Lino Ventura
Known for: Acting
Born: July 13, 1919
Died: October 22, 1987
Place of birth: 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. 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.
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Filmography
93 movies · 12 TV shows, newest first
5.9
At the End of the Day
2024
8.7
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022
7.3
Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
7.2
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
6.9
Aznavour by Charles
2019
7.7
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019
7.9
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018
NR
Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
2017
7.0
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
20176.0
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
2012
NR
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
2011
7.3
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
2010
6.7
Code Name: Melville
2010
7.7
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002
NR
Le monde est à vous
1987
5.7
Sacrée soirée
1987
5.3
La Rumba
1987
6.6
Sword of Gideon
1986
6.0
The Seventh Target
1984
6.9
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984
6.3
The Ruffian
1983
7.0
Les Misérables
1982
7.2
The French
1982
7.2
Spy, Stand Up
1982
6.8
Champs-Elysées
1982
7.5
The Inquisitor
1981
5.8
Sunday Lovers
1980
5.6
L'Homme en colère
1979
5.9
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
6.8
The Medusa Touch
1978
5.0
Ciné regards
1978
8.0
Auf los geht's los
1977
4.6
Cérémonie des César
1976
6.7
Illustrious Corpses
1976
6.7
The French Detective
1975
6.0
The Cage
1975
7.5
Numéro un
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
6.6
The Slap
1974
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
5.1
Three Tough Guys
1974
7.0
A Pain in the Ass
1973
6.5
Far West
1973
7.3
Happy New Year
1973
6.4
The Right of the Maddest
1973
7.3
The Silent One
1973
6.7
Money Money Money
1972
6.0
Midi trente
1972
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
6.5
The Valachi Papers
1972
4.7
Rum Runners
1971
5.0
Fantasia Among the Squares
1971
7.3
Last Known Address
1970
7.6
The Sicilian Clan
1969
7.9
Army of Shadows
1969
6.6
Birds of Prey
1968
6.9
The Last Adventure
1967
7.0
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
7.7
Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
5.8
To Skin a Spy
1966NR
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
1966
7.5
Let's Not Get Angry
1966
7.9
The Wise Guys
1965
6.3
Cloportes
1965
6.0
The Dictator's Guns
1965
6.8
The Great Spy Chase
1964
5.4
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
5.8
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
7.1
Greed in the Sun
1964
7.7
Crooks in Clover
1963
5.8
The Threepenny Opera
1963
8.0
Carmen di Trastevere
1962
5.6
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
6.1
Hitch-Hike
1962
6.6
Emile's Boat
1962
6.4
The Last Judgment
1961
6.0
The Lions Are Loose
1961
7.7
Black City
1961
7.1
Taxi for Tobruk
1961
6.1
Girl in the Window
1961
5.0
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
6.8
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
7.0
The Big Risk
1960
6.2
Way of Youth
1959
7.5
125 rue Montmartre
1959
6.3
Witness in the City
1959
7.3
Marie-Octobre
1959
4.4
Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959
5.2
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
6.3
The Beast Is Loose
1959
6.1
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958
6.9
The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958
5.4
Three Days to Live
1958
7.6
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
7.0
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958
5.7
Dishonorable Discharge
1957
5.4
The Strange Mr. Steve
1957
6.4
Speaking of Murder
1957
6.0
To Catch a Spy
1957
4.8
Burning Fuse
1957
7.0
Crime and Punishment
1956
7.5
Law of the Streets
1956
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
6.7
Razzia
1955
7.2
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954