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Lino Ventura
🎂 Jul 13, 1919 — 🕯️ Oct 22, 1987 (68 years)
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Lino Ventura, born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, is an actor and producer. Made their debut in 1954 with Touchez Pas au Grisbi. Best known for Army of Shadows, playing Philippe Gerbier. Also starred in Elevator to the Gallows and Crooks in Clover. Their filmography spans 92 movies and 12 TV shows over 72 years, across genres including drama, crime, thriller.
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Crooks in Clover
1963
Army of Shadows
1969
The Sicilian Clan
1969
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
A Pain in the Ass
1973
Money Money Money
1972
Rum Runners
1971
The Inquisitor
1981
The Last Adventure
1967
Illustrious Corpses
1976
Les Misérables
1982
Razzia
1955
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
The Medusa Touch
1978
Speaking of Murder
1957
Last Known Address
1970
The Valachi Papers
1972
Taxi for Tobruk
1961
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958
The Wise Guys
1965
The Big Risk
1960
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954
Crime and Punishment
1956
Let's Not Get Angry
1966
Greed in the Sun
1964
Marie-Octobre
1959
The Seventh Target
1984
The Great Spy Chase
1964
The French Detective
1975
The Slap
1974
L'Homme en colère
1979
The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958
125 rue Montmartre
1959
Spy, Stand Up
1982
Birds of Prey
1968
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984
Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
The Last Judgment
1961
The Silent One
1973
Girl in the Window
1961
Happy New Year
1973
The Cage
1975
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958
The Ruffian
1983
Sunday Lovers
1980
Way of Youth
1959
Black City
1961
Cloportes
1965
The Threepenny Opera
1963
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
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Lino Ventura
1919-07-13 · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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. ...Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.