Lino Ventura
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Lino Ventura was an Italian
Italy
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 actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 who starred in French
France
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 movies.

Biography

Born as Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura in Parma, Italy to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, "Lino" dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs. At one point Ventura was pursuing a prizefighting and professional wrestling
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 career but had to end it because of an injury. Despite living most of his life in France, he never acquired French citizenship.

In 1953, totally by happenstance, one of his friends mentioned him to Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker was a French screenwriter and film director.Becker was born in Paris, in an upper class background. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during his peak period, which produced such cinematic masterpieces as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game...

 who was looking for an Italian actor to play opposite Jean Gabin in a gangster movie called Touchez pas au grisbi
Touchez pas au grisbi
Touchez pas au grisbi is a 1954 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, René Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd...

. Becker offered him on the spot the role of Angelo, that Ventura refused at first but then accepted. He has such a presence in the movie that the whole profession took notice.

Ventura started to build up an acting career in similar hard boiled gangster movies, often playing beside his friend Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin
-Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly...

. A couple of his most famous roles include the portrait of corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in 1963's The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...

and mob
Mafia
The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

 boss Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese
Vito "Don Vito" Genovese was an Italian mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. Genovese served as mentor to future mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante...

 in The Valachi Papers
The Valachi Papers (1972 film)
The Valachi Papers is a 1972 crime movie starring Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura and directed by Terence Young.Adapted from the book The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas, it tells the true story of Joseph Valachi, who was the first Mafia informant in the early 1960s...

.

Although he was Italian, he only made a handful of films in his native language, among them The Last Judgement
The Last Judgement (1961 film)
The Last Judgement is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France.It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino...

 (Il giudizio universale, 1961), Illustrious Corpses
Illustrious Corpses
Illustrious Corpses is a 1976 thriller film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Lino Ventura. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition...

 (Cadaveri eccellenti, 1976) and Cento Giorni a Palermo
Cento giorni a Palermo
Cento giorni a Palermo is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer. The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo...

 (1983), long used to seeing him dubbed into Italian from the original French release.

Ventura remained active until the year before his death from a heart attack in 1987 at the age of 68. Having a handicapped daughter himself, he created a charitable foundation, Perce-Neige (Snowdrop), in 1966, which supports handicapped people.

Filmography

  • Touchez Pas au Grisbi
    Touchez pas au grisbi
    Touchez pas au grisbi is a 1954 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, René Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd...

    (1953)
    • With Jean Gabin
      Jean Gabin
      -Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly...

      , Jeanne Moreau
      Jeanne Moreau
      Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...

      .
      Director: Jacques Becker.
  • Razzia sur la Chnouf (1954)
    • With Jean Gabin.
      Director: Henri Decoin
      Henri Decoin
      Henri Decoin was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who competed for France in the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the water polo tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics.-Selected filmography:*...

  • La Loi des Rues
    La Loi des rues
    La Loi des rues , is a French drama film from 1956, directed by Ralph Habib, written by Jean Ferry, starring Raymond Pellegrin and Louis de Funès...

    (1956)
    • With Louis de Funès
      Louis de Funès
      Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...

      .
      Director: Ralph Habib
  • Crime et Châtiment (1956)
    • With Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady
      Marina Vlady
      Marina Vlady is a French actress.She won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. From 1955 to 1959 she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein...

      .
      Director: Georges Lampin
      Georges Lampin
      Georges Lampin was a French film director. He directed twelve films between 1946 and 1963.- Selected filmography :* La Tour, prends garde ! * Crime and Punishment * Passion...

  • Le Feux aux Poudres (1956)
    • With Raymond Pellegrin
      Raymond Pellegrin
      Raymond Pellegrin was a French actor.Born in Nice, Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature Naïs....

      , Peter van Eyck
      Peter van Eyck
      Peter van Eyck, born Götz von Eick , was a German-American actor.-Biography:...

