Vittorio GassmanFilmography

Born:: September 1, 1922 in Genoa, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: One of the most popular and versatile stars in Italy for over 40 years, handsome, flamboyant Vittorio Gassman has found tremendous success on stage and screen as an actor. Internationally, Gassman is perhaps best known as the comic star of such films as I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street)...Read More

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La Bomba

Actors: Alessandro Gassman, Enrico Brignano, Rocco Papaleo, Lola Pagnani, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: In this bawdy Italian comedy, Nino (Alessandro Gassman) and his buddy Sergio (Enrico Brignano) are a pair of aspiring actors who decide to move to New York in hope of breaking into the business. Nino and Sergio meet another Italian expatriate at an audition, a sexy young woman named Daisy (Lola Pagnani Read More

1999
La Cena

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Lea Gramsdorff, Eros Pagni

Synopsis: This complexly plotted comedy interweaves snippets from the lives of nearly 40 diverse patrons sitting at 14 tables in a little Italian trattoria. Though the diners come from all levels of society, most are bound by one or two common threads: their engagement in illicit romantic affairs and the Read More

1998
Sleepers

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). Read More

1996
Tutti Gli Anni una Volta l'Anno

Actors: Giorgio Albertazzi, Paolo Bonacelli, Lando Buzzanca, Carla Cassola, Paolo Ferrari

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, eight lifelong friends attending their annual dinner party/reunion must re-evaluate their lives after they read a provocative letter from a group member who recently died. All of the remaining eight are retired. The letter suggests they all move into an empty convent and Read More

1994
Abraham

Actors: Richard Harris

Synopsis: This entry into TNT's lavish and acclaimed Bible Series follows the tale of humble shepherd Abraham (Richard Harris) as he leads his flock to the Promised Land despite great danger. When the voice of God himself tells Abraham that he must lead his family and a group of like-minded believers on a Read More

1994
El Largo Invierno

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Penot, Elizabeth Hurley, Jean Rochefort, Adolfo Marsillach

Synopsis: In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in Read More

1992
Les 1001 Nuits

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Stéphane Freiss, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: The tale of this movie is familiar enough, Sheherazade (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has been married to a ruler (Thierry Lhermitte) who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this Read More

1990
Les Amusements De La Vie Privee

Actors: Delphine Forest, Christophe Malavoy, Giancarlo Giannini, Vittorio Gassman

1990
Lo Zio Indegno

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Andréa Ferréol, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: This wickedly funny Italian comedy centers upon a lascivious, fun-loving old uncle who hands out blood-test certificates to potential lovers to prove that he is "clean" and wreaks all sorts of havoc when he must temporarily stay with his wealthy but emotionally constipated nephew. At first the Read More

10/27/89
Dimenticare Palermo

Actors: James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Philippe Noiret, Carolina Rosi

Synopsis: This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches a campaign for the legalization of heretofore illegal narcotics. Alarmed by the support it gets, Mafiosos frame the candidate for a crime he did not commit and force him to Read More

1989
La Famiglia

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Andrea Occhipinti, Alberto Gimignani

Synopsis: A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday. Young Carlo (Andrea Massimo) marries Beatrice (Stefania Sandrelli) in 1926 but later has an illicit affair with her bohemian artist sister Adriana (Fanny Ardant). Read More

1/22/87
I Picari

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Giancarlo Giannini, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Giuliana de Sio

Synopsis: In one popular Spanish-English dictionary, "picaro" is defined as "roguish; scheming, tricky; low, vile; mischievous," and when used as a noun it refers to a rogue, a schemer. Yet the word also harkens to the kinds of novels (picaresque) that came out of Spain in the 17th century, including Don Read More

1987
Big Deal On Madonna Street...20 Years Later

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Tiberlo Murgia, Francesco de Rosa, Giorgio Gobbi

