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{{Infobox person
 | name             = Vittorio Gassman
 | honorific_suffix = 
 | image            = Vittorio Gassman.jpg
 | birth_name       = Vittorio Gassmann
 | birth_date       = {{Birth date|1922|9|1|df=y}}
 | birth_place      = [[Genoa]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
 | death_date       = {{Death date and age|2000|6|29|1922|9|1|df=y}}
 | death_place      = [[Rome]], Italy 
 | years_active     = 1942–1999
 | occupation       = {{flatlist|
*Actor
*film director
*writer
*screenwriter
}}
 | spouse           = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Nora Ricci]]|1944|1952|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Shelley Winters]]|1952|1954|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Diletta D'Andrea|1972}}
}}
 | partner          = [[Juliette Mayniel]] (1964–1968)
 | children         = 4, including [[Paola Gassman|Paola]] and [[Alessandro Gassman|Alessandro]] 
 | relatives        = [[Leo Gassmann]] (grandson)
 | awards           = [[Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)]] (''[[Scent of a Woman (1974 film)|Scent of a Woman]]'', 1975)
}}

'''Vittorio Gassman''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Knight Grand Cross]] [[OMRI]]}} ({{IPA|it|vitˈtɔːrjo ˈɡazman}}; born '''Gassmann'''; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000),<ref>{{cite web|author=Born: 1 September 1922, Struppa (Genoa)Died: 29 June 2000, Rome |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f0a4830 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185118/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f0a4830 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-16 |title=Vittorio Gassman &#124; BFI &#124; BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-05-10}}</ref> popularly known as {{lang|it|'''Il Mattatore'''}}, was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biografieonline.it/biografia.htm?BioID=632&biografia=Vittorio+Gassman |title=Biografia di Vittorio Gassman |publisher=Biografieonline.it |date=2004-01-13 |access-date=2014-05-10}}</ref>

He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of ''divertissements''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Markon.net srl |url=http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |title=Vittorio Gassman - Sito ufficiale |publisher=Vittoriogassman.it |access-date=2014-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503165619/http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |archive-date=3 May 2014}}</ref>

==Early life==
Gassman was born in [[Genoa]] to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer from [[Karlsruhe]]), and an [[Italian Jews|Italian Jewish]] mother, Luisa Ambron, born in [[Pisa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ovguide.com/vittorio-gassman-9202a8c04000641f80000000000582db# |title=Vittorio Gassman Video &#124; Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi |publisher=Ovguide.com |access-date=2014-05-10}}</ref> While still very young, he moved to Rome, where he studied at the [[Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico|Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Markon.net srl |url=http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |title=Vittorio Gassman - Sito ufficiale |publisher=Vittoriogassman.it |access-date=2014-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503165619/http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |archive-date=3 May 2014}}</ref>

==Career==
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 ''[[Bitter Rice|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 the Younger|Seneca]]'s ''Thyestes'' and [[Aeschylus]]'s ''The Persians''.

[[File:1957 Grolla d'oro - Vittorio Gassman, Giovanna Ralli and Alberto Lattuada.jpg|thumb|Gassman, [[Giovanna Ralli]] and [[Alberto Lattuada]] awarded at the 1957 [[Grolla d'oro]]]]
[[File:Photo Milan, Teatro Manzoni. Vittorio Gassman during the performance of the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 1955 - Touring Club Italiano 04 2242.jpg|thumb|Vittorio Gassman during the performance of the tragedy ''Oedipus Rex'' in 1955]]

In 1956 Gassman played the title role in a production of ''[[Othello]]''. He was so well received by his acting in the television series entitled ''{{ill|Il Mattatore (Spotlight Chaser)|it|Il Mattatore (programma televisivo)}}'' that "Il Mattatore" became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. Gassman's debut in the [[commedia all'italiana]] genre was rather accidental,{{How|date=October 2021}} in [[Mario Monicelli]]'s ''[[I soliti ignoti]]'' (''Big Deal on Madonna Street'', 1958). Famous movies featuring Gassman include: ''[[The Easy Life|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 directed ''[[Adelchi]]'', a lesser-known work by [[Alessandro Manzoni]]. Gassman brought this production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his ''Teatro Popolare Itinerante'' (a newer edition of the famous ''[[Carro di Tespi]]''). His productions have included many of the famous authors and playwrights of the 20th century, with repeated returns to the classics of [[Shakespeare]], [[Dostoyevsky]] and the [[Greece|Greek]] tragicians. He also founded a theatre school in [[Florence, Italy|Florence]] ([[Bottega Teatrale di Firenze]]), which educated many of the more talented actors of the current generation of Italian thespians.<ref>{{cite web |author=Markon.net srl |url=http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |title=Vittorio Gassman - Sito ufficiale |publisher=Vittoriogassman.it |access-date=2014-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503165619/http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |archive-date=3 May 2014}}</ref>