      .
      Director: Henri Decoin
  • Action Immédiate (1956)
    • With Henri Vidal
      Henri Vidal
      Henri Vidal was a French film actor. He appeared in 36 films between 1941 and 1959.-Selected filmography:* The Damned * Fabiola * L'Étrange Madame X * La Passante...

      , Barbara Laage.
      Director: Maurice Labro
  • Le Rouge est Mis (1957)
    • With Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot
      Annie Girardot
      Annie Girardot was a French actress.She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland...

      .
      Director: Gilles Grangier
  • L'Étrange Monsieur Steve (1957)
    • With Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Lemaire.
      Director: Raymond Bailly
  • Trois Jours à Vivre (1957)
    • With Daniel Gélin
      Daniel Gélin
      Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French actor, occasional director and screenwriter.-Early life:Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. When he was 10 his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that...

      , Jeanne Moreau.
      Director: Gilles Grangier
  • Ces Dames Préfèrent le Mambo (1957)
    • With Eddie Constantine
      Eddie Constantine
      Eddie Constantine was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe....

      .
      Director: Bernard Borderie
  • Maigret Tend un Piège (1957)
    • With Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot.
      Director: Jean Delannoy
      Jean Delannoy
      Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...

  • Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud (1957)
    • With Jeanne Moreau.
      Director: Louis Malle
      Louis Malle
      Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...

      .
  • Montparnasse 19 (1957)
    • With Gérard Philipe
      Gérard Philipe
      Gérard Philipe was a prominent French actor, who had appeared in 34 films between 1944 and 1959.-Career:...

      , Anouk Aimée
      Anouk Aimée
      Anouk Aimée is a French film actress. Aimée has appeared in 70 films since 1947. She began her film career in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film Les Amants de Montparnasse...

      , Lilli Palmer
      Lilli Palmer
      Lilli Palmer , born Lilli Marie Peiser, was a German actress. She won the Volpi Cup, the Deutscher Filmpreis three times, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.-Life and career:...

      .
      Director: Jacques Becker
      Jacques Becker
      Jacques Becker was a French screenwriter and film director.Becker was born in Paris, in an upper class background. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during his peak period, which produced such cinematic masterpieces as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game...

  • Le Gorille Vous Salue Bien (1958)
    • With Charles Vanel
      Charles Vanel
      Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow...

      , Bella Darvi
      Bella Darvi
      Bella Darvi was a Polish-born French actress.-Biography:Darvi was born Bayla Wegier to Chaym Wegier, a baker, and his wife, Chaya . She had three brothers, Robert, Jacques Wegier, Jean-Isidore, and a sister, Sura. Robert died in a concentration camp.Jailed by the Nazis during World War II, she...

      .
      Director: Bernard Borderie
  • Le Fauve est Laché (1958)
    • With Estella Blain, Paul Frankeur.
      Director: Maurice Labro
  • Sursis pour un Vivant / Il Mistero della Pensione Edelweiss (1958)
    • With Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams
      Dawn Addams
      Dawn Addams was an English actress in motion pictures of the 1950s.-Life and career:She was born Victoria Dawn Addams in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Ethel Mary and Captain James Ramage Addams. Her mother died when she was young, and she spent her early life in Calcutta, India...

      .
      Director: Victor Merenda
  • Douze Heures d'Horloge (1958)
    • With Eva Bartok
      Eva Bartok
      Eva Bartok , born Eva Ivanova Szöke, was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966...

      , Hannes Messemer, Gert Fröbe
      Gert Fröbe
      Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.-Life:Born in...

      .
      Director: Geza Redvanyi
  • Marie Octobre (1958)
    • With Danielle Darrieux
      Danielle Darrieux
      Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....

      .
      Director: Julien Duvivier
      Julien Duvivier
      Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...

      .
  • Un Témoin dans la Ville (1959)
    • With Franco Fabrizzi, Sandra Milo.
      Director: Edouard Molinaro
      Édouard Molinaro
      Édouard Molinaro is a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro (born 13 May 1928) is a French...

