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Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

Italian actor and director (1922-2000)
September 1, 1922 (June 29, 2000)

The Dinner

V.O.: La Cena
It. 1998. Mores comedy by Ettore Scola with Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli. During an evening, the tribulations of the staff and the customers of a Roman restaurant hosted by an attentive patroness.

The Sleazy Uncle

V.O.: Lo Zio indegno
It. 1989. Mores comedy by Franco Brusati with Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Sandrelli. Called upon to pay his uncle's hospital bills, a morose family man seeks to discover who this eccentric relative is.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Palermo Connection

V.O.: Dimenticare Palermo
It. 1989. Mores drama by Francesco Rosi with James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland. A Sicilian immigrant running for mayor of New York campaigns for the legalization of drugs, which gets him into trouble with the mafia while in Palermo.
Runtime: 100 min.

Sheherazade 1001 Nights

V.O.: Les 1001 nuits
Fr. 1989. Fantasy comedy by Philippe de Broca with Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Stéphane Freiss. In the year 1000, a slave sentenced to death by the Sultan obtains help from a genius exiled in twentieth century London.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Family

V.O.: La Famiglia
It. 1987. Chronicle by Ettore Scola with Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Fanny Ardant. Eighty years of history through the prism of an Italian bourgeois family.
Runtime: 127 min.
Fr. 1985. Drama by Krzysztof Zanussi with Benjamin Voelz, Vittorio Gassman, Marie-Christine Barrault. In the 1920s, a theology student becomes the puppet of a woman who wants to take over her husband's industrial empire.
Runtime: 105 min.

Bid Deal on Madonna Street 20 years later

V.O.: I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo
It. 1985. Police comedy by Amanzio Todini with Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Giorgio Gobbi. An ex-convict agrees to replace an old sick friend in a currency smuggling business.
Runtime: 99 min.
Bel. 1983. Psychological drama by André Delvaux with Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian. A screenwriter visits a middle-aged woman whose possibly autobiographical novel he wants to adapt for the screen.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1982. Satire by Alain Resnais with Raimondo Ruggeri, Vittorio Gassman, Sabine Azéma. A castle in the Ardennes serves as a setting for research about happiness in different eras.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1982. Satire by Paul Mazursky with John Cassavetes, Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia. On a Greek island, a New York architect hosts a curious reception for his ex-wife.
Runtime: 140 min.
U.S. 1981. Crime drama by Burt Reynolds with Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Vittorio Gassman.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 1980. Comedy by Clive Donner with Don Adams, Andrea Howard, Vittorio Gassman.
Runtime: 94 min.

La Terrasse

V.O.: La Terrazza
Runtime: 161 min.
U.S. 1978. Mores comedy by Robert Altman with Carol Burnett, Vittorio Gassman, Geraldine Chaplin.
Runtime: 125 min.

Deux bonnes pâtes

V.O.: Due pezzi di pane
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1978. Science-fiction by Robert Altman with Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Bibi Andersson.
Runtime: 117 min.

Les Nouveaux Monstres

V.O.: I Nuovi Mostri
It. 1978. Sketches by Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola with Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi. Presentation of characters illustrating various aspects of the human condition.
Runtime: 113 min.

Cher Papa

V.O.: Caro papà
It. 1978. Satire by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman, Stefano Madia, Aurore Clément. An Italian business person discovers that his son is part of a terrorist group.
Runtime: 106 min.

Virginité

V.O.: Come una rosa al naso
It. 1976. Mores comedy by Franco Rossi with Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Madeline Hide. A single Sicilian living in London agrees to take in and look after a young cousin.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Desert of the Tartars

V.O.: Il Deserto dei Tartari
Fr. 1976. Psychological drama by Valerio Zurlini with Jacques Perrin, Giuliano Gemma, Vittorio Gassman. An officer spends his entire career in a border fortress waiting for hypothetical enemies.
Runtime: 137 min.
It. 1976. Satire by Dino Risi with Agostina Belli, Vittorio Gassman, Cochi Ponzoni. In the 1930s, a maid becomes a movie star.
Runtime: 116 min.

We All Loved Each Other so Much

V.O.: C'eravamo tanto amati
It. 1975. Dramatic comedy by Ettore Scola with Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli. Three men from different backgrounds who became friends in the French Resistance experience different fates.
Runtime: 124 min.

