Lino Ventura

Acting

Born Jul 13, 1919

From Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Died Oct 22, 1987

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. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lino Ventura

Known For

Crooks in Clover

Elevator to the Gallows

Army of Shadows

The Medusa Touch

The Sicilian Clan

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Razzia

The Valachi Papers

The Inquisitor

Maigret Sets a Trap

Filmography — Acting

Crooks in Clover

Elevator to the Gallows

Army of Shadows

The Medusa Touch

The Sicilian Clan

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Razzia

The Valachi Papers

The Inquisitor

Maigret Sets a Trap

Les Misérables

The Mask of the Gorilla

The Slap

The Seventh Target

The Big Risk

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Spy, Stand Up

Rum Runners

The Silent One

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

The Last Judgment

Aznavour by Charles

The French Detective

One Hundred Days in Palermo

Sunday Lovers

L'Homme en colère

At the End of the Day

The Great Spy Chase

Way of Youth

A Pain in the Ass

The Lovers of Montparnasse

Happy New Year

Mistress of the World - Part I

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

Le Deuxième Souffle

The Last Adventure

Illustrious Corpses

Greed in the Sun

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

Emile's Boat

Weeping for a Bandit

La Rumba

Sword of Gideon

Butterfly on the Shoulder

Witness in the City

The Lions Are Loose

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Girl in the Window

125 rue Montmartre

Twelve Hours by the Clock

The Wise Guys

Three Days to Live

Cloportes

Pensione Edelweiss

The Threepenny Opera

Mistress of the World - Part II

Money Money Money

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Far West

Code Name: Melville

Last Known Address

Marie-Octobre

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

Let's Not Get Angry

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

Taxi for Tobruk

Law of the Streets