  • 125 Rue Montmartre (1959)
    • With Andréa Parisi.
      Director: Gilles Grangier
  • Le Chemin des Écoliers (1959)
    • With Françoise Arnoul
      Françoise Arnoul
      Françoise Arnoul is a French actress, who achieved popularity with her cute and sexy charm, especially during the 1950s.Born Françoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch in Constantine, France , as the daughter of stage actress Janine Henry and artillery general Charles Gautsch, she has two brothers...

      , Bourvil
      Bourvil
      André Bourvil, born André Robert Raimbourg was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille .-Biography:His father was killed in the First World War before Bourvil was born...

      , Alain Delon
      Alain Delon
      Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...

      .
      Director: Michel Boisrond
  • Classe Tous Risques
    Classe tous risques
    Classe tous risques is a 1960 French Italian International co-production black-and-white gangster film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sandra Milo, which wasn't in high esteem at the time of its release, overshadowed by the French New Wave, but...

    (1960)
    • With Sandra Milo
      Sandra Milo
      Sandra Milo is an Italian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits, winning a Silver Ribbon best supporting actress award for each film.-Career:...

      , Jean-Paul Belmondo
      Jean-Paul Belmondo
      Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...

      .
      Director: Claude Sautet
      Claude Sautet
      Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer...

  • Herrin der Welt / Les Mystères d'Angkor (1960)
    • With Martha Hyer
      Martha Hyer
      Martha Hyer is an American actress.She attended Northwestern University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946...

      , Carlos Thompson
      Carlos Thompson
      Juan Carlos Mundin-Schaffter, known as Carlos Thompson, was an Argentinian actor.- Career :Of German Swiss parentage, he played leading roles on stage and in films in Argentina. He went to Hollywood in the 1950s and was typically cast as a European womanizer...

      .
      Director: William Dieterle
      William Dieterle
      William Dieterle was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career. His best known films include The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame...

  • La Fille dans la Vitrine (1960)
    • With Marina Vlady.
      Director: Luciano Emmer
      Luciano Emmer
      Luciano Emmer was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura...

  • Un Taxi pour Tobrouk (1961)
    • With Charles Aznavour
      Charles Aznavour
      Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...

      , Hardy Krüger
      Hardy Krüger
      Hardy Krüger is a German actor. He is thought of as one of the greatest German actors of the 1960s. He was born in Wedding, Berlin, German Reich...

      .
      Director: Denys de la Patelliére
      Denys de La Patellière
      Denys de La Patellière is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Nantes.-Filmography as director:* 1955 : Les Aristocrates with Pierre Fresnay...

  • Les Lions Sont Lachés (1961)
    • With Jean-Claude Brialy
      Jean-Claude Brialy
      Jean-Claude Brialy – died 30 May 2007, Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne, France was a French actor, director, and socialite.-Biography:...

      , Claudia Cardinale
      Claudia Cardinale
      Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...

      .
      Director: Henri Verneuil
      Henri Verneuil
      Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...

  • Il Re di Poggioreale / Le Roi des Truands (1961)
    • With Ernest Borgnine
      Ernest Borgnine
      Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...

      , Yvonne Sanson.
      Director: Duilio Coletti
      Duilio Coletti
      Duilio Coletti was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 29 films between 1934 and 1977. His film Submarine Attack was entered into the 4th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the jury at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Mr...

  • Le Bateau d'Emile (1961)
    • With Annie Girardot, Michel Simon
      Michel Simon
      Michel Simon , was a Swiss actor. The actor François Simon is his son.-Early years:...

      , Pierre Brasseur
      Pierre Brasseur
      Pierre Brasseur , born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor.He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well...

      .
      Director: Denys de la Patelliére
  • Les Petits Matins (1961)
    • With Agathe Aems, Gilbert Bécaud
      Gilbert Bécaud
      Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love"...

      .
      Director: Jacqueline Audry
      Jacqueline Audry
      Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....

