Leonardo DiCaprio

DiCaprio is currently starring in the critically acclaimed film The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, portraying the eccentric Howard Hughes. Filmography - Director. He is especially fond of the environment. (Gassman was in more than a hundred films, in addition to many instantaneous cameos; this list is consequently not complete.). Recently DiCaprio has taken to political issues. He died of a heart-attack in his Roman home. The case was settled June 29, 1998, for an undisclosed amount. In his latest years he was victim of depression.

Some reports claim the photos were secretly taken while the actor was lounging in the nude, while others say they came from stills of his nude scenes in, or from outtakes of, the movie Total Eclipse. Also, in his public appearances on the media he often gave original or unconventional comments, sometimes with the clear intention of disturbing the moderated cultural positions; he also gained many enemies in the world of art for similarly frank judgements. DiCaprio sued Playgirl to stop the New York-based monthly magazine from publishing unauthorized photos of him in its July 1998 issue. Generally acclaimed as an actor, Gassman was also discussed as a man, due to his private life - his divorces (a noted scandal in 1950s and 60s), his initial atheism (later he gained a certain personalistic faith). He was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for What's Eating Gilbert Grape; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Titanic; and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Catch Me If You Can (2002), which co-starred Tom Hanks. He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dante's Commedia. In 1994, DiCaprio was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Gassman was a man of intense emotions and intellectual honesty; his notable sense of humour and self-irony, brought him in the 1990s to take part in a popular TV show in which he very formally and 'seriously' recited documents such as the gas invoice, as well as the telephone bill and similar texts.

The highest grossing movie ever, it tied with Ben-Hur (1959) for receiving the most Academy Awards, though DiCaprio himself was not nominated (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would later match Ben Hur and Titanic's eleven Oscars). Gassman the actor, married "only" actresses: Nora Ricci (with whom he had his first daughter Paola, an actress herself and wife of Ugo Pagliai), Shelley Winters, Juliette Maynel, who gave him Alessandro (also an actor), and Diletta D'Andrea. The move from star to superstar came when DiCaprio played Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). In the later part of his career, he added poetry to his repertoire, helping to bring to Italy foreign works. It premiered February 10, 2001 in Berlin and Variety called it an "unpleasant and tedious ensembler." DiCaprio also played the male lead in Romeo + Juliet (1996), a very updated modern day version of Shakespeare's play. But, despite his success in films, Gassman never left theatre. and Canada by DiCaprio and Maguire, who argued they never intended to make a theatrical feature. In cinema he worked abroad several times and during a stint in Hollywood he met and married Shelley Winters.

The black-and-white movie Don's Plum, a low-budget drama featuring the actor and some of his friends, including Tobey Maguire, making crude jokes while hanging out in a Los Angeles diner, was filmed in 1995-1996. Its release was later blocked in the U.S. He also founded a theatre school in Florence, which formed many of the more talented actors of the current generations. He portrayed a mentally retarded boy so convincingly in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) that some people thought he really was. His productions include most of the famous authors of 20th century, with repeated returns tothe classics of Shakespeare, Dostoevskij and the Greeks. His break-through came with the role of Toby in This Boy's Life (1993) co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin, which led the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics to name him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor. He toured his production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a newer edition of the famous Carro di Tespi). His debut role was as Josh in Critters 3 (1991). Quite bravely, he accepted the challenge of directing Adelchi, one of the less known and less "easy" works by Alessandro Manzoni.

DiCaprio is most famous for his roles in theatrical motion pictures. A true perfectionist, he always hated imperfect diction, or dialectal corruptions (but he was also able to render, perfectly and when needed, most of the many Italian dialects). From 1991 to 1992, he had the role of Luke Brower, a homeless boy, on the sitcom Growing Pains. That year Gassman also directed and starred in a movie dedicated to theatre: it was a version of Kean. In that same year, DiCaprio appeared on the soap opera Santa Barbara in the role of Mason Capwell. A little later, in the television series entitled Il Mattatore (spotlight chaser) he obtained unexpected success and Il Mattatore soon became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. His acting career began in 1990 when he was cast in the role of Garry Buckman on the TV comedy/drama series Parenthood, where he met his best friend, actor Tobey Maguire. In 1956, a key year in his career, Gassman played a memorable Othello with the great actor Salvo Randone, exchanging with him the roles of the Moor and Iago.

But DiCaprio refused. With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, then rare works such as Seneca's Tieste or Eschilo's The Persians. He was rejected by an agent early in his career for having a name that sounded too foreign, suggesting that it should be changed to Lenny Williams. He then joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, for a successful Peer Gynt (Ibsen). He attended John Marshall High School in Los Angeles. He played a vigorous Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio, then emphatic in Shakespeare's Rosalinda or in Vittorio Alfieri's Oreste. At age five, he appeared on his favorite TV series, Romper Room, and was almost fired for misbehaving. It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni.

He grew up in Echo Park. In 1948 his famous interpretation in Riso Amaro displayed his love for cinema and his capability of excelling both in movies and at the theatre. His parents divorced when he was a year old. In 1946 he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, the year after he appeared in five films. Leo's father, a distributor of comic books, is Italian-American and his mother, a former legal secretary, is German-American. His debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's Nemica (theatre), he then moved to Rome and the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to the sophisticated intellectual theatre, with no apparent difficulty in the sudden changes. His name allegedly came about because his pregnant mother was standing in front of a Leonardo da Vinci painting at a museum in Italy when he kicked, which made her decide to name him after the famous artist. While very young he moved to Rome, where he attended the studies at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica where some of the most important figures of Italian theatre and cinema also studied, such as Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Adolfo Celi, Luigi Squarzina, Elio Pandolfi, Rossella Falk, Lea Padovani and, later, with Paolo Panelli, Nino Manfredi, Tino Buazzelli, Gianrico Tedeschi, Monica Vitti, Luca Ronconi and many others.

