Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 13, 1919
Place of Birth:
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Lino Ventura
Biography
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. ...
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | At the End of the Day | Lino (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2022 | Bacri, comme un air de famille | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Patrick Dewaere, My Hero | Self (archive footage) - actor |
| 2019 | Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Aznavour by Charles | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Lino Ventura, la part intime | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | De Gaulle, the Last King of France | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Lino, il n'était que lui-même | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Code Name: Melville | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | La Rumba | un caïd |
| 1986 | Sword of Gideon | Papa |
| 1984 | One Hundred Days in Palermo | General Carlo Dalla Chiesa |
| 1984 | The Seventh Target | Bastien Grimaldi |
| 1983 | The Ruffian | Aldo |
| 1982 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean / Mr. Madeleine / Champmathieu |
| 1982 | Spy, Stand Up | Sébastien Grenier |
| 1981 | The Inquisitor | Inspector Antoine Gallien |
| 1980 | Sunday Lovers | François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française') |
| 1979 | L'Homme en colère | Romain Dupre |
| 1978 | The Medusa Touch | Brunel |
| 1978 | Butterfly on the Shoulder | Roland Fériaud |
| 1976 | Illustrious Corpses | Inspector Amerigo Rogas |
| 1975 | The French Detective | Commissioner Verjeat |
| 1975 | The Cage | Julien |
| 1974 | The Slap | Jean Douléan |
| 1974 | Three Tough Guys | Father Charlie |
| 1973 | A Pain in the Ass | Ralf Milan |
| 1973 | The Silent One | Clément Tibère |
| 1973 | Happy New Year | Simon |
| 1973 | Far West | Prisoner |
| 1973 | The Right of the Maddest | Le gendarme motorisé instructeur |
| 1972 | The Valachi Papers | Vito Genovese |
| 1972 | Money Money Money | Lino Massaro |
| 1971 | Fantasia Among the Squares | Sagamore Noonan |
| 1971 | Rum Runners | Cornelius von Zeelinga |
| 1970 | Last Known Address | Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti |
| 1969 | The Sicilian Clan | Commissaire Le Goff |
| 1969 | Army of Shadows | Philippe Gerbier |
| 1968 | Birds of Prey | Le rapace / Le rital |
| 1967 | The Last Adventure | Roland |
| 1967 | Deux Romains en Gaule | Un client du bar |
| 1966 | Le Deuxième Souffle | Gustave 'Gu' Minda |
| 1966 | Let's Not Get Angry | Antoine Beretto |
| 1966 | To Skin a Spy | Pascal Fabre |
| 1966 | Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle | Self - Interviewee |
| 1965 | Cloportes | Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin' |
| 1965 | The Wise Guys | Laurent Dannecker |
| 1965 | The Dictator's Guns | Jacques Cournot |
| 1964 | The Great Spy Chase | Francis Lagneau |
| 1964 | Greed in the Sun | Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc' |
| 1964 | Weeping for a Bandit | "El lutos" |
| 1964 | The Monocle's Sour Laugh | Elie's Client (uncredited) |
| 1963 | Crooks in Clover | Fernand Naudin |
| 1963 | The Threepenny Opera | Brown, Polizeichef von London |
| 1962 | Emile's Boat | Émile Bouet |
| 1962 | The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Garigny |
| 1962 | Carmen di Trastevere | Vincenzo, le caïd |
| 1962 | Hitch-Hike | Paul, le chauffeur de car |
| 1961 | Taxi for Tobruk | le brigadier Théo Dumas |
| 1961 | Girl in the Window | Federico |
| 1961 | The Lions Are Loose | le docteur André Challenberg |
| 1961 | The Last Judgment | Giovanna's father |
| 1961 | Black City | Il bandito |
| 1960 | The Big Risk | Abel Davos |
| 1960 | Mistress of the World - Part I | Biamonte |
| 1960 | Mistress of the World - Part II | Biamonte |
| 1959 | Way of Youth | Tiercelin |
| 1959 | 125 rue Montmartre | Pascal |
| 1959 | Marie-Octobre | Carlo Bernardi |
| 1959 | The Tiger Attacks | Paul Lamiani |
| 1959 | Witness in the City | Ancelin |
| 1959 | Pensione Edelweiss | Borcher |
| 1959 | Twelve Hours by the Clock | Fourbieux |
| 1958 | Elevator to the Gallows | Le Commissaire Cherrier |
| 1958 | The Lovers of Montparnasse | Morel |
| 1958 | The Mask of the Gorilla | Géo Paquet, Le Gorille |
| 1958 | Three Days to Live | Lino Ferrari |
| 1958 | Maigret Sets a Trap | Inspecteur Torrence |
| 1957 | Dishonorable Discharge | Paulo, Claire's lover |
| 1957 | To Catch a Spy | Bérès |
| 1957 | Speaking of Murder | Pepito |
| 1957 | Burning Fuse | Legentil |
| 1957 | The Strange Mr. Steve | Denis |
| 1956 | Crime and Punishment | Gustave Messonnier |
| 1956 | Law of the Streets | Mario |
| 1955 | Razzia | Roger le Catalan |
| 1954 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Angelo Fraiser |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Le monde est à vous | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Sacrée Soirée | Self (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysées | Self |
| 1977 | Auf los geht's los | Self |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self |
| 1975 | Numéro un | Self |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self - Main guest |
| 1972 | Midi trente | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |