Vittorio Gassman
Born September 01, 1922 (Age: 103)
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Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Biography
Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈɡazman]; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements. Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's La Nemica (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, while only one year later he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in Riso amaro. It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio (A Streetcar Named Desire), as well as in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Shakespeare and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri). He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen). 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, followed by rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians. In cinema, he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger. When Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre. On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77. He was buried at Campo Verano. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittorio Gassman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈɡazman]; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements.
Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's La Nemica (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, while only one year later he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in Riso amaro.
It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio (A Streetcar Named Desire), as well as in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Shakespeare and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri). He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen). 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, followed by rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.
In cinema, he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger. When Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre.
On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77. He was buried at Campo Verano.
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Filmography
We Are Cinema
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 99
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
2015
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 92
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015
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as Self
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Age: 92
Close Up
2012
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 90
No Image
Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
2007
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as Self
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Age: 84
Speaking with Gassman
2005
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as
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Age: 82
Luchino Visconti
2002
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 79
The Dinner
1998
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as Maestro Pezzullo
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Age: 76
Desert of Fire
1997
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as Tareq
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Age: 74
Sleepers
1996
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as King Benny
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Age: 74
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
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as Giuseppe
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Age: 72
In morte di Federico Fellini
1994
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as
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Age: 71
Abraham
1993
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as Terach
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Age: 71
The Long Winter
1992
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as Claudio, El Mayordomo
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Age: 69
Quando eravamo repressi
1992
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as The Sexologist
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Age: 69
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
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as Ludwig van Beethoven
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Age: 69
I'll Be Going Now
1991
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as Augusto Scribani
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Age: 68
The Amusements of Private Life
1990
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as Marquis
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Age: 68
1001 Nights
1990
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as Sinbad
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Age: 67
The Palermo Connection
1990
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as Il principe
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Age: 67
The Sleazy Uncle
1989
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as Zio Luca
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Age: 67
Mortacci
1989
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as Domenico
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Age: 66
L'altro enigma
1988
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as Il padre / Sofocle
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Age: 65
I picari
1987
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as Marquis Felipe de Aragona
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Age: 65
The Family
1987
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as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
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Age: 65
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
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as Peppe
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Age: 63
Power Of Evil
1985
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as Gottfried
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Age: 62
To Be Hamlet
1985
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as Self
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Age: 62
André Delvaux directs Benvenuta
1983
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as Self
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Age: 60
Sharky's Machine
1981
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as Victor Scorelli
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Age: 59
Il turno
1981
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as Ciro Coppa
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Age: 59
Hotel Room
1981
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as Achille Mengaroni
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Age: 58
The Nude Bomb
1980
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as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
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Age: 57
I'm Photogenic
1980
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as Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
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Age: 57
The Terrace
1980
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as Mario Dorazio
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Age: 57
A Wedding
1978
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as Luigi Corelli
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Age: 55
Edipo Re
1977
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as Edipo
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Age: 55
The Apple of My Eye
1976
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as film festival participant
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Age: 53
E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
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as Self
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Age: 52
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
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as Gianni Perego
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Age: 52
Scent of a Woman
1974
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as Fausto Consolo
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Age: 52
La Tosca
1973
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as Scarpia
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Age: 50
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972
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as Guido Guidi
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Age: 50
The Audience
1972
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as Principe Donati
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Age: 49
Without Family
1972
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as Armando Zavanatti
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Age: 49
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
1970
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as L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
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Age: 47
Twelve Plus One
1969
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as Mario Beretti
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Age: 47
Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
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as Rufus Conforti
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Age: 47
The Archangel
1969
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as Furio Bertuccia
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Age: 46
Alibi
1969
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as Vittorio
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Age: 46
For Love and Gold
1966
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as Brancaleone da Norcia
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Age: 43
I Knew Her Well
1965
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as Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 43
A Maiden for the Prince
1965
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as Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
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Age: 43
Snow Job
1965
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as Lucio Ridolfi
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Age: 43
The Dirty Game
1965
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as Perego / Ferrari
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Age: 42
One Million Dollars
1964
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as Giuliano
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Age: 42
Il gaucho
1964
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as Marco Ravicchio
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Age: 42
Let's Talk About Women
1964
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as Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
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Age: 41
Summer Frenzy
1964
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as Cap. Nardoni
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Age: 41
The Monsters
1963
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as The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")
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Age: 41
Il successo
1963
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as Giulio Ceriani
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Age: 41
The Eye of the Needle
1963
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as Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
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Age: 41
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
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as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
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Age: 40
March on Rome
1962
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as Domenico Rocchetti
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Age: 40
Il Sorpasso
1962
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as Bruno Cortona
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Age: 40
Dark Soul
1962
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as Adriano Zucchelli
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Age: 39
Barabbas
1961
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as Sahak
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Age: 39
A Difficult Life
1961
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as Self
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Age: 39
Seduction Of The South
1961
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as O Caporale
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Age: 39
The Last Judgment
1961
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as Cimino
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Age: 39
Ghosts of Rome
1961
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as Il Caparra
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Age: 38
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
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as Remo
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Age: 38
Love and Larceny
1960
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as Gerardo Latini
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Age: 37
Fiasco in Milan
1959
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as Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
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Age: 37
La cambiale
1959
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as Michele
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Age: 37
The Miracle
1959
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as Guido
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Age: 37
The Great War
1959
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as Giovanni Busacca
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Age: 37
Tempest
1958
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as Prosecutor
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Age: 36
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
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as Peppe il pantera
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Age: 35
The Violent Patriot
1956
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as Giovanni De Medici
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Age: 34
Defend My Love
1956
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as Giovanni Marchi
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Age: 34
War and Peace
1956
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as Anatol Kuragin
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Age: 33
Beautiful But Dangerous
1955
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as Prince Sergei
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Age: 33
Amleto
1955
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as Amleto
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Age: 32
Kean - Genio e sregolatezza
1955
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as Edmund Kean
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Age: 32
Mambo
1954
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as Mario Rossi
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Age: 32
Rhapsody
1954
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as Paul Bronte
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Age: 31
Cry of the Hunted
1953
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as Jory
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Age: 30
Sombrero
1953
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as Alejandro Castillo
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Age: 30
The Glass Wall
1953
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as Peter Kuban
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Age: 30
Il leone di Amalfi
1950
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as Mauro
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Age: 28
Lo sparviero del Nilo
1950
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as Yussuf
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Age: 28
The Outlaws
1950
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as Turi
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Age: 27
Streets of Sorrow
1950
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as Giorgio
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Age: 27
No Image
Incontro con Laura
1945
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as Franco
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Age: 22