Vittorio Gassman

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Vittorio Gassman OMRI
Born	Vittorio Gassmann (1922-09-01)1 September 1922 Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Died	29 June 2000(2000-06-29) (aged 77) Rome , Italy
Occupations	Actor film director writer screenwriter
Years active	1942–1999
Spouses	Nora Ricci ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1952)​ Shelley Winters ​ ​ (m. 1952; div. 1954)​ Diletta D'Andrea ​ (m. 1972)​
Partner	Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) (Scent of a Woman , 1975)

Vittorio Gassman

He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements.[3]

Early life

Gassman was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer from Karlsruhe), and an Italian Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron, born in Pisa.^[4] While still very young, he moved to Rome, where he studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[5]

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 Riso amaro.

It was with

In 1956 Gassman played the title role in a production of

He directed

In the 1990s he took part in the popular Italian Rai 3 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.^[7] He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy.^[8][9]

In 1994, Gassman voiced

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

While rehearsing Hamlet, he began an affair with

From 1964 to 1968 he was the partner of

Gassman suffered from bipolar disorder.^[20]

Filmography

Actor

Director

• Kean (1956)
• 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^[21]

• Narrator in 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