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Vittorio Gassman
Genova,1 September 1922 – Rome .29 June 2000
Son of Heinrich Gassman, a German civil engineer and Louise Ambron, a native of Pisa and of Jewish origin. As a child because of her father's job lived in Calabria, where his father was building a new neighborhood, he moved to Rome obtained a diploma at the Liceo Torquato Tasso in the same period of Giulio Andreotti, he attended the National Academy of art dramatic. With an athletic body, distinguished himself as a member of basketball player at the Club Parioli, coming to be in National University. The first theatrical debut of Gassman was in Milan, in 1943, with Alda Borelli, the enemy of Dario Niccodemi. With the company of Luchino Visconti, Gassman achieved success with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. Gassman played Stanley Kowalski in a street named desire of Tennese Williams, acted in Shakespeare's Rosalinda and Oreste di Vittorio Alfieri. He joined the national theatre with Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, in dramatic poem in four movements Per Gynt. Her film debut began in 1945, meeting with Laura, Carlo Alberto Felice, the film has been lost, and his first film is Prelude of love, of young Paolucci. Also in 1949 she starred in the film a voice in your heart by Alberto d'aversa, where she played a reporter alongside Constance Dowling, Nino Pavese and Beniamino Gigli. In 1952 together with Luigi Squarzina, founded and directed the Italian art theatre, producing the first complete version of hamlet in Italy, as well as rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes or The Persians of Eschillo .
She plays in 1954 in Syracuse for the 13th cycle of classical plays The Prometheus Enchantment of Aeschylus and The Oresteia. In 1956 Gassman played Othello with the great actor Salvo Randone, which alternated each evening the roles of the Moor and Iago. Three years later, in a television program entitled The Matter, gained an unexpected success.
Vittorio Gassman had four wives:
Nora Ricci (daughter of Renzo Ricci and Margherita Bagni) with whom he had his first daughter Paola, actress and wife of Ugo Pagliai;
Shelley Winter, with whom he had his second daughter Vittoria, surgeon.
Juliette Mayniel, who gave him Alessandro, who is also an actor and Director;
DILETTA d'Andrea, of whom was born Jacopo Director.
He had a long and tumultuous relationship with Anna Maria Ferrero between 1953 and 1960, during which time the two made often pair even at work. From 1961 to 1963 he was dating the actress Annette Stroyberg. In the history of Italian television remains memorable his debate with Alberto Sordi on issues of life and religion, Gassman who honestly made the doubts of unthinking, deaf with romanesca concreteness replied:
"I believe, Srikumar. Did you see that? "
In spite of his blockbusters Gassman abandoned but the theater.
He hated imperfect diction or inflections, while being able to make perfectly, when asked, most Italian dialects.
Vittorio Gassman suffered from bipolar syndrome, died at 77 years in Rome because of a heart attack in his sleep.
Filmography
1945/ Meeting with Laura, directed by Carlo Alberto Felice
1946/ Prelude of love, directed by John Paoloucci
1947/ Daniele Cortis, directed by Mario Soldati
1947/ The adventures of Pinocchio, directed by Giannetto Guardone
1947/ The captain's daughter, directed by Mario Camerini
1948/ The wandering Jew, directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
1948/ The Matter ..., directed by Riccardo Freda
1949/ Nile Sparrow, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
1949/ Outlaws, directed by Aldo Vegan
1949/ The Wolf of the Sila, directed by Duilio Coletti
1949/ I dreamed of heaven, directed by Giorgio Pàstina
1949/ Bitter rice, directed by Giuseppe De Santis
1949/ A voice in your heart, directed by Alberto D'aversa