  • Il Giudizio Universale / Le Jugement Dernier (1961)
    • With Fernandel
      Fernandel
      Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin , better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues...

      , Georges Rivière.
      Director: Vittorio de Sica
      Vittorio de Sica
      Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

  • Le Diable et les Dix Commandements
    Le Diable et les Dix Commandements
    Le Diable et les Dix Commandements , is a French comedy-drama film from 1963, directed by Julien Duvivier, written by David Alexander and Michel Audiard, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès...

    (1962)
    • With Charles Aznavour
      Charles Aznavour
      Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...

      , Maurice Biraud.
      Director: Julien Duvivier
      Julien Duvivier
      Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...

  • Die Dreigroschenoper (1962)
    • With Curd Jürgens
      Curd Jürgens
      Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens.-Early life:...

      , Hildegard Knef
      Hildegard Knef
      Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.-Early years:...

      , Gert Fröbe
      Gert Fröbe
      Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.-Life:Born in...

      .
      Director: Wolfgang Staudte
      Wolfgang Staudte
      Wolfgang Staudte , born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken....

  • Carmen di Trastevere / Carmen 63 (1963)
    • With Giovanna Ralli, Dante di Paolo.
      Director: Carmine Gallone
      Carmine Gallone
      Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...

  • Les Tontons Flingueurs
    Les Tontons flingueurs
    Les Tontons flingueurs is a 1963 French-Italian-German film, made in the French language, directed by Georges Lautner. It is an adaptation of the Albert Simonin book Grisbi or not grisbi.The film was not enormously popular on first release, in 1963...

    (1963)
    • With Sabine Sinjen, Horst Frank.
      Director: Georges Lautner
      Georges Lautner
      Georges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...

  • Llanto por un Bandito / Cordoba (1964)
    • With Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari
      Lea Massari
      Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari is an Italian actress.She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but when she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo...

      .
      Director: Carlos Saura
      Carlos Saura
      Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...

  • Cent Milles Dollar au Soleil
    Greed in the Sun
    Greed in the Sun is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Paul Belmondo - Rocco* Lino Ventura - Hervé Marec dit 'Le plouc'* Reginald Kernan - John Steiner alias Peter Frocht...

    (1964)
    • With Gert Fröbe
      Gert Fröbe
      Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.-Life:Born in...

      .
      Director: Henri Verneuil
      Henri Verneuil
      Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...

  • Le Monocle Rit Jaune (1964)
    • With Paul Meurisse
      Paul Meurisse
      Paul Meurisse was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and serious dramatic roles...

      .
      Director: Georges Lautner
      Georges Lautner
      Georges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...

  • Les Barbouzes (1964)
    • With Bernard Blier
      Bernard Blier
      Bernard Blier was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas...

      , Mireille Darc
      Mireille Darc
      Mireille Darc is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End...

      .
      Director: Georges Lautner
  • The Dictator's Guns
    The Dictator's Guns
    The Dictator's Guns is a 1965 French and Italian crime film directed by Claude Sautet.-Cast:*Lino Ventura ... Jacques Cournot*Sylva Koscina ... Rae Osborne*Alberto de Mendoza ... Hendrix*Leo Gordon ... Morrison*Antonio Casas...

    (L'Arme à Gauche) (1965)
    • With Sylvia Koscina, Léo Gordon.
      Director: Claude Sautet
  • La Métamorphose des Cloportes (1965)
    • With Irina Demick
      Irina Demick
      Irina Demick , sometimes credited as Irina Demich was a French actress with a brief career in American films....

      , Pierre Brasseur, Charles Aznavour.
      Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
      Pierre Granier-Deferre
      Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....

  • Les Grandes Gueules (1965)
    • With Bourvil
      Bourvil
      André Bourvil, born André Robert Raimbourg was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille .-Biography:His father was killed in the First World War before Bourvil was born...

      , Marie Dubois.
      Director: Robert Enrico
      Robert Enrico
      Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France.-Filmography as director:* Fait d'hiver...

