Actor
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), ...

Known For
Acting
2023 -- to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour | Cosmo Vitelli (archive footage)
2021 -- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self
2014 -- Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima | Self
2014 -- One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film | Self
2012 -- Ristabbanna |
2011 -- Chez Gino | Oncle Giovanni
2010 -- Christopher Roth | Paul Andersen
2010 -- Il Volo |
2010 -- 13 | Schlondorff
2009 -- Holy Money | Vatican's Banker
2009 -- The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes | Self
2008 -- Eve | Joe
2008 -- Empire State Building Murders | Paulie Genovese
2008 -- Looking for Palladin | Jack Palladin
2008 -- Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies |
2007 -- A Prince Called Toto | Self
2007 -- Donne sbagliate | Franco Maresco
2006 -- Quiet Flows The Don | Secretov
2006 -- Paris Je T'aime | Ben (Quartier Latin)
2005 -- Pope John Paul II | Card. Agostino Casaroli
2005 -- The Shore |
2005 -- Bonjour Michel | michele Terranova
2004 -- Los Angeles Plays Itself | Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)
2004 -- Dogville Confessions | Self
2003 -- Dogville | Jack McKay
2003 -- L'ospite segreto | Ispettore di Polizia Solomos
2003 -- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self
2002 -- Hysterical Blindness | Nick
2001 -- Home Sweet Hoboken |
2001 -- Brian's Song | Coach Halas
2000 -- Jack of Hearts | Batossa
2000 -- The List | D.A. Bernard Salman
2000 -- Nella terra di nessuno | L'avvocato Scalzi
2000 -- Piovuto dal cielo |
2000 -- Undertaker's Paradise | Jim
2000 -- Shark in a Bottle | The Arranger
2000 -- Very Mean Men | Gino Minetti
2000 -- Believe |
2000 -- Blue Moon | Frank Cavallo
2000 -- A Constant Forge | Self
2000 -- Poor Liza | The Narrator
1999 -- The Thomas Crown Affair | Andrew Wallace
1999 -- Summer of Sam | Luigi
1999 -- Paradise Cove | Duke Mantee
1998 -- Happiness | Lenny Jordan
1998 -- Il tesoro di Damasco | Gregorio Kos
1998 -- Marilyn in Manhattan | Self
1998 -- Angelo Nero | Padre Guelfi
1998 -- Illuminata | Old Flavio
1998 -- The Big Lebowski | Jackie Treehorn
1998 -- Too Tired to Die | John Sage
1998 -- Buffalo '66 | Jimmy Brown
1998 -- Valentine's Day | Joe Buddha
1997 -- The Spanish Prisoner | Mr. Klein
1997 -- Stag | Frank Grieco
1997 -- Shadow Conspiracy | Vicepresident Saxon
1997 -- Farmer & Chase | Farmer
1997 -- Vicious Circles | March
1996 -- Ladykiller | Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky
1996 -- John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All | Self
1995 -- The Zone | Dick Althorp
1995 -- Convict Cowboy | Warden Ferguson
1995 -- Bandits | Amos
1994 -- Parallel Lives | Charlie Duke
1994 -- Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem | Moshe
1994 -- Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun | Amenophis III
1993 -- Anything for John | Self
1993 -- Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage | Joseph Bonanno
1993 -- Blindsided | Ira Gold
1991 -- Forever | Marcelo
1991 -- Lies Before Kisses | Grant Sanders
1990 -- People Like Us | Gus Bailey
1990 -- Beyond the Ocean | John Tana
1989 -- Quicker Than the Eye | Ben Norell
1989 -- Road House | Brad Wesley
1989 -- Arena - John Cassavetes | Self
1988 -- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage)
1988 -- Don Bosco | Don Giovanni Bosco
1987 -- Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Capt. Tom Wright
1987 -- Control | Mike Zella
1987 -- Downpayment on Murder | Harry Cardell
1986 -- The Professor | Il Professore
1986 -- Bitter Champagne | Paul Rivière
1985 -- A Letter to Three Wives | Porter Holloway
1985 -- My Dearest Son | Antonio Morelli
1985 -- Woman of Wonders | Alberto
1985 -- An Early Frost | Nick Pierson
1985 -- Night of 100 Stars II | Self
1984 -- Uno scandalo perbene | The man with no memory
1982 -- The Girl from Trieste | Dino Romani
1982 -- A Question of Honor | Detective Joe DeFalco
1982 -- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! | Self (archive footage)
1981 -- Droit de Réponse | Self
1981 -- They All Laughed | John Russo
1981 -- Tales of Ordinary Madness | Charles Serking
1981 -- Inchon | Maj. Frank Hallsworth
1979 -- Bloodline | Rhys Williams
1979 -- Saint Jack | Jack Flowers
1977 -- Opening Night | Manny Victor
1977 -- The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald | Anson 'Kip' Roberts
1977 -- The Death of Richie | George Werner
1976 -- Voyage of the Damned | Morris Troper
1976 -- High Velocity |
1976 -- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | Cosmo Vittelli
1975 -- Capone | Al Capone
1973 -- Maneater | Nick Baron
1973 -- The Neptune Factor | Cmdr. Adrian Blake
1972 -- The Sicilian Connection | Joseph Coppola
1972 -- Pursuit | Steven Graves
1972 -- The Family Rico | Eddie Rico
1972 -- Fireball Forward | Maj. Gen Joe Barrett
1972 -- When Michael Calls | Doremus Connelly
1971 -- The Making of 'Husbands' | Self
1970 -- Husbands | Harry
1970 -- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage)
1969 -- The Bridge at Remagen | Sgt. Angelo
1969 -- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Card Player
1965 -- A Rage to Live | Roger Bannon
1964 -- Carol for Another Christmas | Fred
1962 -- Conquered City | Captain George Stubbs
1962 -- Convicts 4 | John Resko
1961 -- The Young Doctors | Dr. David Coleman
1960 -- The Passionate Thief | Lello
1959 -- Anatomy of a Murder | Lt. Frederick Manion
1958 -- Three Plays by Tennessee Williams | Moony (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
1957 -- The Strange One | Jocko de Paris
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