1921-08-15 Napoli, Campania, Italia
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. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard | Self – Italian actor (archive footage) | 2017-09-01 |
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Il male oscuro | Psicanalista | 1990-02-22 |
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L'ultima scena | Don Ferdinando Sbreglia | 1988-11-22 |
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Una botta di vita | Riccardo | 1988-12-22 |
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I picari | mozzafiato | 1987-12-18 |
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Roba da ricchi | il monsignore (2° episodio) | 1987-11-13 |
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Capriccio | Don Vincenzo | 1987-02-25 |
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Uno scandalo perbene | Renzo | 1984-10-19 |
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Cenerentola '80 | Harry Cardone | 1984-02-16 |
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Il petomane | Pitalugue | 1983-10-28 |
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Le rose et le blanc | Luigi Martini | 1982-01-06 |
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Più bello di così si muore | conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo | 1982-03-18 |
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La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo | Maresciallo Angrisani | 1981-10-01 |
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Prima che sia troppo presto | Il professore | 1981-09-25 |
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Le Coup du parapluie | Don Barberini, mafioso italien | 1980-10-08 |
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Café Express | Carmelo Improta | 1980-02-16 |
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Salto nel vuoto | Mauro Ponticelli (voice) | 1980-02-14 |
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Il malato immaginario | Vincenzo | 1979-12-20 |
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Diamanti sporchi di sangue | Commissario Russo | 1978-03-17 |
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Avere vent'anni | Nazariota | 1978-07-14 |
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Maschio latino cercasi | don Carmine | 1977-02-28 |
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La bidonata | Benjamin Bronchi | 1977-05-19 |
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Grazie tante arrivederci | Proprietario bisca | 1977-10-01 |
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La Presidentessa | Mazzone | 1977-11-17 |
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Messalina, Messalina! | Claudius | 1977-08-11 |
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I padroni della città | Vinchenzo Napoli | 1976-12-03 |
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Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich | Barbone | 1976-04-02 |
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L'Aile ou la Cuisse | Vittorio | 1976-10-27 |
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L'affittacamere | Onorevole Vincenzi | 1976-08-07 |
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Le Trouble-fesses | Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli | 1976-09-29 |
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La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori | Commissar Magrini | 1975-08-27 |
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Il Messia | Herod the Great | 1975-10-24 |
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L'ammazzatina | Commissario Pafuso | 1975-02-28 |
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L'Insegnante | Fefe Mottola | 1975-07-11 |
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Catherine et Cie | Moretti | 1975-10-29 |
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I baroni | Padre | 1975-12-11 |
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Innocenza e turbamento | Vincenzo Niscemi | 1974-03-21 |
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La governante | Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore | 1974-02-01 |
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L'erotomane | il ministro | 1974-10-30 |
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Il poliziotto è marcio | Esposito | 1974-07-12 |
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La moutarde me monte au nez | Le metteur en scène | 1974-10-09 |
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Di mamma non ce n'è una sola | Professor Goffredo | 1974-04-04 |
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Paolo il caldo | Salvatore | 1973-10-24 |
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Io e lui | Cutica | 1973-09-19 |
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Società a responsabilità molto limitata | Il Ciancia | 1973-10-10 |
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Une journée bien remplie | Le Juré Mangiavacca | 1973-03-08 |
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Il boss | Questore | 1973-02-01 |
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Le Magnifique | Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov | 1973-11-23 |
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La colonna infame | Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza | 1973-04-19 |
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Giovannona Coscialunga disonorata con onore | Onorevole Pedicò | 1973-04-12 |
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Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero | Nero | 1972-11-21 |
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Ettore lo fusto | Menalao | 1972-01-06 |
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Tout va bien | Factory Manager | 1972-04-28 |
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Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? | Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre | 1972-04-28 |
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Quando le donne si chiamavano 'Madonne' | Ser Cecco | 1972-08-23 |
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Roma bene | Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis | 1971-10-08 |
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Er più: storia d'amore e di coltello | Er Cinese | 1971-09-18 |
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Quando gli uomini armarono la clava e... con le donne fecero din-don | Gran Profe | 1971-09-28 |
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Trastevere | Father Ernesto | 1971-11-13 |
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Tre donne - L'automobile | Giggetto | 1971-10-10 |
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Nel giorno del signore | Messer Anticoli | 1970-03-18 |
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Le Mans - Scorciatoia per l'inferno | Luis (uncredited) | 1970-09-03 |
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Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale | Bambola di Pechino | 1970-01-09 |
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La matriarca | Il Libraio | 1968-12-23 |
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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare | Spinelli | 1968-02-08 |
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Assicurasi vergine | Don Pippo Matara | 1967-04-03 |
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La ragazza del bersagliere | Settimo | 1967-04-13 |
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Le dolci signore | Dieb | 1967-09-21 |
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Bersaglio mobile | Billy 'Pizza' | 1967-10-09 |
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Come imparai ad amare le donne | Playboy | 1966-10-02 |
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Adulterio all'italiana | Silvio Sasselli | 1966-03-25 |
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Ischia operazione amore | Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo | 1966-03-10 |
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Io, io, io... e gli altri | Finizio, Politician | 1966-02-16 |
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Una vergine per il principe | Marchese Liginio | 1965-10-26 |
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La violenza e l'amore | Il poeta | 1965-08-26 |
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La donna è una cosa meravigliosa | Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce") | 1964-12-31 |
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I maniaci | The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico") | 1964-03-28 |
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Le voci bianche | Matteuccio | 1964-08-12 |
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Amore facile | Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco") | 1964-10-03 |
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Il giorno più corto | Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited) | 1963-02-14 |
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I giorni contati | Professor | 1962-04-05 |
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Parigi o cara | Avallone | 1962-12-05 |
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Adieu Philippine | Pachala | 1962-09-25 |
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A porte chiuse | commissario | 1961-03-22 |
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Leoni al sole | Giugiú | 1961-12-22 |
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Recours en grâce | Sergio | 1960-05-19 |
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Zazie dans le métro | Trouscaillon | 1960-10-28 |
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Arrangiatevi! | Pino Calamari | 1959-09-04 |
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Il borghese gentiluomo | Jourdain | 1959-01-16 |
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Il generale Della Rovere | Aristide Banchelli | 1959-10-07 |
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La Legge | Attilio | 1959-01-25 |
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Buonanotte... avvocato! | Vittorio | 1955-03-16 |
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Carosello napoletano | paroliere amico di Luigino | 1954-10-14 |
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Tempi nostri - Zibaldone n. 2 | Raffaele | 1954-03-16 |
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Febbre di vivere | Pierra | 1953-04-24 |
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Villa Borghese | The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza) | 1953-12-18 |
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Aida | Uncredited | 1953-10-23 |
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Totò a colori | Il tenore balbuziente | 1952-04-08 |
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Altri tempi - Zibaldone n. 1 | il marito di Mariantonia | 1952-09-28 |
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Atoll K | Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien | 1951-10-17 |
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Parigi è sempre Parigi | Tour guide (uncredited) | 1951-11-15 |
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Luci del varietà | Night Club Comic | 1950-12-06 |
