Vittorio Caprioli
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 15, 1921
- Died
- October 2, 1989 (aged 68)
- Birthplace
- Napoli, Campania, Italia
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.
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Filmography
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie · as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Dark Illness
Movie · as Psicanalista
L'ultima scena
Movie · as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
Taste of Life
Movie · as Riccardo
Stuff for the Rich
Movie · as il monsignore (2° episodio)
I picari
Movie · as mozzafiato
Love & Passion
Movie · as Don Vincenzo
Cinderella '87
TV · as Harry Cardone · 4 eps
Cinderella '80
Movie · as Harry Cardone
Uno scandalo perbene
Movie · as Renzo
Petomaniac
Movie · as Pitalugue
Più bello di così si muore
Movie · as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Le rose et le blanc
Movie · as Luigi Martini
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Movie · as Maresciallo Angrisani
Before It's Too Early
Movie · as Il professore
A Leap in the Dark
Movie · as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Café Express
Movie · as Carmelo Improta
Umbrella Coup
Movie · as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Hypochondriac
Movie · as Vincenzo
Blood and Diamonds
Movie · as Commissario Russo
To Be Twenty
Movie · as Nazariota
Messalina, Messalina!
Movie · as Claudius
Latin Male Wanted
Movie · as don Carmine
La Presidentessa
Movie · as Mazzone
The Rip-Off
Movie · as Benjamin Bronchi
Grazie tante arrivederci
Movie · as Proprietario bisca
Blackmail Chase
Movie · as Barbone
Rulers of the City
Movie · as Vinchenzo Napoli
The Groper
Movie · as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
The Landlord
Movie · as Onorevole Vincenzi
The Wing or the Thigh?
Movie · as Vittorio
Catherine & Co.
Movie · as Moretti
The School Teacher
Movie · as Fefe Mottola
Kidnap Syndicate
Movie · as Commissar Magrini
The Messiah
Movie · as Herod the Great
L'ammazzatina
Movie · as Commissario Pafuso
The Barons
Movie · as Padre
I'm Losing My Temper
Movie · as Le metteur en scène
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Movie · as Professor Goffredo
Innocence and Desire
Movie · as Vincenzo Niscemi
The Governess
Movie · as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Erotomania
Movie · as il ministro
Shoot First, Die Later
Movie · as Esposito
The Sensual Man
Movie · as Salvatore
The Magnificent One
Movie · as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Movie · as Onorevole Pedicò
La colonna infame
Movie · as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Movie · as Il Ciancia
The Boss
Movie · as Questore
Io e lui
Movie · as Cutica
A Full Day's Work
Movie · as Le Juré Mangiavacca
Tout Va Bien
Movie · as Factory Manager
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Movie · as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Hector the Mighty
Movie · as Menalao
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Movie · as Nero
When Women Were Called Virgins
Movie · as Ser Cecco
The Story of Romance and Knife
Movie · as Er Cinese
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Movie · as Gran Profe
Roma bene
Movie · as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
The Automobile
Movie · as Giggetto
Trastevere
Movie · as Father Ernesto
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Movie · as Bambola di Pechino
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Movie · as Luis (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
Movie · as Messer Anticoli
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Movie · as Spinelli
The Libertine
Movie · as Il Libraio
Anyone Can Play
Movie · as Dieb
Death on the Run
Movie · as Billy 'Pizza'
Soldier's Girl
Movie · as Settimo
Assicurasi vergine
Movie · as Don Pippo Matara
Adultery Italian Style
Movie · as Silvio Sasselli
How I Learned to Love Women
Movie · as Playboy
Ischia operazione amore
Movie · as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Movie · as Finizio, Politician
Violence and Love
Movie · as Il poeta
A Maiden for the Prince
Movie · as Marchese Liginio
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Movie · as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
White Voices
Movie · as Matteuccio
Easy Love
Movie · as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
The Maniacs
Movie · as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
The Shortest Day
Movie · as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
His Days Are Numbered
Movie · as Professor
Adieu Philippine
Movie · as Pachala
Paris, My Love
Movie · as Avallone
Leoni al sole
Movie · as Giugiú
A porte chiuse
Movie · as commissario
Zazie dans le Métro
Movie · as Trouscaillon
Recourse in Grace
Movie · as Sergio
Il borghese gentiluomo
Movie · as Jourdain
You're on Your Own
Movie · as Pino Calamari
The Law
Movie · as Attilio
General Della Rovere
Movie · as Aristide Banchelli
Good night… lawyer!
Movie · as Vittorio
The Anatomy of Love
Movie · as Raffaele
Neapolitan Carousel
Movie · as paroliere amico di Luigino
Eager to Live
Movie · as Pierra
It Happened in the Park
Movie · as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
Aida
Movie · as Uncredited
Times Gone By
Movie · as il marito di Mariantonia
Totó in color
Movie · as Il tenore balbuziente
Robinson Crusoeland
Movie · as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Paris Is Always Paris
Movie · as Tour guide (uncredited)
Variety Lights
Movie · as Night Club Comic