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