Synopsis: The vast differences 27 years makes between Italian comedy, the city of Rome, the stars in this film, and filmmaking itself are apparent in this 1985 sequel to the 1958 I Soliti Ignoti. Clips from the earlier film highlight the changes. Returning to reprise their roles are Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman Read More

12/25/85
Paradigma

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Vittorio Gassman, Benjamin Voelz, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: In a befuddling look at the nature of evil (apparently linked with how much money one has), a young idealist finds himself in hot water by sticking with his beliefs. Hubert (Benjamin Voelz) is studying theology supported by a grant from a weapons manufacturer (Vittorio Gassman) -- the first crack Read More

9/11/85
Benvenuta

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière, Claire Wauthion

Synopsis: This complex French tale eschews a single linear narrative in favor of two parallel storylines that move freely between past and present, reality and fantasy, to chronicle a scandalous love affair between a female author and a certain man who may or may not be a fabrication and the attempts of a Read More

12/6/84
La Vie Est Un Roman

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom defined a particular era in his country's cinema Melies (the first French filmmaker to use narrative--his most famous film is A Trip to the Moon), the Read More

1983
Il Conte Tacchia

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Panelli

Synopsis: Loosely based on an historical character and his ennoblement by a Pope, Conte Tacchia relates the adventures of Checco (Enrico Montesano), an upbeat carpenter living at the beginning of the 20th century who is convinced that he is the illegitimate son of a local prince (Vittorio Gassman). Because Read More

12/23/82
Tempest

Actors: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Raul Julia

Synopsis: This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a middle-aged New York architect who abandons his wife and moves to the island with his teen-age daughter and his new lover, a Greek singer, in hopes of finding meaning in his Read More

1982
Sharky's Machine

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

Synopsis: A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 Read More

1981
La Terrazza

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards Read More

2/8/80
The Immortal Bachelor

Synopsis: Monica Vitti stars as Tina Candela, a housekeeper on trial for murdering her husband. As she recounts her testimony, the jury becomes taken with fantasies about the marriage of the accused. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
The Nude Bomb

Actors: Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley

Synopsis: Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy espionage spoof. This time, Smart and his cohorts must stop enemy spies from detonating a bomb that would destroy all the world's clothing. On television, the film was renamed Read More

1980
Caro Papà

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Aurore Clément, Andrée LaChapelle, Stefano Madia, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: Dear Father and Dear Papa are the English-language titles for the Italian domestic drama Caro Papa. Vittorio Gassman plays a flint-hearted industrialist who thinks as little of destroying his business partner as he does of cheating on his wife. Gassman's son is an apparently weak-willed lad, who Read More

4/11/79
Due Pezzi Di Pane

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret, Luigi Proietti

Synopsis: The two wandering minstrels Pippo (Vittorio Gassman) and Peppe (Philippe Noiret) have long been favorites in their Roman neighborhood, each separately contributing a musical accompaniment to the lives of its inhabitants. During a critical time some months previously, they had both had relations Read More

1/26/79
Quintet

Actors: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Perhaps the least seen but most talked about film of Robert Altman's career, Quintet is a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) are wandering Read More

1979
Viva Italia

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Orietta Berti

Synopsis: This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the 1978 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Foreign film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
A Wedding

Actors: Carol Burnett, Mia Farrow, Paul Dooley, Lillian Gish, Amy Stryker, Howard Duff, Geraldine Chaplin, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom's Read More

1978
I Nuovi Mostri

12/22/77
Anima Persa

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina, Esterina Carloni

Synopsis: When the young would-be artist Tino arrives in Venice to live at the house of his uncle while he studies art, he soon discovers that his Austrian/Venetian uncle's house is packed with mystery -- there are abandoned rooms from which strange sounds emanate. Eventually, he is told that his uncle's Read More

1/20/77
Le Désert des Tartares

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. Read More

10/29/76
Signore e Signori Buonanotte

Synopsis: In this episodic anthology, written and directed by assorted Italian filmmakers, the political and social aspects of Italian life are chronicled. In one satirical episode, The Bomb, a bogus bomb threat at a police headquarters gradually balloons into a real terrorist plot culminating with the Read More

