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