1950/ The lion of Amalfi, directed by Pietro Francisci
1951/ Betrayal, directed by Riccardo Chilly
1951/ The black Crown, by Luis Saslavky
1951/ Anna, Director, Alberto Lattuada
1952/ Zorro's Dream, directed by Mario Soldati
1952/ The Whites, directed by Luigi Comencini
1953/ Sombrero, directed by Norman Foster
1953/ The glass wall, Director of Mawell Shane
1953/ Cry of the hunted, directed by Joseph h. Lewis
1954/ Rhapsody, directed by Charles Vidor
1954/ Mambo, directed by Robert Rossen
1956/ Kean, genius and recklessness, directed by Vittorio Gassman and Francesco Rosi
1956/ John from the Black Bands, directed by Sergio Grieco
1956/ War and peace directed by King Vidor
1957/ The usual unknowns, by Mario Monicelli
1958/ The Girl of the Palio, directed by Luigi Zampa
1958/ The Storm, directed by Alberto Lattuada
1959/ The Surprises of Love, directed by Luigi Comencini
1959/ The Bill, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1959/ The Great War, directed by Mario Monicelli
1959/ Storm wind, directed by Irving Rapper
1960/ The Abattoler, directed by Dino Risi
1960/ Bold shot of the usual unknowns, directed by Nanni Loy
1961/ Ghosts of Rome, directed by Antonio Petrangeli
1961/ Crimen, by Mario Camerini
1961/ The last judgement, by Vittorio De Sica
1961/ Barabba, directed by Richard Fleischer
1962/ Overtaking, directed by Dino Risi
1962/ The Italian robbers, directed by Mario Camerini
1962/ Black Soul, directed by Roberto Rossellini
1963/ Shivers in summer, directed by Luigi Zampa
1963/ Success, directed by Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi
1963/ The March on Rome, by Dino Risi
1963/ The cravings on you, directed by Marcello Andrei
1963/ Tough love, episode " the miser ", directed by Luciano Lucignani
1963/ Freaks, directed by Dino Risi
1964/ The cravings on you, directed by Ettore Scola
1965/ Slalom, directed by Lucia Salce
1965/ The gaucho, directed by Dino Risi
1965/ The secret war, directed by Cristian-Jaque, Werner Klingler, Carlo Lizzani
1965/ The conspiracy, directed by Ettore Scola
1966/ Pleasant nights, directed by Armando Crispino and Luciano Lucignani
1966/ The Archdiocese, directed by Ettore Scola
1966/ The Brancaleone Army, directed by Mario Monicelli
1967/ The Unleashed, directed by Franco Indovina
1967/ Seven times women, directed by Vittorio De Sica
1967/ Tiger, directed by Dino Risi
1968/ The Black Sheep, directed by Luciano Salce
1968/ These ghosts, directed by Renato Castellani
1968/ Prophet, directed by Dino Risi
1969/ The alibi, directed by Adolfo Celi
1969/ Where are you all naked?, directed by Pasquale Festa Campaniele
1969/ A on 13, directed by Nicolas Gessner
1969/ The Archangel, directed by Giorgio Capitani
1970/ Brancaleone at the Crusades, directed by Mario Monicelli
1970/ Divorce, directed by Romolo Guerrieri
1970/ Dispute General, directed by Luigi Zampa
1971/ Scipio Africanus also known, directed by Luigi Magni
1971/ Hearing, directed by Marco Ferreri
1971/ In the name of the Italian people, directed by Dino Risi
1972/ Without families poorer residents seeking affection, directed by Vittorio Gassman
1972/ What do we have to do with the revolution?, directed by Sergio Corbucci
1973/ La Tosca, directed by Luigi Magni
1974/ Women's perfume, directed by Dino Risi
1974/ We loved each other so much, directed by Ettore Scola
1975/ We loved each other so much, ..., directed by Marcello Fondato
1976/ Like a rose on the nose, directed by Francesco Rosi
1976/ White telephones, directed by Dino Risi
1976/ Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen, by Luigi Comencini
1976/ The Tatar Desert, directed by Valerio Zurlini
1977/ lost soul, directed by Dino Risi
1977/ The Tatar Desert ..., directed by Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola
1978/ A wedding, directed by Robert Altman
1979/ Quintet, directed by Robert Altman
1979/ Dear Papa, directed by Dino Risi
1979/ Two pieces of bread, directed by Sergio Citti