  • Ne Nous Fâchons Pas (1965)
    • With Jean Lefebvre
      Jean Lefebvre
      Jean Lefebvre was a French film actor.-Selected filmography:* La Belle Américaine * La Vendetta * Konga Yo...

      , Mireille Darc
      Mireille Darc
      Mireille Darc is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End...

      .
      Director: Georges Lautner
  • Avec la Peau des Autres (1966)
    • With Jean Bouise, Marilu Tolo.
      Director: Jacques Deray
      Jacques Deray
      Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.-Biography:...

  • Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
  • Les aventuriers
    Les aventuriers (1967 film)
    Les Aventuriers is a drama film directed by Robert Enrico. It is based on a novel by José Giovanni.-Synopsis:Three very likeable losers fail while they pursue individual goals. Roland Darbont is an inventor who has designed his own engine. Manu Borelli on the other hand is a pilot who prepares a...

    (1967)
    • With Alain Delon
      Alain Delon
      Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...

      , Joanna Shimkus.
      Director: Robert Enrico
  • Le Rapace (1967)
    • With Rosa Furman, Xavier Marc.
      Director: José Giovanni
      José Giovanni
      José Giovanni , was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French-Swiss writer and film-maker of Corsican origin....

  • L'Armée des Ombres
    L'Armée des ombres
    Army of Shadows is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It is a film adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which blends Kessel's own experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictionalized versions of other Resistance members...

    (1969)
    • With Simone Signoret
      Simone Signoret
      Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...

      .
      Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Le Clan des Siciliens (1968)
    • With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Irina Demick
      Irina Demick
      Irina Demick , sometimes credited as Irina Demich was a French actress with a brief career in American films....

      .
      Director: Henri Verneuil
      Henri Verneuil
      Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...

  • Dernier Domicile Connu (1969)
    • With Marlène Jobert
      Marlène Jobert
      Marlène Jobert is a French actress, singer and author.Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria , the daughter of Andrée and a father who flew for the French Air Force. She is a Pied-Noir of Jewish heritage. She came to Metropolitan France when aged 8...

      .
      Director: José Giovanni
  • Fantasia chez les Ploucs (1970)
    • With Mireille Darc
      Mireille Darc
      Mireille Darc is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End...

      , Jacques Dufilho
      Jacques Dufilho
      Jacques Dufilho was a French actor.He was born at Bègles and he died at Ponsampère .He was also famous for his collection of Bugatti cars.-Filmography:More than 150 movie, including:...

      .
      Director: Gérard Pirès
      Gérard Pirès
      -Filmography:* Guo bao zong dong yuan * Les Chevaliers du ciel * Double zéro * Steal * Taxi...

  • Boulevard du Rhum
    Boulevard du Rhum
    Boulevard du Rhum is a 1971 French-Italian-Spanish adventure film directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Alain Poiré. It is based on Jacques Pecheral's novel of the same name...

    (1971)
    • With Brigitte Bardot
      Brigitte Bardot
      Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...

      , Guy Marchand.
      Director: Robert Enrico
  • L'Aventure c'est l'Aventure (1972)
    • With Jacques Brel
      Jacques Brel
      Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

      , Charles Denner, Charles Gérard.
      Director: Claude Lelouch
  • I Segreti di Cosa Nostra / The Valachi Papers (1972)
    • With Charles Bronson
      Charles Bronson
      Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...

      , Jill Ireland
      Jill Ireland
      Jill Dorothy Ireland was an English actress, best known for her many films with her second husband, Charles Bronson.-Life and career:Born in London, England, Ireland was the daughter of a wine importer...

      .
      Director: Terence Young
  • Le Silencieux (1972)
    • With Lea Massari.
      Director: Claude Pinoteau
      Claude Pinoteau
      Claude Pinoteau is a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France.- Filmography :* 1971 : It Only Happens to Others...

  • La Raison du Plus Fou (1972)
    • With Raymond Devos
      Raymond Devos
      Raymond Devos was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.- Early life :...

