Elsa Vazzoler (10 May 1920 – 8 August 1989) was an Italian stage, film, television and voice actress.

Life and career 
Born in Treviso, Vazzoler started studying acting and ballet after finishing high school. She debuted with dialect amateur dramatics, and in 1945 entered the stage company led by Memo Benassi. Vazzoler got her first leading role in 1949 under the stage direction of Anton Giulio Bragaglia, and later was first actress in the Cesco Baseggio company for several years. She was specialized in the Carlo Goldoni repertoire.

Vazzoler was also active in cinema, in which she was mainly chosen to play character roles in comedies, in radio and on television, which gave her the greatest popularity with the general public thanks to the participation to some successful TV-series.

Filmography 
 Ritrovarsi (1947, directed by Oreste Palella) - Laura
 Il richiamo nella tempesta (1950, directed by Oreste Palella)
 Nero and the Burning of Rome (1953, directed by Primo Zeglio)
 Golden Vein (1955, directed by Mauro Bolognini) - Duchessa Giulia Carena
 The Miller's Beautiful Wife(1955, directed by Mario Camerini) - Concettina
 I quattro del getto tonante (1955, directed by Fernando Cerchio) - Donna del Maresciallo
 The Great War(1959, directed by Mario Monicelli) - Moglie di Bordin
 Appuntamento a Ischia (1960, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Anna
 Lettere di una novizia (1960, directed by Alberto Lattuada) - Zaira Michetti
 5 marines per 100 ragazze (1961, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Una professoressa
 The Fascist (1961, directed by Luciano Salce) - Matilde Bardacci
 I terribili 7 (1963, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo) - Portiera
 Un angelo per Ribot (1963, directed by Carlo Capriata)
 Romeo and Juliet (1964, directed by Riccardo Freda) - Lady Montague
 Corpse for the Lady (1964, directed by Mario Mattoli) - Costanza
 I Kill, You Kill (1965, directed by Gianni Puccini) - Adalgisa (segment "Giochi acerbi")
 Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966, directed by Alessandro Blasetti) - Old woman eating ice-cream
 The Long, the Short, the Cat (1967, directed by Lucio Fulci) - Countess Nora d'Evita
 The Head of the Family (1967, directed by Nanni Loy) - Maria
 Cuore matto... matto da legare (1967, directed by Mario Amendola) - Cesira
 Riderà (Cuore matto) (1967, directed by Bruno Corbucci) - Signora Cesira
 Police Chief Pepe (1969, directed by Ettore Scola) - Vecchia prostituta
 Story of a Woman (1970, directed by Leonardo Bercovici) - Luisa
 Quelli belli... siamo noi (1970, directed by Giorgio Mariuzzo) - Elsa - wife of 'Gino'
 Il merlo maschio (1971, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile) - Costanza's Mother
 Gli ordini sono ordini (1972, directed by Franco Giraldi)
 Il bacio di una morta (1974, directed by Carlo Infascelli) - Marquise De Kohm
 La presidentessa (1977, directed by Luciano Salce) - Egle Trecanti
 Wifemistress (1977, directed by Marco Vicario) - Teresa, the maid
 How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover (1978, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile) - Anita
 Il corpo della ragassa (1979, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile) - Caterina
 Chaste and Pure (1981, directed by Salvatore Samperi) - Assunta
 I'm Going to Live by Myself (1982, directed by Marco Risi)
 Attila flagello di Dio (1982, directed by Castellano e Pipolo) - Cornaia
 Troppo forte (1986, directed by Carlo Verdone)
 Un uomo di razza (1988, directed by Bruno Rasia)

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1920 births  
1989 deaths  
People from Treviso
Italian film actresses 
Italian stage actresses 
Italian television actresses
Italian voice actresses