10/28/76
Telefoni Bianchi

2/6/76
A Mezzanotte Va la Ronda del Piacere

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto

Synopsis: This satirical comedy recounts a tale of love across class boundaries; the twist is that here a middle-class juror, Gabriella Sansoni (Claudia Cardinale), learns about love from the testimony of Tina Candela (Monica Vitti), a woman on trial for murder. It seems that Tina has found ecstasy in a Read More

1975
We All Loved Each Other So Much

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More

12/21/74
Profumo di Donna

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli

Synopsis: Before Al Pacino ever picked up a blind man's cane in the 1992 production of Scent of A Woman, Vittorio Gassman played a blind army captain in the 1974 Italian film Profumo di Donna, based on a novel by Giovanni Arpino. The earlier film unquestionably inspired the later one, though they differ Read More

12/20/74
Che C'entriamo Noi Con la Rivoluzione?

12/19/72
L'Udienza

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Alain Cuny, Vittorio Gassman, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal audience with the Pope. Detailing Amedeo's battle with officious Vatican bureaucrats and bungling attempts to catch the Pope off-guard, the film rarely rises to the level Read More

3/31/72
Senza Famiglia Nullatenti Cercano Affetto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio

Synopsis: This Italian social satire/farce is directed by Vittorio Gassman, who also co-stars in it. Country-boy Agostino (Paolo Villaggio), abandoned as an infant by his city-dweller parents, decides to travel to Rome to find his parents. He is aided in his quest by Armando (Vittorio Gassman), a Read More

3/31/72
In Nome Del Popolo Italiano

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: In Nome Del Popolo Italiano (In the Name of the Italian Pope) represents the darker edge of Italian filmmaker Dino Risi's satiric sensibilities. Ugo Tognazzi stars as the magistrate of a prosperous Italian community. Completely incorruptible, Tognazzi goes after a crooked industrialist, played by Vittorio Gassman Read More

12/15/71
Scipione Detto Anche L'africano

3/3/71
Brancaleone Alle Crociate

Actors: Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: This is an episodic Italian comedy, which follows the Quixotic adventures of the gentle and extremely naive character, Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman). Set in the middle ages, we first see Brancaleone on a quest for the Holy Grail. As his adventures proceed, he picks up an entourage including a Read More

12/24/70
Contestazione Generale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest. Riccardo (Vittorio Gassman) is a rebel who causes confusion on campus and at a television station. Part two finds industrial magnate Cavazza (Michel Simon) hounding his Read More

3/14/70
12 Plus 1

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: The tragic Sharon Tate plays a crucial role (her last-ever appearance before the cameras) in 12 Plus 1 (aka The Thirteen Chairs). If the plot sounds familiar, it is because it's based on a popular Russian novel, also filmed in 1945 as It's In the Bag and in 1971 as The Twelve Chairs. Vittorio Gassman Read More

1970
L'Alibi

Crew: Director

2/13/69
La Pecora Nera

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Lisa Gastoni, Adrienne Larussa

Synopsis: This comedy concerns identical twin brothers who have a very different way of looking at life. Filippo makes a living selling nude photographs and engaging in forgery and petty crimes, much to the consternation of his brother Mario, an honest law man employed by the government. Mario is driven Read More

10/29/68
Il Profeta

Synopsis: In this comedy, a guru's groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

2/15/68
Questi Fantasmi

Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Margaret Lee, Aldo Giuffré

Synopsis: A couple with marital problems hopes to find new spirit living in a haunted house in this arcical comedy. Pasquale (Vittorio Gassman) and Maria (Sophia Loren) are a couple who are married, but not at all happily; he's a chronically unemployed musician, she can't stand her husband, and they've both Read More

12/23/67
Lo Scatenato

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer, Gila Golan, Karin Skorreso, Massimo Serato

