Vittorio Caprioli

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	Acting
Most Rating	2.048
Birthday	1921-08-15
Place of Birth	Napoli, Campania, Italia
Also Known As

Times Gone By

Anyone Can Play

Zazie dans le Métro

Catherine & Co.

Tout Va Bien

Blackmail Chase

Il borghese gentiluomo

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

You're on Your Own

His Days Are Numbered

Petomaniac

Adieu Philippine

The Anatomy of Love

Totó in color

Rulers of the City

The Sensual Man

The Law

The Magnificent One

Cinderella '80

Hypochondriac

The Story of Romance and Knife

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong

Stuff for the Rich

Utopia

Good night… lawyer!

Leap Into the Void

I picari

I'm Losing My Temper

The School Teacher

Blood and Diamonds

Roma bene

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

Eager to Live

Adultery Italian Style

L'ultima scena

Dark Illness

La violenza e l'amore

Di mamma non ce n'è una sola

Messalina, Messalina!

Più bello di così si muore

Death on the Run

Leoni al sole

How I Learned to Love Women

Neapolitan Carousel

Ischia operazione amore

The Automobile

Soldier's Girl

Woman Is a Wonderful Thing

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?

Hector the Mighty

A Maiden for the Prince

Innocence and Desire

White Voices

Paris, My Love

The Governess

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

The Groper

Cafè Express

Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor

The Landlords

Uno scandalo perbene

Variety Lights

Kidnap Syndicate

Latin Male Wanted

The Messiah

Love & Passion

To Be Twenty

Giovannona Long-Thigh

When Women Were Called Virgins

Paris Is Always Paris

Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell

Taste of Life

La Presidentessa

Assicurasi vergine

The Rip-Off

La colonna infame

A porte chiuse

Erotomania

The Libertine

Società a responsabilità molto limitata