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, Los Angeles|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 (1954 film)|Rhapsody]]'' with [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and ''[[The Glass Wall]]'' before returning to Italy and the theatre.

In the 1990s he took part in the popular Italian [[Rai 3]] TV show ''[[Tunnel (TV show)|Tunnel]]'' in which he very formally and "seriously"' recited documents such as utility bills, yellow pages and similar trivial texts, such as washing instructions for a wool sweater or cookies ingredients.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/content/theatre |title=Theatre &#124; Casa Italiana Zerilli / Marimò |publisher=Casaitaliananyu.org |access-date=2014-05-10 |archive-date=7 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907082522/http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/content/theatre |url-status=dead }}</ref> He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''Divine Comedy''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://encinematheque.net/acteurs/H35/index.asp |title=Vittorio GASSMAN |publisher=Encinematheque.net |access-date=2014-05-10 |archive-date=13 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513011120/http://encinematheque.net/acteurs/H35/index.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Markon.net srl |url=http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |title=Vittorio Gassman - Sito ufficiale |publisher=Vittoriogassman.it |access-date=2014-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503165619/http://www.vittoriogassman.it/biografia.htm |archive-date=3 May 2014}}</ref>

In 1994, Gassman voiced [[Mufasa]] in the Italian dubbed version of ''[[The Lion King]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mallozzi |first=Giuseppe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LqFEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Vittorio+Gassman%22+%22Mufasa%22+%221994%22&pg=PT105 |title=Vittorio Gassman: Quaderni di Visioni Corte Film Festival |date=2022-08-29 |publisher=Ali Ribelli Edizioni |isbn=978-88-3346-900-3 |language=it}}</ref> Gassman's voice was redubbed in several of his films by historical Italian actors and dubbers which include [[Emilio Cigoli]], [[Sandro Ruffini]], [[Gualtiero De Angelis]], [[Stefano Sibaldi]], [[Enrico Maria Salerno]] and [[Pino Locchi]].

==Personal life==
Gassman married three times, all to actresses: [[Nora Ricci]] (with whom he had [[Paola Gassman|Paola]], an actress and wife of [[Ugo Pagliai]]);<ref>{{Cite web |last=Costantini |first=Emilia |date=2020-06-24 |title=Paola Gassman: "Papà Vittorio morto il giorno del mio "non compleanno!" |url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/20_giugno_24/paola-gassman-vi-racconto-segreti-papa-vittorio-bdd4e7d8-b62d-11ea-9dea-5ac3c9ec7c08.shtml |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it}}</ref> [[Shelley Winters]] (mother of his daughter Vittoria);<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vittorio Gassman raccontato da sua figlia - Cinema |url=https://www.raicultura.it/cinema/articoli/2020/05/Vittorio-Gassman-raccontato-da-sua-figlia-8ed1ac77-a7c3-4844-aa68-94de6e575986.html |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Rai Cultura |language=it}}</ref> and {{Interlanguage link|Diletta D'Andrea|lt=Diletta D'Andrea|it|Diletta D'Andrea}} (mother of his son Jacopo).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-25 |title=Emanuele Salce a Oggi è un altro giorno: "Il mio rapporto con il mio patrigno Vittorio Gassman" |url=https://www.ilmattino.it/spettacoli/televisione/emanuele_salce_oggi_un_altro_giorno_rapporto_patrigno_vittorio_gassman-6527738.html |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=www.ilmattino.it |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-06-29 |title=Vent'anni dalla morte di Vittorio Gassman: i suoi amori. FOTO |url=https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/cinema/vittorio-gassman-amori |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=tg24.sky.it |language=it}}</ref>

While rehearsing ''Hamlet'', he began an affair with [[Anna Maria Ferrero]], his 16-year-old [[Ophelia]], which ended his marriage to Winters.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-21 |title=È morta Anna Maria Ferrero, l'attrice che lasciò il cinema per amore |url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2018/05/21/news/anna_maria_ferrero-196991867/ |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}}</ref> He and Winters were forced to work together on ''[[Mambo (1954 film)|Mambo]]'' just as their marriage was unraveling, providing fodder for tabloids all over the world.