He was born Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio in Los Angeles, California, the son of George DiCaprio and Irmalin Idenbirkin. Born in Genoa to a wealthy family of German origins, Gassmann was considered one among the best Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which gave him a vast popularity). Leonardo DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor. Vittorio Gassman (Il Mattatore) (September 1, 1922 - June 29, 2000) was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. "All you math teachers who've been scolding me all my life, HA HA! I laugh.". Kean (1956). L'Alibi (1969).

Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972). Di padre in figlio (1982). Preludio d'amore (1946) aka Love Prelude. La Figlia del capitano (1947) aka The Captain's Daughter.

L'Ebreo errante (1947) aka The Wandering Jew, (1947). Daniele Cortis (1947). Il Cavaliere misterioso (1947) aka The Mysterious Rider. Le Avventure di Pinocchio, (1947) aka The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Riso amaro (1948) aka Bitter Rice. Una Voce nel tuo cuore, (1949). Il Tradimento, (1949). Lo Sparviero del Nilo, (1949).

Il Lupo della Sila, (1949). Ho sognato il paradiso (1949) aka Streets of Sorrow. I Fuorilegge, (1949) aka TheOutlaws. Il Leone di Amalfi (1950).

La Corona negra (1951). Anna (1951). Il Sogno di Zorro (1952). Cry of the Hunted (1953).

Glass Wall (1953). Sombrero (1953). Rhapsody (1954). Mambo (1954).

La Donna più bella del mondo, (1955). War and Peace (1956). Kean (1956). Giovanni dalle bande nere (1956).

Difendo il mio amore (1956). La Ragazza del palio (1957). I Soliti ignoti (1958) aka The Usual Unidentified Thieves. La Tempesta (1958).

Le Sorprese dell'amore (1959). The Miracle (1959). La Grande guerra (1959) aka The Great War. La Cambiale (1959).

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959) aka Hold-up à la milanaise. Il Mattatore (1960). Crimen (1960) aka Killing in Monte Carlo. Il Giudizio universale (1961) aka The Last Judgement.

Una Vita difficile, (1961) aka A Difficult Life. Fantasmi a Roma (1961) aka Ghosts of Rome. I Briganti italiani (1961). Anima nera (1961).

Barabbas (1962). Il Sorpasso (1962) aka The Easy Life. La Marcia su Roma (1962) aka March on Rome. Il Giorno più corto (1962).

Amore difficile (1962) aka Sex Can Be Difficult. I Mostri (1963). Il Successo (1963). La Smania addosso (1963).

Frenesia dell'estate (1963). Se permettete parliamo di donne (1964) aka Let's Talk About Women. Il Gaucho (1964). La Congiuntura, (1964) aka Hard Time for Princes.

The Dirty Game, (1965). Una Vergine per il principe (1965) aka Virgin for the Prince. Slalom (1965). Le Piacevoli notti (1966).

L'Armata Brancaleone (1966). L'Arcidiavolo (1966) aka Devil in Love. Woman Times Seven (1967). Il Tigre (1967).

Lo Scatenato (1967). Il Profetal (1968). Questi fantasmi (1968) aka Ghosts - Italian Style. La Pecora nera (1968) aka The Black Sheep.

Una su 13 (1969) aka The 13 Chairs. Dove vai tutta nuda? (1969) aka Where Are You Going All Naked?. L'Arcangelo (1969). L'Alibi (1969) aka Alibi.

Il Divorzio (1970). Brancaleone alle crociate (1970) aka Brancaleone at the Crusades *Contestazione generale (1970). L'Udienza (1971) aka The Audience. Scipione detto anche l'africano (1971) aka Scipio the African.

In nome del popolo italiano (1971). Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972). La Tosca (1973). Che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? (1973).

Profumo di donna (1974) aka Scent of a Woman. C'eravamo tanto amati (1974) We All Loved Each Other So Much. A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere (1975) aka Midnight Pleasures. Telefoni bianchi (1976).

Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976). IL Deserto dei Tartari (1976) aka The Desert of the Tartars. Come una rosa al naso (1976) aka Pure as a Lily. Anima persa (1977) aka The Forbidden Room.

A Wedding (1978). I Nuovi mostri (1978) aka Th eNew Monsters. Due pezzi di pane (1978) aka Happy Hobos. Caro papà (1979) aka Dear Father.

Quintet (1979). The Nude Bomb (1980) aka Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb. La Terrazza (1980) aka The Terrace. Sono fotogenico (1980).

Camera d'albergo (1981) aka Chambre d'hôtel. Sharky's Machine (1981). Il Turno (1981). Tempest (1982).

Di padre in figlio (1982). Il Conte Tacchia (1982) aka Count Tacchia. La Vie est un roman(1983) aka Life Is a Bed of Roses. Benvenuta (1983).

Paradigma (1985) aka Power of Evil. La Famiglia (1987) aka The Family. I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (1987) aka Big Deal After 20 Years. I Picari (1988).

Lo Zio indegno (1989). Mortacci (1989). Dimenticare Palermo (1990). Les Mille et une nuits, Les (1990).

I Divertimenti della vita privata (1990). Rossini! Rossini! (1991). El Largo invierno (1991). Tolgo il disturbo (1992).

Quando eravamo repressi (1992). Abraham (1994) (TV). Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno (1994). Sleepers (1996).

Deserto di fuoco" (1997) TV Series. Un homme digne de confiance (1997). La Cena (1998). Luchino Visconti (1999).

La Bomba, (1999).