Parfum de femme

V.O.: Profumo di donna
It. 1974. Dramatic comedy by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli. A young soldier accompanies a captain, blinded by an explosion, on a trip from Milan to Naples.
Runtime: 103 min.

Without Family

V.O.: Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto
It. 1972. Comedy by Vittorio Gassman with Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio, Corrado Gaipa. After leaving an orphanage at the age of thirty, a man tries to find his mother with the help of a street performer.
Runtime: 102 min.

Au nom du peuple italien

V.O.: In Nome del Popolo Italiano
It. 1971. Social drama by Dino Risi with Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani. An investigating judge, called upon to investigate the suspicious death of a young woman, believes it was a murder and suspects an industrialist of the crime.
Runtime: 102 min.

Twelve Plus One

V.O.: 12 + 1
It. 1969. Comedy by Nicolas Gessner with Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Welles. A hairdresser seeks to find a treasure hidden in the seat of a chair that was sold to an antique dealer.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 106 min.

The Black Sheep

V.O.: La Pecora nera
It. 1968. Comedy by Luciano Salce with Vittorio Gassman, Lisa Gastoni, Adrienne La Russa. A small-time schemer jeopardizes the career of his twin brother, a member of Parliament with exemplary honesty.

Ghosts- Italian Style

V.O.: Questi fantasmi
It. 1968. Comedy by Renato Castellani with Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf. The difficulties of a couple who has moved in to a supposedly haunted house.
Runtime: 94 min.
It. 1967. Satire by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker. A married industrialist falls for the advances of a capricious young woman.
Runtime: 110 min.

For Love and Gold

V.O.: L'armata Brancaleone
Runtime: 120 min.

Une Vierge pour le prince

V.O.: Una vergine per il principe
It. 1966. Comedy by Pasquale Festa Campanile with Vittorio Gassman, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy. During the Renaissance, an Italian prince had to prove his virility.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1965. Sketches by Terence Young, Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani with Henry Fonda, Bourvil, Vittorio Gassman. Three espionage adventures.
Runtime: 91 min.

Cent Millions ont disparu

V.O.: La Congiuntura
It. 1965. Police comedy by Ettore Scola with Vittorio Gassman, Joan Collins, Jacques Bergerac. A Roman prince is deceived by a young woman who uses him to pass on money stolen in Switzerland.
Runtime: 95 min.

Let's Talk About Women

V.O.: Se permettete parliamo di donne
It. 1964. Sketches by Ettore Scola with Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Eleonora Rossi Drago. A dozen variations on the relationship between men and women.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Success

V.O.: Il Successo
It. 1964. Comedy by Mauro Morassi with Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant. An ambitious man sacrifices family and friends to succeed in business.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Easy Life

V.O.: Il Sorpasso
It. 1963. Mores comedy by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak. A student goes for a drive with a casual braggart.
Runtime: 105 min.

L'Amour difficile

V.O.: L'Amore difficile
It. 1963. Sketches by Luciano Lucignani, Alberto Bonucci, Nino Manfredi with Nino Manfredi, Lilli Palmer, Vittorio Gassman. An eccentric account of four love affairs.
Runtime: 92 min.

L'Âme noire

V.O.: Anima nera
It. 1962. Drama by Roberto Rossellini with Vittorio Gassman, Nadja Tiller, Annette Stroyberg. An ex-prostitute who is the heir to a sumptuous villa belonging to a former client and is dating a young woman from a good family is blackmailed by the sister of the deceased.
Runtime: 97 min.

March on Rome

V.O.: La Marcia su Roma
It. 1962. Satire by Dino Risi with Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Roger Hanin. An idle man and a peasant join the new Fascist party.
Runtime: 94 min.

Le Jugement dernier

V.O.: Il giudizio universale
Runtime: 101 min.

Ghosts in Rome

V.O.: Fantasmi a Roma
It. 1961. Comedy by Antonio Pietrangeli with Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Sandra Milo. Ghosts worry about the upcoming demolition of the house they haunt.
Runtime: 85 min.

Hold-up à la milanaise

V.O.: Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
It. 1961. Police comedy by Nanni Loy with Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Vicky Ludovisi. Clumsy bandits organize an armed robbery in Milan.
Runtime: 97 min.
It. 1961. History by Richard Fleischer with Anthony Quinn, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano. Freed instead of Jesus, Barabbas is imprisoned again in Sicily and then sent to Rome as a gladiator.
Runtime: 145 min.
It. 1960. Police comedy by Mario Camerini with Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi. Three Italians, involved in a murder case, clumsily try to clear their names.
Runtime: 105 min.

