
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. 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.
Movie | Dark Illness | Unknown | 1990-02-22 |
Movie | Taste of Life | Il cuoco | 1988-12-30 |
Movie | Stuff for the Rich | il monsignore (2° episodio) | 1987-11-13 |
Movie | Love & Passion | Don Vincenzo | 1987-02-25 |
Movie | The Rogues | mozzafiato | 1987-12-18 |
Movie | Cinderella '80 | Harry Cardone | 1984-02-16 |
Movie | Uno scandalo perbene | Renzo | 1984-10-19 |
Movie | Petomaniac | Pitalugue | 1983-01-01 |
Movie | Più bello di così si muore | conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo | 1982-11-27 |
Movie | Cafè Express | Improta, un borsaiolo | 1981-02-25 |
Movie | Before It's Too Early | The Professor | 1981-09-25 |
Movie | Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man | Maresciallo Angrisani | 1981-10-01 |
Movie | Umbrella Coup | Don Barberini | 1980-10-08 |
Movie | Hypochondriac | Vincenzo | 1979-12-20 |
Movie | To Be Twenty | Nazariota | 1978-07-14 |
Movie | Blood and Diamonds | Commissario Russo | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | Messalina, Messalina! | Claudius | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | La Presidentessa | Mazzone | 1977-11-17 |
Movie | Latin Male Wanted | don Carmine | 1977-02-28 |
Movie | The Rip-Off | Benjamin Bronchi | 1977-05-19 |
Movie | L'affittacamere | Onorevole Vincenzi | 1976-08-15 |
Movie | Rulers of the City | Vinchenzo Napoli | 1976-12-03 |
Movie | The Wing or The Thigh? | Vittorio, owner of a restaurant | 1976-10-27 |
Movie | L'ammazzatina | Commissario Pafuso | 1975-02-28 |
Movie | The Barons | Padre | 1975-01-01 |
Movie | The School Teacher | Fefe Mottola | 1975-07-11 |
Movie | Kidnap Syndicate | Commissar Magrini | 1975-08-27 |
Movie | The Messiah | Herod the Great | 1975-10-24 |
Movie | Catherine & Co. | Moretti | 1975-10-29 |
Movie | Erotomania | il ministro | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | The Governess | Unknown | 1974-02-01 |
Movie | Innocence and Desire | Vincenzo Niscemi | 1974-03-21 |
Movie | Shoot First, Die Later | Esposito | 1974-07-12 |
Movie | The Boss | Questore | 1973-02-01 |
Movie | The Sensual Man | Salvatore | 1973-01-01 |
Movie | Giovannona Long-Thigh | Onorevole Pedicò | 1973-04-12 |
Movie | Io e lui | Cutica | 1973-09-19 |
Movie | The Magnificent One | Georges Charron / Karpof | 1973-11-23 |
Movie | Società a responsabilità molto limitata | Il Ciancia | 1973-10-10 |
Movie | Hector the Mighty | Menalao | 1972-01-05 |
Movie | La colonna infame | Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza | 1972-01-01 |
Movie | Even if I wanted to work, what do I do? | Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre | 1972-01-01 |
Movie | Tout Va Bien | Factory Manager | 1972-04-28 |
Movie | When Women Were Called Virgins | Ser Cecco | 1972-08-23 |
Movie | Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor | Nero | 1972-11-21 |
Movie | The Story of Romance and Knife | Er Cinese | 1971-09-18 |
Movie | When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong | Gran Profe | 1971-09-28 |
Movie | The Automobile | Giggetto | 1971-10-10 |
Movie | Roma bene | Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis | 1971-10-08 |
Movie | Trastevere | Father Ernesto | 1971-11-13 |
Movie | Nel giorno del signore | Messer Anticoli | 1970-03-31 |
Movie | Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale | Bambola di Pechino | 1970-01-09 |
Movie | Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell | Luis | 1970-09-03 |
Movie | Anyone Can Play | Dieb | 1968-02-02 |
Movie | The Libertine | Il Libraio | 1968-12-23 |
Movie | Assicurasi vergine | Don Pippo Matara | 1967-04-03 |
Movie | Moving Target | Unknown | 1967-10-09 |
Movie | Me, Me, Me... and the Others | Finizio, Politician | 1966-02-16 |
Movie | Ischia operazione amore | Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo | 1966-03-10 |
Movie | How I Learned to Love Women | Playboy | 1966-11-02 |
Movie | Adultery Italian Style | Silvio Sasselli | 1966-03-25 |
Movie | White Voices | Matteuccio | 1964-08-12 |
Movie | The Maniacs | The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico") | 1964-03-28 |
Movie | Easy Love | Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco") | 1964-10-03 |
Movie | Woman Is a Wonderful Thing | Carlo | 1964-12-31 |
Movie | The Shortest Day | Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited) | 1963-02-14 |
Movie | His Days Are Numbered | Il Professore | 1962-04-05 |
Movie | Paris, My Love | Avallone | 1962-12-05 |
Movie | Adieu Philippine | Pachala | 1962-09-25 |
Movie | A porte chiuse | commissario | 1961-03-22 |
Movie | Leoni al sole | Giugiú | 1961-12-22 |
Movie | Zazie dans le Métro | Trouscaillon | 1960-10-28 |
Movie | Recourse in Grace | Unknown | 1960-05-19 |
Movie | Totò arrangiatevi | Pino Calamai | 1959-01-01 |
Movie | The Law | Attilio | 1959-01-25 |
Movie | General Della Rovere | Aristide Banchelli | 1959-10-07 |
Movie | You're on Your Own | Pino Calamari | 1959-09-18 |
Movie | Buonanotte... avvocato! | Vittorio | 1955-03-16 |
Movie | Febbre di vivere | Pierra | 1953-04-24 |
Movie | It Happened in the Park | The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza) | 1953-12-18 |
Movie | Marito e Moglie | Unknown | 1952-01-04 |
Movie | Paris Is Always Paris | (uncredited) | 1951-11-15 |
Movie | Variety Lights | Night Club Comic | 1950-12-29 |