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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 13, 1919
Died
October 22, 1987
Place of Birth
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Lino Ventura
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.1
Lino (archive footage) (uncredited)
At the End of the Day
2024
9.0
Self (archive footage) - actor
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022
7.6
Self (archive footage)
Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
7.2
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
6.9
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Aznavour by Charles
2019
7.7
Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
2017
7.0
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
🎬
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
2012
Credits
At the End of the Day
as Lino (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
6.1
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actor
2022
9.0
Bacri, comme un air de famille
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.6
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.2
Aznavour by Charles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
6.9
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.7
Lino Ventura, la part intime
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.8
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.0
🎬
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
as Self (archive footage)
2012
6.0
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
as Self (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
as Self (archive footage)
2010
7.3
Code Name: Melville
as Self (archive footage)
2010
6.7
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
7.5
Le monde est à vous
as Self (archive footage)
1987
0.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self (archive footage)
1987
5.1
La Rumba
as un caïd
1987
4.6
Sword of Gideon
as Papa
1986
6.8
The Seventh Target
as Bastien Grimaldi
1984
5.8
One Hundred Days in Palermo
as General Carlo Dalla Chiesa
1984
6.9
The Ruffian
as Aldo
1983
6.2
Les Misérables
as Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu
1982
6.9
Spy, Stand Up
as Sébastien Grenier
1982
7.2
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
The Inquisitor
as Inspector Antoine Gallien
1981
7.5
Sunday Lovers
as François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')
1980
5.7
L'Homme en colère
as Romain Dupre
1979
5.4
Butterfly on the Shoulder
as Roland Fériaud
1978
5.9
The Medusa Touch
as Brunel
1978
6.8
Auf los geht's los
as Self
1977
0.0
Illustrious Corpses
as Inspector Amerigo Rogas
1976
6.8
The French Detective
as Commissioner Verjeat
1975
6.7
The Cage
as Julien
1975
5.9
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Slap
as Jean Douléan
1974
6.6
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
Three Tough Guys
as Father Charlie
1974
4.6
A Pain in the Ass
as Ralf Milan
1973
7.1
Far West
as Prisoner
1973
6.2
Happy New Year
as Simon
1973
7.2
The Right of the Maddest
as Le gendarme motorisé instructeur
1973
5.8
The Silent One
as Clément Tibère
1973
7.2
Money Money Money
as Lino Massaro
1972
6.7
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main guest
1972
8.0
The Valachi Papers
as Vito Genovese
1972
6.5
Rum Runners
as Cornelius von Zeelinga
1971
4.6
Fantasia Among the Squares
as Sagamore Noonan
1971
5.0
Last Known Address
as Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti
1970
7.3
The Sicilian Clan
as Commissaire Le Goff
1969
7.6
Army of Shadows
as Philippe Gerbier
1969
7.9
Birds of Prey
as Le rapace / Le rital
1968
6.5
The Last Adventure
as Roland
1967
6.9
Deux Romains en Gaule
as Un client du bar
1967
6.5
Le Deuxième Souffle
as Gustave 'Gu' Minda
1966
7.6
To Skin a Spy
as Pascal Fabre
1966
5.7
🎬
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
as Self - Interviewee
1966
0.0
Let's Not Get Angry
as Antoine Beretto
1966
7.5
The Wise Guys
as Laurent Dannecker
1965
7.9
Cloportes
as Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin'
1965
6.2
The Dictator's Guns
as Jacques Cournot
1965
6.0
The Great Spy Chase
as Francis Lagneau
1964
6.8
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Elie's Client (uncredited)
1964
5.3
Weeping for a Bandit
as "El lutos"
1964
5.1
Greed in the Sun
as Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
1964
7.1
Crooks in Clover
as Fernand Naudin
1963
7.7
The Threepenny Opera
as Brown, Polizeichef von London
1963
5.0
Carmen di Trastevere
as Vincenzo, le caïd
1962
9.0
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Garigny
1962
5.5
Hitch-Hike
as Paul, le chauffeur de car
1962
5.5
Emile's Boat
as Émile Bouet
1962
6.4
The Last Judgment
as Giovanna's father
1961
6.4
The Lions Are Loose
as le docteur André Challenberg
1961
5.8
Black City
as Il bandito
1961
7.5
Taxi for Tobruk
as le brigadier Théo Dumas
1961
7.1
Girl in the Window
as Federico
1961
5.9
Mistress of the World - Part II
as Biamonte
1960
5.0
Mistress of the World - Part I
as Biamonte
1960
6.2
The Big Risk
as Abel Davos
1960
7.0
Way of Youth
as Tiercelin
1959
6.0
125 rue Montmartre
as Pascal
1959
7.5
Witness in the City
as Ancelin
1959
6.2
Marie-Octobre
as Carlo Bernardi
1959
7.3
Twelve Hours by the Clock
as Fourbieux
1959
3.9
Pensione Edelweiss
as Borcher
1959
5.1
The Tiger Attacks
as Paul Lamiani
1959
6.2
The Mask of the Gorilla
as Géo Paquet, Le Gorille
1958
5.9
The Lovers of Montparnasse
as Morel
1958
6.8
Three Days to Live
as Lino Ferrari
1958
5.4
Elevator to the Gallows
as Le Commissaire Cherrier
1958
7.6
Maigret Sets a Trap
as Inspecteur Torrence
1958
7.0
Dishonorable Discharge
as Paulo, Claire's lover
1957
5.4
The Strange Mr. Steve
as Denis
1957
5.0
Speaking of Murder
as Pepito
1957
6.3
To Catch a Spy
as Bérès
1957
5.0
Burning Fuse
as Legentil
1957
4.6
Crime and Punishment
as Gustave Messonnier
1956
7.0
Law of the Streets
as Mario
1956
7.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Razzia
as Roger le Catalan
1955
6.7
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
as Angelo Fraiser
1954
7.2