Movie Credits
Paris, je t'aime	(2006)
[ Steve Buscemi ][ Willem Dafoe ][ Bob Hoskins ][ Nick Nolte ][ Rufus Sewell ]
Victor in December	(2005)
[ Alex Dimitriades ]
Pope John Paul II	(2005)
[ James Cromwell ][ Cary Elwes ][ Jon Voight ][ Christopher Lee ]
Schubert	(2005)
[ Coque Malla ]
The Shore	(2005)
[ Costas Mandylor ]
Bonjour Michel	(2005)
Quiet Flows the Don	(2004)
[ Rupert Everett ][ F. Murray Abraham ]
Dogville	(2003)
[ James Caan ][ Jeremy Davies ][ Thom Hoffman ][ Stellan Skarsgård ][ Paul Bettany ]
Ospite segreto, L'	(2003)
Hysterical Blindness	(2002)
[ Justin Chambers ]
Brian's Song	(2001)
[ Sean Maher ][ Mekhi Phifer ][ Dean McDermott ]
Nella terra di nessuno	(2001)
Very Mean Men	(2000)
[ Matthew Modine ][ Martin Landau ][ Burt Young ][ Charles Durning ][ Billy Drago ]
Believe	(2000)
[ James Roday ]
Blue Moon	(2000)
[ Zach Braff ][ Burt Young ][ Vincent Pastore ][ Lillo Brancato ]
Home Sweet Hoboken	(2000)
Piovuto dal cielo	(2000)
The List	(2000)
[ Ryan O'Neal ]
Jack of Hearts	(2000)
[ Joe Penny ][ M. Emmet Walsh ]
Undertaker's Paradise	(2000)
The Thomas Crown Affair	(1999)
[ Pierce Brosnan ][ Denis Leary ][ Mark Margolis ][ Frankie Faison ][ Kurt Wimmer ]
Summer of Sam	(1999)
[ Elton John ][ Anthony Lapaglia ][ John Leguizamo ][ John Savage ][ John Turturro ]
Paradise Cove	(1999)
[ Michael Pena ]
Bacio nel buio, Un	(1999)
Valentine's Day	(1998)
[ Randy Quaid ]
Poor Liza	(1998)
Angelo nero	(1998)
[ Gabriel Garko ]
Illuminata	(1998)
[ Donal McCann ][ John Turturro ][ Christopher Walken ][ Rufus Sewell ]
Happiness	(1998)
[ Jon Lovitz ][ Philip Seymour Hoffman ][ Jared Harris ][ Dylan Baker ][ Todd Solondz ]
The Big Lebowski	(1998)
[ Jeff Bridges ][ Steve Buscemi ][ Mick Jagger ][ David Thewlis ][ John Turturro ]
Buffalo '66	(1998)
[ Mickey Rourke ][ Kevin Pollak ][ Jan-Michael Vincent ][ Vincent Gallo ][ Kevin Corrigan ]
Too Tired to Die	(1998)
[ Jeffrey Wright ][ Michael Imperioli ][ Takeshi Kaneshiro ]
Shark in a Bottle	(1998)
[ Danny Nucci ][ Rick Gomez ][ Tommy 'Tiny' Lister ][ Sean Whalen ]
The Spanish Prisoner	(1997)
[ Clark Gregg ][ Campbell Scott ][ Steve Martin ][ Ed O'Neill ][ David Mamet ]
Stag	(1997)
[ Andrew McCarthy ][ William McNamara ][ Kevin Dillon ]
Shadow Conspiracy	(1997)
[ Terry O'Quinn ][ Charlie Sheen ][ Donald Sutherland ][ Nicholas Turturro ][ Sam Waterston ]
Farmer & Chase	(1997)
Vicious Circles	(1997)
The Notorious 7	(1997)
The Zone	(1996)
Ladykiller	(1996)
[ Stephen Davies ][ David Yost ]
Donna in fuga, Una	(1996)
[ Gabriel Garko ]
Convict Cowboy	(1995)
[ Jon Voight ][ Kyle Chandler ][ Glenn Plummer ]
Banditi	(1995)
[ Marco Leonardi ]
Sherwood's Travels	(1994)
[ Edward Fox ][ Jamey Sheridan ]
Nefertiti, figlia del sole	(1994)
Hirondelles ne meurent pas à Jerusalem, Les	(1994)
Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story	(1994)
[ David Faustino ][ John Stamos ][ John Amos ]
Parallel Lives	(1994)
[ James Belushi ][ James Brolin ][ Perry Lang ][ Dudley Moore ][ Matthew Perry ]
Gens d'en face, Les	(1994)
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage	(1993)
[ Tomas Milian ][ Eric Roberts ][ Dylan Baker ][ Alex Rocco ]
Blindsided	(1993)
[ George Byrd ][ Jeff Fahey ]
Lies Before Kisses	(1991)
[ Greg Evigan ]
Per sempre	(1991)
People Like Us	(1990)
[ Dennis Farina ]
Oltre l'oceano	(1990)
[ Treat Williams ][ Peter Riegert ]
Road House	(1989)
[ Patrick Swayze ][ David R. Ellis ][ Sam Elliott ][ John Doe ]
Quicker Than the Eye	(1989)
[ Christoph Waltz ]
Don Bosco	(1988)
Downpayment on Murder	(1987)
[ David Morse ][ Miguel Ferrer ][ G.W. Bailey ]
Police Story: The Freeway Killings	(1987)
[ Vincent Baggetta ][ Robert Knepper ][ Richard Crenna ]
Giorno prima, Il	(1987)
[ Burt Lancaster ][ Andrea Occhipinti ]
Figlio mio infinitamente caro	(1987)
Champagne amer	(1986)
A Letter to Three Wives	(1985)
[ David Garrison ]
An Early Frost	(1985)
[ Terry O'Quinn ][ Bill Paxton ][ Aidan Quinn ][ John Glover ]