1980/ The nude Bomb, directed by Clive Donner
1980/ The terrace by Ettore Scola
1980/ I'm Photogenic, directed by Dino Risi
1981/ The turn, directed by Tonino Cervi
1981/ Hotel room, directed by Mario Monicelli
1981/ Skin of Cop, directed by Burt Reynolds
1982/ The Storm, directed by Paul Mazursky
1982/ Count Tacchia, directed by Sergio Corbucci
1983/ life is a novel, directed by Alain Resnais
1983/ Welcome, directed by André Delvaux
1985/ The power of evil, directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
1987/ The Unknown Suns, twenty years later, directed by Amanzio Todini
1987/ The Family, by Ettore Scola
1987/ The Picari, directed by Mario Monicelli
1989/ Damn, directed by Sergio Citti
1989/ The Unworthy Uncle, directed by Franco Brusati
1990/ Forget Palermo, directed by Francesco Rosi
1990/ I take the noise off, directed by Dino Risi
1990/ Arabian Nights, directed by Philippe de Broca
1992/ When we were repressed, directed by Pino Quartullo
1992/ The long winter, directed by Jaime Camino
1992/ Amusements of privacy, directed by Cristina Comencini
1995/ All years once a year, directed by Gianfrancesco Lazzoti
1996/ Sleepers, directed by Barry Levinson
1998/ Dinner, directed by Ettore Scola
1999/ The bomb, directed by Giulio Base
Vittorio Gassman-Director
1956/ Kean, genius and recklessness, with Francesco Rosi
1969/ The alibi, with Adolfo Celi, and Luciano Lucignani
1972/ Without family, poorer residents seek affection
1982/ From father to son, with Alessandro Gassman
Rai Filmography
1955/ Verses of Dante, poetic readings of Vittorio Gassman
1955/ Kean, by Alexandre Dumas, directed by Francis Enriquez
1955/ Poetry Readings, Vittorio Gassman
1955/ Hamlet of Willian Shakespeare, directed by Camillo Up
1957/ Othello by Willian Shakespeare
1958/ Orestes, of Vittorio Alfieri, Gassman and directed by Silverio Blasi
1961/ Adelchi, Alessandro Manzoni, directed by Gassman
1964/ Notes from underground, with Vittorio Gassman
1970/ The man from the flower in the mouth, directed by Maurizio Scaparro
1993/ Ulysses and the white whale, reduction of Vittorio Gassman
1995/ Camper, Vittorio Gassman, directed by Vittorio Gassman
Filmography
1949/ Oreste, hits various, the night of the Nightingale
1950/ The Masnadieri, Friedrich Schiller, directed by Anton Giulio Majano
1951/ Romeo and Juliet, by Willian Shakespeare, with Massimo Girotti
1951/ Player, three-act play by Ugo Betti, National Theatre
1951/ Yo el Rey, Bruno Cicognani comedy
1952/ Adventure, by Sherwood Anderson, the tales of the second program, reading of Vittorio Gassman
1952/ Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, directed by Luigi Squarzina
1961/ Adelchi by Alessandro Manzoni, directed by Vittorio Gassman
Discography
1953/ Excerpts from' Othello the Shakespeare, with Anna Maria Ferrero and Salvo Randone
1959/ The Matter
1963/ Theatre (LP)
1965/ Pastures, with Alberto Lupo and Paolo Carlini
1970/ Fosocolo, with Carlo D'Angelo and Paolo Carlini
1972/ Montale, (Fonit Cetra)
1973/ Moving (Fonit Cetra)
1974/ Loneliness (Cetra) with Giorgio Albertazzi
1985/ Castaway, (Five Record)
2000/ Vittorio Gassman: a personal Anthology (Luca Sossella Editore, 4 cd + book) by Luca Sossella, music by Nicola Piovani
Individual
Dante Alighieri, Inferno canto quinto, Paradiso Canto XXXIII
The promised newlyweds
Hamlet
The poems of Alessandro Manzoni
The poems of Pastures
Saturday
Modern poets
The sonnet through the ages
Dante Alighieri, Inferno canto XXVI
The tombs
Leopards
The Mystics ' 200
Gassman ne il Mattatore
Olympic Eulogy
Manzoni Adelchi, with Carlo D'Angelo
Aeschylus – Coeffore, with Valentina Fortunato and Maria Fabbri
Pascarella , Villa Gloria
He was voiced by
Emilio Cigoli in: Cry of the hunted, Sombrero, Rhapsody, Mambo, the glass wall, La ragazza del Palio
Sandro Ruffini in The wandering Jew
Gualdiero De Angelis in Anna
Stefano Saidi, in Trafficking of white
Enrico Maria Salerno, in The most beautiful woman in the world