From 1964 to 1968 he was the partner of [[France|French]] actress [[Juliette Mayniel]] (mother of his son [[Alessandro Gassman|Alessandro]], also an actor).<ref>{{cite web|author=Vittorio Gassman |url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/attori-registi/vittorio-gassman/181244 |title=La schema di Vittorio Gassman. Biografia e filmografia - Trovacinema |language=it |publisher=Trovacinema.repubblica.it |access-date=2014-05-10}}</ref> Through Alessandro, he is the grandfather of singer-songwriter [[Leo Gassmann]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-06-28 |title=Vittorio Gassman, il ricordo di suo nipote Leo. VIDEO |url=https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/cinema/2020/06/27/vittorio-gassman-ricordo-leo-gassmann |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=tg24.sky.it |language=it}}</ref>

Gassman suffered from [[bipolar disorder]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-28 |title=Vittorio Gassman, dai successi de "Il sorpasso" e "I mostri" alla malattia: a 20 anni dalla scomparsa l'omaggio di Sky coi figli e tanti attori |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/06/28/vittorio-gassman-dai-successi-de-il-sorpasso-e-i-mostri-alla-malattia-a-20-anni-dalla-scomparsa-lomaggio-di-sky-coi-figli-e-tanti-attori/5850293/ |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Il Fatto Quotidiano |language=it-IT}}</ref>

==Death==
On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of a [[heart attack]] in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/30/movies/vittorio-gassman-77-veteran-italian-star-comfortable-in-classics-and-comedy-dies.html|title=Vittorio Gassman, 77, Veteran Italian Star Comfortable in Classics and Comedy, Dies|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 30, 2000}}</ref> He was buried at [[Campo Verano]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roma |first=Redazione |date=2018-02-18 |title=Il cimitero del Verano "paradiso degli artisti": ecco tutte le celebrità sepolte a Roma |url=https://roma.corriere.it/cronaca/cards/cimitero-verano-paradiso-artisti-libro-ricordare-celebrita-sepolte-roma/storia-cimitero-monumentale_principale.shtml |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it}}</ref>

==Filmography==
[[File:Riso Amaro 1949 vittorio gassman.JPG|thumb|Vittorio Gassman in ''Bitter Rice'' (1948)]]
[[File:War and peace5.jpg|thumb|Gassman in ''War and Peace'' (1956)]]
[[File:I soliti ignoti 2.png|thumb|[[Memmo Carotenuto]] and Gassman in ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' (1958)]]
[[File:Grandeguerra3.jpg|thumb|Gassman, [[Silvana Mangano]] and [[Alberto Sordi]] in ''The Great War'' (1959)]]
[[File:Il sorpasso (1962) Spaak e Gassman.jpg|thumb|[[Catherine Spaak]] and Gassman in ''Il Sorpasso'' (1962)]]
[[File:MostriRisi.png|thumb|Gassman and [[Ugo Tognazzi]] in ''I Mostri'' (1963)]]
[[File:Le piacevoli notti - film.jpg|thumb|Gassman and [[Luigi Vannucchi]] in ''Pleasant Nights'' (1965)]]
[[File:Armata brancaleone (11).jpg|thumb|Gassman in ''L'armata Brancaleone'' (1965)]]
[[File:C'eravamo tanto amati, film.jpg|thumb|Gassman, [[Nino Manfredi]] and [[Stefano Satta Flores]] in ''We All Loved Each Other So Much'' (1974)]]