Donna delle meraviglie, La	(1985)
Camorrista, Il	(1985)
Scandalo perbene, Uno	(1984)
Ragazza di Trieste, La	(1983)
A Question of Honor	(1982)
[ Lance Henriksen ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Paul Sorvino ][ Danny Aiello ]
Storie di ordinaria follia	(1981)
[ Charles Bukowski ]
They All Laughed	(1981)
[ John Ritter ][ Frank Sinatra ][ Johnny Cash ][ Peter Bogdanovich ]
Inchon	(1981)
[ Richard Roundtree ][ Omar Sharif ][ Laurence Olivier ][ Toshirô Mifune ]
Bloodline	(1979)
[ Omar Sharif ][ James Mason ]
Saint Jack	(1979)
[ Hugh M. Hefner ][ George Lazenby ][ Denholm Elliott ][ Peter Bogdanovich ][ Joss Ackland ]
Opening Night	(1977)
[ John Cassavetes ][ Peter Bogdanovich ][ Seymour Cassel ]
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald	(1977)
[ Lorne Greene ]
The Death of Richie	(1977)
[ John Friedrich ][ Clint Howard ][ Robby Benson ][ Charles Fleischer ]
Voyage of the Damned	(1976)
[ Anthony Higgins ][ Malcolm McDowell ][ Jonathan Pryce ][ Orson Welles ][ Max von Sydow ]
High Velocity	(1976)
[ Paul Winfield ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie	(1976)
[ Seymour Cassel ]
Capone	(1975)
[ Martin Kove ][ Sylvester Stallone ][ John Cassavetes ]
Maneater	(1973)
The Neptune Factor	(1973)
[ Ernest Borgnine ]
You'll Never See Me Again	(1973)
Afyon oppio	(1972)
Pursuit	(1972)
[ Martin Sheen ][ Michael Crichton ]
The Family Rico	(1972)
[ Alan Vint ][ Sal Mineo ]
Fireball Forward	(1972)
[ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ][ Ricardo Montalban ][ Dana Elcar ]
When Michael Calls	(1972)
[ Michael Douglas ][ Gerald McRaney ]
Husbands	(1970)
[ Nick Cassavetes ][ John Cassavetes ]
The Bridge at Remagen	(1969)
[ George Segal ][ Robert Vaughn ]
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	(1969)
[ Ian McShane ][ Robert Vaughn ][ John Cassavetes ][ Norman Fell ]
A Rage to Live	(1965)
[ Peter Graves ]
Carol for Another Christmas	(1964)
[ Peter Fonda ][ Peter Sellers ][ Robert Shaw ][ Sterling Hayden ][ Pat Hingle ]
Convicts 4	(1962)
[ Vincent Price ][ Telly Savalas ][ Jack Albertson ][ Rod Steiger ][ Ray Walston ]
Città prigioniera, La	(1962)
[ Martin Balsam ][ David Niven ]
The Young Doctors	(1961)
[ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ][ George Segal ][ Ronald Reagan ]
Cry Vengeance!	(1961)
[ Sal Mineo ]
Risate di gioia	(1960)
Anatomy of a Murder	(1959)
[ George C Scott ][ James Stewart ][ George C. Scott ]
The Troublemakers	(1957)
[ Robert Vaughn ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The Strange One	(1957)
[ George Peppard ][ Pat Hingle ]
The Timid Thief	(1954)
Positive Identification	(1954)
The First Hold Up	(1954)
The Last Mile	(1952)
Fresh as a Daisy	(1952)

Ben Gazzara's screen career began with two critically acclaimed roles as heavies in the late fifties. He turned to television in the sixties but made a big screen comeback with roles in three John Cassavetes films in the seventies. The 1980s and 1990s saw Gazzara work more frequently than ever before in character parts. If he never became the leading man his early films and stage work promised he has had a career notable for its longevity.He was born Biagio Anthony Gazzara in New York City in 1930. The son of a Sicilian immigrant labourer, he grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. After seeing Laurette Taylor in "The Glass Menagerie", Gazzara decided he wanted to become an actor. He studied engineering (unhappily) but quit after receiving an acting scholarship (he worked under well-known coach Erwin Piscator).He then joined the Actors' Studio where a group of students improvised a play from Calder Willingham's novel End as a Man. The tale of a brutal Southern Military academy reached Broadway slightly changed in 1953 but with Gazzara still in the principal role. It was a star making part (he won a Theatre World award) and he then played leads