Nora Ricci
Who was Vittorio Gassman 's spouse in late 1940s?
Vittorio Gassman Vittorio Gassman ( ; born Gassmann ; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000 ) , popularly known as , 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 . Biography . Early life . He was born in Genoa to a German father , Heinrich Gassmann ( an engineer from Karlsruhe ) , and a Pisan Jewish mother , Luisa Ambron . While still very young he moved to Rome , where he studied at the Silvio DAmico National Academy of Dramatic Arts . Career . Gassmans debut was in Milan , in 1942 , with Alda Borelli in Niccodemis 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 damore , while only one year later he appeared in five films . In 1948 he played in Riso amaro . It was with Luchino Viscontis 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 dArte Italiano , producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy , followed by rare works such as Senecas Thyestes and Aeschyluss The Persians . 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 that Il Mattatore became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life . Gassmans debut in the commedia allitaliana genre was rather accidental , in Mario Monicellis I soliti ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street , 1958 ) . Famous movies featuring Gassman include : Il sorpasso ( 1962 ) , La Grande Guerra ( 1962 ) , I mostri ( 1963 ) , LArmata Brancaleone ( 1966 ) , Profumo di donna ( 1974 ) and Ceravamo 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 Greek tragicians . He also founded a theatre school in Florence ( Bottega Teatrale di Firenze ) , which educated many of the more talented actors of the current generation of Italian thespians . 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 . In the 1990s he took part in the popular 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 . He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dantes Divine Comedy . In 1994 , Gassman voiced Mufasa in the Italian dubbed version of The Lion King . Gassmans 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 , an actress and wife of Ugo Pagliai ) ; Shelley Winters ( mother of his daughter Vittoria ) ; and Diletta DAndrea ( mother of his son Jacopo ) . While rehearsing Hamlet , he began an affair with Anna Maria Ferrero , his 16-year-old Ophelia , which ended his marriage to Winters . He and Winters were forced 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 actress Juliette Mayniel ( mother of his son Alessandro , also an actor ) . Through Alessandro , he is the grandfather of singer-songwriter Leo Gassmann . Death . In the later stages of his life , Gassman suffered from bipolar disorder and on 29 June 2000 , he died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77 . He was buried at Campo Verano . Filmography . Actor . - Incontro con Laura ( 1945 ) - The Captains Daughter ( 1947 ) as Svabrin - Preludio damore ( Love Prelude , 1947 ) as Davide - Le avventure di Pinocchio ( The Adventures of Pinocchio , 1947 ) as The Green Fisherman - Daniele Cortis ( 1947 ) as Daniele Cortis - Lebreo errante ( The Wandering Jew , 1948 ) as Mathieu Nahum / Mathieu Blumenthal - Il cavaliere misterioso ( The Mysterious Rider , 1948 ) as Giacomo Casanova , cavaliere di Seingalt - 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 - Il leone di Amalfi ( The Lion of Amalfi , 1950 ) as Mauro - Il tradimento ( Double Cross , 1951 ) as Renato Salvi - La corona negra ( 1951 ) as Mauricio - 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 Kaban - Sombrero ( 1953 ) as Alejandro Castillo - Cry of the Hunted ( 1953 ) as Jory - Rhapsody ( 1954 ) as Paul Bronte - Mambo ( 1954 ) as Mario Rossi - La donna più bella del mondo ( 1955 ) as Prince Sergei - The Violent Patriot ( 1956 ) as Giovanni de Medici dalle Bande Nere - War and Peace ( 1956 ) as Anatol Kuragin - Difendo il mio amore ( 1956 ) as Giovanni Marchi - ( 1957 ) as Edmund Kean - I soliti ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street , 1958 ) as Peppe il pantera - La ragazza del