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Ben Gazzara

Ben Gazzara

Birthday: 1930-08-28 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Gazzara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
Christopher Roth

as    Paul Andersen

2009
Holy Money

as    Vatican's Banker

2008
Empire State Building Murders

as    Paulie Genovese

2007
Donne sbagliate

as    Franco Maresco

2004
Dogville Confessions

as    Himself

2004
Dogville

as    Jack McKay

2002
Hysterical Blindness

as    Nick

2001
Brian's Song

as    Coach Halas

2000
Shark in a Bottle

as    The Arranger

1999
The Thomas Crown Affair

as    Andrew Wallace

1998
Buffalo '66

as    Jimmy Brown

1998
Valentine's Day

as    Joe Buddha

1998
Too Tired to Die

as    John Sage

1998
The Spanish Prisoner

as    Mr. Klein

1998
Illuminata

as    Old Flavio

1997
Stag

as    Frank Grieco

1996
Ladykiller

as    Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky

1995
The Zone

as    Dick Althorp

1995
Convict Cowboy

as    Warden Ferguson

1994
Parallel Lives

as    Charlie Duke

1993
Blindsided

as    Ira Gold

1991
Lies Before Kisses

as    Grant Sanders

1989
Road House

as    Brad Wesley

1987
Downpayment on Murder

as    Harry Cardell

1987
Control

as    Mike Zella

1986
The Professor

as    Il Professore

1985
An Early Frost

as    Nick Pierson

1981
Inchon

as    Maj. Frank Hallsworth