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman stars in this uneven blend of sex and comedy where animals attempt to take over the world. Satirical jabs are taken at the advertising, politics and heroes. Gassman plays a model who makes his career by appearing on billboards and loses a battle of wits with a gorilla in a zoo. Read More

10/26/67
The Tiger and the Pussycat

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker

Synopsis: Dino Risi directed this bittersweet comedy about a 45-year-old man, Francesco Vincenzini (Vittorio Gassman), who becomes a grandfather for the first time and begins to fret about old age. When his son is rejected by the flirtatious Carolina (Ann-Margaret) and tries to kill himself, Francesco pays Read More

4/29/67
Opiate '67

Synopsis: Fifteen "monsters of modern Rome" are presented in this Italian episodic drama. Each of these "monsters" is highly misanthropic and nasty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Sette Volte Donna

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays opposite Peter Sellers as a widow at her husband's funeral. In "Amateur Night," she's a wife who's Read More

1967
A Maiden for a Prince

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy set in the 16th-century, a prince and a princess marry. Trouble ensues when a rumor that they have not consummated their marriage is circulated. The prince's father is most concerned, as a virgin marriage means he will have no heirs. He insists that the marriage be annulled. Read More

1967
L'Arcidiavolo

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Mickey Rooney, Claudine Auger, Annabella Incontrera

Synopsis: This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Relfagor (Vittorio Gassman) and his faithful sidekick Adramalek (Mickey Rooney) start out by disintegrating the peace soon to take place between Rome and Florence. While traveling, they manage to seduce the wife of an Read More

12/21/66
L'Armata Brancaleone

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Folco Lulli, Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis: Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman) leads an inept group of Crusaders to the sea in this offbeat war comedy. The Crusaders hope to find a ship that will take them to the Holy Land to reclaim the area for Christianity. The situation allows for plenty of sight gags and ribald humor. Catherine Spaak Read More

1966
Slalom

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Beba Loncar, Daniela Bianchi

Synopsis: Lucio (Vittorio Gassman) and his sidekick (Adolfo Celi) accidently gets mixed up with a gang of international counterfeiters in this fast-moving and suspenseful comedy with music from Ennio Morricone. The crooks hope to upset the U.S. economy by flooding the world with bogus bills. Lucio is an Read More

9/24/65
Guerre Secrete

Actors: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Annie Girardot, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international espionage agents. Stories involve a secret agent (Vittorio Gassman) who goes undercover as a kidnapper, an attempt to impede a Russian attack on two submarines, and an undercover Read More

6/23/65
Il Successo

Synopsis: An ambitious Italian financier (Vittorio Gassman) will stop at nothing to further his economic expansion. He forsakes old friends, relatives and his wife as he compromises his integrity in the pursuit for more money. He becomes a shameless bootlicker for a wealthy man who can help his financial Read More

1965
Une Vierge Pour Le Prince

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy

1965
The Eye of the Needle

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gérard Blain, Gino Cervi

Synopsis: Two Sicilian bachelors deflower a virgin and find themselves in hot-water with her shot-gun slinging father in this Italian comedy. They are also in trouble with the local carabinieri. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
La Congiuntura

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Joan Collins, Jacques Bergerac, Hilda Barry

Synopsis: In this caper comedy designed for international distribution, Jane (Joan Collins) and Don Giuliano (Vittorio Gassman) are part of a group of currency smugglers who are trying to get their gang's money over the border into Swiss banks. They are following a plan designed by their crafty mastermind Read More

12/29/64
Se Permettete ... Parliamo Di Donne

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the title. Prior to this feature, Gassman had worked with both Read More

3/25/64
The Violent Patriot

1964
Il Goucho

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini, Nino Manfredi, Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis: Maruchelli (Amedeo Nazzari) is an Italian expatriate who has made his fortune in Argentina. When he throws a lavish party to impress his Italian guests, his stone-faced friend Stefano (Nino Manfredi) feels the sting of not being as successful as his host. Vittorio Gassman co-stars with Silvana Pampanini Read More

