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.
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Cast
Times Gone By
il marito di Mariantonia
Zazie dans le Métro
Trouscaillon
Tout Va Bien
Factory Manager
Il borghese gentiluomo
Jourdain
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Maresciallo Angrisani
You're on Your Own
Pino Calamari
His Days are Numbered
Professor
Totó in color
Il tenore balbuziente
The Anatomy of Love
Raffaele
Rulers of the City
Vinchenzo Napoli
The Magnificent One
Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
Cinderella '80
Harry Cardone
The Story of Romance and Knife
Er Cinese
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Gran Profe
Stuff for the Rich
il monsignore (2° episodio)
Utopia
Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Good night… lawyer!
Vittorio
A Leap in the Dark
Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
I'm Losing My Temper
Le metteur en scène
The School Teacher
Fefe Mottola
Blood and Diamonds
Commissario Russo
Roma bene
Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Bambola di Pechino
Adultery Italian Style
Silvio Sasselli
L'ultima scena
Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
Violence and Love
Il poeta
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Professor Goffredo
Messalina, Messalina!
Claudius
Più bello di così si muore
conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Death on the Run
Billy 'Pizza'
How I Learned to Love Women
Playboy
Neapolitan Carousel
paroliere amico di Luigino
Ischia operazione amore
Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
A Maiden for the Prince
Marchese Liginio
Innocence and Desire
Vincenzo Niscemi
The Governess
Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Spinelli
The Groper
Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
Café Express
Carmelo Improta
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Nero
The Landlord
Onorevole Vincenzi
Uno scandalo perbene
Renzo
Variety Lights
Night Club Comic
Kidnap Syndicate
Commissar Magrini
The Messiah
Herod the Great
Latin Male Wanted
don Carmine
Love & Passion
Don Vincenzo
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Onorevole Pedicò
When Women Were Called Virgins
Ser Cecco
Paris Is Always Paris
Tour guide (uncredited)
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Luis (uncredited)
Assicurasi vergine
Don Pippo Matara
The Rip-Off
Benjamin Bronchi
La colonna infame
Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
A porte chiuse
commissario
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Il Ciancia
Umbrella Coup
Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Before It's Too Early
Il professore
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Finizio, Politician
L'ammazzatina
Commissario Pafuso
On the Day of the Lord
Messer Anticoli
Easy Love
Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Shoot First, Die Later
Esposito
The Wing or the Thigh?
Vittorio
General Della Rovere
Aristide Banchelli
It Happened in the Park
The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
The Maniacs
The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
The Shortest Day
Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
A Full Day's Work
Le Juré Mangiavacca
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Grazie tante arrivederci
Proprietario bisca
Le rose et le blanc
Luigi Martini
Crew
The Magnificent One
Writer
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Director
Leoni al sole
Director, Writer
Listen, Let's Make Love
Director, Screenplay, Story
Neapolitan Story
Director, Story, Screenplay
Paris, My Love
Director, Screenplay, Story
I cuori infranti
Screenplay, Story, Director
Vieni, vieni amore mio
Writer, Director
