Lino Ventura
Known for: Acting
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the 1982 film adaptation of Les Misérables. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage)
1987
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Series
Le monde est à vous
Self (archive footage)
1987
Series
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Series
Le Grand Échiquier
Self - Main guest
1972
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
Midi trente
Self
1972
Series
Cérémonie des César
Self - President
1976
Series
Numéro un
Self
1975
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Series
Auf los geht's los
Self
1977
Film
The Sicilian Clan
Commissaire Le Goff
1969
Film
Elevator to the Gallows
Le Commissaire Cherrier
1958
Film
Army of Shadows
Philippe Gerbier
1969
Film
The Valachi Papers
Vito Genovese
1972
Film
The Medusa Touch
Brunel
1978
Film
Crooks in Clover
Fernand Naudin
1963
Film
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu
1982
Film
The Great Spy Chase
Francis Lagneau
1964
Film
The Big Risk
Abel Davos
1960
Film
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Angelo Fraiser
1954
Film
Le Deuxième Souffle
Gustave "Gu" Minda
1966
Film
Marie-Octobre
Carlo Bernardi
1959
Film
The French Detective
Commissioner Verjeat
1975
Film
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Garigny
1962
Film
At the End of the Day
Lino (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Film
The Threepenny Opera
Brown, Polizeichef von London
1963
Film
The Inquisitor
Inspector Antoine Gallien
1981
Film
The Cage
Julien
1975
Film
The Last Adventure
Roland
1967
Film
The Slap
Jean Douléan
1974
Film
Razzia
Roger le Catalan
1955
Film
Let's Not Get Angry
Antoine Beretto
1966
Film
Rum Runners
Cornelius von Zeelinga
1971
Film
Last Known Address
Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti
1970
Film
Greed in the Sun
Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
1964
Film
The Silent One
Clément Tibère
1973
Film
The Seventh Target
Bastien Grimaldi
1984
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Self - Interviewee
1966
Film
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Money Money Money
Lino Massaro
1972
Film
Illustrious Corpses
Inspector Amerigo Rogas
1976
Film
A Pain in the Ass(1973)
Ralf Milan
1973
Film
The Mask of the Gorilla
Géo Paquet, Le Gorille
1958
Film
Way of Youth
M. Tiercelin, restaurateur et as du marché noir
1959
Film
Sunday Lovers
François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')
1980
Film
The Last Judgment
Giovanna's father
1961
Film
Spy, Stand Up
Sébastien Grenier
1982
Film
Taxi for Tobruk
le brigadier Théo Dumas
1961
Film
The Wise Guys
Laurent Dannecker
1965
Film
Three Tough Guys
Father Charlie
1974
Film
Aznavour by Charles
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Film
L'Homme en colère
Romain Dupre
1979
Film
Sword of Gideon
Papa
1986
Film
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Roland Fériaud
1978
Film
Happy New Year
Simon
1973
Film
Witness in the City
Ancelin
1959
Film
The Beast Is Loose
Paul Lamiani
1959
Film
Crime and Punishment
Gustave Messonnier
1956
Film
Speaking of Murder
Pepito
1957
Film
Girl in the Window
Federico
1961
Film
The Dictator's Guns
Jacques Cournot
1965
Film
The Ruffian
Aldo
1983
Film
Law of the Streets
Mario
1956
Film
Cloportes
Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin'
1965
Film
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Fantasia Among the Squares
Sagamore Noonan
1971
Film
To Skin a Spy
Pascal Fabre
1966
Film
Deux Romains en Gaule
Un client du bar
1967
Film
Twelve Hours by the Clock
Fourbieux
1959
Film
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Morel
1958
Film
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Three Days to Live
Lino Ferrari
1958
Film
125 rue Montmartre
Pascal
1959
Film
One Hundred Days in Palermo
General Carlo Dalla Chiesa
1984
Film
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Self (archive footage) - actor
2022
Film
The Right of the Maddest
Le gendarme motorisé instructeur
1973
Film
Birds of Prey
Le rapace / Le rital
1968
Film
Hitch-Hike
Paul, le chauffeur de car
1962
Film
Maigret Sets a Trap
Inspecteur Torrence
1958
Film
Mistress of the World - Part I
Biamonte
1960
Film
Weeping for a Bandit
"El lutos"
1964
Film
The French
Self
1982
Film
Burning Fuse
Legentil
1957
Film
The Lions Are Loose
le docteur André Challenberg
1961
Film
Bacri, comme un air de famille
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Far West
Prisoner
1973
Film
Black City
Il bandito
1961
Film
Code Name: Melville
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
La Rumba
un caïd
1987
Film
Mistress of the World - Part II
Biamonte
1960
Film
Carmen di Trastevere
Vincenzo, le caïd
1962
Film
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Elie's Client (uncredited)
1964
Film
To Catch a Spy
Bérès
1957
Film
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Pensione Edelweiss
Borcher
1959
Film
Emile's Boat
Émile Bouet
1962
Film
Dishonorable Discharge
Paulo, Claire's lover
1957
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
The Strange Mr. Steve
Denis
1957