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Vittorio Caprioli
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.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 15, 1921
Day of Death
October 2, 1989
Age at Death
68 years old
Place of Birth
Napoli, Campania, Italia
Popularity Score
0.6
Filmography
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022Movie
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
2017Movie
Dark Illness
Psicanalista
1990Movie
L'ultima scena
Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
1988Movie
Taste of Life
Riccardo
1988Movie
Stuff for the Rich
il monsignore (2° episodio)
1987Movie
I picari
mozzafiato
1987Movie
Love & Passion
Don Vincenzo
1987Movie
Cinderella '87
Harry Cardone
1987TV
Cinderella '80
Harry Cardone
1984Movie
Uno scandalo perbene
Renzo
1984Movie
Petomaniac
Pitalugue
1983Movie
Neapolitan Story
Director
1983Movie
Neapolitan Story
Story
1983Movie
Neapolitan Story
Screenplay
1983Movie
Più bello di così si muore
conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
1982Movie
Le rose et le blanc
Luigi Martini
1982Movie
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Maresciallo Angrisani
1981Movie
Before It's Too Early
Il professore
1981Movie
A Leap in the Dark
Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
1980Movie
Café Express
Carmelo Improta
1980Movie
Umbrella Coup
Don Barberini, mafioso italien
1980Movie
Hypochondriac
Vincenzo
1979Movie
Blood and Diamonds
Commissario Russo
1978Movie
To Be Twenty
Nazariota
1978Movie
Messalina, Messalina!
Claudius
1977Movie
Latin Male Wanted
don Carmine
1977Movie
La Presidentessa
Mazzone
1977Movie
The Rip-Off
Benjamin Bronchi
1977Movie
Grazie tante arrivederci
Proprietario bisca
1977Movie
Blackmail Chase
Barbone
1976Movie
Rulers of the City
Vinchenzo Napoli
1976Movie
The Groper
Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
1976Movie
The Landlord
Onorevole Vincenzi
1976Movie
The Wing or the Thigh?
Vittorio
1976Movie
Catherine & Co.
Moretti
1975Movie
The School Teacher
Fefe Mottola
1975Movie
Kidnap Syndicate
Commissar Magrini
1975Movie
The Messiah
Herod the Great
1975Movie
L'ammazzatina
Commissario Pafuso
1975Movie
The Barons
Padre
1975Movie
Vieni, vieni amore mio
Director
1975Movie
Vieni, vieni amore mio
Writer
1975Movie
I'm Losing My Temper
Le metteur en scène
1974Movie
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Professor Goffredo
1974Movie
Innocence and Desire
Vincenzo Niscemi
1974Movie
The Governess
Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
1974Movie
Erotomania
il ministro
1974Movie
Shoot First, Die Later
Esposito
1974Movie
The Sensual Man
Salvatore
1973Movie
The Magnificent One
Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
1973Movie
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Onorevole Pedicò
1973Movie
La colonna infame
Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
1973Movie
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Il Ciancia
1973Movie
The Boss
Questore
1973Movie
Io e lui
Cutica
1973Movie
A Full Day's Work
Le Juré Mangiavacca
1973Movie
The Magnificent One
Writer
1973Movie
Tout Va Bien
Factory Manager
1972Movie
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
1972Movie
Hector the Mighty
Menalao
1972Movie
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Nero
1972Movie
When Women Were Called Virgins
Ser Cecco
1972Movie
The Story of Romance and Knife
Er Cinese
1971Movie
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Gran Profe
1971Movie
Roma bene
Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
1971Movie
The Automobile
Giggetto
1971Movie
Trastevere
Father Ernesto
1971Movie
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Bambola di Pechino
1970Movie
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Luis (uncredited)
1970Movie
On the Day of the Lord
Messer Anticoli
1970Movie
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Director
1970Movie
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Spinelli
1968Movie
The Libertine
Il Libraio
1968Movie
Listen, Let's Make Love
Director
1968Movie
Listen, Let's Make Love
Story
1968Movie
Listen, Let's Make Love
Screenplay
1968Movie
Anyone Can Play
Dieb
1967Movie
Death on the Run
Billy 'Pizza'
1967Movie
Soldier's Girl
Settimo
1967Movie
Assicurasi vergine
Don Pippo Matara
1967Movie
Adultery Italian Style
Silvio Sasselli
1966Movie
How I Learned to Love Women
Playboy
1966Movie
Ischia operazione amore
Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
1966Movie
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Finizio, Politician
1966Movie
Violence and Love
Il poeta
1965Movie
A Maiden for the Prince
Marchese Liginio
1965Movie
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
1964Movie
White Voices
Matteuccio
1964Movie
Easy Love
Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
1964Movie
The Maniacs
The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
1964Movie
The Shortest Day
Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
1963Movie
I cuori infranti
Screenplay
1963Movie
I cuori infranti
Story
1963Movie
I cuori infranti
Director
1963Movie
His Days Are Numbered
Professor
1962Movie
Adieu Philippine
Pachala
1962Movie
Paris, My Love
Avallone
1962Movie
Paris, My Love
Director
1962Movie
Paris, My Love
Screenplay
1962Movie
Paris, My Love
Story
1962Movie
Leoni al sole
Giugiú
1961Movie
A porte chiuse
commissario
1961Movie
Leoni al sole
Director
1961Movie
Leoni al sole
Writer
1961Movie
Zazie dans le Métro
Trouscaillon
1960Movie
Recourse in Grace
Sergio
1960Movie
Il borghese gentiluomo
Jourdain
1959Movie
You're on Your Own
Pino Calamari
1959Movie
The Law
Attilio
1959Movie
General Della Rovere
Aristide Banchelli
1959Movie
Good night… lawyer!
Vittorio
1955Movie
The Anatomy of Love
Raffaele
1954Movie
Neapolitan Carousel
paroliere amico di Luigino
1954Movie
Eager to Live
Pierra
1953Movie
It Happened in the Park
Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
1953Movie
Aida
Uncredited
1953Movie
Times Gone By
il marito di Mariantonia
1952Movie
Totó in color
Il tenore balbuziente
1952Movie
Robinson Crusoeland
Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
1951Movie
Paris Is Always Paris
Tour guide (uncredited)
1951Movie
Variety Lights
Night Club Comic
1950Movie