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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 28, 1930
Died
February 3, 2012
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Бен Газзара
- Biagio Anthony Gazzarra
- بن گازارا
Ben Gazzara
1.0 Popularity
Biography
Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).
Known For
5.3
'O Professore di Vesuviano
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025
0.0
Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
2023
0.0
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
9.0
Self
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014
6.7
Self
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
2014
6.0
Don Otello Di Bella
Pupetta, Woman of Honor
2013
🎬
6.0
Ristabbanna
2012
4.4
Oncle Giovanni
Chez Gino
2011
4.3
Paul Andersen
Christopher Roth
2010
0.0
Il Volo
2010
Credits
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
as 'O Professore di Vesuviano
2025
5.3
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
as Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)
2023
0.0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
as Self
2014
9.0
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
as Self
2014
6.7
Pupetta, Woman of Honor
as Don Otello Di Bella
2013
6.0
🎬
Ristabbanna
2012
6.0
Chez Gino
as Oncle Giovanni
2011
4.4
Christopher Roth
as Paul Andersen
2010
4.3
Il Volo
2010
0.0
13
as Schlondorff
2010
5.9
Holy Money
as Vatican's Banker
2009
0.0
The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
as Self
2009
0.0
Eve
as Joe
2008
6.2
🎬
Empire State Building Murders
as Paulie Genovese
2008
0.0
Looking for Palladin
as Jack Palladin
2008
3.0
🎬
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
7.0
A Prince Called Toto
as Self
2007
5.0
Donne sbagliate
as Franco Maresco
2007
4.0
Quiet Flows The Don
as Secretov
2006
3.8
Quiet Flows the Don
as General Secretov
2006
7.5
L'onore e il rispetto
as Don Fred Di Venanzio
2006
7.3
Paris Je T'aime
as Ben (Quartier Latin)
2006
6.8
Pope John Paul II
as Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
2005
6.1
The Shore
as Mr. Bob Harris
2005
6.0
🎬
Bonjour Michel
as michele Terranova
2005
0.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
2004
6.1
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)
2004
7.6
Dogville Confessions
as Self
2004
6.8
Dogville
as Jack McKay
2003
7.8
L'ospite segreto
as Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
2003
0.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Hysterical Blindness
as Nick
2002
6.0
🎬
Home Sweet Hoboken
2001
0.0
Brian's Song
as Coach Halas
2001
6.3
Jack of Hearts
as Batossa
2000
1.5
A Constant Forge
as Self
2000
6.6
The List
as D.A. Bernard Salman
2000
4.7
Nella terra di nessuno
as L'avvocato Scalzi
2000
0.0
🎬
Piovuto dal cielo
2000
0.0
Undertaker's Paradise
as Jim
2000
5.0
Shark in a Bottle
as The Arranger
2000
6.2
Very Mean Men
as Gino Minetti
2000
5.0
Believe
2000
5.4
Blue Moon
as Frank Cavallo
2000
5.0
Poor Liza
as The Narrator
2000
0.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as E.A.D.A.
