Ben Gazzara

Known for ActingBorn 1930-08-28Died 2012-02-03Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biagio 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Il tesoro di Damasco

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Family Rico

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima

Nella terra di nessuno

Poor Liza

Piovuto dal cielo

Farmer & Chase

The Window Over the Way

High Velocity

A Question of Honor

Droit de Réponse

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Arrest and Trial

Bitter Champagne

Marilyn in Manhattan

Night of 100 Stars II

The Big Lebowski

Columbo

Dogville

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Quiet Flows the Don

Blue Moon

QB VII

L'onore e il rispetto

Happiness

Anatomy of a Murder

Opening Night

Ninho da Serpente

Anything for John

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Shark in a Bottle

Buffalo '66

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

Dogville Confessions

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Home Sweet Hoboken

The Professor

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film

A Constant Forge

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Paris Je T'aime

Run for Your Life

The Thomas Crown Affair

The Spanish Prisoner

Dinah!