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Vittorio Gassman

Born September 1, 1922(1922-09-01)
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Died June 29, 2000 (aged 77)
Rome, Italy
Occupation actor, director, screenwriter
Years active 1945 - 1999
Spouse(s) Nora Ricci (1944-1952)
Shelley Winters (1952-1954)
Diletta D'Andrea (1972-2000)

Vittorio Gassman (September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 &ndash January 14 2006 was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films as well as on stage and television Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film.

Gassman is considered one among the best 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 gave him a vast popularity).

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Biography

He was born in Genoa to a father from a wealthy family of German origins and a Pisan mother. Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the Arno River on the Ligurian Sea.

While very young he moved to Rome, where he attended the studies at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica where some of the most important figures of Italian theatre and cinema also studied, such as Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Adolfo Celi, Luigi Squarzina, Elio Pandolfi, Rossella Falk, Lea Padovani and, later, with Paolo Panelli, Nino Manfredi, Tino Buazzelli, Gianrico Tedeschi, Monica Vitti, Luca Ronconi and many others. Paolo Stoppa ( June 6 1906 - May 1 1988) was a prolific Italian actor and dubber Adolfo Celi (July 27 1922 February 19 1986 was an Italian film actor and director Nino Manfredi (true name Saturnino Manfredi; March 22, 1921 - June 4, 2004) was an Italian actor one of the most Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni Luca Ronconi (born 8 March 1933 in Sousse, Tunisia) is an Italian actor theater director and Opera director

His 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, with no apparent difficulty in the sudden changes. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy.

In 1946 he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, the year after he appeared in five films. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1948 his famous interpretation in Riso Amaro displayed his love for cinema and his capability of excelling both in movies and at the theatre.

It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo ( November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian Paola Borboni ( January 1 1900 - April 9 1995) was an Italian Film actress who career spanned 9 decades of cinema He played a vigorous Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio, then emphatic in Shakespeare's Rosalinda or in Vittorio Alfieri's Oreste. Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26 1911 &ndash February 25 1983 better known as Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright who received many of the top theatrical William Shakespeare ( baptised Rosalinda is a Mexican telenovela which was produced by and broadcasted on Televisa in 1999. Count Vittorio Alfieri ( 16 January 1749 &ndash 8 October 1803) was an Italian Dramatist, considered the "founder He then joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, for a successful Peer Gynt (Ibsen). Peer Gynt (per gʏnt is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. "Ibsen" redirects here For other people named Ibsen see Ibsen (disambiguation.

With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, then rare works such as Seneca's Tieste or Eschilo's The Persians. Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601 Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger; Σένεκας in Ancient Greek literature (c Aeschylus (ˈɛskɨləs or /ˈiːskɨləs/ Greek: Ασχύλος, Aischylos, 525 BC/524 BC 456 BC/455 BC was an ancient Greek Playwright

In 1956, a key year in his career, Gassman played a memorable Othello with the great actor Salvo Randone, exchanging with him the roles of the Moor and Iago. A little later, in the television series entitled Il Mattatore (spotlight chaser) he obtained unexpected success and Il Mattatore soon became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic That year Gassman also directed and starred in a movie dedicated to theatre: it was a version of Kean.

Gassman's debut in the commedia all'italiana genre was rather accidental, in Mario Monicelli I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958), and not far from doubts, as he had been so far known as a dramatic actor. Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian Film genre. Mario Monicelli (born May 15, 1915) is an Italian director and screenwriter one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana Big Deal on Madonna Street ( I soliti ignoti, also released as Persons Unknown in the UK) is a 1958 Italian criminal- His role was however so successful that subsequently Gassman become considered one of the mainstays of the genre, together with Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Nino Manfredi and Ugo Tognazzi. Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( June 15 1920 - February 25 2003) was an Italian Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28 1924 &ndash December 19 1996 was an Italian film actor Nino Manfredi (true name Saturnino Manfredi; March 22, 1921 - June 4, 2004) was an Italian actor one of the most Ugo Tognazzi ( March 23, 1922 - October 27, 1990) was an Italian film TV and theatre actor director and screenwriter Famous movies featuring Gassman include: Il sorpasso (1962), La Grande Guerra (1962), I mostri (1963), L'Armata Brancaleone (1966), Profumo di donna (1974) and C'eravamo tanto amati (1974). The Easy Life ( Il sorpasso) is a 1962 Italian Cult movie directed by director Dino Risi. I mostri (also known as Opiate '67 or in a cut version 15 from Rome) is a 1963 Commedia all'italiana For the Italian comune see Brancaleone (RC. L'armata Brancaleone (known in English-speaking countries as For Love and Gold Profumo di donna ( Scent of a Woman) is a Commedia all'italiana film directed by Dino Risi in 1974 based on Il buio e il C'eravamo tanto amati (US title We All Loved Each Other So Much) is a 1974 Italian Comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola

A true perfectionist, he always hated imperfect diction, or dialectal corruptions (but he was also able to render, perfectly and when needed, most of almost all Italian dialects and inflections). Quite bravely, he accepted the challenge of directing Adelchi, one of the less known and less "easy" works by Alessandro Manzoni. Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni ( March 7, 1785 May 22, 1873) was an Italian Poet and Novelist. He toured his production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a newer edition of the famous Carro di Tespi). Carro di Tespi was a travelling Italian theatrical company that was formerly supported by the ''Fascist'' regime His productions include most of the famous authors of 20th century, with repeated returns to the classics of Shakespeare, Dostoevskij and the Greeks. He also founded a theatre school in Florence, which formed many of the more talented actors of the current generations. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany

In cinema he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood; it was during an early stint there that he met and married Shelley Winters, whom he divorced to return to Italy. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 &ndash January 14 2006 was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films as well as on stage and television

But, despite his success in films, Gassman never left theatre. In the later part of his career, he added poetry to his repertoire, helping to bring to Italy foreign works.

In his late years he was a victim of depression. Major depressive disorder, also known as major depression, unipolar depression, unipolar disorder, clinical depression, or simply depression

He died of a heart attack in his Roman home. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2

Personal life

Gassman married three actresses: Nora Ricci (with whom he had Paola, an actress and wife of Ugo Pagliai); Shelley Winters (mother of his daughter Vittoria); and Diletta D'Andrea who gave him his younger son Jacopo. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works In addition, he had an affair with actress Juliette Maynel (who gave him Alessandro, also an actor. Alessandro Gassman (born February 24, 1965) is an Italian actor )

Gassman was a man of intense emotions and intellectual honesty; his notable sense of humour and self-irony led him in the 1990s to take part in the popular TV show Tunnel in which he very formally and "seriously"' recited documents such as utility bills, yellow pages and similar trivial texts, such as washing instructions for a woollen sweater or cookies ingredients. He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy.

Gassman was also discussed as a person on account of his private life - his divorces (a noted scandal in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s) and his initial atheism (later he gained a certain personalistic faith). Also, in his public appearances on the media he often made original or unconventional comments, sometimes with the clear intention of disturbing the moderate cultural positions; he also gained many enemies in the show biz for similarly frank judgments.

Selected filmography

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