Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara was born in New York City, New York, United States on August 28th, 1930 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 81, Ben Gazzara biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Career
Gazzara appeared on television programs such as Treasury Men in Action and Danger.
In 1953, he was recognized for his Off-Broadway appearance in End as a Man. The play was staged on Broadway and ran until 1954.
Gazzara (having changed his original surname from "Gazzarra") appeared on NBC's legal drama Justice in 1954, based on case reports from the Legal Aid Society of New York. He also appeared on shows such as Medallion Theatre and The United States Steel Hour.
Gazzara starred in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955–56) opposite Barbara Bel Geddes, directed by Elia Kazan. Gazzara played the role in the film version. After Dean's death, the studio intended to assign James Dean to him, but instead it was given to Paul Newman.
In A Hatful of Rain (1956), he continued it with another long run.
In the 1957 film The Strange One, directed by Sam Spiegel, he appeared alongside other Actors Studio members.
He performed on Broadway, 1954, and went on to guest-star on shows such as Playhouse 90, Kraft Television Theatre, Armchair Theatre, and DuPont Show of the Month.
In Otto Preminger's courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959), his second film was a high-profile actor on trial for avenging his wife's rape.
Gazzara told Charlie Rose in 1998 that he went from being mainly a stage actor who would often turn up his nose at film roles in the mid-1950s to, much later, a well-known character actor who did not do well. "I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of calls," he said. "I won't tell you the pictures I turned down because you'll say, 'You are a fool,' and I was a fool."
He went to Italy to make a film about The Passionate Thief (1960), with Anna Magnani and Totis.
Cry Vengeance, a television film made in the United States. (1961), and he was second-billed in The Young Doctors (1961). He was also the mystery guest on "What's My Line" (6 September 1961).
He appeared in Convicts 4 (1962).
With David Niven, he returned to Italy to make The Captive City (1962).
Gazzara appeared in the Strange Interlude on Broadway, 1963.
Gazzara appeared in many television series, beginning with Arrest and Trial, which appeared on ABC from 1963 to 1964.
He appeared in the television special A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) and appeared in A Traveller Without Luggage in 1964. He has appeared on Kraft Suspense Theatre as a guest actor.
Gazzara was the male lead in A Rage to Live (1965) with Suzanne Pleshette.
He came to fame on NBC's Run for Your Life, in which he played a terminally ill man trying to get the most out of his last two years. Gazzara's "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and three Golden Globe awards for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama" received two Emmy nominations for his role in the series.
Gazzara had a cameo in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), and a lead in the wartime action film The Bridge at Remagen (1969).
Some of the actor's most memorable characters were those he created with his buddy John Cassavetes in the 1970s. They met for the first time in Cassavetes' film Husbands (1970), in which he appeared alongside Peter Falk and Cassavetes.
Gazzara appeared in Pursuit (1972), Michael Crichton's first television film. He also created the television shows When Michael Calls (1972), Fireball Forward (1972), and The Family Rico (1972).
He made The Sicilian Connection (1972) in Italy and directed The Neptune Factor (1973). You'll Never See Me Again (1973) and Maneater (1973).
He appeared in the television miniseries QB VII (1974), which received six primetime Emmy Awards. The six-and-a-half hours series was based on a book by Leon Uris and co-starred Anthony Hopkins. In the 1975 biographical film Capone (1975), he appeared as gangster Al Capone. Cassevetes was in the support cast.
Gazzara appeared on Broadway in Hughie (1975) then worked for Cassavetes as director in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), in which Gazzara played the leading role in Cosmo Vitelli's hapless strip-joint owner. He appeared in an action film, High Velocity (1976), and was one of many actors in Voyage of the Damned (1976).
Gazzara returned to Broadway for a performance of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Colleen Dewhurst was a student at the University of Colleen Dewhurst in 1976.
Manny Victor, who has to cope with the emotionally fragile actress of his film, appeared in another Cassavetes-directed film, Opening Night, was played by Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands. The Death of Richie (1977), a well-known television film, was produced by Richard E. Richie (1977).
Gazzara's career flourished when Peter Bogdanovich portrayed him in the title role of Saint Jack (1979). His growing fame aided him in his role in Bloodline (1979) and the Korean War epic Inchon (1980) co-starring Laurence Olivier and Richard Roundtree.
They All Laughed (1981) - Bogdanovich's Another for Bogdanovich (1981).
Gazzara produced some films in Europe: Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), The Girl from Trieste (1982), A Proper Scandal (1984), My Dearest Son (1985). He appeared in the critically acclaimed AIDS-themed television film An Early Frost (1985), for which he received his third Emmy nomination.
He appeared in the original Patrick Swayze film Road House, which the actor jokingly said was his most-watched role.
Gazzara appeared in 38 films, many for television in the 1990s. He worked with a number of respected filmmakers, including the Coen brothers (The Big Lebowski), Spike Lee (Summer of Sam), Walter Hugo Khouri (Forte), Thomas Gallo (Buffalo '66), John Turturro (Illuminata), and John McTiernan (The Thomas Crown Affair).
In Shimada (1992), he appeared on Broadway (1992).
Gazzara continued to be present in his seventies. He appeared in Nobody Don't Like Yogi, an off-Broadway show about Yogi Berra that had a good run and was playing in a revival of Awake and Sing in 2003. (2006).
He appeared in Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier of Denmark and starring Nicole Kidman, as well as the television film Hysterical Blindness (he received an Emmy Award for his work). In 2005, he appeared Agostino Casaroli in the television miniseries Pope John Paul II. In early 2012, he finished filming his scenes in the film The Waiting, shortly before his death.
Gazzara performed as an occasional television producer; his credits include the Columbo series A Friend in Deed (1974) and Troubled Waters (1975). In 1975 for the paired short plays Hughie and Duet, Gazzara was nominated three times for the Best Actor in a Play, and in 1977 for a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opposite Colleen Dewhurst.
