Ben Gazzara
Birthday: 1930-08-28 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USABiagio 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as 'O Professore di Vesuviano
as Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)
as Don Otello Di Bella
as Oncle Giovanni
as Paul Andersen
as Jack Palladin
as Vatican's Banker
as Paulie Genovese
as Franco Maresco
as Secretov
as Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
as Mr. Bob Harris
as michele Terranova
as Jack McKay
as Self
as Nick
as Coach Halas
as D.A. Bernard Salman
as Jim
as L'avvocato Scalzi
as The Arranger