in the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955) and "A Hatful of Rain" (1955) (he was nominated for a Tony). Bigger names Paul Newman and Don Murray played those last two roles on the big screen but Gazzara made his movie debut in The Strange One (1957) the film version of "End as a Man". The film was a critical but not commercial success. His next role was as the defendant in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) which was a big hit.He followed this with an Italian venture co-starring Anna Magnani, Risate di gioia (1960), two Hollywood films The Young Doctors (1961) and Convicts 4 (1962) and then another Italian film Città prigioniera, La (1962). None of these did much for his career and he turned to television. He appeared in the successful shows "Arrest and Trial" (1963) and "Run for Your Life" (1965). In between, he made A Rage to Live (1965), a film version of John O'Hara's novel.He returned to films in The Bridge at Remagen (1969) and with a cameo appearance in _If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium (1968)_ . His buddy in the cameo was John Cassavetes who directed and co-starred with him in Husbands (1970), a critical success. Gazzara made two more well-received films with his good friend Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977).Gazzara's other films in the 1970s were undistinguished apart from the sprawling Voyage of the Damned (1976) and a rare leading role in director Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979). Bloodline (1979) and They All Laughed (1981) (also directed by Bogdanovich) were only notable because of Gazzara's offscreen relationship with co-star Audrey Hepburn (ironically, Gazzara had declined to make his screen debut in War and Peace (1956) starring Hepburn).Storie di ordinaria follia (1981) was another lead for Gazzara but it received a mixed critical reception. Other big screen roles in the eighties were scarce apart from Road House (1989), a Patrick Swayze vehicle which Gazzara believed out of all his films has been the most repeated on television. He worked much on the small screen, including the ground-breaking telemovie An Early Frost (1985) (TV), playing the father of an AIDS victim.The 1990s saw Gazzarra working like never before, appearing in 38 films! Most were for free-to-air television or cable but he also worked on the big screen in The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998) and Summer of Sam (1999). His TV work included a guest appearance as an executive assistant attorney in a 2001 episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) - a nice touch since "Arrest and Trial" (1963) was the predecessor of "Law & Order" (1990) and its spinoff shows.Gazzara has often returned to the stage throughout his career - in "The Night Circus" (1958) (where he met second wife Janice Rule), "Strange Interlude" (1963), "Traveller Without Luggage" (1964), Hughie/Duet (1975) (nominated for a Tony), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1976) (again Tony nominated) and "Shimada" (1992).He has also worked as a director on episodes his series "Run for Your Life" (1965) and "The Name of the Game" (1968). He also helmed the telemovies Columbo: A Friend in Deed (1974) (TV) and Columbo: Troubled Waters (1975) (TV) featuring his friend Peter Falk. The unreleased Oltre l'oceano (1990) (which he also wrote) is his final film as a director to date.Now in his seventies, Gazzara is still acting. In 2003 he appeared in the indie Dogville (2003) adding Lars von Trier to the list of interesting and acclaimed directors with whom he has worked. There can't be many actors who can boast that they have acted in films by Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder (1959)), John Cassavetes, Joel Coen (_Big Lebowksi, The (1998)_ ), Spike Lee (Summer of Sam (1999)) and Lars von Trier among others!