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.
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as Self – Italian actor (archive footage)
as Psicanalista
as Riccardo
as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia
as mozzafiato
as il monsignore (2° episodio)
as Don Vincenzo
as Harry Cardone(4 eps)
as Renzo
as Harry Cardone
as Pitalugue
as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo
as Luigi Martini
as Maresciallo Angrisani
as Il professore
as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
as Carmelo Improta
as Mauro Ponticelli (voice)
as Vincenzo
as Nazariota
as Commissario Russo
as Mazzone
as Proprietario bisca
as Claudius
as Benjamin Bronchi
as don Carmine
as Vinchenzo Napoli
as Vittorio
as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli
as Onorevole Vincenzi
as Barbone
as Padre
as Moretti
as Herod the Great
as Commissar Magrini
as Fefe Mottola
as Commissario Pafuso
as il ministro
as Le metteur en scène
as Esposito
as Professor Goffredo
as Vincenzo Niscemi
as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore
as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov
as Salvatore
as Il Ciancia
as Cutica
as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza
as Onorevole Pedicò
as Le Juré Mangiavacca
as Questore
as Ser Cecco
as Factory Manager
as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre
as Menalao
as Father Ernesto
as Giggetto
as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis
as Gran Profe
as Er Cinese
as Luis (uncredited)
as Messer Anticoli
as Bambola di Pechino
as Il Libraio
as Spinelli
as Billy 'Pizza'
as Dieb
as Settimo
as Don Pippo Matara
as Playboy
as Silvio Sasselli
as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo
as Finizio, Politician
as Marchese Liginio
as Il poeta
as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce")
as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
as Matteuccio
as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico")
as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited)
as Avallone
as Pachala
as Professor
as Giugiú
as commissario
as Trouscaillon
as Sergio
as Aristide Banchelli
as Pino Calamari
as Attilio
as Jourdain
as Vittorio
as paroliere amico di Luigino
as Raffaele
as Commissioner of Morality (segment "Concorso Di Bellezza")
as Uncredited
as Pierra
as il marito di Mariantonia
as Il tenore balbuziente
as Tour guide (uncredited)
as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
as Night Club Comic
