Lino Ventura
Acting
Born 1919-07-13
Died 1987-10-22
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
105 credits
David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1
Silver Shell for Best Actor 1
Awards
Won 1 David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement Award
David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1 won
- — Lifetime Achievement Won
César Award for Best Actor 1 nominated
- 1983 Best Actor Nominated Les Misérables
Silver Shell for Best Actor 1 won
- 1973 Best Actor Won La bonne année
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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. ...
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Filmography
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Ciné regards
Sacrée soirée
Champs-Elysées
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
Le monde est à vous
Midi trente
Numéro un
Cérémonie des César
Cinépanorama
Auf los geht's los
Elevator to the Gallows
Army of Shadows
The Sicilian Clan
The Mask of the Gorilla
The Medusa Touch
The Slap
The Great Spy Chase
The Valachi Papers
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
The Last Adventure
Les Misérables
The Inquisitor
Le Deuxième Souffle
The Cage
Marie-Octobre
At the End of the Day
Crooks in Clover
The Big Risk
The French Detective
A Pain in the Ass
Happy New Year
Maigret Sets a Trap
Spy, Stand Up
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Way of Youth
The Threepenny Opera
Cloportes
Illustrious Corpses
Razzia
Taxi for Tobruk
L'Homme en colère
Rum Runners
Let's Not Get Angry
The Silent One
Greed in the Sun
Last Known Address
The Wise Guys
The Seventh Target
Aznavour by Charles
Money Money Money
Sunday Lovers
The Lovers of Montparnasse
The Last Judgment
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Crime and Punishment
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