1964
Frenesia D'Estate

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Leroy, Michele Mercier, Sandra Milo, Umberto D'Orsi

Synopsis: Composed by five different screenwriters, this Italian/French comedy stars the talented and ubiquitous Vittorio Gassman as an army officer who has a difficult time believing an attractive woman is in fact a woman. Michele Mercier plays a performer who is taking the place of a female impersonator Read More

1964
I Mostri

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: This two hour film contains no less than twenty different vignettes. Traffic jams, a father passing on to his son the deceitful ways to survive everyday life, punch drunk ex-fighters, exploitation of a blind man are among the many stories. Vittorio Gassmann and Ugo Tognazzi lead the cast of actors Read More

10/26/63
La Marcia Su Roma

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Comedian Ugo Tognazzi as Umberto and Vittorio Gassmann as Domenico are featured in this comedy-drama about the 1920 march to Rome that saw the beginning of fascism in Italy. As the duo make their way to the capital along with many others, several misadventures highlight the trip, providing Read More

1963
Il Successo

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maria Grazia Spina

1963
L'Amore Difficile

Actors: Claudia Mori, Catherine Spaak, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Romance, sex, and marriage are the themes of this episodic Italian comedy. The first of the four vignettes, "The Women" tells the story of a bored adulterer who feels ignored by his gaggle of mistresses and decides to obsess upon seducing an old conquest one more time. He later inadvertently Read More

12/24/62
Il Sorpasso

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini

Synopsis: Regarded by many as Dino Risi's finest film, The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) casts Vittorio Gassman as Bruno, a jaded, aging roue, who introduces young Roberto Mariani Jean-Louis Trintignant to his hedonistic lifestyle.. Previously a man with a purpose in life, Roberto soon becomes as wanton and Read More

12/5/62
Barabbas

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado, Jack Palance, Vittorio Gassman, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: This 1962 Biblical epic was adapted by Christopher Fry from the novel by Pär Lagerkvist. Anthony Quinn stars as Barabbas, the thief who was pardoned in place of Jesus. For the rest of his life, the guilt-ridden criminal tries to justify his existence and to determine his place in the scheme of Read More

12/23/61
Il Brigante

Actors: Serena Vergano

Synopsis: This uneven but interesting drama by director and writer Renato Castellani tells the tale of a brigand and the people who become involved with him. Michele Rende (Adelmo di Fraia) is both a town legend and a hot-tempered young man who is thrown in prison after being accused of a murder he did not Read More

9/21/61
Fantasmi a Roma

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Vittorio Gassman, Eduardo de Filippo, Belinda Lee

Synopsis: An impressive cast graces the 105 minutes of Ghosts of Rome. Don't let the title mislead you: the "ghosts" are not genuine wraiths, but instead a group of disenfranchised tenants in a contemporary Roman rooming house. When the house is condemned, the various residents seek out new lodgings Read More

4/1/61
Les Guerilleros

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Katy Jurado

1961
II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

1961
... And Suddenly It's Murder!

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Bernard Blier, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: And Suddenly It's Murder! is a regulation Dino De Laurentiis concoction: Big stars, lavish production values, muddleheaded plot. Three Italian couples go on separate vacations to Monte Carlo. When they open their suitcases, a body tumbles out of one of the grips. The rest of the film is a macabre Read More

12/13/60
Il Mattatore

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto, Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman showcases his comic talents in this farce by director Dino Risi about the growing success of a con artist. Gerardo (Gassman) starts out as a vaudeville performer and noting that acting abilities can be used for less legit purposes, he creatively assumes different guises in order Read More

2/10/60
Audace Colpo dei Soliti Ignoti

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The task seems simple enough, but the gang suffers a variety of zany mishaps before the leader finally gets hold of the money. Just as he gets it, he is arrested by the police for Read More

12/19/59
La Grande Guerra

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Silvana Mangano

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi don ill-fitting military uniforms in this anecdotal Italian service comedy. They play a couple of World War I soldiers, adept at sidestepping duty and responsibility, but courageous to the core when in a pinch. The film strives for the boisterous feel of What Read More

