Lino Ventura

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. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though a lifelong resident and pop cultural icon in France, Ventura always considered himself an Italian first and foremost, and never took French citizenship. He was nonetheless voted 23rd in a 2005 poll of the 100 greatest Frenchmen. ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Lino Ventura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	1.0197
Birthday	1919-07-13
Place of Birth	Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Also Known As	Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura,

Elevator to the Gallows

The Sicilian Clan

Les Misérables

The Inquisitor

The Last Adventure

The Medusa Touch

The Great Spy Chase

A Pain in the Ass

Le Deuxième Souffle

Crooks in Clover

Taxi for Tobruk

Greed in the Sun

Way of Youth

The Valachi Papers

Let's Not Get Angry

The Big Risk

Money Money Money

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Emile's Boat

Army of Shadows

Illustrious Corpses

Spy, Stand Up

Razzia

Dishonorable Discharge

One Hundred Days in Palermo

Fantasia Among the Squares

125 rue Montmartre

The Lovers of Montparnasse

La Rumba

To Skin a Spy

The Ruffian

To Catch a Spy

The Silent One

The Seventh Target

Last Known Address

Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Cloportes

The Wise Guys

Girl in the Window

Butterfly on the Shoulder

Rum Runners

The Dictator's Guns

The Slap

The Lions Are Loose

Marie-Octobre

Happy New Year

The Last Judgment

Carmen di Trastevere

The French Detective

Three Tough Guys

Speaking of Murder

Hitch-Hike

The Mask of the Gorilla

The Beast Is Loose

Witness in the City

Pensione Edelweiss

Three Days to Live

Burning Fuse

Code Name: Melville

Black City

Birds of Prey

Sunday Lovers

L'Homme en colère

Twelve Hours by the Clock

The Threepenny Opera

Mistress of the World - Part I

The Cage

Weeping for a Bandit

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Maigret Sets a Trap

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Mistress of the World - Part II

Crime and Punishment

Far West

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

The Strange Mr. Steve

Sword of Gideon

Law of the Streets

Lino Ventura, la part intime