Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy.
Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini.
A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974.
He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.
He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film.
He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli.
In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack.
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| 2017 | À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self – Italian actor (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Il male oscuro as Psicanalista |
| 1988 | Una botta di vita as Il cuoco |
| 1988 | L'ultima scena as Don Ferdinando Sbreglia |
| 1987 | I picari as mozzafiato |
| 1987 | Roba da ricchi as il monsignore (2° episodio) |
| 1987 | Kapris as Don Vincenzo |
| 1984 | Uno scandalo perbene as Renzo |
| 1984 | Cenerentola '80 as Harry Cardone |
| 1983 | Il petomane as Pitalugue |
| 1982 | Più bello di così si muore as conte Nereo Di Sanfilippo |
| 1982 | Le rose et le blanc as Luigi Martini |
| 1981 | La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo as Maresciallo Angrisani |
| 1981 | Prima che sia troppo presto as Il professore |
| 1980 | Çılgın Yarış as Don Barberini, mafioso italien |
| 1980 | Cafè Express as Carmelo Improta |
| 1980 | Salto nel vuoto as Mauro Ponticelli (voice) |
| 1979 | Il malato immaginario as Vincenzo |
| 1978 | Roma'da Aşk Başkaydı as Nazariota |
| 1978 | Diamanti sporchi di sangue as Commissario Russo |
| 1977 | La Presidentessa as Mazzone |
| 1977 | Grazie tante arrivederci as Proprietario bisca |
| 1977 | Messalina, Messalina! as Claudius |
| 1977 | La bidonata as Benjamin Bronchi |
| 1977 | Maschio latino cercasi as don Carmine |
| 1976 | I padroni della città as Vinchenzo Napoli |
| 1976 | Eti Senin, Kemiği Benim as Vittorio |
| 1976 | Le Trouble-fesses as Tino Capoli / Lucki Capoli |
| 1976 | L'affittacamere as Onorevole Vincenzi |
| 1976 | Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich as Barbone |
| 1975 | I baroni as Padre |
| 1975 | Catherine et Cie as Moretti |
| 1975 | Il Messia as Herod the Great |
| 1975 | La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori as Commissar Magrini |
| 1975 | Canım Benim as Fefe Mottola |
| 1975 | L'ammazzatina as Commissario Pafuso |
| 1974 | Zampara as il ministro |
| 1974 | La moutarde me monte au nez as Le metteur en scène |
| 1974 | Il poliziotto è marcio as Esposito |
| 1974 | Di mamma non ce n'è una sola as Professor Goffredo |
| 1974 | Haram as Vincenzo Niscemi |
| 1974 | La governante as Alessandro Bonivaglia, lo scrittore |
| 1973 | Le Magnifique as Georges Charron / Colonel Karpov |
| 1973 | Paolo il caldo as Salvatore |
| 1973 | Società a responsabilità molto limitata as Il Ciancia |
| 1973 | Io e lui as Cutica |
| 1973 | La colonna infame as Il commissario di sanità Guglielmo Piazza |
| 1973 | Giovannona Coscialunga disonorata con onore as Onorevole Pedicò |
| 1973 | Une journée bien remplie as Le Juré Mangiavacca |
| 1973 | Il boss as Questore |
| 1972 | Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero as Nero |
| 1972 | Quando le donne si chiamavano 'Madonne' as Ser Cecco |
| 1972 | Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? as Nereo Tinelli aka Due Novembre |
| 1972 | Her Şey Yolunda as Factory Manager |
| 1972 | Ettore lo fusto as Menalao |
| 1971 | Trastevere as Father Ernesto |
| 1971 | Tre donne - L'automobile as Giggetto |
| 1971 | Roma bene as Il barone Maurizio Di Vittis |
| 1971 | Quando gli uomini armarono la clava e... con le donne fecero din-don as Gran Profe |
| 1971 | Aşk ve Bıçaklar as Er Cinese |
| 1970 | Le Mans - Scorciatoia per l'inferno as Luis (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Nel giorno del signore as Messer Anticoli |
| 1970 | Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale as Bambola di Pechino |
| 1968 | Sekso Manyak as Il Libraio |
| 1968 | Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare as Spinelli |
| 1967 | Bersaglio mobile as Billy 'Pizza' |
| 1967 | Le dolci signore as Dieb |
| 1967 | La ragazza del bersagliere as Settimo |
| 1967 | Assicurasi vergine as Don Pippo Matara |
| 1966 | Come imparai ad amare le donne as Playboy |
| 1966 | Adulterio all'italiana as Silvio Sasselli |
| 1966 | Ischia operazione amore as Baron Domenico 'Mimì' Lo Russo |
| 1966 | Io, io, io... e gli altri as Finizio, Politician |
| 1965 | Una vergine per il principe as Marchese Liginio |
| 1965 | La violenza e l'amore as Il poeta |
| 1964 | La donna è una cosa meravigliosa as Carlo (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce") |
| 1964 | Amore facile as Mauri (segment "Il vedovo bianco") |
| 1964 | Le voci bianche as Matteuccio |
| 1964 | I maniaci as The Husband (segment "il pezzo antico") |
| 1963 | Il giorno più corto as Bersagliere alla stazione (uncredited) |
| 1962 | Parigi o cara as Avallone |
| 1962 | Adieu Philippine as Pachala |
| 1962 | I giorni contati as Professor |
| 1961 | Leoni al sole as Giugiú |
| 1961 | A porte chiuse as commissario |
| 1960 | Zazie dans le métro as Trouscaillon |
| 1960 | Recours en grâce as Sergio |
| 1959 | Il generale Della Rovere as Aristide Banchelli |
| 1959 | Arrangiatevi! as Pino Calamari |
| 1959 | La Legge as Attilio |
| 1959 | Il borghese gentiluomo as Jourdain |
| 1955 | Buonanotte... avvocato! as Vittorio |
| 1954 | Carosello napoletano as paroliere amico di Luigino |
| 1954 | Tempi nostri - Zibaldone n. 2 as Raffaele |
| 1953 | Villa Borghese as The commissioner of morality (segment: Concorso di bellezza) |
| 1953 | Aida as Uncredited |
| 1953 | Febbre di vivere as Pierra |
| 1952 | Altri tempi - Zibaldone n. 1 as il marito di Mariantonia |
| 1952 | Totò a colori as Il tenore balbuziente |
| 1951 | Parigi è sempre Parigi as Tour guide (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Atoll K as Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien |
| 1950 | Varyete Işıkları as Night Club Comic |
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