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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character:Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Release Date:01/09/2017
Dark Illness
Character:Psicanalista
Release Date:22/02/1990
Taste of Life
Character:Riccardo
Release Date:22/12/1988
L'ultima scena
Character:Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
Release Date:22/11/1988
I picari
Character:mozzafiato
Release Date:18/12/1987
Stuff for the Rich
Character:il monsignore (2° episodio)
Release Date:13/11/1987
Love & Passion
Character:Don Vincenzo
Release Date:25/02/1987
Uno scandalo perbene
Character:Renzo
Release Date:19/10/1984
Cinderella '80
Character:Harry Cardone
Release Date:16/02/1984
Petomaniac
Character:Pitalugue
Release Date:28/10/1983
Più bello di così si muore
Character:conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Release Date:18/03/1982
Le rose et le blanc
Character:Luigi Martini
Release Date:06/01/1982
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Character:Maresciallo Angrisani
Release Date:01/10/1981
Before It's Too Early
Character:Il professore
Release Date:25/09/1981
Umbrella Coup
Character:Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Release Date:08/10/1980
Café Express
Character:Carmelo Improta
Release Date:16/02/1980
A Leap in the Dark
Character:Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Release Date:14/02/1980
Hypochondriac
Character:Vincenzo
Release Date:20/12/1979
To Be Twenty
Character:Nazariota
Release Date:14/07/1978
Blood and Diamonds
Character:Commissario Russo
Release Date:17/03/1978
La Presidentessa
Character:Mazzone
Release Date:17/11/1977
Grazie tante arrivederci
Character:Proprietario bisca
Release Date:01/10/1977
Messalina, Messalina!
Character:Claudius
Release Date:11/08/1977
The Rip-Off
Character:Benjamin Bronchi
Release Date:19/05/1977
Latin Male Wanted
Character:don Carmine
Release Date:28/02/1977
Rulers of the City
Character:Vinchenzo Napoli
Release Date:03/12/1976
The Wing or the Thigh?
Character:Vittorio
Release Date:27/10/1976
The Groper
Character:Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
Release Date:29/09/1976
The Landlord
Character:Onorevole Vincenzi
Release Date:07/08/1976
Blackmail Chase
Character:Barbone
Release Date:02/04/1976
The Barons
Character:Padre
Release Date:11/12/1975
Catherine & Co.
Character:Moretti
Release Date:29/10/1975
The Messiah
Character:Herod the Great
Release Date:24/10/1975
Kidnap Syndicate
Character:Commissar Magrini
Release Date:27/08/1975
The School Teacher
Character:Fefe Mottola
Release Date:11/07/1975
L'ammazzatina
Character:Commissario Pafuso
Release Date:28/02/1975
Erotomania
Character:il ministro
Release Date:30/10/1974
I'm Losing My Temper
Character:Le metteur en scène
Release Date:09/10/1974
Shoot First, Die Later
Character:Esposito
Release Date:12/07/1974
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Character:Professor Goffredo
Release Date:04/04/1974
Innocence and Desire
Character:Vincenzo Niscemi
Release Date:21/03/1974
The Governess
Character:Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
Release Date:01/02/1974
The Magnificent One
Character:Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
Release Date:23/11/1973
The Sensual Man
Character:Salvatore
Release Date:24/10/1973
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Character:Il Ciancia
Release Date:10/10/1973
Io e lui
Character:Cutica
Release Date:19/09/1973
La colonna infame
Character:Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Release Date:19/04/1973
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Character:Onorevole Pedicò
Release Date:12/04/1973
A Full Day's Work
Character:Le Juré Mangiavacca
Release Date:08/03/1973
The Boss
Character:Questore
Release Date:01/02/1973
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Character:Nero
Release Date:21/11/1972
When Women Were Called Virgins
Character:Ser Cecco
Release Date:23/08/1972
Tout Va Bien
Character:Factory Manager
Release Date:28/04/1972
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Character:Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Release Date:28/04/1972
Hector the Mighty
Character:Menalao
Release Date:06/01/1972
Trastevere
Character:Father Ernesto
Release Date:13/11/1971
The Automobile
Character:Giggetto
Release Date:10/10/1971
Roma bene
Character:Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
Release Date:08/10/1971
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Character:Gran Profe
Release Date:28/09/1971
The Story of Romance and Knife
Character:Er Cinese
Release Date:18/09/1971
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Character:Luis (uncredited)
Release Date:03/09/1970
On the Day of the Lord
Character:Messer Anticoli
Release Date:18/03/1970
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Character:Bambola di Pechino
Release Date:09/01/1970
The Libertine
Character:Il Libraio
Release Date:23/12/1968
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Character:Spinelli
Release Date:08/02/1968
Death on the Run
Character:Billy 'Pizza'
Release Date:09/10/1967
Anyone Can Play
Character:Dieb
Release Date:21/09/1967
Soldier's Girl
Character:Settimo
Release Date:13/04/1967
Assicurasi vergine
Character:Don Pippo Matara
Release Date:03/04/1967
How I Learned to Love Women
Character:Playboy
Release Date:02/10/1966
Adultery Italian Style
Character:Silvio Sasselli
Release Date:25/03/1966
Ischia operazione amore
Character:Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Release Date:10/03/1966
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character:Finizio, Politician
Release Date:16/02/1966
A Maiden for the Prince
Character:Marchese Liginio
Release Date:26/10/1965
Violence and Love
Character:Il poeta
Release Date:26/08/1965
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
Character:Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Release Date:31/12/1964
Easy Love
Character:Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Release Date:03/10/1964
White Voices
Character:Matteuccio
Release Date:12/08/1964
The Maniacs
Character:The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
Release Date:28/03/1964
The Shortest Day
Character:Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
Release Date:14/02/1963
Paris, My Love
Character:Avallone
Release Date:05/12/1962
Adieu Philippine
Character:Pachala
Release Date:25/09/1962
His Days are Numbered
Character:Professor
Release Date:05/04/1962
Leoni al sole
Character:Giugiú
Release Date:22/12/1961
A porte chiuse
Character:commissario
Release Date:22/03/1961
Zazie dans le Métro
Character:Trouscaillon
Release Date:28/10/1960
Recourse in Grace
Character:Sergio
Release Date:19/05/1960
General Della Rovere
Character:Aristide Banchelli
Release Date:07/10/1959
You're on Your Own
Character:Pino Calamari
Release Date:04/09/1959
The Law
Character:Attilio
Release Date:25/01/1959
Il borghese gentiluomo
Character:Jourdain
Release Date:16/01/1959
Good night… lawyer!
Character:Vittorio
Release Date:16/03/1955
Neapolitan Carousel
Character:paroliere amico di Luigino
Release Date:14/10/1954
The Anatomy of Love
Character:Raffaele
Release Date:16/03/1954
It Happened in the Park
Character:The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
Release Date:18/12/1953
Aida
Character:Uncredited
Release Date:23/10/1953
Eager to Live
Character:Pierra
Release Date:24/04/1953
Times Gone By
Character:il marito di Mariantonia
Release Date:28/09/1952
Totó in color
Character:Il tenore balbuziente
Release Date:08/04/1952
Paris Is Always Paris
Character:Tour guide (uncredited)
Release Date:15/11/1951
Robinson Crusoeland
Character:Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Release Date:17/10/1951
Variety Lights
Character:Night Club Comic
Release Date:06/12/1950
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