Ben Gazzara
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Gazzara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Aug 28, 1930 In New York City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 111
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Strange One 1957-04-12
- Latest Project:
- Movie Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age 2021-08-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021-08-14 |
| Movie | One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film | Self | 2014-08-26 |
| Movie | Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima | Self | 2014-11-18 |
| Series | PUPETTA, WOMAN OF HONOR | Don Otello Di Bella | 2013-06-06 |
| Movie | Ristabbanna | 2012-04-14 | |
| Movie | Chez Gino | Oncle Giovanni | 2011-03-29 |
| Movie | 13 | Schlondorff | 2010-03-12 |
| Movie | Christopher Roth | Paul Andersen | 2010-04-10 |
| Movie | The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes | Self | 2009-08-18 |
| Movie | Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies | 2008-01-20 | |
| Movie | Looking for Palladin | Jack Palladin | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | Empire State Building Murders | Paulie Genovese | 2008-08-14 |
| Movie | Donne sbagliate | Franco Maresco | 2007-03-05 |
| Movie | A Prince Called Toto | Self | 2007-05-15 |
| Movie | Paris Je T'aime | Ben (Quartier Latin) | 2006-06-21 |
| Movie | Quiet Flows The Don | Secretov | 2006-11-07 |
| Series | Quiet Flows the Don | Secretov tábornok | 2006-11-06 |
| Movie | Bonjour Michel | michele Terranova | 2005-06-16 |
| Movie | The Shore | 2005-09-11 | |
| Movie | Dogville Confessions | Self | 2004-06-27 |
| Movie | L'ospite segreto | Ispettore di Polizia Solomos | 2003-05-02 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
| Movie | Dogville | Jack McKay | 2003-05-21 |
| Movie | Hysterical Blindness | Nick | 2002-01-16 |
| Movie | Brian's Song | Coach Halas | 2001-12-02 |
| Movie | Home Sweet Hoboken | 2001-12-12 | |
| Movie | A Constant Forge | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Poor Liza | The Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Blue Moon | Frank Cavallo | 2000-01-16 |
| Movie | Shark in a Bottle | The Arranger | 2000-06-12 |
| Movie | Believe | 2000-03-22 | |
| Movie | The List | D.A. Bernard Salman | 2000-09-27 |
| Movie | Very Mean Men | Gino Minetti | 2000-06-10 |
| Movie | Paradise Cove | Duke Mantee | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Summer of Sam | Luigi | 1999-06-28 |
| Movie | The Thomas Crown Affair | Andrew Wallace | 1999-08-06 |
| Movie | Buffalo '66 | Jimmy Brown | 1998-01-20 |
| Movie | Valentine's Day | Joe Buddha | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Big Lebowski | Jackie Treehorn | 1998-03-06 |
| Movie | Too Tired to Die | John Sage | 1998-01-20 |
| Movie | Illuminata | Old Flavio | 1998-05-21 |
| Movie | Happiness | Lenny Jordan | 1998-10-11 |
| Movie | Il tesoro di Damasco | Gregorio Kos | 1998-10-06 |
| Movie | Marilyn in Manhattan | Self | 1998-09-05 |
| Movie | Shadow Conspiracy | Vicepresident Saxon | 1997-01-25 |
| Movie | Vicious Circles | March | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Stag | Frank Grieco | 1997-04-01 |
| Movie | The Spanish Prisoner | Mr. Klein | 1997-12-03 |
| Movie | Ladykiller | Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky | 1996-10-05 |
| Movie | Convict Cowboy | Warden Ferguson | 1995-07-15 |
| Movie | The Zone | Dick Althorp | 1995-11-16 |
| Movie | Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun | Amenophis III | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem | Moshe | 1994-01-02 |
