Lino Ventura

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name = Lino Ventura


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Lino Ventura (born Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura) (July 14, 1919 - October 22, 1987), was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.

He was born in Parma, northern Italy, the son of Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini. Lino Ventura dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs. At one point Ventura was pursuing a prizefighting and professional wrestling career but had to end it because of an injury.

Despite living most of his life in France and speaking Italian with a French accent, he never acquired French citizenship.

In 1953 Ventura entered the film industry in a gangster movie called "Touchez pas au grisbi" by Jacques Becker and started to build up an acting career in similar hard boiled gangster movies, often playing beside his friend Jean Gabin. His most famous roles include the portrait of corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in 1963's "The Threepenny Opera" and mob functionary Vito Genovese in "The Valachi Papers". Although Italian, 'Cento Giorni a Palermo' (1983) was the only film he ever made in his native language which surprised Italian audiences, long used to seeing him dubbed into Italian from the original French release. Lino Ventura remained active until the year before his death caused by a heart attack in 1987 at the age of 68. Lino Ventura was also known for creating a foundation called 'Snowdrop' in 1966 that supports handicapped people.

Filmography

* "Touchez Pas au Grisbi" (1953)
** With Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau.
Director: Jacques Becker.
* "Razzia sur la Chnouf" (1954)
** With Jean Gabin.
Director: Henri Decoin
* "La Loi des Rues" (1956)
** With Louis de Funès.
Director: Ralph Habib
* "Crime et Châtiment" (1956)
** With Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady.
Director: Georges Lampin
* "Le Feux aux Poudres" (1956)
** With Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck.
Director: Henri Decoin
* "Action Immédiate" (1956)
** With Henri Vidal, Barbara Laage.
Director: Maurice Labro
* "Le Rouge est Mis" (1957)
** With Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot.
Director: Gilles Grangier
* "L'Étrange Monsieur Steve" (1957)
** With Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Lemaire.
Director: Raymond Bailly
* "Trois Jours à Vivre" (1957)
** With Daniel Gélin, Jeanne Moreau.
Director: Gilles Grangier
* "Ces Dames Préfèrent le Mambo" (1957)
** With Eddie Constantine.
Director: Bernard Borderie
* "Maigret Tend un Piège" (1957)
** With Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot.
Director: Jean Delannoy
* "Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud" (1957)
** With Jeanne Moreau.
Director: Louis Malle.
* "Montparnasse 19" (1957)
** With Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer.
Director: Jacques Becker
* "Le Gorille Vous Salue Bien" (1958)
** With Charles Vanel, Bella Darvi.
Director: Bernard Borderie
* "Le Fauve est Laché" (1958)
** With Estella Blain, Paul Frankeur.
Director: Maurice Labro
* "Sursis pour un Vivant / Il Mistero della Pensione Edelweiss" (1958)
** With Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams.
Director: Victor Merenda
* "Douze Heures d'Horloge" (1958)
** With Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer, Gert Fröbe.
Director: Geza Redvanyi
* "Marie Octobre" (1958)
** With Danielle Darrieux.
Director: Julien Duvivier.
* "Un Témoin dans la Ville" (1959)
** With Franco Fabrizzi, Sandra Milo.
Director: Edouard Molinaro
* "125 Rue Montmartre" (1959)
** With Andréa Parisi.
Director: Gilles Grangier
* "Le Chemin des Écoliers" (1959)
** With Françoise Arnoul, Bourvil, Alain Delon.
Director: Michel Boisrond
* "Classe Tous Risques" (1959)
** With Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Director: Claude Sautet
* "Herrin der Welt / Les Mystères d'Angkor" (1960)
** With Martha Hyer, Carlos Thompson.
Director: William Dieterle
* "La Fille dans la Vitrine" (1960)
** With Marina Vlady.
Director: Luciano Emmer
* "Un Taxi pour Tobrouk" (1961)
** With Charles Aznavour, Hardy Krüger.
Director: Denys de la Patelliére
* "Les Lions Sont Lachés" (1961)
** With Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale.
Director: Henri Verneuil
* "Il Re di Poggioreale / Le Roi des Truands" (1961)
** With Ernest Borgnine, Yvonne Sanson.
Director: Duilio Coletti
* "Le Bateau d'Emile" (1961)
** With Annie Girardot, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur.
Director: Denys de la Patelliére
* "Les Petits Matins" (1961)
** With Agathe Aems, Gilbert Bécaud.
Director: Jacqueline Audry
* "Il Giudizio Universale / Le Jugement Dernier" (1961)
** With Fernandel, Georges Rivière.
Director: Vittorio de Sica
* "Le Diable et les Dix Commandements" (1962)
** With Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud.
Director: Julien Duvivier
* "Die Dreigroschenoper" (1962)
** With Curd Jürgens, Hildegard Knef, Gert Fröbe.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte
* "Carmen di Trastevere / Carmen 63" (1963)
** With Giovanna Ralli, Dante di Paolo.
Director: Carmine Gallone
* "Les Tontons Flingueurs" (1963)
** With Sabine Sinjen, Horst Frank.
Director: Georges Lautner
* "Llanto por un Bandito / Cordoba" (1963)
** With Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari.
Director: Carlos Saura
* "Cent Milles Dollar au Soleil" (1963)
** With Gert Fröbe.
Director: Henri Verneuil
* "Le Monocle Rit Jaune" (1964)
** With Paul Meurisse.
Director: Georges Lautner
* "Les Barbouzes" (1964)
** With Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc.
Director: Georges Lautner
* "L'Arme à Gauche" (1965)
** With Sylvia Koscina, Léo Gordon.
Director: Claude Sautet
* "La Métamorphose des Cloportes" (1965)
** With Irina Demick, Pierre Brasseur, Charles Aznavour.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
* "Les Grandes Gueules" (1965)
** With Bourvil, Marie Dubois.
Director: Robert Enrico
* "Ne Nous Fâchons Pas" (1965)
** With Jean Lefebvre, Mireille Darc.
Director: Georges Lautner
* "Avec la Peau des Autres" (1966)
** With Jean Bouise, Marilu Tolo.
Director: Jacques Deray
* "Le Deuxième Souffle" (1966)
** With Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
* "Les Aventuriers" (1967)
** With Alain Delon, Joanna Shimkus.
Director: Robert Enrico
* "Le Rapace" (1967)
** With Rosa Furman, Xavier Marc.
Director: José Giovanni
* "L'Armée des Ombres" (1969)
** With Simone Signoret.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
* "Le Clan des Siciliens" (1968)
** With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Irina Demick.
Director: Henri Verneuil
* "Dernier Domicile Connu" (1969)
** With Marlène Jobert.
Director: José Giovanni
* "Fantasia chez les Ploucs" (1970)
** With Mireille Darc, Jacques Dufilho.
Director: Gérard Pirès
* "Boulevard du Rhum" (1971)
** With Brigitte Bardot, Guy Marchand.
Director: Robert Enrico
* "L'Aventure c'est l'Aventure" (1972)
** With Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gérard.
Director: Claude Lelouch
* "I Segreti di Cosa Nostra / The Valachi Papers" (1972)
** With Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland.
Director: Terence Young
* "Le Silencieux" (1972)
** With Lea Massari.
Director: Claude Pinoteau
* "La Raison du Plus Fou" (1972)
** With Raymond Devos, Alice Sapritch.
Director: François Reichenbach
* "La Bonne Année" (1973)
** With Françoise Fabian.
Director: Claude Lelouch
* "Le Far West" (1973)
** With Gabriel Jabbour, Danièle Evenou.
Director: Jacques Brel
* "L'Emmerdeur" (1973)
** With Jacques Brel.
Director: Edouard Molinaro
* "Uomini Duri / Tough Guys / Les Durs" (1974)
** With Isaac Hayes.
Director: Duccio Tessari
* "La Gifle" (1974)
** With Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani.
Director: Claude Pinoteau
* "La Cage" (1975)
** With Ingrid Thulin.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
* "Adieu poulet" (1975)
** With Patrick Dewaere, Françoise Brion.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
* "Cadaveri Excellenti / Cadavres Exquis" (1976)
** With Fernando Rey.
Director: Francesco Rosi
* "The Medusa Touch / La Grande Menace" (UK)(1978)
** With Richard Burton, Lee Remick
Director: Jack Gold
* "Un Papillon sur l'épaule" (1978)
** With Claudine Auger, Paul Crauchet.
Director: Jacques Deray
* "L'Homme en Colère" (1979)
** With Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet.
Director: Claude Pinoteau
* "Les Seducteurs / Sunday Lovers ("Paris")" (1980)
** With Catherine Salviat.
Director: Edouard Molinaro
* "Garde à Vue" (1981)
** With Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider.
Director: Claude Miller
* "Espion Lève-toi" (1981)
** With Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer.
Director: Yves Boisset
* "Les Misérables" (1982)
** With Michel Bouquet.
Director: Robert Hossein
* "Le Ruffian" (1982)
** With Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale.
Director: José Giovanni
* "Cento Giorni a Palermo / Cent Jours à Palermo" (1983)
** With Lino Troisi.
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara
* "La 7ème Cible" (1984)
** With Lea Massari.
Director: Claude Pinoteau
* "Vengeance / Sword of Gideon" (1986)
** With Rod Steiger, Michael York.
Director: Michael Anderson
* "La Rumba" (1987)
** With Roger Hanin, Michel Piccoli, Corinne Touzet.
Director: Roger Hanin
* "Maledetto Ferragosto" (1987)
** With (?).
Director: Francesco Massaro

