Ben Gazzara
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
149
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-08-28
Day of death
2012-02-03 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Ben Gazzara
Biography
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).
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Golden Globe Awards
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
The Tony Danza Show
Run for Your Life
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Shadow Conspiracy
The Big Lebowski
Bloodline
Believe
Buffalo '66
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Saint Jack
Arrest and Trial
Dinah!
Bitter Champagne
Capone
The Young Doctors
The Professor
Eve
Paradise Cove
Illuminata
Voyage of the Damned
Angelo Nero
L'onore e il rispetto
They All Laughed
13
Woman of Wonders
Pursuit
Donne sbagliate
The Window Over the Way
Road House
Poor Liza
Bonjour Michel
Vicious Circles
Dogville
People Like Us
Summer of Sam
Chez Gino
Undertaker's Paradise
Husbands
Dogville Confessions
Christopher Roth
Inchon
Very Mean Men
The Thomas Crown Affair
Convict Cowboy
Brian's Song
Arena - John Cassavetes
Droit de Réponse
Looking for Palladin
Maneater
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Uno scandalo perbene
The List
Anatomy of a Murder
Happiness
Hysterical Blindness
Blindsided
Paris Je T'aime
Home Sweet Hoboken
L'ospite segreto
Shark in a Bottle
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Bridge at Remagen
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Quiet Flows the Don
Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Quiet Flows The Don
Quicker Than the Eye
Pope John Paul II
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
The Spanish Prisoner
Night of 100 Stars II
QB VII
Conquered City
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Shore
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Opening Night
Beyond the Ocean
Stag
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Too Tired to Die
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Anything for John
Ninho da Serpente
Pupetta, Woman of Honor
The Girl from Trieste
Forever
Control
Parallel Lives
A Rage to Live
The Strange One
Don Bosco
Il Volo
The Neptune Factor
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
The Death of Richie
Piovuto dal cielo
Blue Moon
The Sicilian Connection
The Family Rico
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Marilyn in Manhattan
Fireball Forward
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
A Question of Honor
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
Carol for Another Christmas
Ladykiller
The Passionate Thief
A Letter to Three Wives
Convicts 4
An Early Frost
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
A Constant Forge
The Making of 'Husbands'
Valentine's Day
When Michael Calls
Lies Before Kisses
Empire State Building Murders
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
The Zone
You'll Never See Me Again
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
Jack of Hearts
High Velocity
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Pope John Paul II
My Dearest Son
Holy Money
Farmer & Chase
Il tesoro di Damasco
Nella terra di nessuno
Downpayment on Murder
Ristabbanna
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
A Prince Called Toto
The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
Bandits
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
