Lino Ventura
Acting
- Born:
- 1919-07-13
- Died:
- 1987-10-22
- Place of birth:
- Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
At the End of the Day
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Bacri, comme un air de famille
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Aznavour by Charles
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
Code Name: Melville
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Le monde est à vous
Sacrée soirée
La Rumba
Sword of Gideon
The Seventh Target
One Hundred Days in Palermo
The Ruffian
Les Misérables
The French
Spy, Stand Up
Champs-Elysées
The Inquisitor
Sunday Lovers
Jig-Saw
Butterfly on the Shoulder
The Medusa Touch
Ciné regards
Auf los geht's los
Cérémonie des César
Illustrious Corpses
The French Detective
The Cage
Numéro un
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Slap
Spécial cinéma
Three Tough Guys
A Pain in the Ass
Far West
Happy New Year
The Right of the Maddest
The Silent One
Money Money Money
Midi trente
Le Grand Échiquier
The Valachi Papers
Rum Runners
Fantasia Among the Squares
Last Known Address
The Sicilian Clan
Army of Shadows
Birds of Prey
The Last Adventure
Deux Romains en Gaule
Le Deuxième Souffle
To Skin a Spy
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Let's Not Get Angry
The Wise Guys
Cloportes
The Dictator's Guns
The Great Spy Chase
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Weeping for a Bandit
Greed in the Sun
Crooks in Clover
The Threepenny Opera
Carmen di Trastevere
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Hitch-Hike
Emile's Boat
The Last Judgment
The Lions Are Loose
Black City
Taxi for Tobruk
Girl in the Window
Mistress of the World - Part II
Mistress of the World - Part I
The Big Risk
Way of Youth
125 rue Montmartre
Witness in the City
Marie-Octobre
Twelve Hours by the Clock
Pensione Edelweiss
The Beast Is Loose
The Mask of the Gorilla
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Three Days to Live
Elevator to the Gallows
Maigret Sets a Trap
Dishonorable Discharge
The Strange Mr. Steve
Speaking of Murder
To Catch a Spy
Burning Fuse
Crime and Punishment
Law of the Streets
Cinépanorama
Razzia
Touchez Pas au Grisbi