Love and Larceny

V.O.: Il Mattatore
It. 1959. Comedy by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman, Anna Maria Ferrero, Peppino de Filippo. An unemployed actor exploits his talents as a comedian in a scam.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Great War

V.O.: La Grande Guerra
It. 1959. War drama by Mario Monicelli with Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano. Two Italian soldiers engaged against their will in the war participate in the battle of Piave.
Runtime: 118 min.

The Big Deal on Madonna Street

V.O.: I Soliti Ignoti
It. 1958. Police comedy by Mario Monicelli with Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori. In Rome, some modest crooks decide to make a big move.
Runtime: 102 min.

La Blonde Enjôleuse

V.O.: La Ragazza del palio
It. 1958. Comedy by Luigi Zampa with Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Bruce Cabot. While in Italy, an American woman meets and falls in love with an aristocrat.
Runtime: 99 min.

Le Chevalier de la violence

V.O.: Giovanni delle bande nere
It. 1956. History by Sergio Grieco with Vittorio Gassman, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Constance Smith. The adventures of a gang leader in fifteenth century Italy.
Runtime: 95 min.

War and Peace

V.O.: Guerra e pace
It. 1956. Epic by King Vidor with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer. Romantic intrigues in the Russian nobility at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
Runtime: 208 min.
It. 1955. Melodrama by Robert Rossen with Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Michael Rennie. A dancer marries an ailing aristocrat in the hope of inheriting his fortune.
Runtime: 108 min.

Beautiful But Dangerous

V.O.: La Belle des belles
It. 1955. Biography by Robert Z. Leonard with Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio Gassman, Anne Vernon. Protected by a Russian prince, an orphan girl becomes a famous singer.
Runtime: 103 min.

Je défends mon amour

V.O.: Difendo il mio amore
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1954. Drama by Charles Vidor with Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson. The tribulations of a capricious young woman loved by two musicians.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1953. Drama by Joseph H. Lewis with Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen. A prison escapee hides in a Louisiana swamp.
Runtime: 80 min.
U.S. 1953. Social drama by Maxwell Shane with Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson. A Hungarian is smuggled into the United States, while trying to avoid deportation.

L'Héritier de Zorro

V.O.: Il Sogno di Zorro
It. 1952. Adventures by Mario Soldati with Walter Chiari, Vittorio Gassman, Michèle Philippe. Every time he gets hit on the head, Zorro's son turns from a thunderbolt to a chicken and back again.
Runtime: 84 min.

La Couronne noire

V.O.: La Corona Negra
Esp. 1952. Drama by Luis Saslavsky with Maria Felix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman. An amnesiac woman is taken in by an engineer.
Runtime: 106 min.

La Traite des blanches

V.O.: La trata delle bianche
Runtime: 86 min.

Le Prince pirate

V.O.: Il Leone di Amalfi
It. 1951. Adventures by Pietro Francisci with Vittorio Gassman, Milly Vitale, Carlo Ninchi. The son of a despoiled duke fights against the Norman invaders.

Trahison

V.O.: Il Tradimento

Bitter Rice

V.O.: Riso amaro
It. 1949. Social drama by Giuseppe De Santis with Silvana Mangano, Doris Dowling, Vittorio Gassman. The hard life of women working in the rice fields of northern Italy.
Runtime: 108 min.

J'étais une pécheresse

V.O.: Ho sognato il paradiso
It. 1949. Melodrama by Giorgio Pastina with Geraldine Brooks, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Marzi. A young man from a good family saves a woman who lives in a brothel from drowning.

L'Épervier du Nil

V.O.: Sparviero del Nilo, Lo
Runtime: 79 min.

Le Chevalier Mystérieux

V.O.: Il Cavaliere misterioso
It. 1948. Adventures by Riccardo Freda with Vittorio Gassman, Maria Mercader, Elli Parvo. Casanova searches for a compromising letter to preserve the honour of the Doge of Venice.

The Captain's Daughter

V.O.: La Figlia del capitano
It. 1947. Adventures by Mario Camerini with Irasema Dilian, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman. In the time of Catherine the Great, a young Russian officer is accused of treason.
Runtime: 102 min.

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