palio ( 1958 ) as Piero di Montalcino - La tempesta ( 1958 ) as Prosecutor - The Great War ( 1959 ) as Giovanni Busacca - The Miracle ( 1959 ) as Guido - La cambiale ( 1959 ) as Michele - Le sorprese dellamore ( 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 ( Killing in Monte Carlo , 1960 ) as Remo Capretti - 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 ) as Cimino - I briganti italiani ( 1961 ) as O Caporale - Barabbas ( 1961 ) as Sahak - Anima nera ( 1962 ) as Adriano Zucchelli - Il giorno più corto ( 1962 ) - Il Sorpasso ( The Easy Life , 1962 ) as Bruno Cortona - La Marcia su Roma ( March on Rome , 1962 ) as Domenico Rocchetti - Lamore difficile ( Sex Can Be Difficult , 1962 ) as Lavvocato ( segment Lavaro ) - 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 DAmore ( 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 ) - Frenesia dellestate ( 1964 ) as Captain Mario Nardoni - Se permettete parliamo di donne ( Lets 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 ) as Lucio Ridolfi - Una Vergine per il Principe ( Virgin for the Prince , 1966 ) as Principe don vincenzo gonzaga - LArmata Brancaleone ( 1966 ) as Brancaleone da Norcia - Le piacevoli notti ( 1966 ) as Bastiano da Sangallo - The Devil in Love ( Larcidiavolo , 1966 ) as Belfagor - Il Tigre ( 1967 ) as Francesco Vincenzini - Sette Volte Donna ( Woman Times Seven , 1967 ) as Cenci ( segment Two Against One ) - Questi fantasmi ( Ghosts – Italian Style , 1968 ) as Pasquale Lojacono - Lo scatenato ( 1968 ) as Bob Chiaramonte - Il Profeta ( 1968 ) as Pietro Breccia - La pecora nera ( The Black Sheep , 1968 ) as Mario Agasti / Filippo Agasti - LAlibi ( Alibi , 1969 ) as Vittorio - Dove vai tutta nuda ? ( Where Are You Going All Naked? , 1969 ) as Rufus Conforti - Una su 13 ( The 13 Chairs , 1969 ) as Mario Beretti - LArcangelo ( 1969 ) as Furio Bertuccia - Contestazione generale ( 1970 ) as Riccardo - The Divorce ( 1970 ) as Leonardo Nenci - Brancaleone alle Crociate ( Brancaleone at the Crusades , 1970 ) as Brancaleone da Norcia - Scipione detto anche lafricano ( 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 - Ludienza ( The Audience , 1972 ) as Principe Donati - Che centriamo noi con la rivoluzione ? ( 1972 ) as Guido Guidi - La Tosca ( 1973 ) as Scarpia - Profumo di donna ( Scent of a Woman , 1974 ) as Il capitano Fausto Consolo - Ceravamo 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 - 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 lItalia! , 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 ) as Luigi Corelli - Quintet ( 1979 ) as St . Christopher - Caro papà ( Dear Father , 1979 ) as Albino Millozza - 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 dalbergo ( Chambre dhôtel , 1981 ) as Achille Mengaroni - Il Turno ( 1981 ) as Ciro Coppa - Sharkys Machine ( 1981 ) as Victor - Di padre in figlio ( 1982 ) as Himself - Tempest ( 1982 ) as Alonzo - Il Conte Tacchia ( Count Tacchia , 1982 ) as Prince Torquato Terenzi - La Vie est un roman ( Life Is a Bed of Roses , 1983 ) as Walter Guarini - Benvenuta ( 1983 ) as Livio Carpi - Paradigma ( Power of Evil , 1985 ) as Gottfried - I Soliti ignoti ventanni dopo ( Big Deal After 20 Years , 1985 ) as Peppe il pantera - La Famiglia ( The Family , 1987 ) as Carlo , as a man / Carlos 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 - I Divertimenti della vita privata ( The Amusements of Private Life , 1990 ) as Marquis - Rossini ! Rossini ! ( 1991 ) as Ludwig van Beethoven ( uncredited ) - El Largo invierno ( 1992 ) as Claudio - When We Were Repressed ( 1992 ) as The Sexologist - Abraham ( 1993 , TV series ) as Terah - Tutti gli anni una volta lanno ( 1994 ) as Giuseppe - Sleepers ( 1996 ) as King Benny - 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 ( 1999 ) as Don Vito Bracalone - Luchino Visconti ( 1999 ) as Himself Director . - Kean ( 1956 ) - LAlibi ( 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 Live action . - 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 DAngelo . - 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 .