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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Acted in
Dark Illness
1990
as Psicanalista
Taste of Life
1988
as Il cuoco
L'ultima scena
1988
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
I picari
1987
as mozzafiato
Stuff for the Rich
1987
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
Love & Passion
1987
as Don Vincenzo
Uno scandalo perbene
1984
as Renzo
Cinderella '80
1984
as Harry Cardone
Petomaniac
1983
as Pitalugue
Più bello di così si muore
1982
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981
as Maresciallo Angrisani
Before It's Too Early
1981
as Il professore
Umbrella Coup
1980
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Cafè Express
1980
as Carmelo Improta
Leap Into the Void
1980
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Hypochondriac
1979
as Vincenzo
To Be Twenty
1978
as Nazariota
Blood and Diamonds
1978
as Commissario Russo
La Presidentessa
1977
as Mazzone
Messalina, Messalina!
1977
as Claudius
The Rip-Off
1977
as Benjamin Bronchi
Latin Male Wanted
1977
as don Carmine
Rulers of the City
1976
as Vinchenzo Napoli
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976
as Vittorio, aubergiste (Relais de la Cigalle, déchu par Duchemin)
The Groper
1976
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
The Landlords
1976
as Onorevole Vincenzi
Blackmail Chase
1976
as Barbone
The Barons
1975
as Padre
Catherine & Co.
1975
as Moretti
The Messiah
1975
as Herod the Great
Kidnap Syndicate
1975
as Commissar Magrini
The School Teacher
1975
as Fefe Mottola
L'ammazzatina
1975
as Commissario Pafuso
I'm Losing My Temper
1974
as Le metteur en scène
Shoot First, Die Later
1974
as Esposito
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
1974
Innocence and Desire
1974
as Vincenzo Niscemi
The Governess
1974
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Erotomania
1974
as il ministro
The Magnificent One
1973
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
The Sensual Man
1973
as Salvatore
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
1973
as Il Ciancia
Io e lui
1973
as Cutica
La colonna infame
1973
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Giovannona Long-Thigh
1973
as Onorevole Pedicò
A Full Day's Work
1973
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
The Boss
1973
as Questore
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
1972
as Nero
When Women Were Called Virgins
1972
as Ser Cecco
Tout Va Bien
1972
as Factory Manager
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Hector the Mighty
1972
as Menalao
Trastevere
1971
as Father Ernesto
The Automobile
1971
as Giggetto
Roma bene
1971
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
1971
as Gran Profe
The Story of Romance and Knife
1971
as Er Cinese
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
1970
as Luis (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
1970
as Messer Anticoli
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
1970
as Bambola di Pechino
The Libertine
1968
as Il Libraio
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
1968
as Spinelli
Death on the Run
1967
as Billy 'Pizza'
Anyone Can Play
1967
as Dieb
Soldier's Girl
1967
as Settimo
Assicurasi vergine
1967
as Don Pippo Matara
How I Learned to Love Women
1966
as Playboy
Adultery Italian Style
1966
as Silvio Sasselli
Ischia operazione amore
1966
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
as Finizio, Politician
A Maiden for the Prince
1965
as Marchese Liginio
La violenza e l'amore
1965
as Il poeta
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
1964
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Easy Love
1964
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
White Voices
1964
as Matteuccio
The Maniacs
1964
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
The Shortest Day
1963
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
Paris, My Love
1962
as Avallone
Adieu Philippine
1962
as Pachala
His Days Are Numbered
1962
as Professor
Leoni al sole
1961
as Giugiú
A porte chiuse
1961
as commissario
Zazie dans le Métro
1960
as Trouscaillon
Recourse in Grace
1960
as Sergio
General Della Rovere
1959
as Aristide Banchelli
You're on Your Own
1959
as Pino Calamari
The Law
1959
as Attilio
Il borghese gentiluomo
1959
as Jourdain
Good night… lawyer!
1955
as Vittorio
Neapolitan Carousel
1954
as paroliere amico di Luigino
The Anatomy of Love
1954
as Raffaele
It Happened in the Park
1953
as The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
Eager to Live
1953
as Pierra
Times Gone By
1952
as il marito di Mariantonia
Totó in color
1952
as Il tenore balbuziente
Paris Is Always Paris
1951
as (uncredited)
Utopia
1951
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Variety Lights
1950
as Night Club Comic