      , Alice Sapritch.
      Director: François Reichenbach
      François Reichenbach
      François Reichenbach was a French film director, cinematographer producer and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993.-Selected filmography:* America As Seen by a Frenchman...

  • La Bonne Année (1973)
    • With Françoise Fabian
      Françoise Fabian
      Françoise Fabian is a French film actress. She has appeared in over 80 films since 1956.She was born in Algiers, Algeria, and is the widow of screenwriter and director Jacques Becker and actor Marcel Bozzuffi. One of her best-known roles is as Maud in Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's...

      .
      Director: Claude Lelouch
  • Le Far West (1973)
    • With Gabriel Jabbour, Danièle Evenou.
      Director: Jacques Brel
      Jacques Brel
      Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

  • L'Emmerdeur
    L'emmerdeur
    L'emmerdeur is a 1973 French-Italian black comedy film starring Jacques Brel, appearing in his tenth and final feature film...

    (1973)
    • With Jacques Brel
      Jacques Brel
      Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

      .
      Director: Edouard Molinaro
  • Uomini Duri / Tough Guys / Les Durs (1974)
    • With Isaac Hayes
      Isaac Hayes
      Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...

      .
      Director: Duccio Tessari
  • La Gifle (1974)
    • With Annie Girardot
      Annie Girardot
      Annie Girardot was a French actress.She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland...

      , Isabelle Adjani
      Isabelle Adjani
      Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...

      .
      Director: Claude Pinoteau
  • La Cage (1975)
    • With Ingrid Thulin
      Ingrid Thulin
      Ingrid Lilian Thulin was a Swedish film actress.-Biography:Thulin was born in Sollefteå, Ångermanland, northern Sweden, the daughter of Nanna and Adam Thulin, a fisherman...

      .
      Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
      Pierre Granier-Deferre
      Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....

  • Adieu poulet
    Adieu poulet
    Adieu poulet is a 1975 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, and scripted by Francis Veber from a novel by Raf Vallet. It received two César nominations for best supporting actor, and another for editing.- Plot :Despite the English title, in truth there are two French Detectives, based...

    (1975)
    • With Patrick Dewaere
      Patrick Dewaere
      Patrick Dewaere was a French film actor. He was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, son of French actress Mado Maurin. His five siblings, Jean-Pierre Maurin , Yves-Marie Maurin , Dominique Maurin , Jean-Francois Maurin and Marie-Veronique Maurin Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982)...

      , Françoise Brion.
      Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
  • Cadaveri Excellenti
    Illustrious Corpses
    Illustrious Corpses is a 1976 thriller film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Lino Ventura. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition...

     / Cadavres Exquis
    (1976)
    • With Fernando Rey
      Fernando Rey
      Fernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States...

      .
      Director: Francesco Rosi
      Francesco Rosi
      Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

  • The Medusa Touch
    The Medusa Touch (film)
    The Medusa Touch is a 1978 British supernatural thriller film directed by Jack Gold. It starred Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick and Harry Andrews, with cameos by Alan Badel, Derek Jacobi, Gordon Jackson, Jeremy Brett and Michael Hordern...

     / La Grande Menace
    (UK
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    )(1978)
    • With Richard Burton
      Richard Burton
      Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role , and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid...

      , Lee Remick
      Lee Remick
      Lee Ann Remick was an American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder , Days of Wine and Roses , and The Omen .-Early life:...


      Director: Jack Gold
      Jack Gold
      Jack Gold is a British film and television director. He was part of the British Realist Tradition that followed Free Cinema.-Career:...

  • Un Papillon sur l'épaule (1978)
    • With Claudine Auger
      Claudine Auger
      Claudine Auger is a French actress best known for her role as Bond girl Dominique "Domino" Derval in the James Bond film Thunderball . She earned the title of Miss France Monde and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.Born in Paris, France, she attended St...

      , Paul Crauchet.
      Director: Jacques Deray
  • L'Homme en Colère (1979)
    • With Angie Dickinson
      Angie Dickinson
      Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...