10/28/59
The Love Specialist

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic outing, a brainy gal from Texas heads for Italy after winning a television quiz show. There she encounters a down-on-his-luck Italian prince who pursues her because she looks wealthy (she isn't). Of course, she doesn't realize that he his also broke and merry mix-ups ensue. Read More

1959
The Miracle

Actors: Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Whatever the "miracle" is in this story, set back in the 19th century, it tends to be buried underneath the multiple romances of the heroine Teresa (Carroll Baker), a woman who leaves the convent to find one specific man. Teresa falls in love with Michael (Roger Moore) a dashing Englishman in the Read More

1959
La Tempesta

Actors: Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Silvana Mangano, Geoffrey Horne, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Based on the Alexander Pushkin story The Captain's Daughter, Tempest is set in Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. A Russian ensign named Peter Griniev (Geoffrey Horne), banished by Catherine (Viveca Lindfors) to a distant outpost, saves the life of Pugachov (Van Heflin), leader of a Read More

12/1/58
Big Deal on Madonna Street

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory

Synopsis: Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt. Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a Read More

7/26/58
La Ragazza Del Palio

Actors: Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Diana Dors, Britain's equivalent to Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, is virtually the whole show in La Ragazza del Palio (The Girl and the Palio). Diana plays Diana Wilson, a Texas gal who wins a trip to Italy from a radio quiz program. The minute she alights from the plane, our heroine is Read More

12/20/57
War and Peace

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Read More

1956
Defend My Love

Synopsis: A reporter's search for scandal is the focus of this drama. He is looking for dirt to boost his paper's ratings. He begins digging around in the past of a prominent banker's new wife. Before her marriage, she had been a nobleman's personal secretary until he was poisoned. The journalist soon Read More

1956
Difendo Il Mio Amore

Actors: Martine Carol, Vittorio Gassman, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: Two directors called the shots on Difendo il Mio Amore; Giulio Macchi helmed the original Italian version, while Hollywood's Vincent Sherman handled the English-language version. In a radical departure from her usual sexpot roles, Martine Carol plays a dull, drab young woman whose life is Read More

1956
La Donna Piu Bella del Mondo

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio Gassman, Robert Alda, Tamara Lees, Gino Sinimberghi

Synopsis: In the last stages of his career, veteran American director Robert Z. Leonard dabbled in international productions. One of the best-distributed of these was the Gina Lollobrigida vehicle Beautiful But Dangerous. Lollobrigida is cast as Lina Cavaliari, an earthy Italian peasant who becomes a Read More

10/21/55
Mambo

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters, Katherine Dunham

Synopsis: Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy. Silvana Mangano stars as Silvia, who hopes someday to become a famous dancer. In the meantime, Silvia is torn between two lovers: Count Enrico (Michael Rennie), who hasn't much Read More

9/18/54
Rhapsody

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov

Synopsis: Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire Nicholas Durant (Louis Calhern). Accustomed to getting whatever she wants, Louise sets her sights on violin student Paul Bronte (Vittorio Gassman). Read More

1954
The Glass Wall

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer, Robin Raymond

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the exploits of Peter, a European desperate to enter the United States. Because he can't be granted asylum due to the lack of proper papers, he resorts to jumping ship and sneaking in. In the Big Apple, he is assisted by two people who know about his past. One of them is a Read More

1953
Cry of the Hunted

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, William Conrad, Mary Zavian

Synopsis: On the whole, the MGM B product of the 1950s contained some of the studio's best-ever "small" pictures. Filmed on location in the Louisana swamplands, Cry of the Hunted boils down to an extended chase, with escaped convict Vittorio Gassman as the fox and sheriff Barry Sullivan as the hound. Sullivan Read More

