Ben Gazzara

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Aug 28, 1930 (94 years old)

Ben Gazzara

Known For

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
0h 50m
TV Show 2025

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
0h 5m
Movie 2023

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour

An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a post-industrial society.

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
1h 25m
Movie 2021

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Movie 2014

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
1h 38m
Movie 2014

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film

The grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his film, "They All Laughed."

Pupetta, Woman of Honor
TV Show 2013

Pupetta, Woman of Honor

Pupetta’s plot. Courage and Passion (2012). In the summer of 1955, a few months after being married to Assunta, known as Pupetta, the boss Pasquale Simonetti was killed by the hitman Gaetano Orlando, on the orders of Antonio Esposito. Despite being pregnant in the sixth month, Pupetta Maresca will not hesitate to avenge the killing of Pasquale by killing Orlando in turn, after having approached him on the street. Naples, Second World War. Pupetta is a rebellious and charming girl who does not bow to the criminal logic of the Camorra. Witness to a murder, the girl tries to tell the truth, opposing the overwhelming power of the neighborhood boss Don Luigi Vitiello, whose marriage request she refuses in favor of love for Michele. Together with the latter he will share a personal war against the abuses of Vitiello, which he desires Donna Pupetta and the direction of the General Markets led by Michele himself.

Quiet Flows the Don
6h 4m
TV Show 2006

Quiet Flows the Don

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.

Pope John Paul II
1h 40m
TV Show 2005

Pope John Paul II

The life of the remarkable man who passed away after an extraordinary 26 year reign, and whose papal odyssey encompassed more than 120 countries and earned him the reputation of an international fighter for freedom.

The Big Lebowski
1h 57m
Movie 1998

The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

The Professor
2h 44m
Movie 1986

The Professor

An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.

Biography

Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Gazzara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

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