Ben Gazzara
Popularity:0.809
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1930-08-28
Place of Birth:Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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Also Known As:Бен Газзара, Biagio Anthony Gazzarra, بن گازارا

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her....

The Big Lebowski (1998)
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a...

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job....

Dogville (2003)
When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters,...

Road House (1989)
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look...

Bloodline (1979)
A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless...

Paris Je T'aime (2006)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18...

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.

They All Laughed (1981)
New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff...

Buffalo '66 (1998)
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is...

Eve (2008)
Kate is a young woman visiting her grandmother to talk about her mother "Eve" but instead she surprisingly ends up as both chauffeur and chaperone on...

Opening Night (1977)
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about...

Il Volo (2010)
Inspired by the experiences of some small southern Italian municipalities which chose to integrate a set of Kurdish refugees into the dwindling...

The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.

Poor Liza (2000)
A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.

Ladykiller (1996)
A string of murders begin occurring on a campus by an embittered husband betrayed by his wife, who now punishes those he sees as being guilty of sins...

Undertaker's Paradise (2000)
Black comedy about a young undertaker, starting his own firm in a seaside resort.

The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead...

The Neptune Factor (1973)
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street....

The Girl from Trieste (1982)
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket....

Capone (1975)
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run...

The Strange One (1957)
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual...

Droit de Réponse (1981)
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel,...

Empire State Building Murders (2008)
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York...

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...

Pursuit (1972)
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping...

Husbands (1970)
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But...

The Passionate Thief (1960)
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

When Michael Calls (1972)
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the...

Illuminata (1998)
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play,...

The Professor (1986)
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.

Convicts 4 (1962)
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...

Valentine's Day (1998)
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was...

Chez Gino (2011)
Gino Roma holds a pizzeria for thirty years in Brussels, purchased with money from his wife Simone. His quiet life is turned upside down when he...

An Early Frost (1985)
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother...

Shark in a Bottle (2000)
Guy Normal (probably not his real name) is clumsy, has amnesia, and has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man who arranges killings for hire....

Saint Jack (1979)
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running...

Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on...

Christopher Roth (2010)
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own.

Holy Money (2009)
Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a...

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

Dogville Confessions (2004)
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan...

A Rage to Live (1965)
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous...

Marilyn in Manhattan (1998)
An exclusive look at Marilyn Monroe just before her tragic end. Set in New York City in the 50's - It's a surprising documentary that captures the...

The Zone (1995)
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake...

Inchon (1981)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Anything for John (1993)
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character....

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)

Quiet Flows The Don (2006)
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with...

The Death of Richie (1977)
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

The Young Doctors (1961)
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.

Forever (1991)
Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel...

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Convict Cowboy (1995)
New inmate Clay Treyton, doing time for fisticuffs, is sent to a Montana ranch where prisoners spend time working with horses. Encouraged by the...

Donne sbagliate (2007)
Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her...

Bitter Champagne (1986)
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.

Woman of Wonders (1985)
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not...

Looking for Palladin (2008)
Brash young Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross (David Moscow) is dispatched to Guatemala, where he's assigned to locate missing star Jack Palladin (Ben...

Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage (1993)
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York...

Blindsided (1993)
An ex-cop is temporarily blinded when he steals cash from a money laundering operations. While recuperating in Mexico, the thief falls in love with a...

Maneater (1973)
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.

Don Bosco (1988)
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.

The Sicilian Connection (1972)
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.

Home Sweet Hoboken (2001)
A waitress discovers a ring she thought was worthless is actually worth $10 million.

The Making of 'Husbands' (1971)
A documentary behind the scenes of John Cassavetes' 'Husbands' (1970).

Three Plays by Tennessee Williams (1958)
A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is...

Quicker Than the Eye (1989)
An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds himself hopelessly entangled in an elaborate...

Control (1987)
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long...

Conquered City (1962)
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed...

Fireball Forward (1972)
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour (2023)
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a...

People Like Us (1990)
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to...

Parallel Lives (1994)
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a...

Happiness (1998)
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might...

Il tesoro di Damasco (1998)
A mysterious black marble tablet is found in Syrian desert by an Arab terrorist after an attack on a UN scientific expedition.

Too Tired to Die (1998)
Kenji is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12...

Bandits (1995)
Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former...

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem (1994)
Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been...

Lies Before Kisses (1991)
A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accusations appear false until his own son testifies...

A Letter to Three Wives (1985)
Three women are going on a trip that leaves them incommunicado with the rest of the world, but before they leave, a woman who either has a history or...

The List (2000)
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to...

Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

Blue Moon (2000)
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.

Downpayment on Murder (1987)
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.

Uno scandalo perbene (1984)
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is...

Beyond the Ocean (1990)
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he...

My Dearest Son (1985)
A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help his only child, even if it means sharing his hell.

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in...

Brian's Song (2001)
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo...

High Velocity (1976)
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.

Arena - John Cassavetes (1989)
Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fellow directors remember the man and his work.

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima (2014)

Very Mean Men (2000)
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families,...

Paradise Cove (1999)
A 1999 film directed by Robert Clapsadle.

The Shore (2005)
The devastating disappearance of a young girl haunts her grieving family in this fact-based tale feature debut from filmmaker Dionysius Zervos....

A Constant Forge (2000)
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The...

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014)
The grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his film, "They All Laughed."

Vicious Circles (1997)
When a young man is arrested for dealing drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some big money as a member of an exclusive group of...

Summer of Sam (1999)
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987)
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Angelo Nero (1998)
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face...

Farmer & Chase (1997)
A career thief forms a partnership with his reluctant son.

Stag (1997)
An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host's home.

13 (2010)
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Voyage of the Damned (1976)
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

The Family Rico (1972)
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.

Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun (1994)
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her...

A Question of Honor (1982)
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.

The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009)
Producer Al Ruban, actor Ben Gazzara, and cinematographer Victor J. Kemper share their fond memories of director-actor John Cassavetes and of his...

Jack of Hearts (2000)
A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption.

Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey.

A Prince Called Toto (2007)
Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods....

Believe (2000)
After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town. Almost as soon as he arrives...

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...

The Window Over the Way (1993)
Directed by Jesús Garay

The Tony Danza Show (2004)
The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.

Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

Arrest and Trial (1963)
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m....

Run for Your Life (1965)
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to...

L'onore e il rispetto (2006)
L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009...

QB VII (1974)
A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

Tony Awards (1956)
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

Pope John Paul II (2005)
The life of the remarkable man who passed away after an extraordinary 26 year reign, and whose papal odyssey encompassed more than 120 countries and...

What's My Line? (1950)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

Quiet Flows the Don (2006)
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with...

The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

Pupetta, Woman of Honor (2013)
Pupetta’s plot. Courage and Passion (2012). In the summer of 1955, a few months after being married to Assunta, known as Pupetta, the boss...

What's My Line? (1950)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore (2025)

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore (1970)
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore (1970)
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC,...

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore (1970)
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to...