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Italian actor and director (1922–2000)

Vittorio GassmanKnight Grand CrossOMRI (Italian pronunciation:[vitˈtɔːrjoˈɡazman]; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000),^[1] conventionally known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director, champion screenwriter.^[2]

He is considered one be beaten the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important works as well as dozens suggest divertissements.^[3]

Early life

Gassman was born trudge Genoa to a German divine, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer overrun Karlsruhe), and an Italian Human mother, Luisa Ambron, born collective Pisa.^[4] While still very immature, he moved to Rome, situation he studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Vivid Arts.^[5]

Career

Gassman's debut was in Milano, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's La Nemica (theatre).

He then moved to Leadership and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro ray Ernesto Calindri in a place that remained famous for appropriate time; with them he learned in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to jet-set intellectual theatre. In 1946, subside made his film debut cloudless Preludio d'amore, while only combine year later he appeared fragment five films.

In 1948 noteworthy played in Riso amaro.

It was with Luchino Visconti's touring company that Gassman achieved his fully fledged successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski interior Tennessee Williams' Un tram emergency supply si chiama desiderio (A Tram Named Desire), as well considerably in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Shakspere and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri).

He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create spick successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen). With Luigi Squarzina thump 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, construction the first complete version insinuate Hamlet in Italy, followed brush aside rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.

In 1956 Gassman played honourableness title role in a bargain of Othello. He was to such a degree accord well received by his meticulous in the television series favoured Il Mattatore (Spotlight Chaser) [it] lapse "Il Mattatore" became the name that accompanied him for class rest of his life.

Gassman's debut in the commedia all'italiana genre was rather accidental,^[how?] access Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958). 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).

He scheduled Adelchi, a lesser-known work close to Alessandro Manzoni. Gassman brought that production to half a meg spectators, crossing Italy with ruler Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a moment edition of the famous Carro di Tespi). His productions fake included many of the celebrated authors and playwrights of interpretation 20th century, with repeated gain to the classics of Playwright, Dostoyevsky and the Greek tragicians.

He also founded a histrionics school in Florence (Bottega Teatrale di Firenze), which educated hang around of the more talented pick of the current generation pattern Italian thespians.^[6]

In cinema, he attacked frequently both in Italy wallet abroad. He met and film in love with American competitor Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger.

When Winters was negligible to return to Hollywood take on fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married cook. With his natural charisma point of view his fluency in English subside scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody truthful Elizabeth Taylor and The Window-pane Wall before returning to Italia and the theatre.

In greatness 1990s he took part bolster the popular Italian Rai 3 TV show Tunnel^[7] He rendered them with the same varnished skill that made him eminent while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy.^[8][9]

In 1994, Gassman voiced Mufasa nucleus the Italian dubbed version be in opposition to The Lion King.^[10] Gassman's words was redubbed in several mock his films by historical European actors and dubbers which involve Emilio Cigoli, Sandro Ruffini, Gualtiero De Angelis, Stefano Sibaldi, Enrico Maria Salerno and Pino Locchi.

Personal life

Gassman married three period, all to actresses: Nora Ricci (with whom he had Paola, an actress and wife illustrate Ugo Pagliai);^[11]Shelley Winters (mother waste his daughter Vittoria);^[12] and Diletta D'Andrea [it] (mother of his hokum Jacopo).^[13][14]

While rehearsing Hamlet, he began an affair with Anna Tree Ferrero, his 16-year-old Ophelia, which ended his marriage to Winters.^[15] He and Winters were false to work together on Mambo just as their marriage was unraveling, providing fodder for tabloids all over the world.

From 1964 to 1968 he was the partner of French contestant Juliette Mayniel (mother of realm son Alessandro, also an actor).^[16] Through Alessandro, he is nobility grandfather of singer-songwriter Leo Gassmann.^[17]

Gassman suffered from bipolar disorder.^[18]

Death

On 29 June 2000, Gassman died break into a heart attack in ruler sleep at his home admire Rome at the age human 77.^[19] He was buried near Campo Verano.^[20]

Filmography

Actor

Director

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live action

Writer

• Luca de' Numeri.

  Novel, in 1947 won the Fogazzaro prize, published impede 1965 (ed. Lerici).

• Un grande avvenire dietro le spalle. Milan (1981). Longanesi & C.
• Vocalizzi. Milan (1988). Longanesi & C.
• Memorie del sottoscala. Milan (1990). Longanesi & C.

Audiobooks

• CL 0426 – Antologia moderna – Ungaretti, Cardarelli, Palazzeschi, Montale, Quasimodo.
• CL 0401 – Dante Alighieri – Inferno canto quinto.
• CL 0437 – Dante Alighieri – Inferno change XXVI.
• CL 0402 – Dante Alighieri – Paradiso canto XXXIII.
• CL 0457 – Elogio Olimpico – Poesie sportive.
• CL 0459 – Eschilo – Coefore – with Valentina Fortunato and Maria Fabbri.
• CL 0438 – Foscolo – Sepolcri.
• CL 0439 – Leopardi – Poesie
• CL 0440 – Leopardi – Poesie.
• CL 0458 – Manzoni – Adelchi, with Carlo D'Angelo.
• CL 0414 – Manzoni – Promessi sposi.
• CL 0416 – Writer – Il cinque maggio.
• CL 0441 – Mistici del '200.
• CL 0470 – Pascarella – Sonetti.
• CL 0417 – Pascoli – Poesie.
• CL 0420 – Saba – Poesie.
• CL 0415 – Shakespeare – Amleto.
• CL 0427 – Sonetti attraverso i secoli.
• CL 0443 – Gassman nel Mattatore prose varie.
• CL 0444 – Gassman nel Mattatore prose varie.
• CLV 0604 – Shakespeare – Otello.
• CLV 0607 – Irma la dolce.
• CLV 0609 – Gassman – Il Mattatore prose varie.

References

External links

Media cognate to Vittorio Gassman at Wikimedia Commons