===Actor===
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*''Incontro con Laura'' (1945)
*''[[The Captain's Daughter (1947 film)|The Captain's Daughter]]'' (1947) as Svabrin
*''Preludio d'amore'' (''Love Prelude'', 1947) as Davide
*''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio (1947 film)|Le avventure di Pinocchio]]'' (''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', 1947) as [[The Green Fisherman]]
*''[[Daniele Cortis]]'' (1947) as Daniele Cortis
*''[[L'ebreo errante]]''  (''The Wandering Jew'', 1948) as Mathieu Nahum / Mathieu Blumenthal
*''[[Il cavaliere misterioso]]'' (''The Mysterious Rider'', 1948) as Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
*''[[Bitter Rice|Riso amaro]]'' (''Bitter Rice'', 1949) as Walter
*''[[Una voce nel tuo cuore]]'' (1949) as Paolo Baldini
*''[[The Wolf of the Sila]]'' (1949) as Pietro Campolo
*''[[Ho sognato il paradiso]]'' (''Streets of Sorrow'', 1950) as Giorgio
*''[[I fuorilegge]]'', (''The Outlaws'', 1950) as Turi
*''[[Lo sparviero del Nilo]]'' (''Hawk of the Nile'', 1950) as Yussuf
*''[[The Lion of Amalfi|Il leone di Amalfi]]'' (''The Lion of Amalfi'', 1950) as Mauro
*''[[Double Cross (1951 film)|Il tradimento]]'' (''Double Cross'', 1951) as Renato Salvi
*''[[La corona negra]]'' (1951) as Mauricio
*''[[Anna (1951 film)|Anna]]'' (1951) as Vittorio
*''[[The Dream of Zorro]]'' (1952) as Don Antonio / Juan
*''[[Girls Marked Danger]]'' (1952) as Michele
*''[[The Glass Wall]]'' (1953) as Peter Kuban
*''[[Sombrero (film)|Sombrero]]'' (1953) as Alejandro Castillo
*''[[Cry of the Hunted]]'' (1953) as Jory
*''[[Rhapsody (1954 film)|Rhapsody]]'' (1954) as Paul Bronte
*''[[Mambo (1954 film)|Mambo]]'' (1954) as Mario Rossi
*''[[Beautiful but Dangerous]]'' (1955) as Prince Sergei
*''[[The Violent Patriot]]'' (1956) as Giovanni de Medici dalle Bande Nere
*''[[War and Peace (1956 film)|War and Peace]]'' (1956) as Anatol Kuragin
*''[[Difendo il mio amore]]'' (1956) as Giovanni Marchi
*''[[Kean: Genius or Scoundrel]]'' (1957) as Edmund Kean
*''[[Big Deal on Madonna Street|I soliti ignoti]]'' (''Big Deal on Madonna Street'', 1958) as Peppe il pantera
*''[[The Love Specialist|La ragazza del palio]]'' (1958) as Piero di Montalcino
*''[[Tempest (1958 film)|La tempesta]]'' (1958) as Prosecutor
*''[[The Great War (1959 film)|The Great War]]'' (1959) as Giovanni Busacca
*''[[The Miracle (1959 film)|The Miracle]]'' (1959) as Guido
*''[[La cambiale]]'' (1959) as Michele
*''[[Le sorprese dell'amore]]'' (1959) as The Schoolteacher (uncredited)
*''[[Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti]]'' (''Hold-up à la milanaise'', 1959) as Peppe er pantera
*''[[Il Mattatore]]'' (1960) as Gerardo Latini
*''[[Crimen (film)|Crimen]]'' (''Killing in Monte Carlo'', 1960) as Remo Capretti
*''[[Ghosts of Rome|Fantasmi a Roma]]'' (''Ghosts of Rome'', 1961) as Giovanni Battista Villari, aka 'il Caparra'
*''[[A Difficult Life]]'' (1961) as himself (uncredited)
*''[[The Last Judgement (1961 film)|The Last Judgement]]'' (1961) as Cimino
*''[[The Italian Brigands]]'' (1961) as O Caporale
*''[[Barabbas (1961 film)|Barabbas]]'' (1961) as Sahak
*''[[Anima nera]]'' (1962) as Adriano Zucchelli
*''[[The Shortest Day|Il giorno più corto]]'' (1962)
*''[[The Easy Life|Il Sorpasso]]'' (''The Easy Life'', 1962) as Bruno Cortona
*''[[March on Rome (film)|La Marcia su Roma]]'' (''March on Rome'', 1962) as Domenico Rocchetti
*''[[L'amore difficile]]'' (''Sex Can Be Difficult'', 1962) as L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
