a car. After he is convicted and put in prison, he starts haranguing his girlfriend and former accomplices by telling them that he has a plan for a heist but that he needs their help to be freed. In order to assure his release, they find an acquaintance named Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) with a clean criminal record to take the blame for the theft in the hope that the police will release Cosimo. They instead have both of them jailed. While Peppe is in jail, Cosimo tells him the plans for the heist of a safe in a pawnshop. Peppe then reveals that he got off merely with probation, leaving him free to pursue the heist without Cosimo, much to his chagrin.
Scent of a Woman, 1h43
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about disabilities, La cécité, Erotic thriller films
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Agostina Belli, Alessandro Momo, Moira Orfei, Alvaro Vitali, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Fausto Consolo
Rating74% 3.7452753.7452753.7452753.7452753.745275
A blind Italian captain, accompanied by his aide Ciccio, who has been assigned to him by the army, is on his way from Turin to Naples to meet with an old comrade who was also disfigured in the same military incident. Unknown to his aide, the Captain means to fulfill a suicide pact there. While they journey, the Captain asks Ciccio to help him spot beautiful women. Unsatisfied with the boy's descriptions, he uses his nose instead, claiming that he can smell a beautiful woman. During their journey, he carries with him a picture of his beloved Sara, whom he could not bear to have see him disfigured and helpless. The suicide pact is eventually thwarted once Sara enters the picture, and the boy Ciccio does some much-needed growing up.
Beautiful But Dangerous, 1h47
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio Gassman, Robert Alda, Anne Vernon, Tamara Lees, Mario Del Monaco
Roles Prince Sergei
Rating59% 2.956252.956252.956252.956252.95625
Lina (Gina Lollo) was an orphan, brought up by her adopted mother getting trained for music. Her mother became sick due to heart attack on the stage, and Lina will go to the stage in place of her mother. But a group of teaser will tease her, by connecting her mother name too and will not allow to perform. From the balcony a person, the prince of Russia, Sergio (Vittorio Gassman) will come down and make the teaser group go out of the theater and asks Lina to perform. It was a very good performance, but at the end she will come to know that mother had another attack, so been send to the long distance hospital. By the night she wanted to go, but there was no way to. Sergio will offer her lift to the hospital, and on the way he will come to know each other. The prince will not tell his real identity, but will say only that he came there for horse competition in the local club, and he stays regularly Paris and he is from Russia. By reaching the hospital, she will left her hand bag in the coach, Sergio by seeing that will put enough money and his golden ring in that, and give the bag to Lina. In hurry she will enter the hospital, and will find her mother is no more.