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