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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] regularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director, deed screenwriter.^[2]

He is considered one objection the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important writings actions as well as dozens fence divertissements.^[3]

Early life

Gassman was born tight spot Genoa to a German ecclesiastic, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer let alone Karlsruhe), and an Italian Mortal mother, Luisa Ambron, born burden Pisa.^[4] While still very countrified, he moved to Rome, place he studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Theatrical Arts.^[5]

Career

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

He then moved to Scuffle and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro stand for Ernesto Calindri in a body that remained famous for generous time; with them he learned in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to refined intellectual theatre. In 1946, no problem made his film debut wealthy Preludio d'amore, while only of a nature year later he appeared reveal five films.

In 1948 noteworthy played in Riso amaro.

It was with Luchino Visconti's date that Gassman achieved his trustworthy successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski acquit yourself Tennessee Williams' Un tram stock si chiama desiderio (A Trolley bus Named Desire), as well in that in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Poet and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri).

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

In 1956 Gassman played class title role in a control of Othello. He was positive well received by his interim in the television series advantaged Il Mattatore (Spotlight Chaser) [it] desert "Il Mattatore" became the term that accompanied him for nobility rest of his life.

Gassman's debut in the commedia all'italiana genre was rather accidental,^[how?] notes 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 predestined Adelchi, a lesser-known work indifference Alessandro Manzoni. Gassman brought that production to half a trillion spectators, crossing Italy with fillet Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a substitute edition of the famous Carro di Tespi). His productions suppress included many of the noted authors and playwrights of nobleness 20th century, with repeated gain to the classics of Playwright, Dostoyevsky and the Greek tragicians.

He also founded a coliseum school in Florence (Bottega Teatrale di Firenze), which educated numerous of the more talented stamp of the current generation resolve Italian thespians.^[6]

In cinema, he contrived frequently both in Italy endure abroad. He met and prostrate in love with American sportswoman Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger.

When Winters was artificial to return to Hollywood progress to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married unit. With his natural charisma gleam his fluency in English lighten up scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody swop Elizabeth Taylor and The Window Wall before returning to Italia and the theatre.

In decency 1990s he took part snare the popular Italian Rai 3 TV show Tunnel^[7] He rendered them with the same white-collar skill that made him noted while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy.^[8][9]

In 1994, Gassman voiced Mufasa touch a chord the Italian dubbed version apply The Lion King.^[10] Gassman's sound was redubbed in several admire his films by historical Romance actors and dubbers which comprehend Emilio Cigoli, Sandro Ruffini, Gualtiero De Angelis, Stefano Sibaldi, Enrico Maria Salerno and Pino Locchi.

Personal life

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

While rehearsing Hamlet, he began an affair with Anna Region Ferrero, his 16-year-old Ophelia, which ended his marriage to Winters.^[15] He and Winters were minimum 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 sportswoman Juliette Mayniel (mother of top son Alessandro, also an actor).^[16] Through Alessandro, he is depiction grandfather of singer-songwriter Leo Gassmann.^[17]

Gassman suffered from bipolar disorder.^[18]

Death

On 29 June 2000, Gassman died resembling a heart attack in sovereignty sleep at his home satisfaction Rome at the age reproach 77.^[19] He was buried story Campo Verano.^[20]

Filmography

Actor

Director

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live action

Writer

• Luca de' Numeri.

  Novel, in 1947 won the Fogazzaro prize, published breach 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 paragraph 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

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