*''[[La Smania addosso]]'' (1963) as Giorgio Mazzanò - lawyer
*''[[Il Successo]]'' (1963) as Giulio Ceriani
*''[[I Mostri]]'' (1963) 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")
*''[[Shivers in Summer|Frenesia dell'estate]]'' (1964) as Captain Mario Nardoni
*''[[Se permettete parliamo di donne]]'' (''Let's Talk About Women'', 1964) as Stranger / Practical Joker / Client / Lover / Impatient Lover / Waiter / Timid Brother / Ragman / Prisoner
*''[[Il Gaucho]]'' (1964) as Marco Ravicchio
*''[[La Congiuntura]]'' (''Hard Time for Princes'', 1965) as Giuliano
*''[[The Dirty Game]]'' (1965) as Perego / Ferrari (French)
*''[[Slalom (1965 film)|Slalom]]'' (1965) as Lucio Ridolfi
*''[[Una Vergine per il Principe]]'' (''Virgin for the Prince'', 1966) as Principe Don Vincenzo Gonzaga
*''[[L'Armata Brancaleone]]'' (1966) as Brancaleone da Norcia
*''[[Pleasant Nights|Le piacevoli notti]]'' (1966) as Bastiano da Sangallo
*''[[The Devil in Love (film)|The Devil in Love]]'' (''L'arcidiavolo'', 1966) as Belfagor
*''[[Il Tigre]]'' (1967) as Francesco Vincenzini
*''[[Woman Times Seven|Sette Volte Donna]]'' (''Woman Times Seven'', 1967) as Cenci (segment "Two Against One")
*''[[Ghosts – Italian Style|Questi fantasmi]]'' (''Ghosts – Italian Style'', 1968) as Pasquale Lojacono
*''[[Catch As Catch Can (1967 film)|Lo scatenato]]'' (1968) as Bob Chiaramonte
*''[[Il Profeta]]'' (1968) as Pietro Breccia
*''[[The Black Sheep (1968 film)|La pecora nera]]'' (''The Black Sheep'', 1968) as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti
*''[[Alibi (1969 film)|L'Alibi]]'' (''Alibi'', 1969) as Vittorio
*''[[Where Are You Going All Naked?|Dove vai tutta nuda?]]'' (''Where Are You Going All Naked?'', 1969) as Rufus Conforti
*''[[The 13 Chairs|Una su 13]]'' (''The 13 Chairs'', 1969) as Mario Beretti
*''[[The Archangel|L'Arcangelo]]'' (1969) as Furio Bertuccia
*''[[Let's Have a Riot|Contestazione generale]]'' (1970) as Riccardo
*''[[The Divorce (1970 film)|The Divorce]]'' (1970) as Leonardo Nenci
*''[[Brancaleone alle Crociate]]'' (''Brancaleone at the Crusades'', 1970) as Brancaleone da Norcia
*''[[Scipio the African|Scipione detto anche l'africano]]'' (''Scipio the African'', 1971) as Catone il Censore
*''[[In nome del popolo italiano]]'' (1971) as Lorenzo Santenocito
*''[[Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto]]'' (1972) as Armando Zavanatti
*''[[L'udienza]]'' (''The Audience'', 1972) as Principe Donati
*''[[Che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione?]]'' (1972) as Guido Guidi
*''[[La Tosca (1973 film)|La Tosca]]'' (1973) as Scarpia
*''[[Profumo di donna]]'' (''Scent of a Woman'', 1974) as Il capitano Fausto Consolo
*''[[C'eravamo tanto amati]]'' (''We All Loved Each Other So Much'', 1974) as Gianni Perego
*''[[A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere]]'' (''Midnight Pleasures'', 1975) as Andrea Sansoni
*''[[Telefoni bianchi]]'' (1976) as Franco Denza
*''[[Pure as a Lily|Come una rosa al naso]]'' (''Pure as a Lily'', 1976) as Anthony M. Wilson
*''[[Signore e signori, buonanotte]]'' (1976) as CIA agent / Tuttumpezzo
*''[[The Desert of the Tartars]]'' (''The Desert of the Tartars'', 1976) as Colonel Giovanbattista Filimore
*''[[Anima persa]]'' (''The Forbidden Room'', 1977) as Fabio Stolz
*''[[I nuovi mostri]]'' (''Via l'Italia!'', 1977) as Il cardinale (segment "Tantum ergo") / Il cameriere (segment "Hostaria") / Il marito (segment "Sequestro di persona cara") / Il commissario (segment "Il sospetto") / Il padre di famiglia (segment "Cittadino esemplare")
