Acting · Napoli, Campania, Italia · Born August 15, 1921
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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2022
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2017
as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
MovieDark Illness
1990
as Psicanalista
MovieTaste of Life
1988
as Riccardo
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1988
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
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1987
as mozzafiato
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1987
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
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1987
as Don Vincenzo
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1987
as Harry Cardone
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1984
as Renzo
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1984
as Harry Cardone
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1983
as Pitalugue
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1982
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
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1982
as Luigi Martini
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1981
as Maresciallo Angrisani
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1981
as Il professore
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1980
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
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1980
as Carmelo Improta
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1980
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
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1979
as Vincenzo
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1978
as Nazariota
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1978
as Commissario Russo
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1977
as Mazzone
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1977
as Proprietario bisca
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1977
as Claudius
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1977
as Benjamin Bronchi
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1977
as don Carmine
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1976
as Vinchenzo Napoli
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1976
as Vittorio
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1976
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
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1976
as Onorevole Vincenzi
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1976
as Barbone
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1975
as Padre
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1975
as Moretti
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1975
as Herod the Great
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1975
as Commissar Magrini
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1975
as Fefe Mottola
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1975
as Commissario Pafuso
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1974
as il ministro
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1974
as Le metteur en scène
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1974
as Esposito
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1974
as Professor Goffredo
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1974
as Vincenzo Niscemi
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1974
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
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1973
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
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1973
as Salvatore
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1973
as Il Ciancia
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1973
as Cutica
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1973
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
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1973
as Onorevole Pedicò
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1973
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
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1973
as Questore
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1972
as Nero
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1972
as Ser Cecco
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1972
as Factory Manager
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1972
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
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1972
as Menalao
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1971
as Father Ernesto
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1971
as Giggetto
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1971
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
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1971
as Gran Profe
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1971
as Er Cinese
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1970
as Luis (uncredited)
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1970
as Messer Anticoli
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1970
as Bambola di Pechino
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1968
as Il Libraio
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1968
as Spinelli
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1967
as Billy 'Pizza'
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1967
as Dieb
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1967
as Settimo
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1967
as Don Pippo Matara
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1966
as Playboy
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1966
as Silvio Sasselli
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1966
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
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1966
as Finizio, Politician
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1965
as Marchese Liginio
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1965
as Il poeta
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1964
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
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1964
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
MovieWhite Voices
1964
as Matteuccio
MovieThe Maniacs
1964
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
MovieThe Shortest Day
1963
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
MovieParis, My Love
1962
as Avallone
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1962
as Pachala
MovieHis Days Are Numbered
1962
as Professor
MovieLeoni al sole
1961
as Giugiú
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1961
as commissario
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1960
as Trouscaillon
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1960
as Sergio
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1959
as Aristide Banchelli
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1959
as Pino Calamari
MovieThe Law
1959
as Attilio
MovieIl borghese gentiluomo
1959
as Jourdain
MovieGood night… lawyer!
1955
as Vittorio
MovieNeapolitan Carousel
1954
as paroliere amico di Luigino
MovieThe Anatomy of Love
1954
as Raffaele
MovieIt Happened in the Park
1953
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
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1953
as Uncredited
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1953
as Pierra
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1952
as il marito di Mariantonia
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1952
as Il tenore balbuziente
MovieParis Is Always Paris
1951
as Tour guide (uncredited)
MovieRobinson Crusoeland
1951
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
MovieVariety Lights
1950
as Night Club Comic
