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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Movies (107)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017 · Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
Dark Illness
1990 · Psicanalista
Taste of Life
1988 · Riccardo
L'ultima scena
1988 · Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
I picari
1987 · mozzafiato
Stuff for the Rich
1987 · il monsignore (2° episodio)
Love & Passion
1987 · Don Vincenzo
Uno scandalo perbene
1984 · Renzo
Cinderella '80
1984 · Harry Cardone
Petomaniac
1983 · Pitalugue
Neapolitan Story
1983 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Più bello di così si muore
1982 · conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
Le rose et le blanc
1982 · Luigi Martini
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981 · Maresciallo Angrisani
Before It's Too Early
1981 · Il professore
Umbrella Coup
1980 · Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Café Express
1980 · Carmelo Improta
A Leap in the Dark
1980 · Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
Hypochondriac
1979 · Vincenzo
To Be Twenty
1978 · Nazariota
Blood and Diamonds
1978 · Commissario Russo
La Presidentessa
1977 · Mazzone
Grazie tante arrivederci
1977 · Proprietario bisca
Messalina, Messalina!
1977 · Claudius
The Rip-Off
1977 · Benjamin Bronchi
Latin Male Wanted
1977 · don Carmine
Rulers of the City
1976 · Vinchenzo Napoli
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976 · Vittorio
The Groper
1976 · Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
The Landlord
1976 · Onorevole Vincenzi
Blackmail Chase
1976 · Barbone
The Barons
1975 · Padre
Catherine & Co.
1975 · Moretti
The Messiah
1975 · Herod the Great
Kidnap Syndicate
1975 · Commissar Magrini
The School Teacher
1975 · Fefe Mottola
L'ammazzatina
1975 · Commissario Pafuso
Vieni, vieni amore mio
1975 · Director, Writer
Erotomania
1974 · il ministro
I'm Losing My Temper
1974 · Le metteur en scène
Shoot First, Die Later
1974 · Esposito
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
1974 · Professor Goffredo
Innocence and Desire
1974 · Vincenzo Niscemi
The Governess
1974 · Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
The Magnificent One
1973 · Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov, Writer
The Sensual Man
1973 · Salvatore
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
1973 · Il Ciancia
Io e lui
1973 · Cutica
La colonna infame
1973 · Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
Giovannona Long-Thigh
1973 · Onorevole Pedicò
A Full Day's Work
1973 · Le Juré Mangiavacca
The Boss
1973 · Questore
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
1972 · Nero
When Women Were Called Virgins
1972 · Ser Cecco
Tout Va Bien
1972 · Factory Manager
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972 · Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
Hector the Mighty
1972 · Menalao
Trastevere
1971 · Father Ernesto
The Automobile
1971 · Giggetto
Roma bene
1971 · Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
1971 · Gran Profe
The Story of Romance and Knife
1971 · Er Cinese
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
1970 · Luis (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
1970 · Messer Anticoli
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
1970 · Bambola di Pechino, Director
The Libertine
1968 · Il Libraio
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
1968 · Spinelli
Death on the Run
1967 · Billy 'Pizza'
Anyone Can Play
1967 · Dieb
Soldier's Girl
1967 · Settimo
Assicurasi vergine
1967 · Don Pippo Matara
How I Learned to Love Women
1966 · Playboy
Adultery Italian Style
1966 · Silvio Sasselli
Ischia operazione amore
1966 · Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966 · Finizio, Politician
A Maiden for the Prince
1965 · Marchese Liginio
Violence and Love
1965 · Il poeta
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
1964 · Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
Easy Love
1964 · Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
White Voices
1964 · Matteuccio
The Maniacs
1964 · The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
I cuori infranti
1963 · Screenplay, Story, Director
The Shortest Day
1963 · Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
Paris, My Love
1962 · Avallone, Director, Screenplay, Story
Adieu Philippine
1962 · Pachala
His Days Are Numbered
1962 · Professor
Leoni al sole
1961 · Giugiú, Director, Writer
A porte chiuse
1961 · commissario
Zazie dans le Métro
1960 · Trouscaillon
Recourse in Grace
1960 · Sergio
General Della Rovere
1959 · Aristide Banchelli
You're on Your Own
1959 · Pino Calamari
The Law
1959 · Attilio
Il borghese gentiluomo
1959 · Jourdain
Good night… lawyer!
1955 · Vittorio
Neapolitan Carousel
1954 · paroliere amico di Luigino
The Anatomy of Love
1954 · Raffaele
It Happened in the Park
1953 · Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
Aida
1953 · Uncredited
Eager to Live
1953 · Pierra
Times Gone By
1952 · il marito di Mariantonia
Totó in color
1952 · Il tenore balbuziente
Paris Is Always Paris
1951 · Tour guide (uncredited)
Robinson Crusoeland
1951 · Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
Variety Lights
1950 · Night Club Comic
