Vittorio Caprioli

Vittorio Caprioli

Deceased · Born: Aug 15, 1921 · Died: Oct 2, 1989

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Born Aug 15, 1921 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.

Career

1980
Café Express
Café Express as Improta, un borsaiolo
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1978
Blood and Diamonds
Blood and Diamonds as Commissario Russo
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To Be Twenty
To Be Twenty as Nazariota
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1976
Rulers of the City
Rulers of the City as Vinchenzo Napoli
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1975
The School Teacher
The School Teacher as Fefe Mottola
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Kidnap Syndicate
Kidnap Syndicate as Commissar Magrini
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1974
Shoot First, Die Later
Shoot First, Die Later as Esposito
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I'm Losing My Temper
I'm Losing My Temper as Le metteur en scène
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1973
Le Magnifique
Le Magnifique as Georges Charron / Karpof
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1972
All's Well
All's Well as Factory Manager
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1970
Le Mans scorciatoia per l'inferno
Le Mans scorciatoia per l'inferno as Luis (uncredited)
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1968
The Libertine
The Libertine as Il Libraio
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1967
Death on the Run
Death on the Run as Billy 'Pizza'
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Anyone Can Play
Anyone Can Play as Thief
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1960
Zazie in the Metro
Zazie in the Metro as Trouscaillon
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1959
General Della Rovere
General Della Rovere as Aristide Banchelli
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1973
Le Magnifique
Le Magnifique as Writer
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1968
Listen, Let's Make Love
Listen, Let's Make Love as Director, Screenplay, Story
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