Further reading

* Durant, Philippe (1989): "Lino Ventura". Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe. ISBN 3-404-61142-X
* Durieux, Gilles (2001): "Lino Ventura". Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-068113-3
* Giovanni, José (2002): "Mes Grandes Gueules". Fayard. ISBN 2-213-61262-5
* Ventura, Clélia (2003): "Lino ou la Gourmandise de la Vie". Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-09884-6
* Ventura, Odette (1992): "Lino". Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-7242-7179-3 (see also: External Links)
* Ventura, Odette (1993): "Lino". Weinheim; Berlin: Beltz Quadriga. ISBN 3-88679-217-X
* Ventura, Odette (1997): "Lino". Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-08646-5
* Ventura, Odette (1997): "Lino". Guanda "Biblioteca della Pilotta". ISBN
* Zurhorst, Meinolf / Just, Lothar (1984). "Lino Ventura: Seine Filme - Sein Leben". München: Heyne. ISBN 3-453-86065-9

External links

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*http://tontonsflingueurs.actifforum.com/ French Site Lino Ventura
* [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cteb/prod012.htm Ventura, Odette (199x): "Lino". (CTEB: Livres Transcrits en Braille)]
* [http://www.argos.asso.fr/archiv/cultur03/texte/honneur.htm Les Premières Rencontres Nationales – Art, Culture et Handicap – Bourges du 19 au 21 octobre 2003]
* [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/communiq/aillagon/bourgesoct03.htm Rencontres – Art, Culture et Handicap – Lundi 20 octobre à Bourges]
* [http://www.perce-neige.org/ Lino Ventura Foundation]

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