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Lino Ventura

Lino Ventura

Born

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura


(1919-07-14)14 July 1919

Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Died22 October 1987(1987-10-22) (aged 68)

Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Cause of deathHeart attack
OccupationActor
Years active1953–1987
Spouse(s)

Odette Lecomte

(m. 1942; "his death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 1987)​
Children4

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987) was an Italian actor. He was known for playing a tough man, either a criminal or a cop. He played a cop leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville directed Army of Shadows.

Some of his most famous roles include the portrait of corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera (1963) and mob boss Vito Genovese in The Valachi Papers (1972).

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Lino Ventura

Lino Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987) was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.

Life and career

Born as Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura in Parma, Italy to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, "Lino" dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs. At one point Ventura was pursuing a prizefighting and professional wrestling career but had to end it because of an injury.

In 1953, totally by happenstance, one of his friends mentioned him to Jacques Beckerwho was looking for an Italian actor to play opposite Jean Gabin in a gangster movie called Touchez pas au grisbi. Becker offered him on the spot the role of Angelo, that Ventura refused at first but then accepted. He has such a presence in the movie that the whole profession took notice.

Ventura started to build up an acting career in similar hard-boiled gangster movies, often playing beside his friend Jean Gabin. A couple of his most famous roles include the portrait of corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in 1963's The Threepenny Opera and mobboss Vito Genoves

Lino Ventura

Italian-born actor

Lino Ventura

Born

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura


(1919-07-14)14 July 1919

Parma, Italy

Died22 October 1987(1987-10-22) (aged 68)

Saint-Cloud, France

Other namesLino Borrini
CitizenshipItaly
OccupationActor
Years active1953–1987
Spouse

Odette Lecomte

(m. 1942)​
Children4

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 s

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