      , Laurent Malet.
      Director: Claude Pinoteau
  • Les Seducteurs / Sunday Lovers
    Sunday Lovers
    Sunday Lovers is a 1980 internationally co-produced romantic comedy film directed by Bryan Forbes, Gene Wilder, Dino Risi and Edouard Molinaro. It starred Roger Moore, Gene Wilder, Priscilla Barnes, Lynn Redgrave, Denholm Elliott and Kathleen Quinlan...

     ("Paris")
    (1980)
    • With Catherine Salviat.
      Director: Edouard Molinaro
  • Garde à Vue (1981)
    • With Michel Serrault
      Michel Serrault
      Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :...

      , Romy Schneider
      Romy Schneider
      Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...

      .
      Director: Claude Miller
      Claude Miller
      Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...

  • Espion Lève-toi (1981)
    • With Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer
      Bruno Cremer
      Bruno Jean Marie Crémer was a French actor born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, who spent a part of his career on stage, but who also found success in the cinema and on television.- Biography :...

      .
      Director: Yves Boisset
      Yves Boisset
      Yves Boisset is a French film director and scriptwriter.French director Yves Boisset began his career as an assistant director. After working with such directors as Hossein, Cioampi and Clement, he began directing short films until the late 1960s when he made his feature film debut...

  • Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (1982 film)
    Les Misérables is a 1982 French drama film directed by Robert Hossein. It is one of the numerous screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo.-Plot summary:...

    (1982)
    • With Michel Bouquet
      Michel Bouquet
      Michel Bouquet is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 90 films since 1947. He was born in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* La petite chambre * Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars...

      .
      Director: Robert Hossein
      Robert Hossein
      Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...

  • Le Ruffian (1982)
    • With Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale
      Claudia Cardinale
      Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...

      .
      Director: José Giovanni
  • Cento Giorni a Palermo / Cent Jours à Palermo
    Cento giorni a Palermo
    Cento giorni a Palermo is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer. The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo...

    (1983)
    • With Lino Troisi.
      Director: Giuseppe Ferrara
  • La 7ème Cible (1984)
    • With Lea Massari.
      Director: Claude Pinoteau
  • Vengeance / Sword of Gideon (1986)
    • With Rod Steiger
      Rod Steiger
      Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the...

      , Michael York
      Michael York (actor)
      Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...

      .
      Director: Michael Anderson
      Michael Anderson (director)
      Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...

  • La Rumba (1987)
    • With Roger Hanin
      Roger Hanin
      Roger Hanin is a French actor , best known for playing the title role in the 1989-2006 TV crime series, Navarro.-Personal life:...

      , Michel Piccoli, Corinne Touzet.
      Director: Roger Hanin
      Roger Hanin
      Roger Hanin is a French actor , best known for playing the title role in the 1989-2006 TV crime series, Navarro.-Personal life:...

  • Maledetto Ferragosto (1987)
    • With (?).
      Director: Francesco Massaro

Further reading

  • Durant, Philippe (1989): Lino Ventura. Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe. ISBN 3-404-61142-X
  • Durieux, Gilles (2001): Lino Ventura. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-068113-3
  • Giovanni, José (2002): Mes Grandes Gueules. Fayard. ISBN 2-213-61262-5
  • Ventura, Clélia (2003): Lino ou la Gourmandise de la Vie. Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-09884-6
  • Ventura, Odette (1992): Lino. Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-7242-7179-3 (see also: External Links)
  • Ventura, Odette (1993): Lino. Weinheim; Berlin: Beltz Quadriga. ISBN 3-88679-217-X
  • Ventura, Odette (1997): Lino. Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-08646-5
  • Ventura, Odette (1997): Lino. Guanda "Biblioteca della Pilotta". ISBN
  • Zurhorst, Meinolf / Just, Lothar (1984). Lino Ventura: Seine Filme – Sein Leben. München: Heyne. ISBN 3-453-86065-9

External links

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