1999
7.9
The Thomas Crown Affair
as Andrew Wallace
1999
6.7
Summer of Sam
as Luigi
1999
6.5
Paradise Cove
as Duke Mantee
1999
6.0
Happiness
as Lenny Jordan
1998
7.4
Il tesoro di Damasco
as Gregorio Kos
1998
0.0
Marilyn in Manhattan
as Self
1998
7.5
Too Tired to Die
as John Sage
1998
4.9
Angelo Nero
as Padre Guelfi
1998
0.0
Illuminata
as Old Flavio
1998
5.4
The Big Lebowski
as Jackie Treehorn
1998
7.8
Buffalo '66
as Jimmy Brown
1998
7.1
Valentine's Day
as Joe Buddha
1998
3.6
The Spanish Prisoner
as Mr. Klein
1997
6.8
Stag
as Frank Grieco
1997
4.8
Shadow Conspiracy
as Vicepresident Saxon
1997
5.0
Farmer & Chase
as Farmer
1997
0.0
Vicious Circles
as March
1997
4.1
Ladykiller
as Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
1996
3.3
🎬
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
as Self
1996
0.0
The Zone
as Dick Althorp
1995
4.2
Convict Cowboy
as Warden Ferguson
1995
6.1
Bandits
as Amos
1995
1.0
Parallel Lives
as Charlie Duke
1994
5.0
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
as Moshe
1994
0.0
Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
as Amenophis III
1994
3.9
Anything for John
as Self
1993
6.0
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
as Joseph Bonanno
1993
4.0
Blindsided
as Ira Gold
1993
3.0
The Window Over the Way
1993
0.0
Forever
as Marcelo
1991
3.5
Lies Before Kisses
as Grant Sanders
1991
0.0
People Like Us
as Gus Bailey
1990
4.3
Beyond the Ocean
as John Tana
1990
3.0
When Michael Calls
as Doremus Connelly
1989
5.6
Quicker Than the Eye
as Ben Norell
1989
3.5
Road House
as Brad Wesley
1989
6.7
🎬
Arena - John Cassavetes
as Self
1989
0.0
Don Bosco
as Don Giovanni Bosco
1988
6.0
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
as Capt. Tom Wright
1987
5.3
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
Control
as Mike Zella
1987
5.3
Downpayment on Murder
as Harry Cardell
1987
6.0
The Professor
as 'O Professore di Vesuviano
1986
7.1
Bitter Champagne
as Paul Rivière
1986
0.0
A Letter to Three Wives
as Porter Holloway
1985
1.7
My Dearest Son
as Antonio Morelli
1985
4.3
Woman of Wonders
as Alberto
1985
6.5
An Early Frost
as Nick Pierson
1985
5.7
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
8.0
Uno scandalo perbene
as The man with no memory
1984
5.4
The Girl from Trieste
as Dino Romani
1982
4.6
A Question of Honor
as Detective Joe DeFalco
1982
7.0
🎬
Ninho da Serpente
as Self
1982
0.0
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
1982
6.0
Droit de Réponse
as Self
1981
8.0
They All Laughed
as John Russo
1981
5.8
Tales of Ordinary Madness
as Charles Serking
1981
5.9
Inchon
as Maj. Frank Hallsworth
1981
3.4
Bloodline
as Rhys Williams
1979
4.9
Saint Jack
as Jack Flowers
1979
6.5
Opening Night
as Manny Victor
1977
7.6
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Anson 'Kip' Roberts
1977
0.0
The Death of Richie
as George Werner
1977
6.7
Voyage of the Damned
as Morris Troper
1976
6.0
High Velocity
1976
0.0
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
as Cosmo Vittelli
1976
7.0
Capone
as Al Capone
1975
5.8
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
QB VII
as Abe Cady
1974
7.7
Maneater
as Nick Baron
1973
0.0
The Neptune Factor
as Cmdr. Adrian Blake
1973
4.9
The Sicilian Connection
as Joseph Coppola
1972
6.0
Pursuit
as Steven Graves
1972
5.2
The Family Rico
as Eddie Rico
1972
10.0
Fireball Forward
as Maj. Gen Joe Barrett
1972
5.0
The Making of 'Husbands'
as Self
1971
0.0
Husbands
as Harry
1970
6.7
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
7.1
The Bridge at Remagen
as Sgt. Angelo
1969
6.8
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Card Player
1969
5.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
A Rage to Live
as Roger Bannon
1965
4.4
Run for Your Life
as Paul Bryan
1965
7.2
Carol for Another Christmas
as Fred
1964
5.8
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Paul Bryan
1963
5.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Sidney
1963
5.7
Arrest and Trial
as Nick Anderson
1963
7.7
Conquered City
as Captain George Stubbs
1962
4.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Convicts 4
as John Resko
1962
4.8
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Young Doctors
as Dr. David Coleman
1961
5.6
The Passionate Thief
as Lello
1960
6.9
🎬
You'll Never See Me Again
as Jim Mason
1959
0.0
Anatomy of a Murder
as Lieutenant Frederick "Manny" Manion
1959
7.8
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
as Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
1958
5.0
The Strange One
as Jocko de Paris
1957
6.4
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2