Lino Ventura

Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura was an Italian actor who grew up in France and starred in many French films. Born in Italy, he was raised in Paris by his Italian mother. After a first career as a professional wrestler was ended by injury, he was offered a part as a gang boss in the Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars such as Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Rich, Bernard Blier, Jacques Brel, Michel Serrault, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and working with other leading directors such as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Claude Miller, and the great script writer Michel Audiard. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville directed Army of Shadows. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. Though he never renounced his Italian citizenship, he was voted 23rd in a poll for the 100 greatest Frenchmen.

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General Info
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Male
Date of Birth
July 14th, 1919
Age
104
Birth Place
Italy, Emilia-Romagna
Date of Death
October 22nd, 1987
Died Aged
68
Star Sign
Cancer
Occupation
Actor
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Roles
Philippe Gerbier in Army of Shadows
Gustave 'Gu' Minda in Le deuxième souffle
Commissaire Le Goff in Le clan des siciliens
Fernand Naudin in Monsieur Gangster
Detective-inspector Brunel in The Medusa Touch
Inspector Antoine Gallien in Garde à Vue
Abel Davos in Classe tous risques
Ralf Milan in L'emmerdeur
Roland in The Last Adventure
Vito Genovese in The Valachi Papers
Inspector Amerigo Rogas in Illustrious Corpses
Hervé Marec dit 'Le plouc' in Greed in the Sun
Francis Lagneau in The Great Spy Chase
Simon in La bonne année
le brigadier Theo Dumas in Un taxi pour Tobrouk
Le commissaire Verjeat in Adieu poulet
L'inspecteur principal Marceau Leonetti in Last Known Address
Jean Douléan in The Slap
Jean Valjean in Les Misérables
Roger le Catalan in Razzia sur la chnouf
Sébastien Grenier in Espion, lève-toi
Anton Haliakov, Clément Tibère in Le Silencieux
Laurent in The Wise Guys
Aldo in Le Ruffian
Alphonse Maréchal dit Le Malin in La Métamorphose des cloportes
Bastien Grimaldi in The seventh target
Cornelius von Zeelinga in Boulevard du Rhum
Pascal in 125
Géo Paquet - dit le Gorille in The Mask of the Gorilla
Pascal Fabre in To Skin a Spy
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