Lino Ventura

Known for ActingBorn 1919-07-13Died 1987-10-22Parma, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Spécial cinéma

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

Cinépanorama

Lino Ventura, la part intime

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Auf los geht's los

Le Grand Échiquier

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

Carmen di Trastevere

Army of Shadows

The Wise Guys

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs

Crooks in Clover

Le Deuxième Souffle

The Inquisitor

Black City

The Sicilian Clan

Numéro un

Elevator to the Gallows

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

Let's Not Get Angry

125 rue Montmartre

Aznavour by Charles

Law of the Streets

Spy, Stand Up

The French

Last Known Address

The Silent One

Happy New Year

Marie-Octobre

Les Misérables

Code Name: Melville

One Hundred Days in Palermo

A Pain in the Ass

Greed in the Sun

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Taxi for Tobruk

Deux Romains en Gaule

The Last Adventure

The Big Risk

Crime and Punishment

The Medusa Touch

Maigret Sets a Trap

Champs-Elysées

Illustrious Corpses

The Great Spy Chase