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