*''[[A Wedding (1978 film)|A Wedding]]'' (1978) as Luigi Corelli
*''[[Quintet (film)|Quintet]]'' (1979) as St. Christopher
*''[[Caro papà]]'' (''Dear Father'', 1979) as Albino Millozza
*''[[Happy Hobos|Due pezzi di pane]]'' (''Happy Hobos'', 1979) as Pippo Mifà
*''[[Sono fotogenico]]'' (1980) as himself (uncredited)
*''[[La terrazza]]'' (''The Terrace'', 1980) as Mario
*''[[The Nude Bomb]]'' (1980) as Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
*''[[Camera d'albergo]]'' (''Chambre d'hôtel'', 1981) as Achille Mengaroni
*''[[Il turno (film)|Il Turno]]'' (1981) as Ciro Coppa
*''[[Sharky's Machine (film)|Sharky's Machine]]'' (1981) as Albert Scarelli / Victor D'Anton
*''[[Di padre in figlio]]'' (1982) as himself
*''[[Tempest (1982 film)|Tempest]]'' (1982) as Alonzo
*''[[Il Conte Tacchia]]'' (''Count Tacchia'', 1982) as Prince Torquato Terenzi
*''[[Life Is a Bed of Roses|La Vie est un roman]]'' (''Life Is a Bed of Roses'', 1983) as Walter Guarini
*''[[Benvenuta (film)|Benvenuta]]'' (1983) as Livio Carpi
*''[[Paradigma]]'' (''Power of Evil'', 1985) as Gottfried
*''[[Big Deal After 20 Years|I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo]]'' (''Big Deal After 20 Years'', 1985) as Peppe il pantera
*''[[La Famiglia]]'' (''The Family'', 1987) as Carlo, as a man / Carlo's grandfather
*''[[I Picari]]'' (1987) as Marchese Felipe de Aragona
*''[[Mortacci]]'' (1989) as Domenico
*''[[Lo zio indegno]]'' (1989) as Uncle Luca
*''[[Dimenticare Palermo]]'' (1990) as Il Principe
*''[[Tolgo il disturbo]]'' (1990) as Augusto Scribani
*''[[Les 1001 Nuits]]'' (1990) as Sinbad
*''[[The Amusements of Private Life|I Divertimenti della vita privata]]'' (''The Amusements of Private Life'', 1990) as Marquis
*''[[Rossini! Rossini!]]'' (1991) as Ludwig van Beethoven (uncredited)
*''[[The Long Winter (1992 film)|El Largo invierno]]'' (1992) as Claudio
*''[[When We Were Repressed]]'' (1992) as The Sexologist
*''[[Abraham (1993 film)|Abraham]]'' (1993, TV series) as Terah
*''[[Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno]]'' (1994) as Giuseppe
*''[[Sleepers (film)|Sleepers]]'' (1996) as Benny 'King Benny'
*''[[Desert of Fire (1997 film)|Deserto di fuoco]]'' (1997, TV Series) as Tarek
*''[[Un homme digne de confiance]]'' (1997) as Adriano Venturi
*''[[La cena]]'' (1998) as Maestro Pezzullo
*''[[La bomba (film)|La bomba]]'' (1999) as Don Vito Bracalone
*''[[Luchino Visconti (1999 film)|Luchino Visconti]]'' (1999) as himself
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===Director===
*''Kean'' (1956)
*''[[Alibi (1969 film)|L'Alibi]]'' (1969)
*''[[Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto]]'' (1972)
*''Di padre in figlio'' (1982)

==Dubbing roles==
===Animation===
*[[Mufasa]] in ''[[The Lion King]]'' (1994), dubbing [[James Earl Jones]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/film/ilreleone.htm |title=The Lion King Italian voice cast|publisher=Antoniogenna.net |access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>

===Live action===
*Narrator in ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1968), dubbing [[Laurence Olivier]]

== Writer ==
*''Luca de' Numeri''. Novel, in 1947 won the ''Fogazzaro'' prize, published in 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 canto 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 – Manzoni – 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 ==
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