| Movie | Parallel Lives | Charlie Duke | 1994-08-04 |
| Movie | Blindsided | Ira Gold | 1993-01-20 |
| Movie | Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage | Joseph Bonanno | 1993-05-23 |
| Movie | Anything for John | Self | 1993-09-06 |
| Movie | Lies Before Kisses | Grant Sanders | 1991-03-03 |
| Movie | Forever | Marcelo | 1991-08-16 |
| Movie | People Like Us | Gus Bailey | 1990-05-13 |
| Movie | Arena - John Cassavetes | Self | 1989-02-24 |
| Movie | Road House | Brad Wesley | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Quicker Than the Eye | Ben Norell | 1989-07-22 |
| Movie | Don Bosco | Don Giovanni Bosco | 1988-01-31 |
| Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
| Movie | Downpayment on Murder | Harry Cardell | 1987-01-18 |
| Movie | Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Capt. Tom Wright | 1987-05-03 |
| Movie | Control | Mike Zella | 1987-02-14 |
| Movie | Bitter Champagne | Paul Rivière | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | The Professor | Il Professore | 1986-09-12 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
| Movie | An Early Frost | Nick Pierson | 1985-05-01 |
| Movie | Woman of Wonders | Alberto | 1985-09-06 |
| Movie | A Letter to Three Wives | Porter Holloway | 1985-12-16 |
| Movie | Uno scandalo perbene | The man with no memory | 1984-10-19 |
| Movie | The Girl from Trieste | Dino Romani | 1982-10-28 |
| Movie | Droit de Réponse | Self | 1981-12-12 |
| Movie | Tales of Ordinary Madness | Charles Serking | 1981-09-11 |
| Movie | Inchon | Maj. Frank Hallsworth | 1981-05-04 |
| Movie | They All Laughed | John Russo | 1981-11-20 |
| Movie | Saint Jack | Jack Flowers | 1979-04-27 |
| Movie | Bloodline | Rhys Williams | 1979-06-29 |
| Movie | The Death of Richie | George Werner | 1977-01-10 |
| Movie | The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald | Anson 'Kip' Roberts | 1977-09-30 |
| Movie | Opening Night | Manny Victor | 1977-12-22 |
| Movie | The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | Cosmo Vittelli | 1976-02-15 |
| Movie | High Velocity | 1976-09-01 | |
| Movie | Voyage of the Damned | Morris Troper | 1976-12-22 |
| Movie | Capone | Al Capone | 1975-04-16 |
| Series | QB VII | Abe Cady | 1974-04-29 |
| Movie | Maneater | Nick Baron | 1973-12-09 |
| Movie | The Neptune Factor | Cmdr. Adrian Blake | 1973-08-03 |
| Movie | When Michael Calls | Doremus Connelly | 1972-02-05 |
| Movie | Fireball Forward | Maj. Gen Joe Barrett | 1972-03-05 |
| Movie | The Sicilian Connection | Joseph Coppola | 1972-12-21 |
| Movie | Pursuit | Steven Graves | 1972-12-12 |
| Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| Movie | Husbands | Harry | 1970-12-01 |
| Movie | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Card Player | 1969-04-24 |
| Movie | The Bridge at Remagen | Sgt. Angelo | 1969-06-25 |
| Series | Run for Your Life | Paul Bryan | 1965-09-13 |
| Movie | A Rage to Live | Roger Bannon | 1965-10-20 |
| Movie | Carol for Another Christmas | Fred | 1964-12-28 |
| Series | Arrest and Trial | Detective Sergeant Nick Anderson | 1963-09-15 |
| Movie | Conquered City | Captain George Stubbs | 1962-12-05 |
| Movie | Convicts 4 | John Resko | 1962-09-15 |
| Movie | The Young Doctors | Dr. David Coleman | 1961-08-23 |
| Movie | The Passionate Thief | Lello | 1960-10-12 |
| Movie | Anatomy of a Murder | Lt. Frederick Manion | 1959-07-01 |
| Movie | Three Plays by Tennessee Williams | Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry") | 1958-04-15 |
| Movie | The Strange One | Jocko de Paris | 1957-04-12 |