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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 15, 1921
Died
October 2, 1989
Place of Birth
Napoli, Campania, Italia
Vittorio Caprioli
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
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Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
4.8
Psicanalista
Dark Illness
1990
5.5
Riccardo
Taste of Life
1988
🎬
0.0
Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
L'ultima scena
1988
5.5
mozzafiato
I picari
1987
5.2
il monsignore (2° episodio)
Stuff for the Rich
1987
5.1
Don Vincenzo
Love & Passion
1987
5.4
Renzo
Uno scandalo perbene
1984
6.9
Harry Cardone
Cinderella '80
1984
5.8
Pitalugue
Petomaniac
1983
Credits
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
2017
7.0
Dark Illness
as Psicanalista
1990
4.8
Taste of Life
as Riccardo
1988
5.5
🎬
L'ultima scena
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
1988
0.0
I picari
as mozzafiato
1987
5.5
Stuff for the Rich
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
1987
5.2
Love & Passion
as Don Vincenzo
1987
5.1
Uno scandalo perbene
as Renzo
1984
5.4
Cinderella '80
as Harry Cardone
1984
6.9
Petomaniac
as Pitalugue
1983
5.8
Più bello di così si muore
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
1982
2.9
Le rose et le blanc
as Luigi Martini
1982
0.0
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
as Maresciallo Angrisani
1981
6.5
Before It's Too Early
as Il professore
1981
0.0
Umbrella Coup
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
1980
6.9
Café Express
as Carmelo Improta
1980
7.0
A Leap in the Dark
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
1980
6.2
Hypochondriac
as Vincenzo
1979
6.0
To Be Twenty
as Nazariota
1978
5.8
Blood and Diamonds
as Commissario Russo
1978
6.4
La Presidentessa
as Mazzone
1977
5.0
Grazie tante arrivederci
as Proprietario bisca
1977
0.0
Messalina, Messalina!
as Claudius
1977
3.6
The Rip-Off
as Benjamin Bronchi
1977
3.6
Latin Male Wanted
as don Carmine
1977
3.6
Rulers of the City
as Vinchenzo Napoli
1976
6.3
The Wing or the Thigh?
as Vittorio
1976
7.2
The Groper
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
1976
1.3
The Landlord
as Onorevole Vincenzi
1976
5.3
Blackmail Chase
as Barbone
1976
0.0
The Barons
as Padre
1975
0.0
Catherine & Co.
as Moretti
1975
1.0
The Messiah
as Herod the Great
1975
6.5
Kidnap Syndicate
as Commissar Magrini
1975
6.6
The School Teacher
as Fefe Mottola
1975
5.5
L'ammazzatina
as Commissario Pafuso
1975
0.0
Erotomania
as il ministro
1974
2.7
I'm Losing My Temper
as Le metteur en scène
1974
6.0
Shoot First, Die Later
as Esposito
1974
6.7
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
as Professor Goffredo
1974
2.0
Innocence and Desire
as Vincenzo Niscemi
1974
4.6
The Governess
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
1974
4.4
The Magnificent One
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
1973
7.0
The Sensual Man
as Salvatore
1973
5.7
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
as Il Ciancia
1973
0.0
Io e lui
as Cutica
1973
5.0
La colonna infame
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
1973
6.0
Giovannona Long-Thigh
as Onorevole Pedicò
1973
5.8
A Full Day's Work
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
1973
6.4
The Boss
as Questore
1973
6.8
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
as Nero
1972
3.6
When Women Were Called Virgins
as Ser Cecco
1972
5.0
Tout Va Bien
as Factory Manager
1972
6.6
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
1972
5.5
Hector the Mighty
as Menalao
1972
5.0
Trastevere
as Father Ernesto
1971
6.8
The Automobile
as Giggetto
1971
5.2
Roma bene
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
1971
5.6
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
as Gran Profe
1971
2.0
The Story of Romance and Knife
as Er Cinese
1971
5.5
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
as Luis (uncredited)
1970
4.3
On the Day of the Lord
as Messer Anticoli
1970
3.5
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
as Bambola di Pechino
1970
5.4
The Libertine
as Il Libraio
1968
5.2
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
as Spinelli
1968
6.0
Death on the Run
as Billy 'Pizza'
1967
6.2
Anyone Can Play
as Dieb
1967
3.8
Soldier's Girl
as Settimo
1967
0.0
Assicurasi vergine
as Don Pippo Matara
1967
5.0
How I Learned to Love Women
as Playboy
1966
4.4
Adultery Italian Style
as Silvio Sasselli
1966
6.1
Ischia operazione amore
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
1966
5.0
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Finizio, Politician
1966
6.1
A Maiden for the Prince
as Marchese Liginio
1965
5.1
Violence and Love
as Il poeta
1965
0.0
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
1964
7.5
Easy Love
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
1964
2.0
White Voices
as Matteuccio
1964
4.5
The Maniacs
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
1964
4.7
The Shortest Day
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
1963
6.2
Paris, My Love
as Avallone
1962
5.2
Adieu Philippine
as Pachala
1962
6.9
His Days are Numbered
as Professor
1962
7.1
Leoni al sole
as Giugiú
1961
4.6
A porte chiuse
as commissario
1961
5.9
Zazie dans le Métro
as Trouscaillon
1960
6.6
Recourse in Grace
as Sergio
1960
1.0
General Della Rovere
as Aristide Banchelli
1959
7.4
You're on Your Own
as Pino Calamari
1959
7.1
The Law
as Attilio
1959
5.8
Il borghese gentiluomo
as Jourdain
1959
0.0
Good night… lawyer!
as Vittorio
1955
6.4
Neapolitan Carousel
as paroliere amico di Luigino
1954
6.5
The Anatomy of Love
as Raffaele
1954
6.4
It Happened in the Park
as The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
1953
6.4
Aida
as Uncredited
1953
4.9
Eager to Live
as Pierra
1953
6.6
Times Gone By
as il marito di Mariantonia
1952
4.9
Totó in color
as Il tenore balbuziente
1952
7.3
Paris Is Always Paris
as Tour guide (uncredited)
1951
5.0
Robinson Crusoeland
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
1951
5.6
Variety Lights
as Night Club Comic
1950
7.0
Cinderella '87
as Harry Cardone
N/A
7.0