1953
Sombrero

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo, Cyd Charisse

Synopsis: This tuneful romantic melodrama is set in a tiny Mexican village and is comprised of three storylines. One tale concerns a pair of young lovers from rival villages who will not be able to marry until a long time feud is ended. In another tale, an heir to a large fortune falls in love with an Read More

1953
La Tratta Delle Bianche

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Sophia Loren, Tamara Lees, Marc Lawrence, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Originally released as Trattedella Blanche, Girls Marked Danger offers a voyeuristic glimpse at the subrosa world of 20th century white slavery. Veteran Hollywood heavy Marc Lawrence plays a vice lord who recruits innocent young Italian ladies for his nefarious purposes, on the pretext of hiring Read More

9/25/52
Una Voce Nel Tuo Cuore

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gino Bechi, Beniamino Gigli, Constance Dowling

Synopsis: Voice in Your Heart (Une Voce nel tuo Cuore) is purely and simply a showcase for the splendid
singing talents of Beniamino Gigli and Gino Bechi. The main plot concerns the romance between war-correspondent Paul (Vittorio Gassman) and cabaret-singer Helen (Fiorella C. Fionti). Paul encourages Read More

1952
Il Tradimento

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama, two conniving crooks continually double-cross each other. Eventually their victim comes back to get revenge upon them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/11/51
Anna

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman, Gaby Morlay, Patrizia Mangano

Synopsis: Silvana Mangano portrays a fickle club chanteuse who must choose between the love of two men (Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman). She chooses neither, entering a convent for the sake of convenience. This overwrought drama was produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and reworked by five screenwriters Read More

1951
La Corona Negra

1950
I Fuorilegge

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Umberto Spadaro, Ermanno Randi, Maria Grazia Francia

Synopsis: I Fuorilegge was based on the career of the late and unlamented Sicilian bandit chieftain Giuliamo. Ermanno Randi plays the Giuliamo counterpart, here renamed Cosimo. The film unfolds in a sketchy, anecdotal fashion, concluding with a reasonably faithful recreation of the events leading up to the Read More

1950
Ho Sognato Il Paradiso

Actors: Geraldine Brooks, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Marzi, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: Ho Sognato il Paradiso is adapted from a play by Guido Cantini. Geraldine Brooks, an American actress who was living and working in Italy in 1950, stars as a "fallen woman" who'd like to get back up again. Her one opportunity to escape her tawdry lifestyle arrives in the form of a handsome young Read More

1950
The Lion of Amalfi

Synopsis: Exiled Marco of Amalfi heads a revolution to free his people from the conquering Normans. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1950
Riso Amaro

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone

Synopsis: Originally released as Riso Amaro, Bitter Rice was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Silvana Mangano portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from Read More

9/21/49
Il Lupo della Sila

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Amedeo Nazzari, Jacques Sernas, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barely seen in the US at the time of its release, the Italian Lure of the Sila (IL Lupo Della Sila) became a television mainstay in the 1960s. Vittorio Gassman plays a man whose life is ruined when he is accused of murder. Gassman's tragedy is broadcast throughout Italy, "glorified" in song and Read More

1949
L'Ebreo Errante

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: This Italian drama is a wartime version of the old story. Set during WW II, it follows the journeys of a cursed French Jew who turns against his people and helps the Nazis. Later his guilt overcomes him and he allows himself to be sent to a concentration camp. There he falls in love. The two Read More

1/24/48
Preludio D'Amore

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Marina Berti, Maria Michi, Massimo Girotti, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: Preludio D'Amore (Love Prelude) is a minor Italian romantic drama with an impressive cast. The story, involving a romance between two budding juvenile delinquents, is nothing special. Nor is the perfunctory direction by workhorse Giovanni Paolucci. What really makes this thing percolate are its Read More

1948
King of Sports

Synopsis: Veteran Hollywood writer/director Russell Rouse delves into the documentary field in King of Sports. The sport so anointed is horse racing. Rouse demonstrates how success at the race track is determined by three factors: style, breeding and luck. Highlights in this 50-minute effort include several Read More

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