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Ben Gazzara

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1930-08-28

Deathday: 2012-02-03 (81 years old)

Biography

Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977).

As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).

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Filmography

all 152

Movies 133

self 25

TV Shows 19

Director 2

Narrator 1

Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)

Ben Gazzara

Biography

Filmography

all 152

Movies 133

self 25

TV Shows 19

Director 2

Narrator 1

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour (2023)

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima (2014)

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014)

PUPETTA, WOMAN OF HONOR (2013)

Ristabbanna (2012)

Chez Gino (2011)

Christopher Roth (2010)

Il Volo (2010)

13 (2010)

Holy Money (2009)

The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009)

Eve (2008)

Empire State Building Murders (2008)

Looking for Palladin (2008)

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)

A Prince Called Toto (2007)

Donne sbagliate (2007)

Quiet Flows The Don (2006)

Quiet Flows the Don (2006)

L'onore e il rispetto (2006)

Paris Je T'aime (2006)

Pope John Paul II (2005)

Pope John Paul II (2005)

Pope John Paul II (2005)

The Shore (2005)

Bonjour Michel (2005)

The Tony Danza Show (2004)

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)

Dogville Confessions (2004)

Dogville (2003)

L'ospite segreto (2003)

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)

Hysterical Blindness (2002)

Home Sweet Hoboken (2001)

Brian's Song (2001)

Jack of Hearts (2000)

The List (2000)

Nella terra di nessuno (2000)

Piovuto dal cielo (2000)

Undertaker's Paradise (2000)

Shark in a Bottle (2000)

Very Mean Men (2000)

A Kiss in the Dark (2000)

Believe (2000)

Blue Moon (2000)

Poor Liza (2000)

A Constant Forge (2000)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Summer of Sam (1999)

Paradise Cove (1999)

Happiness (1998)

Il tesoro di Damasco (1998)

Marilyn in Manhattan (1998)

Angelo Nero (1998)

Illuminata (1998)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Buffalo '66 (1998)

Too Tired to Die (1998)

Valentine's Day (1998)

The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

Stag (1997)

Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

Farmer & Chase (1997)

Vicious Circles (1997)

Ladykiller (1996)

Strangers (1996)

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)

The Zone (1995)

Convict Cowboy (1995)