Vittorio Caprioli
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-08-15
Place of Birth
Napoli, Campania, Italia
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.
Also Known For
Times Gone By
Sep 28, 1952
Anyone Can Play
Sep 21, 1967
Zazie dans le Métro
Oct 28, 1960
Catherine & Co.
Oct 29, 1975
Tout Va Bien
Apr 28, 1972
Blackmail Chase
Apr 02, 1976
Il borghese gentiluomo
Jan 16, 1959
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Oct 01, 1981
You're on Your Own
Sep 04, 1959
His Days are Numbered
Apr 05, 1962
Petomaniac
Oct 28, 1983
Adieu Philippine
Sep 25, 1962
Totó in color
Apr 08, 1952
The Anatomy of Love
Mar 16, 1954
Rulers of the City
Dec 03, 1976
The Sensual Man
Oct 24, 1973
The Law
Jan 25, 1959
The Magnificent One
Nov 23, 1973
Cinderella '80
Feb 16, 1984
Hypochondriac
Dec 20, 1979
The Story of Romance and Knife
Sep 18, 1971
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Sep 28, 1971
Stuff for the Rich
Nov 13, 1987
Robinson Crusoeland
Oct 17, 1951
Good night… lawyer!
Mar 16, 1955
A Leap in the Dark
Feb 14, 1980
I picari
Dec 18, 1987
I'm Losing My Temper
Oct 09, 1974
The School Teacher
Jul 11, 1975
Blood and Diamonds
Mar 17, 1978
Roma bene
Oct 08, 1971
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Jan 09, 1970
Eager to Live
Apr 24, 1953
Adultery Italian Style
Mar 25, 1966
L'ultima scena
Nov 22, 1988
Dark Illness
Feb 22, 1990
Violence and Love
Aug 26, 1965
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Apr 04, 1974
Messalina, Messalina!
Aug 11, 1977
Più bello di così si muore
Mar 18, 1982
Death on the Run
Oct 09, 1967
Leoni al sole
Dec 22, 1961
How I Learned to Love Women
Oct 02, 1966
Neapolitan Carousel
Oct 14, 1954
Ischia operazione amore
Mar 10, 1966
The Automobile
Oct 10, 1971
Soldier's Girl
Apr 13, 1967
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Dec 31, 1964
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Apr 28, 1972
Hector the Mighty
Jan 06, 1972
A Maiden for the Prince
Oct 26, 1965
Innocence and Desire
Mar 21, 1974
White Voices
Aug 12, 1964
Paris, My Love
Dec 05, 1962
The Governess
Feb 01, 1974
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Feb 08, 1968
The Groper
Sep 29, 1976
Café Express
Feb 16, 1980
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Nov 21, 1972
The Landlord
Aug 07, 1976
Uno scandalo perbene
Oct 19, 1984
Variety Lights
Dec 06, 1950
Kidnap Syndicate
Aug 27, 1975
The Messiah
Oct 24, 1975
Latin Male Wanted
Feb 28, 1977
Love & Passion
Feb 25, 1987
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Apr 12, 1973
To Be Twenty
Jul 14, 1978
When Women Were Called Virgins
Aug 23, 1972
Paris Is Always Paris
Nov 15, 1951
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Sep 03, 1970
Taste of Life
Dec 22, 1988
La Presidentessa
Nov 17, 1977
Assicurasi vergine
Apr 03, 1967
The Rip-Off
May 19, 1977
La colonna infame
Apr 19, 1973
A porte chiuse
Mar 22, 1961
Erotomania
Oct 30, 1974
The Libertine
Dec 23, 1968
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Oct 10, 1973
Umbrella Coup
Oct 08, 1980
Recourse in Grace
May 19, 1960
Before It's Too Early
Sep 25, 1981
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Feb 16, 1966
L'ammazzatina
Feb 28, 1975
On the Day of the Lord
Mar 18, 1970
The Barons
Dec 11, 1975
Easy Love
Oct 03, 1964
Shoot First, Die Later
Jul 12, 1974
The Wing or the Thigh?
Oct 27, 1976
General Della Rovere
Oct 07, 1959
Trastevere
Nov 13, 1971
It Happened in the Park
Dec 18, 1953
The Maniacs
Mar 28, 1964
The Boss
Feb 01, 1973
Io e lui
Sep 19, 1973
The Shortest Day
Feb 14, 1963
A Full Day's Work
Mar 08, 1973
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Sep 01, 2017
Grazie tante arrivederci
Oct 01, 1977
Aida
Oct 23, 1953
Le rose et le blanc
Jan 06, 1982
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Sep 05, 2022
